Quick comparison of E71 and E72 – the E71 successor

Nokia launched E72 on June 16th 2009 and it is billed as a successor to E71.

So what are the owners of E72 are going to have which is not there in E71. Here’s the comparison

Feature	E71	E72	Feature usability
OS	Symbian S60 3.2 Symbian S60 3.1	Symbian S60 3.1 Symbian S60 3.2
Camera	3.2 MP	5 MP
Phone memory	110 MB	250 MB
External memory	8 GB	16 GB
Battery Life (talk time)	11 hours	12h 30m
Connectivity	10.2 Mbps 3.2 Mbps	3.2 Mbps 10.2 Mbps
Size and Weight	same	same size 1 gm more
Headphone jacks	2 mm	3.5 mm

Thank you Chris Hampson for pointing out the errors.

So decide for yourself if you want to upgrade or not. Personally I’m going to stick with my E71.

Nokia Fan has been kind enough to share his thoughts about the E72 and he rightly points out that the E72 is just not a E71 with a better camera. Please read his comments below.

Source: Nokia E72 vs E71 | OviApplications.com

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BBC iplayer for your E71

BBC updated its iPlayer and it is now available for your E71 here. It is a runtime widget which kicks up the Real Player to view the content.

The widget basically opens the mobile version of the iPlayer website. Popular content is there on the home page or you can browse through category or channel. Content for the last 7 days is available for viewing.  Since viewing the shows is realtime it requires a strong WiFi connection or 3G.

The other feature that is cool is the live radio which one can listen to.  You can also download programs and view them for 7 days after which they will expire.

The sad part is the content on iPlayer is available only in UK. Though I in India can see the content available but when I try to view or download the content an error is returned. I hope BBC will provide access to users outside of UK soon.

Another screenshot of the Live TV screen on E71.

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E71 and other Symbian phones home appliance remote control

Sittiphol Phanvilai is one the most prolific and intelligent Symbian developer. His one of the most popular software for S60 devices is Mobitubia which is a FLV player with real time decoding. Mobitubia is a full control application for YouTube. Personally I believe that Mobitubia is more feature rich and better interface than the YouTube mobile application.

Sittiphol Phanvilai's Neuscreen was named the winner in Nokia's global calling all innovators competition as well this February. Neuscreen is an application utilizing the drawing, touch-screen and camera functionalities of a Nokia N95 device connected to a normal television set to track the motion of a light pen and enable "virtual" drawing, as well as projection and manipulation directly on the TV screen of images stored on the mobile device.

Sittiphol announced 6th Neu Project, NeuRoom - a home appliance control system via Nokia 5800. He believes that the application should work on any S60 device. It has the potential of being not just a tv remote - but also for controlling lights, the stereo, air conditioner, etc. Sittiphol has been using it on his Nokia 5800 for 2 months and the application uses bluetooth and not Infra Red which was the case with most remote controllers on S60 device.  To control the appliances Sittiphol uses a control box which is attached to the appliances.  Watch a video that Sittiphol has prepared on his application.

He will be releasing the application soon and I’m sure people would pay for such an application

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Unconfirmed T-mobile data breach

A post on insecure.com reports that T-mobile's network has been hacked and the data is available to the highest bidder. The post says that T-mobile’s competitors have turned down the offer.

To substantiate their claims the hackers have posted part of the hacked code though no details are available on how the data was hacked. It is claimed that the data available is operating data and some financial data.

T-mobile has a subscriber base of 16 million subscribers. T-mobile has denied the security breach.

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Mobile Games are winners

I had an idea that mobile games are big and lots of users actually play games. However, I never came across concrete data which could prove my assumption.

Today I came across an article on eMarketer. Some of the highlights of the article are

• 57% of wireless device owners who use AT&T play games on their devices. (according to Information Solutions Group)
• Nielsen according to a survey reports that in US there are 8.7 million mobile Internet users who also play games.
• The most popular type of games among AT&T mobile gamers were puzzles, followed by card and casino games and board games.
• Majority (62%)of the games have a length of 15 minutes or lower while 29% games have a length of 15-30 minutes.
• 50% of those surveyed for the Popcap survey said that they played games during work.

The article makes interesting reading and you can view the full article here.

However, my experience with E71 has not been great when it comes to gaming. E71 was never designed to be a gaming phone but having used other S60 phones in the past I rarely come across good games for my E71. Has anyone of you found a good game for E71? If so please share it here.

Via: Mobile Games Big Winners – eMarketer

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Should owners of E71 upgrade to E75

Nokia came out with a great phone with E71. It was a great improvement from its predecessors like E61. However, as is the case with good products the expectations of users were very high with the newer versions of the E series phones.

Nokia launched E75 recently and everyone thought it would be a great improvement but from the reviews it seems it is taking a hit. Techtree which is gadget review website in India has trashed the new E75. Read all about it here.

However, I’m a little surprised because what improvements could have been made to E71 apart from a few aesthetics. Maybe the camera could have been improved and a little bit of multimedia improvement but that would have cut into the functionality of the other applications because of the limitations of available memory (I mean RAM on the phone). A lot of times I have a tough time to get the phone moving specially when I’m using 3-6 applications at the same time.

I agree that Nokia could have delivered a better phone with E75 but I do not feel that they have completely failed. Also it seems from the reviews that there is no need to upgrade from a E71 to E75 but those who are thinking about buying a new E71 might want to take a look at E75 as an alternate phone – of course they would have to shell out some extra money!

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I got diamonds on my E71

Continental mobiles who specialize in making mobile phone all glitzy and jazzy have come up with a jazzed up E71 which comes with embedded diamonds! Do not believe it check the image below or go here.

Continental mobiles specializes in custom designed phones and there are other Nokia phones available as well.

The deterring factor is the price which is 5,999 pounds.

via: Engadgetmobile

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