I’m Back!
It's true - I'm back!
Wow, judging by the time stamp from my previous post it's been almost half a year of since I updated the blog!
I think an apology to all my friends and readers is in place.
I do apologize to everyone for dropping off the face of the planet. Thank you for all your comments here on the blog and all your email.
There's been some speculation on the blog as to the reason behind my absence. I've also received a number of questions to this subject.
I've not defected to a different platform or device. I've not lost interest in Nokia nor the Eseries product line. On the contrary - I'm still a Nokia Eseries fanboy - now more then ever.
However, I have been busy with the rest of of my life. I've been working hard on renovating a house and putting in long hours at my day job.
Going forward, I'll continue updating this blog as I have time and find interesting topics. Remember, a lot of the time the content and ideas come directly from you readers. Feel free to drop me a line on with ideas or tips for the blog.
May 26th, 2008 at 5:56 pm
Welcome back! Cant wait for the E71 time to upgrade the E61i
May 26th, 2008 at 6:08 pm
I think it’d be cool for you to investigate on the new free chat clients for Nokia E-Phones, like the beta free Slick from Lonelycatgames (same company that produces Profimail) or eBuddy mobile (from eBuddy messenger, previously known as web-messenger on the net).
Those are cool and pretty easy to use, they let you access GTalk, Yahoo Messenger, Microsoft Messenger, AOL and other networks at the same time…
May 26th, 2008 at 6:37 pm
I’m so happy that you’re back. I’m waiting for your comments about Nokia E66 and E71.
May 26th, 2008 at 6:43 pm
welcome
May 26th, 2008 at 6:47 pm
Welcome back, it’s been a while.
May 26th, 2008 at 6:57 pm
GREAT to see you return! I have to confess, I’m crossing my fingers that you’ll pick back up with Themes Fridays. I miss those, tremendously.
May 26th, 2008 at 8:12 pm
Great to have you back!
May 26th, 2008 at 9:01 pm
Nice to have you back around, by far one of the more personal symbian blogs around, missed you’re posts!
May 26th, 2008 at 9:22 pm
Thank you all for your patience and kind words! It really makes it all worthwhile. It will take a bit of time to get up to speed but I plan to reinstate “Theme Fridays” and many other posts.
Once again, thanks for your support!
Ed
May 26th, 2008 at 10:23 pm
welcome back buddy. I still check in every week even though you haven’t posted anything for yonks. it’s great to see ya back. Whooo Hooo!
May 26th, 2008 at 11:04 pm
I have to agree with Ricky, I miss Theme Fridays too! Oh and welcome back of course. One question though, can you switch the RSS to show full posts instead of truncated ones, lol, makes checking your new posts easier when on the go in google reader
May 26th, 2008 at 11:26 pm
Nice to read you again! A Nokia E61 user here waiting for new posts!
May 26th, 2008 at 11:41 pm
I think its time, you should wind up this site. More useful and resourceful sites are there now on symbian and defunct e-series too. I had even forgotten that you were in my google reader and suddenly one unread article came up. I have promptly unsubscribed and pray for quick and non-painful demise of this site.Thanks
May 26th, 2008 at 11:55 pm
good to see you back !
May 26th, 2008 at 11:55 pm
Yeah! Welcome back
May 27th, 2008 at 12:04 am
Ed!
Great you are back. Just do what you do the best - review software and Theme Fridays!
May 27th, 2008 at 12:08 am
by the way, you need to pick up “The First 10 Applications I Install On My Nokia Phones” started by Mark at http://thenokiablog.com/2008/05/22/the-first-10-applications-i-install-on-my-nokia-phones/
May 27th, 2008 at 1:13 am
Welcome back! We’ve been waiting a long long time
May 27th, 2008 at 1:49 am
Welcome back.
I’m still subscribed to your feed.
May 27th, 2008 at 2:25 am
I was just about giving up on you (check your blog every day) and then you show up again. Welcome back! What’s your take on the forthcoming E-series devices and does anyone know how the different structure within Nokia will affect the E-series (everything is under one division; Devices, instead of multimedia in one corner (N-series) and Enterprise in another (E-series).
