I think it is obvious that my time with the E71 ended much sooner than expected, validating the opinion of my esteemed colleague, Yash, that I wouldn't be able to last 2 weeks with it. My SIM card is currently in my iPhone 4, and it will probably stay there for a while; I've spent the past couple of days rediscovering what actually makes iOS so appealing and I should have an editorial on that very topic on ...

My SIM card has gone back into my iPhone after a week with the Nokia E71. I just couldn't deal anymore. However, I wanted to share my thoughts about the E71's media capabilities before publishing my concluding writeup, which should be an interesting read. Arguably, the E71's most significant hardware limitation is that 3.2-megapixel camera on the back, simply because it just isn't very good. While I'm not a ...

Using the Nokia E71 has been a proper challenge, and I'm not really referring to S60 3rd edition being difficult to use. In all honesty, the real difficulty lies in getting the E71 to handle tasks that are considered typical of the modern smartphone. My semester break has ended. I've been back at school for a week, and things have been relatively busy from the get-go. We've all become very accustomed to the ...

I've spent 3 days using my Nokia E71 as my main smartphone, and I wanted to dedicate a post in the series to my experiences setting up the phone and preparing it for this 3-week stint. The initial setup process is an excellent benchmark of how much more user-friendly smartphones have become in the past few years, and the E71 genuinely feels like a smartphone from a different era even though its launch perio ...

There is something that Nokia does which has been irritating me for a while now. The company's insistence on branding what is rather obviously a line of feature-phones as smartphones is unmatched by any other company. Why is it irritating? Well, in my opinion, calling Asha phones "smartphones" is plainly incorrect. It does not take a great deal of intelligence to see that Asha phones are not even in the sam ...

A few days ago, I saw a few random reports of a telephony update becoming available on the Nokia 808 PureView. Looks like this update is now rolling out to the Indian 808 PureViews and 701s as well. According to the description, the update brings quality improvements to the telephony services and the log application. To check for this update and install it, open the SW Update app on your phone or connect th ...

While Windows Phone might not be anywhere near Android and iOS in terms of marketshare, it has still seem some significant growth according to Analytics firm Kantar. Most of the growth is at the expense of Blackberry, and ofcourse Symbian. In the UK, WP grew from 6.2 percent to 6.7 percent in just one month, while it was just 3 percent a year ago. In Italy, Windows Phone only accounted for 5.4 percent of al ...

The Nokia E71 is Nokia's latest and greatest Symbian S60 smartphone to sport a full BlackBerry-style QWERTY keyboard, taking over from the dated E61i. With its beautifully slim and impressively small body swathed in stainless steel, the E71 represents a new benchmark in hardware design and build quality for the Finnish handset maker and possibly gives Nokia's otherwise poorly-received Enterprise lineup a sh ...

We have both the Lumia 920 and 808 Pureview in the house, for the specific reason of pitting one against the other to see how they compare. We are going to compare low light photography on both the devices.   I have adhered to the following rules: Both cameras have been kept on Night Mode, rather than Auto. If someone wants low light shots, it is reasonable to assume they can switch modes. Both shots h ...

I attended the Asia-Pacific launch event for the HTC One on Thursday, here in Sydney. I got the chance (with the help of my friend Norman) to compare shots taken with the HTC One to a Nokia 808 PureView and the Nokia Lumia 920. I also threw my EOS 600D into the works just for fun! Now I know 2 images and a 10 second video aren't a real test, but its all we could manage, given the devices were secured to dem ...

Symbian apps by Nokia are pretty rare nowadays but heyo, Nokia Beta Labs just pushed out a new 'Webview widget' which is aimed that basically placing a live web page on your homescreen. Available for Symbian Nokia Belle devices, the widget allows you to place a Webview instance on your homescreen, then tap it to choose a web page and a certain view section of the site, and dazzit. A simple, clever way to ke ...

On Friday afternoon, I sat down with Vikas Saxena, CEO of Nimbuzz, to talk about how Nimbuzz, messaging and the future of SMS. Nimbuzz, a messaging app that we probably first saw on the Symbian platform, exists in today's mobile messaging space that it currently shares with many rivals such as WhatsApp, Skype, Kik and Viber. I had an opportunity to ask him several questions about how Nimbuzz stays competiti ...

Nokia announced their Q4 quarterly earnings for their FY2012 today, and confirmed that they are done with producing Symbian phones. The last Symbian Phone Nokia made, was the Nokia 808 PureView, which we all kinda assumed would be the last hurrah for the ol' mobile OS. It was arguably, the best phone hardware Nokia put in a phone, which seemed like an appropriate send-off. Today Nokia confirmed officially, ...

Nokia finally has good news after a long period of bad news. The company released their Q4 2012 financial results today, returning a profit for the first time in a while. The company sold 4.4 Million Lumia phones over the quarter, which is more than 50 percent jump compared to the 2.9 million in Q3. They also managed to still sell 2.2 million Symbian smartphones as well. Nokia had their best quarter since l ...

Popular Gesture-based Keyboard alternative, Swype, updated their Symbian app for Nokia phones today, to fix a timeout issue that some users were reporting. Version 2.01(4436) fixes the problem and you can update over the older version, but it's advised that you uninstall the older version first before installing the new app. As you might already know, Swype allows you to glide from onscreen key to key, to s ...