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“The e71 is a great business phone. What I need are: ”

written by atarshis on 07/01/2011

The e71 is a great business phone. What I need are:

1) Good radio reception. I hate dropped calls or bad sound quality

2) Good email support (both Exchange and webmail)

3) Long battery life. Its useless with a flat battery!



The e71 is great at all 3. I thought I lived in a poor reception area as my last phone was frequently dropping or missing calls (it was an htc phone). As soon as I started using the e71, I hardly ever had a problem.



I use my e71 for work email a lot. The company has MS Exchange servers, and the e71 integrates very well. As well as downloading the emails, I can also access the company address book when I need to send an email to someone not in my phone's contact list. One small problem is that if you read the email on the phone, it will be marked as "read" when you next do email on a PC. There is no option to "mark as unread" for emails you'd like to look at again when you get to your desk.



The battery is amazing, I can usually get 24 hours between charges without any problem, and 3 days is possible (but I wouldn't go on a 3 day business trip without a charger, just in case).



The WiFi support is good, and there is a reasonable app market. I have downloaded and frequently use a Google search app, Opera web browser, Nimbuzz chat client and Texas hold'em Poker game for long flights!



It is very slim, so easily fits in a suit pocket. The free for life SatNav is great too.



The negatives are:

1) small screen compared to more modern "touch screen" phones, but that's the price you pay for a real keyboard.

2) the fonts for email are larger than on a blackberry, so you have to scroll a lot to read an email

3) the headset socket is a non-standard size, so using it as a mp3 player is less than perfect as the choice of headsets is limited.