May 27th, 2008 at 7:08 am
Great, your back!
May 27th, 2008 at 7:17 am
welcome back
E-series community really missed your posts
May 27th, 2008 at 9:29 am
Nice to see you back; I just recently got into the whole smartphone thing and your archives have been a great help.
May 27th, 2008 at 9:47 am
i miss your posts, reviews and themes…welcome back from spain.
May 27th, 2008 at 10:01 am
welcome back Ed. Been a while. Was getting worried here! Looking forward to news on the E71. Can’t wait!
May 27th, 2008 at 11:41 am
welcome back dude! So happy that you still exist even though I commented that you died or something
anyhow that was to force you to come back and prove you’re alive.
Now that you’re here, least you can do is to bring back Friday themes for my e61i. It badly needs fresh themes!
Peace!
May 27th, 2008 at 11:57 am
Nice to read you again
May 27th, 2008 at 12:16 pm
Welcome back! I had almost deleted the feed from Google Reader. Had not done this since I like to have a searchable archive. Glad you’re back and hope to read you soon
May 27th, 2008 at 10:18 pm
Wow, I am speechless - thank you all for the warm welcome. Expect many more posts, gradually about the coming devices, themes, push email (one of my favorite topics) etc.
Once again, thanks to you all
Ed
May 28th, 2008 at 3:28 am
Nice to have you back online
May 28th, 2008 at 3:51 am
Hi,
It feels good to have the backbone of the website again in order. Expecting to hear more from you, experiences, views and advices, programs and new ideas.
Yes, have the RSS feeds to this site. Just happy to have you back
Frh ( Nokia E51)
May 28th, 2008 at 5:03 am
About god damn time.
May 28th, 2008 at 8:56 am
Welcome back, hope to hear more from you soon. Of particular interest will be the E71 definitely. Hopefully a new update for the E90 soon?
May 28th, 2008 at 2:09 pm
I was really missing the Friday Themes! WELCOME BACK!
May 28th, 2008 at 3:38 pm
Bienvenido de nuevo… Extrañamos tus comentarios
May 28th, 2008 at 7:51 pm
Greetings from Jamaica (Caribbean) Welcome back! delighted to hear you are back. look forward to your posts.
May 29th, 2008 at 7:07 am
First update:
new firmware for the E61i and E65
http://i208.photobucket.com/albums/bb70/rp_guy/e61ifirmware.jpg
3.0633.69.00
Changes made from v2.0633.65.01 to v3.0633.69.00
SB-036/17.04.08
Messaging
* Reading fo SMS time stamp information unified between regions
* SMS sending from SIM Toolkit - Profile 07 improved
* Unicode Handling with Turkish characters corrected
* Correction to fetching email from freemail server
* Intellisync: Searching a contact for the first time improved
SIM
* After the startup, the phone recognizes the language to use from the SIM card
* SMSC is re-read from SIM after switch on
VOIP
* Improvement of co-operation of Gizmo VoIP client and Internet voice mailbox
* SIP Proxy Authentication corrected in outgoing call if two SIP profiles with same realm and user name
WAP
* Correction of Chinese word corruption with WAP browser
* Searching in hebrew from portal corrected
* Wap GET/POST forms corrected when using Greek characters
* Reset during WAP browsing and MT calls corrected
Other changes
* Start-up settings updated
* Settings Wizard updated
* Start-up date changed to 1.1.2008
* Correction of NITZObserver with negative time zone values
* Localization improvements Needed equipment for software update:
* Phoenix Service Software version 2007.44.4.31162 or later
* Product Data Package v6.0
* PKD-1/PK-1 Dongle & Flash Prommer FPS-10 or CA-53 USB Cable
* Product specific service tools
May 29th, 2008 at 11:15 am
Oh there u are! i literally don’t believe this as i’ve been checking out this blog on a daily basis and here u are!!
Welcome back!
