Nokia E65 Review
Shaun McGill used to regularly write about the Nokia E61.
His Nokia E61 blog was one of my favourite E61 blogs. Unfortunately, Shaun had to re-prioritize his commitments and spend more time on his other blogs.
However, from time to time Shaun updates his old blog. A few days ago he posted a very insightful first look at the Nokia E65. Well worth reading.
I look forward to the next installment of his review of the Nokia E65.
Shaun, please continue updating your blog! 
Update: part two of Shaun's very thorough review is up.
Update: part three, the final thoughts of Shaun's E65 review is up.
May 2nd, 2007 at 7:25 am
Part 2 has just been published:)
May 2nd, 2007 at 10:18 am
Very good review.
E65 = greatest backup phone evah! Actually, its starting to give my P990 the beginnings of what might possibly develop into a mild inferiority complex.
May 2nd, 2007 at 10:50 am
@Geekonimus LOL
The Nokia E65 is a very good device!
May 3rd, 2007 at 5:20 am
smooth review, good job
May 10th, 2007 at 9:46 pm
Hi,
Need advices on the E65,
1. How can I increase the font size?
2. Battery hardly last a day when I have Wifi turn on. It is normal?
3. I load Fring to use Skype and MSN. Work at home’s Wifi but cannot connect using my office Wifi, which I can use for Gmail and Surfing.
4. Although my Nokia PC Suite is working through Bluetooth, on my MS-Vista Notebook, it detect another Bluetooth Peripheral Device but could not find driver it install it. This happen after I install Nokia PC Suite and connect via Bluetooth to my Notebook.
5. I cannot find some contacts in my phone in the PC suite. I did refreshed the contacts between Phone and PC. However those missing contacts still did not get updated to the PC suite. Sometime PC suite would display wrong contact name on incoming SMS message.
Appreciate your help.
May 17th, 2007 at 6:38 am
Hi ,I,ve had E65 for 2 months already.It is a great phone I’d say.Unfortunatelly I experience a great problem - when switching from UMTS to GSM the handset just stops working.The only thing that works is pulling out the battery!!!! I think it is a software problem, but still there is no update released yet!
Any suggestions on this?
May 21st, 2007 at 5:18 am
Hi,
I need some information about the e65 before buying it. I’ve read all over that one cannot change the system font size in this phone, but does that hold true for applications like QuickOffice or PDF viewers or Mobipocket, etc? I need a phone that I can read books on in a moving vehicle and the default font size I’ve seen on the e65 so far is just too small for prolonged use.
Thanks.
May 31st, 2007 at 12:11 am
Hi all membres.
This is my first post on this fourm. I have Nokis E65 phone. And i am facing 2 problems on my ph .
1)Hanging problem during incomming and out going calls.
2)Voice command feature not work on my cell .
I try to find any update for E65 from nokia web site, but i did not find.
If any one have any solution pls responce me .
Thanks.
May 31st, 2007 at 3:35 am
Hi,
Will anybody guide me from where I can get Mocca E65 in Pune, Maharashtra, India
June 11th, 2007 at 9:32 pm
Anyone know what is the actual processor speed for E65?
It is a lot faster than my previous N73 but from what I read in various websites, it is not clearly shown.
Some said 220MHz, some 222MHz and even 333MHz.
July 2nd, 2007 at 11:15 am
does anyone know how to lock the keypad without sliding the phone up and down? somewhere in the menu?
August 25th, 2007 at 7:16 am
You can download software from nokia site to lock keypad with slider you have to pay but only €5 it works well
September 11th, 2007 at 2:39 pm
To answer an incoming call with the slide, open the slide. To end the call, close the slide. If you want to close the slide during a
call but not end the call, press the left selection key, and close the slide within a few seconds.
November 10th, 2007 at 3:00 am
Roger: to lock the phone without opening & closing the slider, press briefly on the power button & choose Lock keypad
I use Autolock — http://fuse.stc.cx/autolock/
Dave, any idea if there is something free to do the same thing?
