e65 questions from a smartphone virgin

damianob

Hi all,

Up to now I've been using a bog-standard nokia 6230 to make and receive calls, but I'm thinking I need a bit extra now for work - specifically email capabilities. Web access would be nice, but not essential.

I need a good phone for heavy use and I like the look of the nokia e65. A couple of questions though:

Does anyone know if vodafone disable wi-fi or voip capabilities? And if so, is ot possible to restore the original settings?

Any help appreciated.

Random

Not sure what VOdafone have or haven't done, I've got the O2 version. You can always flash it with generic firmware anyway.

My experiences are that the battery life is roughly a day using 3G and wifi to check emails on an ongoing basis. The wifi doesn't work very well (google "e65 no gateway reply") with Apple wifi points, but works great with my home 3com one.

The handset also has Edge .. so you've got plenty of redundancy - wifi/3g/edge/gprs

The browsers pretty good at loading webpages (I can get AIB online banking, paypal, Sky news, etc on it and they load fine.

The phone feels nice to use and is pretty slimline as recent phones go


Here's an online review: http://www.gsmarena.com/nokia_e65-review-140.php

chrislad

I get about 2 days out of mine and I use it for email (though through ISP rather than WiFi) and I make about 2 hours of calls a day.

damianob

Thanks for the info.

I was planning to use blackberry connect for the emails - is there an advantage to doing it through wifi?

ciaranfo - I'm a mac user and my home/office wi-fi is on an apple airport - do you think that could be a problem?

Random

I've only tried with one AP Express ... but yes, I believe you'll have problems with the Nokia wifi and AP. Have a google. Some people have had mixed success putting settings in manually and removing all security settings off their wifi network. Seems a bit iffy though.

From what I read this is a bug that affects all Nokia wifi phones - though I stand to be corrected.

My experience with BB Connect isn't very positive so far. I found it a lot smoother on my e50. It seems to cause the device to crash if the BB happens to be checking while browsing. I've seen this on 2 devices, not sure if there's a known workaround or if it was just the sw version I was using though.

Also, if you use BB Connect you won't be able to check the emails via wifi without setting up a separate mailbox for wifi checking. BB only works over the phone network.


Do I sound like I'm complaining? I do like the phone and the browser and can see myself using it for a couple weeks yet anyway

damianob

I knew the more questions I asked the more confused I'd get

So are you just using wi-fi to check the email then? What's the advantage (apart from saving on the BB fee) to using wi-fi?

And I suppose the most important question - would you recommend the e65?

chrislad

I use wi-fi for VoiP mainly. It's handy to have and saves on data costs, but I doubt you'll be using it extensively as we have ****e wi-fi coverage in Ireland, well, Limerick anyways.

I definitely recommend it.

damianob

Well I went for it and got my e65 yesterday (on vodafone)

The wi-fi works fine (although they didn't know anything about it in the shop) and there's been no problems with my airport extreme network.

Thanks for all the help

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