Most of you know that in addition to being addicted to gadgets I am also a Flickrholic. I thought I should share some of my "Favorites" from Flickr. The picture are all from the E61 photo pool.
Feel free to upload some of your E61 and the rest of the E-series devices to the Flickr Photo Pool.
Bruce has done it again - this time created a pink Nokia E61 that pink loving Mobile Diva, Darla would kill for 
Thanks Bruce!
My latest addition to the blogs I read on a daily basis is "My (and your) E61" - I have to say that the title alone is a winner. (Why didn't I think of such a great name for the blog). Anyway, the content is King! Check it out.
Welcome to the world of Nokia E61 blogs Jake, keep up the good work.
Tommi over at S60.com posted an interesting piece about the popularity of E-series blogs - mainly the Nokia E61 blogs. Well worth reading and commenting on.
More themes for Nokia E61 coming this weekend - stay tuned.
Long time readers (3 month or so of this blog know that I like Widsets. But I am not alone. Quite a few people have written about Widsets. Antony, recently posted an interesting article about Widsets in S60tips.com.
Anyway, this morning when I started up Widsets I was met by the message below.
The new version includes changes and improvements to the client. Supposedly there is also a new easy way to create and publish widgets for your own blog or website. I already created an E-Series widsets but I have to see what is new with this version.
Must have software - Widsets for your Nokia E61 or Nokia E62
Many of us use the Nokia E61 as an essential business tool. It's always interesting to learn how other Nokia E61 users rely on the device in their daily work. I received an email from Daniel Cuthbert, a talented photographer in Bangkok who used the device to report on the coup in Thailand.
Being a photographer in Bangkok, as soon as i heard the news i grabbed the
camera bag and phone and rushed out.
The E-61 allowed me to keep the http://bangkok.metblogs.com site updated with
up2theminute reports on what was happening.
the phone got wet, dropped 4 times and still worked like a dream!
*now if it would only support compact flash cards and full image manipulation
and uploads, i wouldnt need a laptop.
I knew it would just be a matter of time before we got to see some seriously pimped Nokia E61. I am a big fan of modding and has been looking forward to seeing some differently colored Nokia E61.
Let it be known that I throw down my glove. Where are the pictures of the steel blue Nokia E61, or perhaps the red Nokia E61 or something else. Send me your pictures please!
A big thank you goes out to Bruce for sharing this with us - you are my new hero~!
As many of you have noticed I am having some problems with my RSS feed on this site. I am trying to fix this but I am way over my head. If anyone out there with experience using Wordpress, Feedburner and RSS in general could help me I would greatly appreciate that. I realize that there is an extra empty line in the RSS feed but where in Wordpress and how do I change that?
Help us, Obi-Wan Kenobi; you're our only hope.
Here are a few select themes for the Nokia E62. If you are having problems installing the themes for the Nokia E62 and get a “Certificate Error contact the application supplier” read here for a fix to that problem.
If you have made some themes and want me to list them here or want to suggest other themes to add, please drop me a note.
The Dark Theme by alexandr3
Pearl Black by Alexx
Fire By ?
igBase by I.G.
Tree By ?
OrangeBlue By Pfleuger
Aqua By Roman Keller
Dark Sky By Toaster
BlueDream By Roman Keller
Blue Smile By Roman Keller
City By Daniel
White by Daniel
MacGraphite_N71 by ?
Day and Night by ? (DL link below)
Vista By? (DL link below)
Theme14 by? (DL link below)
Summer By ? (DL link below)
Flowers by ? (DL link below)
The above five themes Day and Night, Vista, Theme14, Summer and Flowers are available for download through Rapidshare here. Choose the "free" option, scroll down and pick the option to the right.
S60 White by S60 (temporarily not compatible with Nokia E62)
S60 Color by S60 (temporarily not compatible with Nokia E62)
The RealPlayer application on the Nokia E61 supports streaming of video and audio. The application works very well and you can easily listen to Internet radio broadcast on the Nokia E61. *IF* you know the URL that is.
