Binding: Wireless Phone Accessory
Manufacturer: Nokia
Product Description:Nokia's E61 is the email oriented member of the new Nokia E-series of devices designed for enterprise business. It assumes the traditional "Blackberry" form factor, and as a Series 60 3rd Edition device, it runs the new Symbian v9.1 operating system. The QWERTY keyboard equipped E60 was designed to provide a great email experience for its user, due to its keyboard and varied push email support that includes: Blackberry Connect, GoodLink, Nokia Business Center, Seven Mobile Mail, Seven Always-On Mail, and Visto Mobile. The E61's multitasking abilities means that you can send and receive email while you are in the middle of a phone call
Amazon.com Hands-On Review: The E61 is one of Nokia's new business-centric Eseries of devices, and is the first Nokia phone to sport the popular "BlackBerry" form factor that has been so popular in the United States for years. As an Eseries device, the E61 comes complete with remote management capabilities, a SIP compatible Voice Over IP client, as well as support for a large number of push email vendor solutions. The E61 also runs the 3rd edition of the Nokia S60 user interface over top of the Symbian v9.1 operating system, which means that there is a lot of 3rd party application support for the device.
 The sleek E61 is all business. |
The two most dominating features of the E61 are its large 320x240 pixel display and its equally spacious QWERTY keyboard. The landscape formatted QVGA display is bright and colorful - capable of displaying up to 16 million different color shades. The keyboard makes use of somewhat loose fitting plastic keys that, while seeming a bit cheap at first, are actually quite comfortable to use. Each key is decently large, and there are a number of shift, function, and other keys that allow the user quick access to letters, numbers, symbols, and even foreign characters. Above the keypad are a number of other keys, including two large softkeys, a pair of equally large call send/end keys, a fine joystick, and dedicated menu and messaging app buttons.
As a business oriented device, it is not all that surprising that the Nokia E61 lacks a digital camera of any sort. It does, however, sport a very nice music player application and a miniSD memory card slot. The music player has the ability to sort tracks based on things like artist and album, and allows for the creation of playlists from a PC or directly on the phone. The E61's wonderful web browser is capable of properly rendering just about any site on the internet, thanks to full CSS and javascript support. The browser supports zooming in and out, easy panning around large pages, and a visual back/forward function.
 The E61's QWERTY keyboard is easy to type on. |
One of the E61's most compelling traits is its support for most of the major wireless networks. For starters, the E61 has fantastic 802.11g WiFi support, for extra fast web browsing and email access. When out of the home or office, EDGE and UMTS 3G data (where available) are also at the user's disposal. In terms of shorter range connections, Bluetooth, USB, and infrared are also available.
The E61's large display and vast capabilities come at a price in terms of power, necessitating the use of a large and somewhat heavy 1500mAh battery in order to obtain its very respectable 8 hours of talk time in our GSM band tests. The E61 can also be used on European UMTS 3G networks as well, but will get slightly less talk time performance when doing so. Audio quality was a bit above average when used in regular calls, but the built-in speakerphone function is one of the best we have ever tested.
While the early E61 that we tested had some quirks with its IMAP email support when configured for automatic download, most corporate users will likely be very pleased with the device's support for the following push email based systems: BlackBerry Connect, GoodLink, Nokia Business Center, Seven Mobile Mail, Seven Always-On Mail, and Visto Mobile. The MMS and SMS systems are top notch, and worked as well as the rest of the messaging applications.
Pros:
- Good keyboard
- Large display
- WiFI, UMTS, EDGE, Bluetooth
Cons:
- Somewhat large/heavy
- A few IMAP email quirks
With its wide array of connectivity and messaging options, comfortable keyboard, and large display, the Nokia E61 is the perfect companion for corporate raiders busy home office types alike. The built-in applications are all very well done, and the availability of plenty of 3rd party apps will help each individual user fill in any perceived gaps in functionality. In short, the Nokia E61 is an excellent choice for a business centric mobile phone.
--Reviewed by Michael Oryl, editor in chief of www.MobileBurn.com
List Price:
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Features:
- This unlocked cell phone is compatible with GSM carriers like AT&T and T-Mobile. Not all carrier features may be supported. It will not work with CDMA carriers like Verizon Wireless, Alltel and Sprint.
- Quad-band GSM cell phone compatible with 850/900/1800/1900 frequencies and International 3G compatibility via 2100 UMTS plus GPRS/EDGE capabilities
- Full QWERTY keyboard and 2.9-inch LCD screen; Wi-Fi networking (802.11b/g)
- 64 MB internal memory; MiniSD expansion; Bluetooth for handsfree devices; digital media player; access to email with document viewer
- Up to 7 hours of digital talk time and 260 hours of standby
Brand: Nokia
Model: E61
Customer Reviews

Nokia E61a real pleasure to work with
I got my Nokia E61 two weeks ago . At the beginning it looked complex but soon I realize that is a very helpful tool to manage daily tasks.
It is a smartphone and is difficult to master all the function without
some readings but you have a build-in Tutorial that is very useful.
I enjoy very much this smartphone which is more a small computer than a phone and I recommand it warmly.
Ing. Dragu Stanescu

Review of nokia E61
One of the best phones I have used
Pros: The wi-fi is good, big screen, very good visibility and colour resolution and also the help functions are really great.
Cons: Some downloaded games, freezes the phone and its bulky

