Nokia, one of the world leading manufacturer of mobile devices releases phones for corporate use. E71 and E71x are two of the Smart Phones Nokia has to offer. Having the same ideology of style, what makes E71 unique to E71x?

Both phones are designated for email services such as Mail for Exchange, Nokia Messaging (E71) and XpressMail (E71x). It has the same mono block style having a fully functional QWERTY keyboard. E71x is release exclusively for AT&T use while the other is for any network provider.

Being a SmartPhones, it has numerous services. It has a wide array of application for everyone’s need. It has a GPS functionality for navigation – AT&T Navigation (E71x) and Nokia Maps (E71). Possible synchronization to the computer using the PC Suite application. Capable as well in Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP). More application awaiting to be down loadable from the Ovi store.

These devices have most similarity on the physical aspect. You can just notice the difference that E71x have AT&T Sticker while the former has none. As well as the front camera, E71 has that. Internally, it has also great difference. They both run with Symbian 60 software however, E71 has FP1 and E71x is a FP2.

Having a wide spread of usage, indeed, these phones are really a must have one.

Main difference of these email clients is its nature. If you are using corporate emails use Mail for Exchange otherwise Nokia Messaging. It require internet connectivity WLAN or coming from network company – 3G or GPRS. Compact, easy to use, accessible, handy are some of the distinct characteristics of the two application.

Having the application installed to your phone, you do not have to be in front of a PC or a laptop to send an email. Just in a palm of your hand you can do it with ease. Having a full QWERTY keyboard, no hassle in typing emails accurately and speedy.

Mail for Exchange, Nokia Messaging have several ways to download. Using a computer or even using the device it self. The applications can be accessed from Ovi Store either from the phone or in the web.

But before the reading the review by the first-time-user, I have some things to say. First: I opened the device and turned it ON for the first time. What I saw was just horrible, AT&T did everything on their power to customize the E71x as much as they could; the result is a hideous interface together with useless AT&T apps, all the ”Nokia beauty” was removed,  not to mention that it looks pretty confusing and generally frustrating. But luckly for the noob reviewer, I know a thing or two about Nokia phones; I installed a very good looking theme by tehkseven and organized the menus more logically and user friendly, if I wouldn’t have done that, the noob reviewer would have been totally lost in a chaotic and very useless interface, courtesy of AT&T.

This issue is a big concern over the E71x for first time users, the AT&T customization really brakes the phone. But that is all I can say about the E71x as the testing was made by my friend, Elias. Here are his thoughts:

To start off I would just like to say that I am not a Nokia fan boy and I don’t know much about phones but, compared to other phones I’ve had the E71x is by far among the best. It has lots of small features that make it very customizable. With all that said this phone is still not perfect, this phone definitely has flaws and one of them is big.

The great thing about this phone is the depth that any Nokia fan will be able to enjoy. There are literally thousands if not hundreds of thousands of applications that you can used to customize and personalize the phone to perfectly fit your preferences. For the rest of us who only use the internet, texting and calling features in the phone this is still a great phone. While the depth and customization is there you don’t have to take advantage of it, you can just use the regular features without the having to get too in-depth or to learn how to work the more advanced features that the phone has. One of the in-depth features is a listen feature for text messages. With just the knowledge that this feature exist, you should be able estimate the amount of applications and features that have been created to make the phone as easy to use as possible. Esthetically this phone is very beautiful; it has a steel frame which gives you a feeling of actually holding something that isn’t going to fall apart in 5 minutes while also being one of the thinnest smart phones available.

The phone wasn’t all good though, the flaws, while few, make a big impact in my opinion about the phone. The biggest flaw this phone has is the keyboard. When I got the phone I immediately noticed that the keys were really close together and that they are very small. These two things combined made it extremely hard to type a text message quickly. I would accidently type the wrong letter or two letters at the same time. The only time that I had no problem with the keys was when I was standing perfectly still and even then I had to use the very tip of my fingers in order to not mess up. If I walked around while typing I started to make mistakes and for those reading this that text while driving you should know that it will be impossible to do so without making lots of mistakes. You should also stop doing that since it is dangerous for you and others (my mandated public service announcement of the day). Some people have told me that you grow to get use to the small keyboard and that after a couple of days they no longer had a problem. I’m the exception to this rule, I had it for about 2 weeks and I still had problems writing a message without making mistakes the last day I had it. This phone really didn’t have any other large flaws, the other things I call “flaws” are just things that I’m not used to. Any person that has had any of the newer Nokia phones should be used to the things I call “flaws” already.

