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Oct 8, 2008

About time ... got myself a Nokia E71 ... :)

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Hello ...
Its been sometime since I blogged about gadgets ...
But this sure is a good time to do so ...
As you may know if you follow me on twitter ...
I was having an iPhone ... and I enjoyed it a lot ...
I'll be the first to say ... the apple iPhone is a good phone ...
Its a fancy device ... its the smoothest touch phone ever ...
But for me ... it had some annoying limitations ...
Bluetooth didn't work ... couldn't forward text messages ...
I couldn't even send a contact's detail to a friend ...
(Yeah ... i know about WeTool ... it seldom works) ...
These small annoyances can make one go mad pretty soon ...
So I decided to get a new phone and started to explore options ...
I finally settled on the new Nokia E71 ... and sold my iPhone ...
Believe me when I say this ... Nokia E71 is an amazing phone ...
Its really looks nice ... and build quality feels really good ...
It has a full qwerty keyboard and some kewl functions ...
I use fring for IM/Skype ... and twibble for twittering ...
And ofcoz ... I installed Opera Mini as my browser ...
I'm testing push email on it ... with emoze ...
Its a very stable phone ... haven't crashed yet ...
If you are in the market for a smart mobile device ...
I recommend you seriously consider the new Nokia E71 ...
That being said ... I do have a small problem ...
If I have a contact saved in the format +960xxxxxxx ...
If I get a text message ... the name would come up fine ...
But if a get a call ... it shows the number without +960 ...
I've been told a firmware update would fix this ...
But so far ... there is no upgrade available for my phone ...
I do know a guy who has the same Nokia E71 he bought in Dubai ...
He doesn't seem to have this problem with his phone ...
So i guess it the software and a region setting ... or both ...
Any help in solving this problem would be greatly appreciated ...
Laterx ...