May 30th, 2008 at 2:41 am
Welcome Ed.. Glad that you are back
May 30th, 2008 at 3:44 am
I’m happy to see you again Ed
May 30th, 2008 at 9:26 am
Welcome back Ed. Almost lost patience to wait you back. But now here you are, so happy to see you again.
May 31st, 2008 at 12:13 am
Hey Ed,
Yeah, it’s been quite a while..hope it’s been some solid family time!
Wish the E61 would get a firmware update..mine has become quite laggy!
But I will probably replace it with a beautiful E71. I’m not going to fall victim to that Crackberry thing!
May 31st, 2008 at 12:42 am
I honestly thought this site was gone for good. It’s, therefore, good to see you back! Hoping for regular updates and, of course, more themes!
June 1st, 2008 at 4:45 am
Great to see you back! I was checking on updates to the blog on a weekly basis, ands was surprise to see updates on my weekly check today
June 1st, 2008 at 6:40 am
I check this site almost everyday then once a week and i guees today is my day..quite a few new post
I hope there’ll be some review on the new E71 & E66. I’m still using my E61 though,would be a good chance to upgrade once E71 hits the market. I just noticed that E61 is not a 3.5G phone. Anyway..glad to see ed is back in action 
June 1st, 2008 at 2:26 pm
Good to have you back!
June 1st, 2008 at 3:29 pm
Why do I have a feeling that you will disappear again?
June 2nd, 2008 at 7:09 am
Glad to have you back.
Does the E61 have a new firmware update? Newer than version 3.0633.09.04?
June 2nd, 2008 at 7:20 pm
Guys once again - thanks for all your kind and supportive comments.
ekramsam, I might not blog as frequently but I promise not to disappear again, promise!
June 7th, 2008 at 3:43 am
Hey Ed,
Welcome back!!! It’s been a while… good to have you back!
June 7th, 2008 at 9:42 pm
Great !! Ur back. Good to see you back
June 9th, 2008 at 3:32 am
Welcome back Ed!!!
June 9th, 2008 at 11:43 am
Awesome to see your back — I’ve been wondering what happened to my favorite Nokia blog.
June 9th, 2008 at 11:48 am
It’s great to have you back, Ed. We’ve been missing you.
June 9th, 2008 at 8:25 pm
Great to see you back!
June 10th, 2008 at 7:29 am
Good to see you again, it’s been awhile, I have been doing lot’s of reading on e71, can’t wait to get hold of one of those
June 14th, 2008 at 1:09 pm
Welcome back!
June 15th, 2008 at 1:04 am
greetings from saudi arabia. Welcome back, have been checking monthly since january. we already have friday theme day, why not have other days for something specific? like monday new software day and so on…:)
June 15th, 2008 at 3:25 am
Welcome back. Greetings from Serbia.
June 16th, 2008 at 10:13 am
Are you really back? Please be, and please update more often. I would rather like have 1 source for all e-series news rather than jumping around sites and figure out something new is out.
Like for example, the recent launch of the Nokia E71!! It’s all over the web! I can’t believe you or anyone else event commented on this! I’m checking all online sites to preorder one. I got a E61/E61i/E90 and I am quite sure the E71 is gonna do it for me (forget iPhone 3G!)
Hope you’re here and here to stay!
June 16th, 2008 at 11:38 am
Hi Abdulla,
I’m back and I just posted something about the new, amazing Eseries devices.
I fully agree with you, forgot iPhone 3G. Nokia E71 will be the one for me.
Cheers
June 17th, 2008 at 6:14 pm
Welcome back …. long time no see you emails. I think I still owe you photos from Hong Kong…. just seem to never get to time do it….
June 29th, 2008 at 12:58 pm
Welcome back, we have been missing you. Going to Europe soon?
Still using my beloved E 61…
July 4th, 2008 at 6:18 pm
Man I tought the aliens came & got you.
so much been going on ED. Also I have that GMASK Account
But on the real real my dude what cracking man.
I have to lace you with some E-SERIES GOODIES
email me your shoe size, t-sizes, pant’s.
Man I miss yah No -Homo, real talk.
By:Wesley Clouden
Mobile Media Content Producer