{"id":49,"date":"2008-09-10T13:28:24","date_gmt":"2008-09-10T03:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/?p=49"},"modified":"2009-07-17T16:08:17","modified_gmt":"2009-07-17T06:08:17","slug":"nokia-e71-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/?p=49","title":{"rendered":"Nokia E71 – The good, the bad and the ugly"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Photo<\/a> I’ve had a few weeks now of living with my new phone, a Nokia E71, including a couple of weeks of being on the road.
I haven’t owned a Symbian-based phone for many years, the last few phones I’ve had have been Windows-based, which despite what most people say, I’ve been pretty happy with. However, my last phone started to get flaky, so it was time to look for a new one.
I played with the 3G iPhone for quite awhile. While it is indeed as shmick as most people say, the biggest failing for me was the keyboard. I do almost as many emails on my phone as I do on my laptop, and I just couldn’t get used to the virtual keyboard.
In the end I was won over by the E71. It’s slim, has a great physical keyboard, and the battery life leaves my Windows phone for dead. Now that I’ve lived with it for a few weeks, I’m used to the Symbian OS and am actually kind of impressed with the thought that has gone into a lot of it. For example, just about everything I’ve wanted to find shortcut keys for I’ve been able to, which suggests this has had plenty of user input from previous versions put back into it.
However, there are a few big issues, but thankfully I’ve been able to find workarounds for each of them:<\/p>\n