White Nokia E65
Two months ago I wrote about my feeble attempt to replace the housing of my Nokia E65. My goal was to transform my Mocca Nokia E65 to a Red Nokia E65 using an original red Nokia E65 housing.
The end result wasn't what I had expected but still not too bad. Because of the complexity involved in changing the housing of the Nokia E65 I had to give up midway and ended up with a one of a kind Red AND Mocca Nokia E65.
However, there are those out there who managed to completely change the housing of the Nokia E65.
Dimi, in Australia, sent me photos of her transformed Nokia E65. It started out as a Red Nokia E65 and through some modding turned out to the below White Nokia E65 - a real beauty in my eyes.
There are several companies selling original Nokia E65 housing in various colours on eBay.
Two sellers that frequently list Nokia E65 housing are:
Do you have a unique Nokia Eseries? Did you change the colour or mod it in any way? Share the pictures with us. Send a photo of your device to ed at e-series dot org
A big thank you to Dimi for sharing the photos of her beautiful White Nokia E65!
August 15th, 2007 at 8:53 pm
Anyone noticed the rubber like coating on their E65 is wearing off? After only a few months of careful use all the mocca around my pop port and the top edge of the phone has pealed off!
August 15th, 2007 at 10:43 pm
I love it!!!
August 16th, 2007 at 4:05 am
hmmm. i was wondering, is the Nokia E65 worth buying it?
August 16th, 2007 at 5:04 am
@Bob - Yes. I have a black UK Three E65 and the skin is flaking off. Still a great phone.
August 16th, 2007 at 5:28 am
So how did she do it? I need to know! I have the case but am not able to fully transisition mine!
August 16th, 2007 at 5:29 am
And yes FAiL. The E65 rocks. It’s fast and cool with a battery that just won’t quit!
August 16th, 2007 at 8:44 am
actually, that’s funny you say that cyberdog, ’cause as much as i want to love my e65 the speed and the battery are really the only things holding me back from saying i love it.
it seems to take a while before sometimes while switching between apps - going to my SMSs or starting opera, for example.
is there a firmware update or something?
and i’ve also noticed peeling around my charger port.
August 17th, 2007 at 4:32 am
Bob and Stu: My Mocca E65 is loosing it’s skin from corners, but Nokia Service Point promised to change covers without charge (on next week when they have spare parts). Unfortunatelly they don’t prmised to change colour without extra charge :-).
August 19th, 2007 at 10:35 pm
ugh! the white looks awful Dimi sorry, prefer my red&black one. The White looks like a cheap housing you’d pick up at the market for 5 bucks. Theres also a deep blue cover out for the E65 now!
August 22nd, 2007 at 3:32 am
@bob, Mina & Stu : my E65 is peeling off too.
At first, it seemed to me that Nokia wanted to ignore the issue (http://www.casualtek.com/2007/08/22/peeling-phones-nokia-tries-to-ignore-the-issue/). After a second call, they seem to have decided to treat the issue the way it has be : under warranty.
August 22nd, 2007 at 11:25 pm
I absolutely love my NokiaE65!!
September 3rd, 2007 at 3:03 pm
Can anyone send me details of how to change the housing?
September 18th, 2007 at 8:39 pm
I love my E65 as well, but my problem is that a lot of dust has gone behind the screen between the soft keys labels.
I don’t have any problems with the peeling rubber since I use a vertical pouch to hold the phone.
September 26th, 2007 at 3:28 am
I was using N80ie before and now using E65. Beautiful nice business phone however, the camara lens is sooo miserable. I think it can be better with 3 or 3.2 MP with flash and mirror. I use alot of the camera & video features for project survey and presentations with N80 and its very clear but not with E65. And the other sad feature is the font size… ummm not very good for business. well… till Nokia comes up with E65i or E66 improved version. CHEERS!!!
October 7th, 2007 at 1:15 pm
i just bought this one (white) @ ebay and arrived today…but really don’t seems to be so easy like i first tought… any guide around here ?? tks
October 23rd, 2007 at 4:06 am
I bought a E65 white cover and managed to install it into my E65. I was dissapointed by the quality of the housing which was no way better than the original Nokia housing. Although i know its third party stuff, but the metal parts looks cheap and the plastic quality is not as good as the original nokia housing.
If nokia made an original white housing for the E65, i would definately buy it.
October 26th, 2007 at 4:43 am
I want that cellphone!! But the problem is I have no money
December 1st, 2007 at 10:45 am
Hi - Does Dimi or anyone else have a guide for stripping an E65 apart? I want to renew my housings and possible slide mechanism and would like to see if i can myself before breaking something!
Thanks
December 22nd, 2007 at 5:04 pm
I´ve had my E65 almost 3 months. Wi-Fi on the first one went on and off and the store changed it. The one I have right now has almost 1 month of use… the mocca color is flaking off. And I use a leather pouch to hold the phone and haven´t dropped it, etc. I recently updated my firmware to version 2.0633.65.01 . I think it´s slower now to tell you the truth. I´m really not happy with my phone. After having used Sony Ericsson for the past 5 years, switching back to a Nokia hasn´t been that fun… Is Nokia even trying to make nice phones? Have you seen the new Sony Ericsson? I wanted Wi-Fi, and with all the reviews, went with the E65 since I found the N95 was too expensive and had come out such a long time ago… Oh well….
Does your phone freeze for a second or two and show white squares? HOPEFULLY THIS GLITCH WILL BE FIXED WITH THE NEXT FIRMWARE UPDATE. I´M NOT HAPPY…
February 3rd, 2008 at 10:14 am
i got my red cover for e65 today. and i completed changing the cover.
My phone is now red..look a bit better than the orginal color which is black mocha ..It wasn’t that hard but i don’t recomand unless your phone is peeling off or don’t look as good…