Hands on with the Nokia E75 – eek serious problems
The good people at 3mobile Australia have kindly provided me with a demo Nokia E75 QWERTY Slider handset.
My first impressions of the S60v3 FP2 handset was “Bloody Hell its heavy” but in saying that the build quality seems to be quite exceptional.
The outside looks and feels great! It’s the insides that have me less than impressed.
As a huge fan of the S60v3 OS and a previous user of the Nokia N95 and E71, I was quietly confident in my ability to get stuck into this handset with little problem. Oh how wrong I was.
As a 3G Roaming or “Mega 3″ compatible handset with built in WiFi I assumed that getting onto the internet should be as straight forward as connecting to my home WiFi access point, and off I go.
Nup.
After 3 days I am yet to be able to surf the net. Which means that I cannot download my fav Twitter client Gravity or even get into facebook.
For some reason the Destinations function on this handset is busted. I am fairly confident of this as I have also configured my Gmail account via 3’s re-branded System SEVEN Push email client “Email on 3″ which did work however it does nto connect to the net via the Destinations Access Point controller but instead hooks directly into the Planet3 APN. Great for the fact that I get free email with my X-Series 8 Pack but bad because it is bloody slow whilst roaming.
The version of Email on 3 that came pre-installed on the handset is also a very old version of the System SEVEN push email client which unfortunatly could not identify the handset and kept throwing up errors. It does not support either HTML emails nor contacts or calendar sync from Gmail. Hopefully these will be available on Email on 3 soon.
Confusingly for novices the handset actually comes with 3 differnt email clients pre installed!
1. The standard Messaging Email client
2. Nokia Messaging client
3. Email on 3
Nokia Messaging is the most prominant being immediatly visable from the Home Menu screen and the Email on 3 client is hidden in the Applications folder.
Whilst it doesnt come for free I would still recommend the beta versions of System SEVEN. If I could connect to the net!
The Slideout QWERTY keyboard feels fantastic, the keys are responsive and it really does make typing long messages quite enjoyable however I did encounter some issues with the T9 predictive text, especially whilst trying to key in simple addresses within the web browser like http://www.google.com/mobile.
It fistly it didnt know the word “Google” (Google is a word now, google it and see) and then kept trying to change the / to an @ symbol. For some reason you still have to use the number keypad # key to turn T9 on or off.
Due to the internet connection issues I am really looking forward to getting back into my Nokia 5800.
I am seriously hoping that the connection issues being experianced are firmware related as the handset is currently running firmware v100.48.78. A new upgraded firmware version has been released for the E75 v110.48.125 which according to Nokia offers the following improvements:
This software release includes several email improvements (setup, sync, connection reliability and readability) and automatic lookup added to Contacts. VoIP and Wi-Fi also have stability improvements.
This update however is not yet available to 3mobile Australia subscribers.
Hopefully 3mobile allow it to be installed fairly soon!
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