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My new phone… Nokia E71

2 remarkable event happening last Wednesday, first it’s our 4th wedding anniversary. We went out and hunting for a new place to dine. We discovered a new makan spot, a fine-dine Thai style. It a house converted to a restaurant call Tera-Thai, alongside Jalan Abdul Samad.

Second, when about to dine, my wife suprised me with a gift box, its a new phone, E71. w00t. I been planning to get the latter E63 for myself, but my wife upgrde it to E71. hehe

Well, its a good phone to start, S60v3, which I never used before. Before this my phone is Nokia 3310->SE T610->Moto E680->Moto E680i->O2 XDAII->SE K660i. So my last nokia use was in 2001. It feels weird to familiarize the button, the screen. The full Qwerty keyboard is awesome, only the number 0 placing is weird. The ‘home’ screen is awesome.

The wizard to start the phone for the first time is awesome, all config about mms, 3g all done in a breeze. There is also some ‘Phone Switch’ mode which you can transfer all contacts and so on. I tried to transfer all contacts from my SE K660i failed because the E71 cant recognize it formats.

Now the apps part. First and foremost, I downloaded Opera Mini 4.2, next the Nokia Messaging applications (http://email.nokia.com), probably the best part because the apps is awesome, you can configure up to 10 mails. It also can view HTML format. Next the social apps for twitter. I have installed 3 twitter client; twibble, Gravity and twittix. For me twittix is the best, altho is a demo version (dont know the limitation, any ideas). I also installed Fring, but when I set to idle mode, the battery feels hot. Any leads?

I’ve also managed to installed m4e (Mail for Exchange) to sync up my calendar. This is what I want, the native calendar on E71 can sync the Google Calendar.

E71 is a awesome. Need to explore more or any guest like to share some view or any cool apps installed on your E71. Here are the list of apps installed in my E71

1. Opera Mini 4.2
2. twibble
3. Gravity
4. Nokia Messaging
5. fring
6. twittix
7. Mail For Exchange

[GWL] Gadget Wishlist #2 Nokia N810

I know, this is not a ‘new’ gadget. Planet Maemo have pointed out that recently a price drop for this N810. Last year when Nokia N810 came out, the predecessor N800 also cutting it price for almost RM1000. It’s a killer product which include GPS, Wifi but no keyboard. When N810 came with keyboard, this is a perfect gadget at least for me, but I have too many commitments, I keep this in my wishlist. :)

So again another hint that maybe another N series will come out this month bundled with Maemo 5, the N810 price is drop again.

Buy.com - USD 221.99 (but when I want to ‘Add to Cart’, some popup with message ‘This promotion does not valid in your area’, damn!. So I head to Amazon, the price is USD 273, still cheap.