Lots of weak spots; come let's take a walk on the "other side" ...
First off the bat, when it comes to the GSM wireless space, nobody does better than the Nokia cell phones. Voice reception is great and is always the best in class (as all other Nokia phones that I have experienced do!); nothing betters it -- iphone, Motorola, Sony Ericsson etc.
Most would have read all the good things about it in the other reviews and they're not lying. But let's have a closer look at the "darker underbelly" of this monster (so to speak)...
MP3 MEDIA PLAYER:
As we all know, this phone plays MP3s and accepts a miniSD Card. So here I am brandishing my 1GB miniSD card all ready for my first MP3 cell phone dreaming of carrying hundreds of songs in my pocket wherever I go ... Perish the thought! Around the time I upload 80 or more songs, the phone starts going crazy; it freezes when you try to access the media player to play the songs, the music library's playlist keeps having amnesia every now and then that you need to keep telling it to update the playlist. And how do you ask it to scan the storage to update the playlist ... you need to go through FOUR layers of menu to reach "update music library". And every day or two you find that the media player's playlist has gone back to either 0 or 7 songs in its playlist.
At 80 songs, it takes forever (ok, about 20 minutes --- but why in the world would you need 20 minutes to update a playlist???) to update its library. The best I could manage was a 110 tracks playlist that went with me for about a week ... and that too it would "happily" turn up with only about 95 of them. I seriously wonder *WHO* wrote the software ... and this is the latest version of the OS that I downloaded from the Nokia website.
Let's just forget about carrying video around.
PICTURE GALLERY:
Upload any large picture about 150KB in size and you are going to have a major problem if you try to access the "Gallery" the phone freezes for at least 5 minutes and you can even get back to the main screen even after pressing the red "hang-up" button. The solution --- wait out the 5 minutes, or press the "magic button" to shut down the phone and restart ... wait this sounds so familiar (CTRL+ALT+DELETE anyone?) and it's not even MS-Windows!
USER INTERFACE RESPONSIVENESS:
The interface is very sluggish to say the least. Access "Notes" and it takes at least a good 1 sec for it open up the notes application. I know you must be saying "1 sec? What's so bad about that superman?" The point is for such a light weight application (and after using any other phone) you expect these things to be instantaneous --- a newbie may think he/she didn't press the button and might even press it harder a second time (I did it quite a few times) ... but I can live with that ! (Can't we all?)
THE MUCH TOUTED SKYPE SUPPORT:
It's over hyped and nothing like it leads you to believe! You don't save any money anyway as it doesn't support VOIP on skype over Wifi. All it allows is for you to initiate a skype call from your computer to your cell phone if you want to make a long distance call through your cell using skype (most probably international since most cell phones have domestic long distance anyways) --- either ways you don't save any money as you spend airtime on receiving the skype call (if it's out of the weekend/night time-band) and you don't need it if it's weekend/nights as you get the free airtime anyways! Besides, you need to have a "skype-out" account which entails a annual subscription fee.
I haven't tried the other VOIP features as it's a paid subscription service.
1-800-DIAL-A-WORD:
The ugly side of the QWERTY keyboard is that it's hard to dial a number listed as 1-800-ACME-HELP since the letters are all set differently. Ergo, you will always need the numeric version or you'll have to work it out yourself which is not such a great thing if you're in a hurry or have frequent attacks of brain-fade.
WISH:
I wish it had support for stereo Bluetooth headphones.
CONCLUSION:
Why do I stick with it, and why 3 stars? Because it does a very good job as a cell phone, its Wifi support is decent and nothing to complain about, it's got a full browser (with RealPlayer support for limited YouTube usage), has full JavaScript support instead of a wimpy WML browser, and the usual battery recharge is about once every 3 to 4 days unless you're in love or terribly home-sick --- then you might have to recharge every single day but that would be the least of your problem once you get your monthly statement (but I digress!).

good phone, but please read before change firmware
got this phone from MCO for pretty low price
it was 3 branded, and the fw is pretty old (1.x), changed product code to Hong Kong version and update, the phone is alot more stable, however, the symbol layout on keyboard changed, that I have to make a sticky on the back to show the difference (be aware of that if you want to change the language)
the screen is big, and in landscape mode, I am pretty impressed how pleasant when browsing internet with this big screen
the keypad is pretty pleasant to key in message, the joystick is easier to use, email button is also handy for checking email (it supports regular POP and secure US Army IMAP, but it doesn't support GMail IMAP)
reception is kinda weak, in the gym locker room, I can make/receive calls with N73, while E61 shows nothing
thanks to the 1500mA/h battery, the battery time is on par with N73
no cam included may be a plus when using in a high secure precinct (where cam is prohibited), then I just use it instead of N73
like other S60 phones, it can retrive WAP/MMS setting right out of SIM, except you have special setting (I have VPN total internet, that I have to put separate APN setting for net browser, realplayer, and tethering)
bt is version 1.2, which is on the slow side, I get about 500kbps when transferring files, while I got 1200kbps on N73
some special tips: go to tools->application manager->options->settings->software installation, use all (default is signed only, that prevents non-nokia application installation)
conclusion: the phone is pretty low price now, get it if you use messaging alot of use alot of internet on your phone, this won't disappoint you; if you decide to change product code to change language, you have to be aware that the symbol on keyboard will be changed

Don't pay retail!
Great phone, but don't buy it here. You'll save a hundred bucks if you order it online directly from Nokia. And free second day shipping.
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