Nokia E71x Cell Phone
IntroductionThe Nokia e71x is sleek, affordable, has fun multimedia features, navigation, and runs the Symbian OS. You can do all the things you can on other smartphones including accessing office documents, send/receive email from multiple accounts, and surf the web all with an easy-to-use interface. The Nokia e71x is also a connectivity dream supporting IR, stereo Bluetooth, WiFi, and 3G connectivity. Oh, and did we mention it’s a world phone, too. If you’ve always wanted to try a smartphone or just want something different, the Nokia e71x is worth a look.
Design & FeaturesLook and Feel: There’s no denying that the Nokia e71x is just good looking. It sets itself apart from the full QWERTY pack of smartphones on the market with its slim profile and stainless steel back. Although, it has such a tough back, that doesn’t mean it’s ultra durable. It also feels great in the hand. On a hot day, just holding the Nokia e71x can cool you off. Adding to the style is its minimalistic use of buttons on the smartphone spines. On one side there’s volume controls and the 2.5mm headset jack and on the other are slots for USB connection and a MicroSD card. On top of the smartphone is the speaker and a rather flashy red power button. As for the display, it is crisp and visible in bright sunlight. However, you might want to adjust the backlight setting. Out-of-the-box it extinguishes itself a little too quickly for our tastes. However, if you do change the backlight setting you may see a small adverse affect in battery life. While you’re at it you might want to adjust the lock time as well. While, it’s good that it self-locks when not used for a few seconds it can be distracting. The display is actually quite stunning and though you’ll want to touch it, don’t – this is not a touch-screen phone. As expected with a phone that has a screen that comes so close to the side of your face it does tend to attract face grease, so you might be wiping it off on your shirt or pants to keep it clean.
Keypad: We particularly like the keypad on this cell phone. At first glance, it looks like the keys are a little too close together, but it doesn’t feel that way. There’s a curve to each key that helps keep them separate. Plus the letters on the white backlit keys are larger than those found on other QWERTY keyboard phones, so you don’t have to squint to see them. We did have people with both larger and smaller hands try out the keyboard and both had a similar experience. Another plus about the keyboard is the placement of the numbers: they are smack in the center and accessing them via the shift-like key is comfortable and intuitive. Navigating through the menu is done vie the 4-way silver rocker that encircles the black OK or Select key in the center of the device.
Usability & PerformanceCalls and Speakerphone: Call quality on the Nokia e71x is loud and clear, even in places where it’s typically hard to hear callers. For example, in a windy environment, callers still came through just fine. We’re also happy to report we never had to use the side volume keys to adjust audio on this cell phone, and the speakerphone works well, never cutting off when two people speak simultaneously.
Audio Playback: The Nokia e71x sports an MP3 player. We found playback of MP3s and streaming music over the Nokia e71x speakers to be loud and clear, though occasionally tinny. This smartphone sports a 2.5mm headset jack, so you’ll need to use cell phone-compatible headphones or a pair of stereo Bluetooth headsets if you want to listen privately.
Ease of Use
Menu/Phone Book: Since the Nokia e71x runs Symbian S60 (third edition), it’s likely you might not have seen this menu interface before. However, don’t let that dissuade you, it’s actually extremely easy to use. Along the top of the main screen are icons of the most recently accessed applications so you have fast access to your favorite applications. When something is running such as a song playing you’ll see it listed just below the row of icons. There are four quick launch keys to Home, Calendar, Contacts and Messaging on the face of the smartphone so there’s no need to scroll through the menu to access those features. If you press the soft key that correlates to Menu, you’ll see all the other applications and services. In addition to music applications, AT&T Navigator is on board to help you get around town, there’s also Quickoffice for versions of word, excel and power point. You can download more applications as well from the Nokia site and other Symbian application sites. The real plus here is that if it will not work on your device, the cell phone lets you know before you download it to the device. Now, that’s smart.
