For all those who are still interested in an unlocked Nokia E61i. I'm selling the brand new one Nokia Service sent me as a replacement for my e70.

After almost 2 months of the phone being in transit or at the Nokia subcontracted service center, the executive resolution manager came clean. "we don't have the parts for your phone, and we don't know if we'll ever get them." All they could do was send me an agreement to sign so I'll get an E61i in exchange for the e70 I haven't used since late August.

I'm done with Nokia, I'll ebay the E61i as soon as I get it, and I've just bought myself a Blackberry Curve 8310 with GPS. Finally a phone that works with my corporate email system, live GPS, and 4 separate email accounts easily set up. Signed up for side-grade on my IM+ client, and I'm upset ShoZu doesn't support my blackberry...yet.

I highly recommend a Blackberry Curve, I hope it doesn't break within 8 months!

BUH BYE Nokia!

Just received my mailing labels to return the phone AGAIN!! Anyone want to bet on how long this will take?

Well the phone started showing problems in the last half of August 2007, just 8 months after I got it. People were complaining that they either couldn't hear me, or I sounded like I was talking through a snorkel. I called it in for service, and had to pay shipping to an authorized service repair place, by the name of Palco. They got the phone August 27th, but did not send it back until September 17th. Of course, the repair ticket said "Fault Information: Software Upgrade", with no repair/parts used listed. I installed the same SIM card that was in it, but the phone comes up OFFLINE with an X next to the time display. After speaking with Level 2 Nokia Support, and wiping out my data, they confirmed the phone has some serious error, and would send me shpping labels. After a week, I STILL DON'T HAVE THE LABELS! I called again this morning, they have NO record of sending out labels, they said they'd recreate the trouble ticket, and to call back in another 3 days to make sure this one went through. I'm so annoyed, I think Palco royally screwed up my phone and Nokia USA Support has done little if anything to make good on Palco's mistakes.

It's been a while since I've had a candy bar style phone, and I forget how important it is to lock the keys prior to dropping the phone into my front jeans pocket. Well thanks to reader Mike who told me about AutoLock which is freely available for our symbian phone. It's a life saver, and I know anyone in my contact list that starts with "a" is very happy!! Thanks Mike, and for those who are interested, here are some other suggestions on Nokia E70 / Symbian OS applications.

Tim Writes:

All S60 phones are not upgradeable t new feature packs. That means you will have to buy a new phone to benefit from "S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 1" or "2". It will not be possible to get this for the E70, but they may come out with a new E70i (or similar) at 3GSM.

Someone please tell them to at least fix the onboard web browser (needs more memory!)

Nokia - ShowPressRelease: "S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 2 will be available for all S60 device manufacturers in Q2"

Great news for those who have experienced issues with the browser on your E70 phone... that includes everybody!