Was $299. New low price. 3.2 mega pixel camera. QWERTY keypad. MP3 player and FM radio. This offer not available at Target Country stores unless stated otherwise. E71.
The phone is probably locked to optus but can be unlocked once recharges have exceeded $80.
Phone was amazing for its time, though somewhat outdated today it still is a pretty capable smartphone.
Very good buy for $199.
long battery life too, gps goes on for hours! although the screen is a little on the small side
I agree - battery life is great - far better than my current E72
Great phone. Battery bigger than even most touchscreen phones, and does just about everything a phone needs to.
The keyboard is fantastic. I can fly on it.
My girlfriend wants one of these, is it worth the $200? How's the music player?
Available colours?
Music player is almost useless. Really only good for sms, gps works fine but is slow as, camera will become useless cos the cover is plastic and will scratch heavily. Its a business only phone. The e72 fixed most of these problems. I used both
It's definitely not meant to be used as a music player… the 2.5mm socket is a big hint. :)
I found the camera very handy as it's always on hand, and sending MMSes from nokias is pretty intuitive. I never had a problem with scratching the lens cover, and neither did my other 5 E71 friends.
I switched to the E72 too. It had a faster processor and a 3.5mm socket, but the keyboard dropped letters when I type too quickly. That killed it for me, so I sold it and bought an N97 Mini which is an excellent phone if you know its limitations. i.e. it isn't an iphone/android replacement.
If web surfing (where the faster cpu is noticeable) isn't something you're after, I'd actually recommend the E71 for its "faster" keyboard and quick access to the camera's EV setting.
if you compare a photo you took with the e71 on its first day, and take one now that you've used it for a year, you'll see a marked decrease in the contrast. thats due to fine scratches on the lens cover which diffuses some of the light, thus reducing the contrast by making darker areas of a photo glow a bit.
its not as obvious as a big gash on your photo.
Maybe we treat our phones differently. While the only way to make a proper comparison is to take an identical photo in identical lighting a year later, I just had a quick look at the photos I took over a year after I got the phone, and the quality looks pretty much the same as when I first got it. No noticeable diffusion, no 'heavy scratching'.
I've seen diffusion before, but that was caused by skin oils smudging the cover - wiping it wiht a microfibre cloth always fixed it.
The camera was never fantastic - it wasn't meant to be, being a business phone… which is why I said it's handy, not fantastic. The best thing about it is quick access to EV, which is buried deep in the E72 and a number of taps away on the N97.
had this phone for 2 years…won't recommend this.
crap battery life + camera + a bit slow. After all, its nokia.
You're saying the E71 has a crap battery life? Really? What are you basing that on - a 2-year old battery? A faulty battery? A faulty phone? Faulty third-party software?
The E71 has a spectacular battery life that everyone raved about [1]. As with all li-ion batts though, they degrade to crappiness after 1-1.5 years. Mine was completely useless after 1.5 years - it wouldn't even get through a day. A new battery fixed that - it went back from crap to fantastic.
[1] http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/archive/1049035 and http://nokiae71.wordpress.com/2008/08/24/how-long-does-your-…
Are you serious? I doubt that there is any other smarthphone in the market with a battery life as good as the E71 / E63.
It has a 1500maH battery which is by far the largest capacity I've seen on a mobile.
Heaps of people I've seen forget to turn off all the fancy desktop/screensaver/email sync/wlan scanning etc, so of course that stuff running in the background is gonna chew the battery down pronto! Oddly enough, they blame the phone! :p
I've got an e63, once I turned off all the unnecessary apps I can easily get a week out of it with constant use (calls+txt+light wlan browsing); and on the odd occasion I've been away on holiday with no calls, make that a fortnight plus! :)
Just got a Nokia E63 last weekend…
I wish I wouldn't read this bargain…
where did u get it from? a lot of shops have a 14 day moneyback.
I got it from Disk Smith.
Dick Smith Returns Policy
Non-returnable items
- Pre-Paid mobile phones
Unluckily…
I say give it a go any way. Yuo never know. they may just give you ur money back. or may be get it to not work. ;)
A couple of apps I strongly recommend for this phone:
TTPod (Music Player)
Opera Mobile (Web browser, though no Flash support)
JBakTaskman (Task Manager)
JoikuSpot Lite (Turns your Nokia into a connectible wireless hotspot— the paid version allows you to secure it with password — no more USB or bluetooth tethering!)
Conversation (Nokia Beta Labs app — views SMS in a threaded format ala' iPhone)
The Whirlpool Wiki lists quite a few handy apps
http://whirlpool.net.au/wiki/Nokia_E71_apps
Aw man.. bought an E71 last weekend for $249 D:
Unlucky.
I went to target and they were all sold out of them at Chatswood.
So I took their catalogue and went over to Dick smith and they brought theirs down to $189 for me.
There are some sort of them at BigW South Yara Melbourne.
Just got one.
I'm wondering is it possible to unlock by calling Optus if I still use my old post-paid Optus sim on the new pre-paid phone?
I will call tomorrow, perhaps.
They are only locked to the network, not to a sim.
I bought the E71 to use on optus post paid, and it works without any issues.
Good phone … good deal!