Transferring music, apps, contacts and more to the Nokia e71x is extremely easy via the Nokia PC Connectivity Suite . There’s also an e-mail application that walks you through setting up your e-mail. There’s one for Microsoft Exchange users and another, XpressMail, for other web-based e-mail services such as Yahoo or AOL mail. All accounts can be separated into separate e-mail folders, so they don’t get combined into one overall e-mail folder.
Camera/Video: The Nokia e71x sports a 3.2-megapixel camera with a flash and even a tiny mirror located next to the lens to help you frame self-portraits. The camera has its fare share of customizable settings including digital zoom, white balance (automatic, sunny, incandescent, and fluorescent), auto exposure, color tones (normal, sepia, negative, and black and white). You can even select the type of scene (auto, manual, close-up, portrait, landscape, night, and night portrait) your trying to capture for better picture quality. Shutter speed is acceptable on the Nokia e71x and we found images to be sharp.
The Nokia e71x also does double duty as a video camera/player. When you download video to this cell phone and play it back through the included RealPlayer, quality is great: images are crisp and video flow is fluid. However, when you try to capture video on the cell phone playback typically isn’t as smooth. However, that said, we should mention that we did stream live video using both WiFi and 3G connectivity and it seemed to be just about flawless nor would you think it was streaming live. Note: If you plan to do this feature a lot, definitely get an unlimited data plan.
Music: As noted, the Nokia e71x has an MP3 player, however, this smartphone only has 130MB of memory on board, which is shared amongst all the applications. If you really want to use this smartphone as a MP3 player, we recommend getting an external MicroSD card for storing songs. The Nokia e71x will accept up to an 8GB MicroSD card – not as big as what is supported by other cell phones on the market, but still that’s plenty of extra storage space. The smartphone supports MP3, AAC (Apple iTunes format), and Microsoft WMA music files. As for music player features, it has shuffle, repeat, playlists, and an equalizer with predefined settings. Getting music onto this Nokia is fairly straightforward. If you’re using the Nokia PC Connectivity Suite you just select music and follow the prompts. You can also use Windows Media Player to sync music as well.
Connectivity/Bluetooth/Wi-Fi/IR: Talk about connectivity; the Nokia e71x is fully loaded. If you can’t connect one way, there’s bound to be another option. For starters, this cell phone has IR, so you can use it to exchange info with other IR-enabled devices such as Palms or older notebooks. There’s also Bluetooth so you can connect it to your computer as well. We had no problem transferring files via Bluetooth with a PC and we were also able to connect it to a Jawbone headset with ease (call quality was great, by the way). Perhaps our favorite connectivity feature in this cell phone is the inclusion of WiFi. If you can’t get a wireless connection or don’t have a data plan, you can always use WiFi. Plus, whenever you’re connecting to the Internet you can be prompted as to how you’d like to connect and available connections appear on the screen. You simply select the one you want. Honestly, the 3G connectivity on this smartphone is so fast, we never found a need to connect via WiFi.
Battery Life: We’re happy to report that the Nokia e71x battery life is impressive. Heavy texters, Web surfers, message addicts, constant callers, and videographers will likely need to charge the cell phone every two to three days. But if you use the cell phone to send/receive a few text messages and e-mails, snap some pics, or make a couple of calls, you’ll need to charge it every three to four days. Leaving WiFi or Bluetooth activated didn’t drain the battery life, but streaming videos did. However, you can always charge the phone when it’s connected to your PC via the included cable.Read full review » Can a $99, 10mm thin, full-featured smartphone bring Symbian to the fore in the US at last? Noah sets out in search of an answer with AT&T's Nokia e71x. Joni from Let's Talk has posted some additional coverage from her week at CTIA Las Vegas. She was able to get a closer look at the Nokia E71x for AT&T. This short walk thru with the Nokia rep provides some great insight on what to expect from this soon to arrive device. Noah gets his mitts on AT&T's new version of the Nokia E71 smartphone. This symbian beauty is all done up in black with AT&T branding and a very appealing $99 price tag (on contract). Motivated by the creative comments from our last "Top Five" segment, the idea of creating a new top five list seemed quite appealing (okay, Noah's top five lists were a deciding factor too - always good to have friendly competition, right?). But why stop at a top five phone list? Instead, why not make it carrier based? Wireless devices can differ dramatically from carrier to carrier, so, realizing the importance of this; I...