November 29th, 2007 at 11:18 am
Personally I find the E65 very slow in some menu’s.
A step back in time compared to the 6120 classic and the N95 8G.
Also with the new software update I had hoped to find the same setting as on the 6120 and N95 where You have an option to change to bigger text in the menu’s. Otherwhise I do like the solid and practical design.
November 30th, 2007 at 6:22 am
Bigger fonts please!!!!!!! Is there any chance this wil be available before I go blind?
November 30th, 2007 at 12:28 pm
John R,
Why don’t you use Font Magnifier?
http://www.e-series.org/archives/356
December 2nd, 2007 at 3:05 am
Downloaded and registered PSILOC FONT MAGNIFIER version 1.35 on my E65 with new software. Following the steps as described by Psiloc.
It DOES NOT WORK! It seems I have the short version (trial) with two white blocks one with original text, the second with enlarging text but that’s all. When enlarging the text and select Apply, the phone reboots but no enlargement is happening! Re-downloaded the application on the phone memory and still the same problem. Someone have any suggestion? Thanks.
December 4th, 2007 at 7:17 am
Just got this answer from PSILOC FONT MAGNIFIER:
Please excuse us for the problem - it seems that by mistake non working version was placed in shop. We have fixed this and now workingversion 1.35 is available for download. Please download it and install it in your phone. Before you do this please first uninstall previous version and reboot your phone.
After following there suggested procédure, still the same PROBLEM !
December 4th, 2007 at 12:30 pm
It works on my E65 !
FONT MAGNIFIER finally WORKS after downloading the workingversion 1.35
December 11th, 2007 at 8:07 am
can you stop the phone from ending a call automatically if you slide it shut?
December 23rd, 2007 at 6:49 am
please help i need to know how to change the font size on my nokia E65.
January 8th, 2008 at 3:58 pm
Hello please help me out on how to speed up E65 a bit…its too slow each thing takes about 3 secs to open and sum stuff takes so much longer…i hope theres something useful for me out there…plzzz helpppp!!!!!!
January 15th, 2008 at 6:14 am
hey everyone
i downloaded some games to my nokia e65 and when i push on the menu button it takes a lot a lot of time to get to my menu
and sometimes it doesn’t work…
2) sometimes it searches for wifi without that i asked it to do..
could somebody help me please?my mail is:royhadad@gmail.com
thank you..
roy
January 22nd, 2008 at 8:23 am
Help, I downloaded some apps for my nokia E65 and now every time i try to access my media folder and select any of the items in it (images/video/sounds etc.) the phone freezes in “searching”mode and sometimes i have to switch off phone to get out of it. A couple times i had to to remove battery as off switch wuld not work.
March 13th, 2008 at 12:10 am
How can I change the font size on my Nokia e65?
March 23rd, 2008 at 9:43 pm
help, does anybody know how to change the font size on the nokia e65.
April 3rd, 2008 at 2:54 pm
I need to find something to make the font size bigger but I am told by vodafone uk that unless it is direct from nokia I will invalidate the guarantee…..is this true and does such a thing exist from nokia
April 6th, 2008 at 9:53 pm
have just done a software update on my e65 ( great phone btw ) using pc suite and now all my gprs wap mms settings and wireless have gone to hell in a handbag, have gone to my SP but no luck, how do i rollback to the previous ver?
May 20th, 2008 at 5:05 am
I am facing an problem with Nokia E-65 . Some time during attending the call , i am not able to hear anything in Handset, when i switich the phone to Loudspeaker mode , i am able to hear the caller voice. Can someone let me know , how to tackel this problem.
Thanks
Hoping for quick reply
Piyush
June 16th, 2008 at 7:41 am
My slide function just does not work at all. when i slide it up the light won’t go on, it wont slide me slide to answer or disconnect, any ideas if i can change this in the settings or is it a fault with the phone ( i recently had the lcd replaced). Any help would be appreciated.