Comments on: I Love My New Nokia E71

By: Yours Truly Quoted in The Hoya Story on Smart Phones | Gauravonomics Blog

Yours Truly Quoted in The Hoya Story on Smart Phones | Gauravonomics Blog — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 03:02:02 +0000

[...] the way, Nokia should consider all the free publicity I have given to the E71 (see 1, 2 and 3) and hire me for a testimonial [...]

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 01:28:39 +0000

“I can’t cut and copy text”

Select text by hitting shift and using the control pad thing. Then you just use ctrl+c, ctrl+v and ctrl+x like on a PC for copy, paste and cut. ctrl is the second function on the “Chr” key at the bottom right of the keyboard.

By: I Need a Mobile Phone, But I Want a SmartPhone | The Marketer Who Went Off Consumption

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 06:24:32 +0000

[...] Welcome to The Marketer Who Went Off Consumption! Subscribe to my RSS feed in a feed reader or by e-mail and you’ll never miss any chapters from my year-long blog-as-a-book experiment on why we choose to consume, or not.Question: Whatever happened to off-consumption? (Amit, in response to my purchase of a Nokia E71 smartphone.) [...]

By: Gaurav Mishra

Gaurav Mishra — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 06:15:05 +0000

@Kiran: I really want the iPhone 3G but there’s the little question of AT&T’s 2 year contract. Plus, I have to return my office phone tomorrow and I would have been without a phone for two weeks.

@Balaji: Thanks for the WPhone tip. Wordpress now has an iPhone app. It will be interesting to see if it works on my Nokia E71.

@Hari: Yes, the Nokia E71 has totally changed how I create and consume content. I’m now accessing my feeds and e-mails almost entirely on the phone.

@Kaustav: Dude! The bluetooth keyboard totally rocks!

@Olaf: Yes, I had heard about the E61i’s slow processor. E71 is usually great, but the GMail app hangs sometime.

@Amit: Like there’s no end to acquisition, there’s no end to relinquishment too, and the only absolute ideal in both cases is to give up your life for your pursuit.

When I watched ‘Into the Wild’, I felt fake. My own experiment seemed but a shadow in front of the extremes to which Chris went.

So, of course, my off consumption experiment is fake.

But it’s fake because I need a (any) mobile phone to begin with, not because I want a high-end smartphone like Nokia E71.

It’s a version of the breakfast cereal argument I once had with a reader: if I consider breakfast cereal to be a necessity, I might as well buy the high-end, branded version that I like, instead of the cheap store brand version that tastes terrible to me.

From the beginning, my experiment has been about wanting fewer things, not cheaper things. There’s a difference between the two, even though it’s a subtle one sometimes.

By: Amit

Amit — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 06:26:59 +0000

not quite off consumption, I gather. and unwilling to clarify too.

bright.

By: Amit

Amit — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:15:29 +0000

whatever happened to off-consumption? :\

By: Olaf

Olaf — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:02:46 +0000

I’m still using the E71’s predecessor, the Nokia E61i, and it’s been invaluable as a productivity tool! Use it for everything from browsing, to email, instant messaging, video, social networking tools and even some word processing.

I have also added a bluetooth Garmin GPS receiver, which works wonders with the Nokia car windscreen mount.

Its only drawback is the slow processor, which leaves a little to be desired…

By: Kaustav

Kaustav — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:28:25 +0000

That’s an excellent phone. I use a Nokia N82 with a Bluetooth keyboard which is excellent for typing a lot of text very fast. Not so relevant for you on the E71 as it has a QWERTY keyboard but the layout and size of the BT keyboard is very nice. Works particulaly well for bloggers using a non-QWERTY phone. Here’s a photo:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/astrolondon/2642861075/

By: Hari Kishore

Hari Kishore — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 11:11:39 +0000

My brother recently bought this phone. As you said, its truly a wonderful stylish productivity tool!!

By: Balaji Dutt

Balaji Dutt — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 02:24:32 +0000

Ever since I heard about this phone about 6 months back, I’ve been in love with it! Eagerly waiting for the day when my current contract expires and I can upgrade.. although I don’t really have a good data plan to go with the phone

RE: Wordpress on your phone - check out WPhone. Although optimized for the iPhone, it works very well even otherwise.