Comments on: Nokia E61 Firmware Upgrade Released: Blech

By: Fring: Decent IM for Symbian Phones at Brian Berliner’s Brain

Fring: Decent IM for Symbian Phones at Brian Berliner’s Brain — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 22:49:53 +0000

[...] sure how I missed this one… But, I had been looking for a good, FREE, application for my Nokia E61 to do Instant Messaging on Yahoo! Messenger. And, I found one, and much more, in [...]

By: Zimbra Collaboration Suite 4.0 at Brian Berliner’s Brain

Zimbra Collaboration Suite 4.0 at Brian Berliner’s Brain — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 01:12:53 +0000

[...] Previously, I’ve talked about how my Nokia E61 smartphone does not seem to work correctly with the IMAP IDLE support offered by my Dreamhost email server. I contacted Dreamhost support about this, and they tell me that it’s not their fault. It must be a bug in the Nokia E61 IMAP client. [...]

By: Brian Berliner

Brian Berliner — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 00:22:44 +0000

Hi nebber,

I, personally, would avoid a Windows Mobile device - too many quality issues out there. Symbian is a better choice, but Nokia needs to get the quality higher in order for it to win.

I am happy with my Nokia E61 and do not plan a switch away from it for a while, but if I were to change, I’d probably go with a Blackberry. Not the best or most open operating system, but the folks at RIM know how to build a quality product.

The Nokia E61 continues to annoy me. In particular, it’s handling of the Contacts database (slow to open an entry and no way to search for a business, for example). I’m currently testing Zimbra as my email server and will have some posts up soon with some results and thoughts.

Stay tuned!

-Brian

By: nebber

nebber — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 21:06:23 +0000

i think i am going back to the palm… maybe buy the treo 680 to tide me over until the 750 comes out. I miss the threaded chat, the quick look up, and the speed (for both contacts and calendar)

what are your thoughts these days…

By: Brian Berliner

Brian Berliner — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 02:19:28 +0000

Benjamin,

OK, I’m a couple of weeks on the new firmware. Overall, I would say that it is worth the upgrade. It has fixed the seemingly random reboots that used to happen on the 1.x firmware.

I still haven’t heard of a work-around for the need to now press the Blue buttonn and the number buttons to get numbers to be sent to some applications (like Google Maps for Mobile).

And, on the contacts front, I just tried opening up about 12 different contacts and timing how long each one took. The time varies between 8 and 30 seconds for me. Most of them take over 20 seconds to open. “Contacts info” tells me that I have:

1853 contacts (now)
1 Group
1042 kB Used
58270 kB Free

I’m pretty sure that this is a scalability issue with contacts. If I only had 100, I’ll bet things would be much faster. I may try to change the amount of contacts that I sync someday…

-Brian

By: nebber

nebber — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 01:50:42 +0000

Brian,

Any luck a few weeks later on the firmware upgrade… sounds like you and i have the same set up (just got the e61 last week), mac powerbook, isync, 2000 contacts…

I am hesistant due to your delay around contact look up (that would drive me insane… it is a frustratingly slow at 2-3 seconds).

Benjamin Heywood
co-Founder, PatientsLikeMe