Owner of a Nokia e61i
April 27th, 2007 by aizatto
You’re reading the blog of a owner of a Nokia e61i . I didn’t even think they sold e61i-s in Malaysia. Even I was told that. In fact Nokia’s website only lists the e61. But somehow my parents found it. Not a Nokia e61, but a e61i.
Okay enough bragging.
Now I would have taken pictures of the unboxing ceremony but my parents took the opportunity to do that. So sorry guys, no ceremony.
Big upgrade
Its quite a big upgrade compared to my old Nokia 1110, which I purchased over a year ago. Which has less than half the features. But the Nokia 1110 is a good phone. Very very durable. The menu’s and everything is quite easily accessible.
Nokia 1110, a very good budget phone. The cool part is the reverse back light. So instead of having a branding blue light emitting from your phone, they reversed the bright part such that it is only the text. Plus they used a subdued hue of green as the text. Very hackerish. It’s something different on the block!
Of course, it made for a bad flash light during those times when you needed one. But the e61i, wow, talk about a very powerful flash light.
Little trivia. the highscore on the games of my previous phones have always been 0.
ODF Support
This thingy majigy has alot of doohicky features. I’m not even sure where to start. Just reading through the manual, it appears there is an application which can read .doc files, but no mention of .docx or .odf.
Doing a google search for “s60 odf” brings me to a good first find.
Hi,
just wanted to let you guys know, that Mobile Office is now released also
for S60 2nd Edition(older Nokia devices).
We decided to release this software as freeware!If anyone from the fellowship happens to buy a new Symbian device (3rd
Edition), please let me know for a free registration key.Best regards
Max
Note: Emphasis by me. Free registration key! Great! Sadly its not FOSS.
I received an email from them and the offer is off :(. Any other suggestions?
Wireless
Connects to my WPA encrypted wireless just fine.
The Web looks good
Wow, the web looks good on this phone. Okay things might be squeezed abit, but still looks good. Even my websites pull up! And javascript works! I haven’t tested all of it yet, but we’ll see.
Google Ads works…
RSS Reader
Omg it has an RSS Reader…for all my brain rotting goodness.
Bluetooth? Screw that, go Wireless!
Since the phone comes with wireless, I am transferring files via my Apache web server :). Blue tooth is alot slower, max of 40Kbps. Apache, well the best I should be able to get is 54Mbps.
Yes there are other uses for Bluetooth. But right now I just want to transfer music :).
SSH Client
Oh yeah! Putty available for Symbian OS, yum. Seems there is a problem about self signing applications.
As of 25th April 2007. After installation, I ran the program and tried to connect to a machine. Except when I tried to enter the host I want to connect to, nothing came out, except blank space. Installed the development version which seems to have fixed this bug.
Mobile toy
Expect lots of experimentation from me, now that I have a better phone. Can play around with software for it, be it JavaME, Python, or even Ruby for the s60. Heck if I event wanted I could go the good old fashion route with C++. The Nokia site for s60 development seems bundled with stuff.
I can now also experiment with CSS on Mobile phones, and especially with the media attribute=”handheld”.
Office on the go
Basically I now have a more portable office (besides my aging laptop). It’ll be good to always be ‘connected’, but I may once again be doused with an overdose of information!
But no experimentation yet. I have a growing to do list that needs some hacking.
Software
Looking for software, any suggestions? I’ve come over the E-Series blog, which I have just been pouring over…
