Comments on: Nokia E71 Review From A Business User

By: kathy

kathy — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 01:26:22 +0000

how can you use aimon this phone? i have one, and cannot find aim on it

By: kathy

kathy — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:26:22 +0000

how can you use aimon this phone? i have one, and cannot find aim on it

By: rlieving

rlieving — Tue, 26 May 2009 15:47:46 +0000

I totally agree with this review. This phone is excellent for surfing the web, but is HORRIBLE for email. Bottom line - there just isn't any native email application on this phone.

Want Exchange? You have to download Mail For Exchange (MFE) or buy a 3rd party application.

Want GMail / Hotmail / Yahoo? You have to download Nokia Email, a buggy and not very good email application that doesn't fully integrate into the E71's home screen. Or, you can get the GMail client from Google, but it also doesn't integrate with the native mailbox AND it doesn't support attachments.

Also, the contacts and calendar program is beyond ugly. Contacts in particular is useful for nothing more than dialing. Have any notes attached to a contact? I hope you don't want to see that note on your phone.

The phone is good, but not ready for prime time business use yet.

By: Mark Guim

Mark Guim — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 15:54:35 +0000

There are authorized repair centers you can go to. I'm not sure if it'll be covered by warranty though. Call Nokia customer care.

By: KAREN

KAREN — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 11:42:52 +0000

I have a E71 Nokia and it's amazing….. I would not give it up for any other phone…. Anyway, i have a problem, my Display screen is broken how do i get another? PLEASE I NEED YOUR HELP, URGENTLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: karatedog

karatedog — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 01:02:21 +0000

Maybe it’s me who cannot find the proper setting, but I hate to read e-mail by 5 lines each page. The E71 displays only 5 lines of text with huuuuge space between the lines. Whereas it can display 10 lines when you are reading mail headers.
Decreasing the font size won’t decrease the line height, so you get cramped little characters in lines as thick as my finger.
VPN is also poor. With the available data for the Cisco VPN client (Windows XP), an iPhone can be set up in 3 minutes to use VPN. The E71 wants data from me I’v never heard of (policy server?)
Anyway it is a very good phone, I’ll stick with it.

By: nephilim

nephilim — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 12:09:16 +0000

I’m a bit confused wrt to html mails. I see the mail body attached as an html file and when opening the attachment with the web browser it displays the content. But in the same moment the connection dialogue pops up and wants to connect me to the net, which I don’t want! Canceling this action closes the attachment. The mail has been retrieved from the mail server before.

Any ideas?

By: Yuval

Yuval — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 03:50:16 +0000

Great review. Tried the E71 and returned it as it could not replace the Blackberry when using Exchange for email. Composing email is slow (adding recipients without auto-complete is bad) and even looking through email messages was an issue: scrolling past newest message brought you to oldest without clear indication of ‘wrap’.
The camera too, was bad, and like another person, felt that ActiveSync connections drained the battery.

By: Markz

Markz — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 20:41:32 +0000

Hm. I got a chance to try an E71 out the other day at Best Buy.

The buttons are, and I know almost everyone’s said this before, ridiculously small! For my fingers, at least. I understand maybe they’re easy to get used to but I was almost laughing at how hard it was for me to push ONE damn button haha.

By: Rolle

Rolle — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 08:57:51 +0000

Nice review, thanks!
Damn, I was hoping the E71 would be better, so I could finally replace my WinMo. Doesn’t feel like it though.
Sorry to say, next buy: HTC Diamond.

By the way, does the N79 have the same e-mail/Exchange capabilities as the E71? Thinking about buying it for private use, but would still like to have Exchange…

By: mcupert

mcupert — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 08:03:29 +0000

Sorry i’ve wrote wrong feature about this E 71 as i said above. Actually i have to say that your review is quite good. Your business user review make it different from other reviewer.

By: mcupert

mcupert — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 07:43:53 +0000

I prefer choose Nokia E Series which it includes camera on it, so for me Nokia E 71 isn’t an option.

By: john

john — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 17:54:46 +0000

I saw this last week in london nokia store, looks like blackberry very easy to use, i have a samsung omnia but can’y get on with it so will go for e71 good nokia software

By: Antikcep

Antikcep — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 18:50:49 +0000

best phone.

By: arun

arun — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 06:44:36 +0000

the phone is of great quality but it lacks camera,even though an office worker doesn’t need a cam.But adding this can improve the overall usefulness.The keyboard is useful as a normal
computer keyboard.Good work.
http://www.trickway.blogspot.com

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:20:25 +0000

As for the email…. I use GMail to fetch my work email (we don’t have Exchange)and connect my E71 via IMAP and get great sync speed. In fact, I beta tested Nokia’s push mail service for about 30 before I saw that the IMAP sync got me the email quicker. No complaints here!

By: Triple Bill E71 Review

Triple Bill E71 Review — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 07:01:21 +0000

[...] third review comes to us courtesy of Andrew Leung from The Nokia Blog who looks at the E71 from a business user endpoint. He comes to the conclusion that it might not be perfect for immediate push email, but that [...]

By: Andrew Leung

Andrew Leung — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 15:40:35 +0000

With exchange, at the end of the night I am practically drained 3 or less bars here. But then again exchange is probably a bit more demanding, and my work email gets 2000+ messages a day.

By: Mark Guim

Mark Guim — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 14:49:49 +0000

Dru, I use email.nokia.com for my gmail account for Imap idle push, and while it does drain the battery, I still have 3 of 7 bars of battery left by end of night. Pretty impressive.

By: Andrew Leung

Andrew Leung — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 14:40:20 +0000

I also forgot to mention, as with any phone sync’d to exchange. Battery life gets murdered. This can be dangerous, but thats the price anyone with exchange has to pay for the always on email.

By: Andrew Leung

Andrew Leung — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 14:29:00 +0000

My point was that HTML email should be built right into the email client. It shouldn’t have to be an attachment. But you are correct with this, it’s like this on the 95 as well.

By: Markus

Markus — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 13:04:17 +0000

No html-mail?? At least my N82 shows the html-mail as attachment that open automatically in the phones web browser. Check it out – should be the same in E-series as well.

By: WOM World / Nokia » Blog Archive - E71 – a business user’s perspective

WOM World / Nokia » Blog Archive - E71 – a business user’s perspective — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 12:37:51 +0000

[...] Writing on The Nokia Blog, Andrew Leung has posted about his professional experience with the E71. [...]

By: Jeran

Jeran — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 10:48:14 +0000

Hi there,
the device does support HTML Email – at least for receiving. If someone sends you an HTML email it is attached to the mail and can be found in the attachments. So rendering and displaying HTML emails is no problem. Just creating them does not work…

@Push mail: The device supports IMAP Idle which is support by e.g. GMail. IMAP Idle is nearly as good as push email.

By: Mark Guim

Mark Guim — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 21:07:57 +0000

Great review Andrew! I strongly agree with what you said, “any leading edge smartphone should have html email.”