It's online now at http://www.nokia.co.uk/e71

@Renegade Fanboy, thanks for the heads up!

@mobiledan: This device is wonderful, no question of that, but if you haven't understood "those things", and you consider yourself as an average user you might have bought the wrong device :-)
E71 is/was marketed as a phone for the business segment AFAIK, for the road warriors and corporate junkies in suit (ops, I myself being one of them :-). Now this line gets thinner with this campaign where the focus is on "conversation".

- Kids want 100 Mpix camera, and multitude of Gbytes to listen to music, and SMS chat (mobile blogging, etc.)
- Average user talks more, has more contacts, sends a few SMS, browsing internet.
- Corporate user has tons of contacts, heavily uses e-mail, calendar, notes and synchronisation (ie. camera + SMS are totally irrelevant), and plus those corp. VPN/intranet things...

No phone could possibly contain all features.

Hehe, yeah, I am also not expecting much changes to the camera. So I will have to go with the N97. But that one is so fat and bulky compared with the E71 ;)

Good rant @karatedog, I don't know what most of those things mean, and I'm not downplaying it, but for the average user, when would I need that?

I too was not a fan of the E71, but it was not for those reason, I just prefer T9... other then that, I thought the device was wonderful, I'm sure with a little setup, features like you said about connecting to your companies wifi might work... maybe something like Boingo or something, I don't know enough of your needs to really speculate... but maybe your friend with the iPhone set those things up previously...

@jeran, the camera isn't going to get much better... I think you might be able to lose that pink hue, but since it's not Carl Zeiss optics, it's not going to come anywhere near what any of the other CZ phones are doing...

Sorry...

@mobiledan, So why didn't you get the E66?

What I don't get: why do they make a campain now? I have this device already for about 6 months. I am already waiting for a new version of it... E.g. Better camera... Fp2...

It is a marketing mumbo-jumbo, those words like "powerful". Was SMS "powerful" 10 years ago? I don't feel adrenaline rush when I send an e-mail, SMS, or make a call.
The definition "best device" comes from when you grab a mobile phone, and turns out that everything is where you expect them, the phone provides what you need (and doesn't give you too much - this is the Windows Mobile way), and it is easy to use. And I'm not talking about just longer battery life or more memory.
The E71 is a very good phone, but I will consider it as a good business phone when:
- I can search for contacts on my mother tongue (E71 cannot find names that begin with double character syllables like 'sz', 'cs', 'zs')
- I can connect to my company's wi-fi network, a TKIP, PEAP (MSCHAPV2) configured network w/o googleing 10 hours (and finally to fail)
- and I can connect to the company's VPN. The E71's VPN knows the most complicated VPN connection I've ever seen, but it misses the most simplest username/password + no certificate type of connection.
So it happens that a big concept has just been killed by little annoyances (and no, I don't want to wait for the 3rd update to solve my problem)

Finally, what drives me crazy that I look aside to my colleague who solves the above mentioned tasks on his iPhone in 5-10 minutes.
And happily uses a phone for corporate/enterprise purposes. Too bad I don't like iPhone.

"The E71's VPN knows the most complicated VPN connection I've ever seen, but it misses the most simplest username/password + no certificate type of connection."
Karatedog, try SymVPN and see the difference.