Most Recent Winner - Congratulations to M. Montero of OR who won a brand new Nokia E71x at 1:58PM August 4th, 2009. "I only first came to PhoneDog a few days ago and now I've got a new toy to play with, I can't believe it! You guys rock!" The Nokia e71x is sleek, affordable, has fun multimedia features, navigation, and runs the Symbian OS. You can do all the things you can on other smartphones including accessing office documents, send/receive email from multiple accounts, and surf the web all with an easy-to-use interface. The Nokia e71x is also a connectivity dream supporting IR, stereo Bluetooth, WiFi, and 3G connectivity. Oh, and did we mention it’s a world phone, too. If... Though the Nokia E71x launched on May 4th and is available at most AT&T stores, several Nokia S60 power-users have expressed their disappointment in the lack of customization options, particularly when its unlocked brother offers much more. Matthew over at Nokia Experts has offered some great tips that will make the device even better. If you follow his Twitter feed, you've seen his dissatisfaction with the device in the days... After numerous delays and several sighs by Symbian fans around the US, AT&T has finally released the Nokia E71x. Launching at $99.99 after a $50 mail-in rebate (and as low as $.01 in some places), the device offers a full QWERTY keyboard, 3.2 megapixel camera, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.0, aGPS, all wrapped in a 10mm thin 3G package. The device is available online today (May 4th), and will be in stores by the end of the week.I've used... Carrier: AT&TRetail Price: $149.99 or via ebay Contract Price: $99.99 or via Lets TalkHot Features: Full HTML web browser, Symbian OSThe Nokia E71x is being called “The Thinnest Smartphone” that will be available on the market. This E series Nokia smartphone offers built in a-GPS, Wi-Fi, internet and e-mail access, IM, and much more. Organize your business and personal life using some of these great features on your Nokia... Pros: Battery Life, Screen, mp3 player, Nokia Internet Radio (added), apps availabe to download - Nokia forums to provide tips and tricks! Cons: Small/tight keypad Summary: I used to have a BlackBerry 8830, but it was the company's phone and I had to give it up when I left that company. I liked it a lot. I had the Sony Ericsson w810i for personal use, but the screen was too small for browsing. So, I was going to get a BlackBerry for my personal phone, but I saw this phone and decided to try it. I like it. (Loved my w810i too) I used to have Nokia phones before the Sony Ericsson. I like Nokia support websites and forums. The e71x is AT&T's version of the e71. AT&T added a bunch of crap on the device and it does not have some of the features of the e71. Despite this, there are some great Nokia e71x Fourms on the internet and you can find out all kinds of tips and tricks! I was able to add some apps that are really neat! Plus, I just found out how to remove some of the crap that is on the phone too! I really like having a 8 GB micro-SD card. I play mp3's often and the battery life is good. I also have the Nokia Internet Radio (tip from a forum) on it and that is awesome too. I can listen to HD Radio stations. It is a nice phone and I'm glad that I decided to get it. It was $99 with a $50 debit card. So, I guess you can say that it was $49... I recommend getting the Krussell case for the phone. Also, it is really made well. It's a little heavy, compared to all of the phone that I have used and to the BlackBerry 8900 (Wife's phone). I'm very pleased with it. Pros: dedicated mail/calendar keys etc easy navigation to commonly used apps slim, lightweight, felt sturdy Cons: everything is customizable, but there aren't previews to define what your customization will be. smart phone with no threaded texting? difficult to dial numbers buttons are too close together Summary: I used this phone heavily for 4 hours, customizing, texting, calling etc.... I took it back. The phone feels sturdy and well built. The OS is fully customizable, which I liked. I disliked the lack of preview for theme changing. didn't immediately connect to wifi, disconnected if you weren't actively using the browser! Had to rescan to reconnect. There is no threaded texting, could not set up my .mac email. I could do that on my old verizon razor! browser with awful, loaded slowly even on wifi. The OS is intuitive, but not as intuitive as it could be. I attempted to download apps from Nokia's site, everything I tried to download told me that it was no longer available??? The