David Pitkin

On Thursday I picked up an E62 on my way home. As one of the latest and greatest Symbian S60v3 devices I knew I would not be entirely disappointed, that it was a Cingular branded device made me a little scared but my Cingular 6682 worked out just fine.

• The terrible:
  • No camera they aimed the phone a corporate users taking a note from a RIM Blackberry.
  • Locked Java there is no way to authorize Google Maps to always allowed to access the internet.
  • No iSync I had to buy the nova media phone plugins, they worked great but it was still an extra 10 Euro.
  • No 3.5mm headphone jack it does have a 2.5mm jack for a normal phone and a standard mini USB but I want to just plug my Sony headphones in.

• The great:
  • 150 dollars very inexpensive
  • Big Screen, keyboard, thin and light what more could you ask for
  • Symbian, Symbian, Symbian
  • Awesome S60 web browser the best I have ever used on a mobile device

So far I have done the following to the phone to make it more usable.

1. Updated it to the latest firmware via the Nokia Software Updater
2. Installed a few applications
   1. ShoZu
   2. Putty
   3. Google Maps
   4. Nokia Search
3. Grabbed a new theme
   1. Turquoise
4. Setup my personal email to forward to an IMAP account (free one at “fastmail.fm”http://fastmail.fm)
5. Bought a 1GB miniSD card from Amazon.com
6. Turned on Active Standby mailbox (Settings->Config->Idle Screen) they moved this from the E61 where it is in the email settings

I am happy with the phone overall. It is a little big but it should be a great device on a crowded train.