After a long 6 years with Siemens S55 and S65 (yes, it was only Siemens back then), I’m finally moving on to a modern mobilephone: Symbian Powered.
After a long look-around, asking here and there, arguing, and those kind of mambo-jambo, I end it all up with a Nokia (WTF!)

I used to hate Nokias, and all the nokia fans…. for no reason.
No really, no reason, I just don’t like it.
But yet, low and behold, I have a nokia now…. (dang!)

You can google it up:Nokia E71. Available since med August 2008 in the Netherlands. It means I got it like after 2 days after launch (geez…. talk about ‘exclusivity’ )

De Nokia E71 is vanaf medio augustus verkrijgbaar in de Nederlandse winkels.
(*taken from the press release: The Nokia E71 is starting from mid August available in the Dutch retailers.)

It has almost everything that N95 also have, except the accelerometer, its thickness, and stereo speakers.
It’s thin, feels solid, doenst look and feel cheapy-cheapy, and it’s not too ‘business’ (comparing to Blackberry 8310). Quite a good cross-breed between the ‘fun’ N95 and ‘business’ Blackberry (while having the functionalities like both).

What the heck happened to iPhone?

Yeah, I was thinking to have the iPhone 3G, but then again, everybody have it.
Iphone was (is) great, i mean, take a look at it: multi-touch sensor, etc. But I don’t see the kick in it anymore

Aren’t you going to write a review here?

Naaah… I can’t really do such thing as review. I don’t have extensive knowledge about any other mobile phones in the market between the launch of Siemens S65 and Nokia E71. (I didn’t even know there’s a brand as HTC and stuff… imagine that!)

All I can say is *are*

• the QWERTY keyboard is very handy, clicks very fine
• the build is elegant, classy, firm, not too business-like
• make sure you have a data / gprs plan, the phone is practically useless without it
• it’s not a blackberry, but the push email client from Nokia (beta, trial) is very good –otherwise gMail is offering one for free
• speaker is either just too loud or just too soft
• the camera, well… it’s good for snapshots –for real photography use a decent camera!
• 8GB SDHC compatible! (one from SanDisk costs around €30 by the time of this post, gets cheaper by the hour)
• use the lanyard! I constantly have the feeling it’s gonna slip out of my hand
• the built in A-GPS is kinda on the slow reception (I guess I have to blame it on the Dutch skies: cloudy 24/7 :P
• Sync with Vista’s Calendar & Contacts is very nice and handy feature indeed… (I’m a Flintstone in this pc-sync thingie… spare my life!)

Closing remarks

Do you happend to have that fart ringtone? You know: some Japanese businessmen in an elevator, somebody farted, but it turned out to be a ringtone? Mail me
(any other good ringtones are welcomed as well)