Nokia E61i - Y.A.U.R. (Yet Another User Review!)

The E61i is one of the handsets that was rolled out under the ambit of the Nokia business phones' series - "E Series". I bought the E61i handset in October 2007 for INR 17,ooo from the Nokia outlet at Brigade Road in Bangalore. I mention the place explicitly because I was simply amazed by their customer service. The Nokia executive there was highly informed. I had made one visit prior to buying the handset and he very patiently spent 45 minutes with me just answering my technical questions about the handset. Pros:

1. Good overall build quality.
2. User-friendly interface (as expected from Nokia).
3. Very nice set of in-built / on-memory-card / download-&-install applications.
4. Full qwerty keyboard which is very easy on your thumbs.
5. Satisfactory battery backup.
6. Wifi is very easy to detect and connect.
7. Pop email accounts are a breeze to add (I sometimes use gmail, and, I find it very convenient because I have Wifi in Office as well as my home!).
8. Push email support; but I havent found the opportunity to try it till now.
9. Very reasonable price; Its July 2008 now and the price is I think around INR 14000 - INR 15000.

Cons:

1. Handset Speaker is very modest.
2. Camera is not good - no flash, no auto-focus, performs poorly in low light conditions.
3. Need to remove the battery cover if the memory card is to be removed.

Now in this era of iPhones, this phone is starting to look dated. But if you are looking for a reliable basic business phone which is easy on your pockets, go ahead check this one out.

Nokia has very recently released E71i, with full qwerty keyboard. I am not sure but this could be the upgrade of E61i.