Nokia E61 User reviews  Editors' choice

By Alex Kidman on 16/08/2006

More Nokia reviews , RRP: AU$749.00

The good:

  • Connects to anything
  • Keyboard is easy to use
  • Good battery life

The bad:

  • Some menus aren't well laid out
  • Joystick input can be touchy
  • No Camera

The bottomline:

What do you call something that looks like a Blackberry, acts like a Blackberry and yet offers a lot more than most Blackberry devices? Nokia calls it the E61.

Editors' rating:

9/10

Users' rating:

8.7/10

Tags:

e | e61 | mobile | nokia | phone | series | smart

Vinoo
05/09/2006, 11:49 AM

rating
10
/10

Gizmo of the year

Pros: Awasome Display, Great Keyboard Response, Best Sound clarity on the phone, speaker phone or handsfree. Fantastic Web browser. Amazing response to packet traffic.

Cons: Not Much Applications fr this model at this moment.

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Vinoo
05/09/2006, 04:57 AM

rating
10
/10

Gizmo of the year

Pros: Awasome Display, Great Keyboard Response, Best Sound clarity on the phone, speaker phone or handsfree. Fantastic Web browser. Amazing response to packet traffic.

Cons: Not Much Applications fr this model at this moment.

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danny
03/09/2006, 07:24 PM

rating
9
/10

Stable and Best among all PDA Phones I've used.

Pros: Great Battery Life for a PDA Phone. Most Stable OS I have ever come across. Luv the keyboard. Never got used to poking the screens with stylus anyway.

Cons: If only there's a camere (at least 3.2 M given current trends).

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metamatt
31/08/2006, 08:38 AM

rating
10
/10

Best PDA I have had

Pros: Great voice and text programs; Blackberry connect works flawlessly. Better over all than Treo and Blackberry PDAs I had before. The E61 is better than the E62 since the 61 has WiFi and G3

Cons: None in my estimation. Just wish Cingular in USA will support the E61 when they roll out the E62.

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Certificate Authority
28/08/2006, 10:10 PM

rating
8
/10

User Friendly

Pros: User friendly in terms of functionality
Ease of download of MP3 or Wave file through USB cables

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26/08/2006, 02:11 AM

rating
9
/10

Best Pda phone used

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premiercalld
24/08/2006, 11:33 PM

rating
8
/10

Especially for email

Pros: All the features, right there on the front page. For the guru who is undone without email.

Cons: No camera. Will need a head band for long phone calls to hold the phone handsfree. Make that two for those cold mornings. Earmuffs!

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Borys Pawliw
23/08/2006, 12:00 AM

rating
9
/10

Nokia nails it with E61:

This is simply the best smart phone I have yet used. My clients are happy there is no camera, so that is handy and in every other way this is a superb business handset. It is a phone with GSM quadband + 3G which means it works virtually anywhere in the world, it has IR+Bluetooth+cable connectivity. Its speakerphone is loud and clear, useful with a jet engine throttling up behind you. It

Pros: *Can connect to just about anything on earth
*Screen has outstanding visibility and color
*Reception and voice transmission is excellent, with a loud earpiece and speaker that is very clear: this is a real phone you can use, not a PDA with a phone function added as an afterthought. I get a strong signal whereas with other phones I would barely register a single bar
*Symbian OS is powerful and very stable. Menu system I find to be very much OK except for Wi-Fi setup
*Outstanding materials and assembly quality.
*Battery life not using Wi-Fi is excellent.
*No camera for security conscious locations
*Keyboard feels good to use and is comfortable

Cons: *No camera, if you need one look elsewhere
*Lack of software for the E61 for now: some programs for the S60 Series 3 do work but are tricked by the phones QWERTY keyboard: a matter of time before they fix it.
* Mini SD card location means you have to take cover /battery off to swap, a bit of a nuisance.

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sjmccall
22/08/2006, 11:48 PM

rating
9
/10

great device

great phone with pda capabilities

Pros: all good

Cons: no camera,huge no touch screen

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DrGeek
19/08/2006, 02:14 AM

rating
10
/10

Blackberry Killer

Pros: Wow. That is the one word to describe this smartphone. This is definitely in the Blackberry killer category. Great display, great keyboard, great battery life, great features. And it even runs Blackberry, Goodlink, ActiveSync and pretty much all push email solutions out there.

Cons: where is the leather case for this?

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