keys are too close together and for crying out loud... it's a phone, why do I have to hit two keys for every one number that I want to dial? atleast offer a number lock option! Very frustrating! It did sync immediately with my macbook over bluetooth, quite seamlessly! Even my iPhone didn't do that! I was quite impressed! Overall, great idea... needs some tweaks to be a useful phone.... Hopefully Nokia will take care of that soon! 0 out of 1 people found this review helpful Pros: None that I could find. My V3xx Razr was better than this phone. Cons: Too many to list here, read summary. Summary: Please do not disregard this review. This is my sincere unbiased opinion and I had very high hopes for this phone. I bought it and used it for two weeks. For starters the apps you download from Nokia won't work. You can't play real player files that are larger than 3mb without first running them through Nokia's conversion software even though the phone has real player installed. Phone doesn't charge over USB connection. Headphone plug is 2.5mm instead of the standard 3.5mm which requires a clunky adapter. After purchasing said adapter for $15 audio would cut in and out, not to mention the headphone jack is on the side instead of the top. Menus are extremely confusing, this may be at&t's fault due to their proprietary crapware they installed. Wireless 802.11g doesn't automatically connect, you must manually connect to networks. Internet browser is very slow, with 3G and wireless. Keyboard is way to cramped for adult fingers, you spend more time correcting mistakes than anything. Battery life is poor at best, you must charge every day. Also in the two weeks I had this phone I had to reset it over two dozen times. Display is also very hard to read in sunlight. Display scratched very easily, i kept it in my pocket with no change or keys or anything. Due to the fact I had ordered a case online because at&t had no specific case for the phone only generic cases. I was extremely careful trying not to scratch it. I wouldn't suggest this phone to anyone unless you have someone you despise, if so, get it for them. 1 out of 6 people found this review helpful I suggest Nokia E71X. It has WiFI and GPS both built in and very classy looking phone as well. sup i am new hear you win a phone yes or no What's the "unlocked" deal? Or is unlocked just a term? I know someone who can't get their Nokia unlocked - says the phone is defective. Okay well my contract is up soon and I want to get better then what I have which is my Black Jack II. I want either the Nokia E71x or the Samsung Impression but I don't know what to get. I am very smart with cell phones and I can easily work either phones but it basically comes down to what's a better decision basically. I love both phones but I can't decide. Please help. BlackBerry 8900 is really good phone, but how about that there is no 3G on it???? I would go with Nokia E71x. I would pick the E71 personnaly because i like the way it feels in my hand and it is easier for me type on but in all rality you cant go wrong with either oh and i also like the cheaper price tag on the e71 If your going on price's you'll find the E71 is slightly cheaper.
If your going on the phone's feature's i would pick the Blackberry 8900.
There both the same in many way's. However the Blackberry's e-Mail system is so much better.
Also the Hi-Res screen on Blackberry along with the style of the phone are both better than the E71.
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Overall I Would personally pick the Blackberry. Hi i'm switching to Att in August an I would like to know which smart phone I should get either the Blackberry or the Nokia please help me decide and give me good reasons why thanks. looking forward to getting this device Before you buy this phone you need to go to a retail store that has an activated demo that can can play with.
The key board does seem cramped but it's usable.
The menus are no more complicated than what I seen on the LG's and Samsungs I've tested.
What I pick up a demo phone I do a few things:
1) I dial a few phone numbers with only one hand, like I'm driving in my car.
2) I see how many clciks it takes to get to (or find) the To-Do List... Buying choicesWith new service  With pre-paid service This item is not being sold with a pre-paid service service plan by any online merchant. Purchase phone only Accessories Purchase compatible accessories for this phone Ringtones & MediaShop for compatible mobile content for this phone
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