This is a great phone despite of its flaw and if you’re not a big on-the-go texter you should completely disregard everything I’ve said and buy it. It’s a great smart phone if its primary user is a business person. After rebate this phone cost only $99 with a 2 year contract. If you’re a business person whose main mode of communication is calling other people and you have AT&T you should go right now and get this phone, but if you’re not all these things this phone is still extremely good. If your main form of communication is texting, however, you should consider finding a more texting friendly phone

Imagine if you could have your Desktop email client on your Nokia E71, a full featured email client with access to all your folders, files and saved emails; but most importantly HTML email. Well, this is exactly what Nokia Messaging is, a desktop email client for your Nokia E71. With Nokia Messaging you can have access to all your folders on your email account,  and emails get to your device immediately after the sender sent the email, and better, you can see them in html format, and order them by date, sender and many more.

Nokia Messaging is a great app, and is free at the moment. You can go ahead and use Nokia Messaging for free here: Nokia Messaging

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The theme comes from the genius themer, Tehkseven who keeps impressing and surprising the S60 fans with  his amazing S60 themes. And with his latest theme he has done it again, the name of the theme is aviator. This cool looking theme is inspired in planes as it name reveals. The theme has l0ts of cool features such as transparencies and of course 100SVG icons in three different styles that the user can choose from. Seven which is Tehsevens icon set with over 100 icons, then Ovi and the regular icons that already come with tthe Nokia E71. The theme is just amazing, the homescreen is even more amazing, and good news is that is totally free. To download the new Aviator theme just head to Tehks site, be careful to download the theme for Eseries devices: Aviator

For example, imagine if you could write an SMS to Samantha by just pressing @ and S. By just pressing this two buttons the E71 will open a new SMS that you can write to Samantha! Or open a specific file like song, pic or video by just pressing two predefined keys, or an app, or call a specific contact or even open a specific website! This app is just amazing, it changes the way you use your device becuase everything is done faster than ever, plus, the E71 is a great device to do this because of the quantity of buttons and the fact that they are available without flipping or opening anything.  To download Cute Keys just head here: cutekeys_s60_3_v_1_1, tell us what you think and if this app improved your E71 experience!

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Well, of course is not a magical app, but it is pretty unbelievable and amazing. This app is Point and Find, a Nokia operated service that is available worldwide. Nokia Point and Find is a very advanced app, is the kind of app that lets everyone speechless but Nokia doesn’t get marketing out of it, a thing Apple does and knows how to do very well.

Basically point and find, finds information about things you point to with your E71s camera. For example, a movie poster; just point with the E71 to the movie poster and your E71 will identify the movie and the will sshow you the trailer and movie times near you. But no only that, when shopping you can just point your E71 to the barcode of a product and your E71 will recognize it and show you the lowest price online; a pretty amazing feature. But the coolest one is with sights, lets say you are in the Eifflel Tower in Paris, just point at it and your E71 will tell you everything about it; it works with most historical structures. With point and shoot you can find many things, and you can get it for free here: Nokia Point and Find

Shazam is really useful since finding the name of an unknown song is really difficult. And I have to say that the app is totally amazing, it recognized even really unknown songs that I thought it would never recognize! The Shazam app is free at the moment, but there are rumors about a future charge for this great app. Anyway, you can download this app at the Ovi Store: Download Shazam.

In the N97, Ovi Contacts comes with the latest update, so I started using it. Ovi Contacts is a messenger for Nokia devices, more or less like the Blackberry Messenger for Nokia phones. With Ovi Contacts you can chat with friends using supported Nokia phones, or friends using Google Talk. Ovi Contacts allows you to chat anytime anywhere with all your friends and family, definitively very very useful. With Ovi Contacts you can also do other things, for example send your location to someone that then can use Nokia Maps to reach you easily.  You can also update your status like on Facebook or Twitter and share the song to which you are listening to on your Nokia device at that moment. The cool thing about Ovi Contacts is that is has an option to start the app when the phone starts, so you are always available to chat and vice-versa. You can also choose an avatar and nickname.

Still the bad thing about Ovi Contacts, and Blackberry Messenger has the same problem, is that you need a Nokia device for it to work. Almost every S60 device is compatible, of course the E71 is included. And I have to say the E71 is a great phone to use Ovi Contacts in because of the keyboard. Here you can get Ovi Contacts: NBL

But the big improvement was made on the Google Maps application, the new ”Layers” were added making Google Maps even better.  Layers shows users layers of information to the user, for example traffic&incident reports and points of interest. But definitively the coolest Layer is the Wikipedia one that gives you information about the place you are in at that moment. Not to mention you can create your own layers from your PC and then see them on your Nokia E71 using Google Maps.

Google Apps are awesome, but unfortunately they don’t let the users know when there is a new version. To update the apps you have to download them again by going to the mobile Google site and hitting ”more” than Maps, YouTUbe and Search by separate.

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