I've had the Nokia E71 for a couple of weeks now.
Most of the points I raised turned out to be no big deal.
The static noise in the headphones has gone away since using the clip to clip it to my jacket, YouTube has its own mobile phone player that works much better than the built-in one, and Nokia appear to be making a better program for copying music to your phone.
The main problem I had was with my Bluetooth headset, which worked some times, but others not.
It also had a tendency to stay locked on 2G if the 3G signal became poor, even after I moved to a new area where there was good 3G coverage (fixed by manually selecting the network).
The camera was adequate, but no replacement for a real one.
There's lots of other little niggles, but none of them are fatal.
Most of the points I raised turned out to be no big deal.
The static noise in the headphones has gone away since using the clip to clip it to my jacket, YouTube has its own mobile phone player that works much better than the built-in one, and Nokia appear to be making a better program for copying music to your phone.
The main problem I had was with my Bluetooth headset, which worked some times, but others not.
It also had a tendency to stay locked on 2G if the 3G signal became poor, even after I moved to a new area where there was good 3G coverage (fixed by manually selecting the network).
The camera was adequate, but no replacement for a real one.
Outside on an overcast day
Close-up of the post box
A few minutes later, facing the other direction
Outside on a sunny Winter's day
Inside without flash (incandescent room light)
Inside with flash
At night (with night mode)
There's lots of other little niggles, but none of them are fatal.
- Have to manually tell it which connection to use if WLAN is unavailable
- Can't have a dd mmm yyyy date format (e.g. 2 Sep 2008)
- PiZero's themes have white text on a white background in obscure places
- There's no way to disable the startup sound or the camera sound
- Can't easily select multiple text messages
- There is no way to insert smileys :-(
Labels: 2008, Communications, Computing, Hardware, Mobile
You can disable camera sound indeed. Just disable "warning tones" in your profile settings, the camera sound will be disabled as well :-).
Surely that also turns off the low battery warning?
It doesn't work anyway.
Apparently it's forced on for phones sold in the Asia-Pacific region.
Nice photos! Reminds me of the good old uni days in Melb
how do you disable the camera flash ?
You can set your Nokia E71 to automatically connect to your mobile network using the BirdStep SmartConnect program which you get free from the "Download!" menu. This lets you set a list of preferred access points and the priority of each - it automatically connects you to the "highest priority" access point available. All you need to do is install it and tell it what your preferred access points are, then you assign the SmartConnect access point as default for your web browser, email and other programs. It's excellent and really speeds up the connection process.
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