The main obstacle for me, and probably many more Nokia E61 users, is that I don't have the URL to various radio stations and therefore not use this feature that much.
I recently received an email from Steve who was kind enough to send me 67 files with URLs to various Internet radio broadcasts in the UK. With Steve's UK Radio Links you have plenty of stations to choose from. I decided to compile a few of my favourite Bay Area stations and make them available as well.
Here's how you can easily listen to these radio stations on your Nokia E61:
Download Steve's UK Radio Links and my (very modest collection) of Bay Area Radio Stations and transfer them to your "Videos" folder on your Nokia E61.
You can use Nokia PC Suite's Phone Browser on a PC or Mac's "Browse Device" function to copy the files to the Video folder. The file path is /C:/Data/Videos/
To access the radio stations go to Media > Gallery > Streaming Links
If it is the first time you use RealPlayer to stream media it will ask you to define the default access point first. Go to Media > RealPlayer > Options > Settings > Connections > Network to specify your preferred access point.
You can use the joystick to "browse" for radio stations or just start typing in the name of the station to quickly find the station you are looking for.
Calling out for more radio stations!
Please send me .RAM files of your favourite radio stations. I will keep adding them to the above Zip packages so that we have more stations to choose from. Send your files to "ed youknowwhatgoeshere e-series.org"
Thanks Steve!
Let's hope that you don't need this information but if you ever break the screen (Heaven forbid!) or the keyboard of your Nokia E61, you can buy spare Nokia E61 parts here. It's good to know that spare parts are available for the Nokia E61 and the rest of the E-series. devices.
Say that you scratch your Nokia E61 beyond recognition - then order a complete new casing for the E61 or just order the parts that you need. Handy-Designer can sell you the whole casing of the Nokia E61 or just a specific part.
One reader of the blog ordered the English keyboard of the Nokia E61 so that he could replace the Arabic keyboard that the unit came with.
If you are real hard core you order the complete casing and then walk over to your local auto body shop and have them custom paint your Nokia E61. Then you send me the exclusive pictures
UPDATE:
Alan told me that Cellular Nationwide Network also is selling Nokia E61 keyboards and the LCD screen
Thanks to E61addicted for the insipration!
The first time I heard about Vaja was three months ago when a reader of the E-series.org wrote to me and absolutely raved about a leather case he had bought for the Nokia E61 from Vaja.
Since then there has been many blogs and customers praising Vaja for their carefully crafted handmade leather cases for the Nokia E61 - The Vitelino. Now I join them.
The package is simple and very stylish in a nice iPodeque way. As soon as you pick up the Vitelino you can tell that it is meticulously crafted. The seams are perfectly even and everything with the case feels flawless.
The case fits perfectly with the Nokia E61. All controls, buttons, ports and connectors are accessible through detailed cut-outs. There is also a speaker mesh protector.
The Vitelino can be customized in a number of ways including a wide variety of colors, belt clips and even personalizied with logo or name. It is truly a unique, handmade case. As for everything of exceptional quality you pay for a premium product. The baseline case is $60 but for that you get the crème de la crème of cases for the Nokia E61.
Let me start by saying that I am by no means an expert on VoIP on the Nokia E61. I probably only know the very top of the VoIP iceberg. When I first got my Nokia E61 I tried to use the VoIP functionality but couldn't get it to work. I spent a few days trying to set it up but to no avail. I soon lost my patience and forgot about it. I focused on the many other features and applications available for the Nokia E61.
Set-up problems aside, another reason I lost interest is probably that I am not the right target for VoIP. I have a calling plan that provides me with more minutes than I can use and if that isn't enough, all weekends and evenings are free.
As is common, long distance or mobile-to-mobile doesn't matter since the effective price per minute is the same with my carriers' plan. For international calls I rely on prepaid telephone cards - I dial a local number, dial my pin code and then the international call I want to make. This way the cost for an International call drops to a cents per minute.
However, VoIP on the Nokia E61 is one of the most common questions I receive so there is clearly a large interest and demand for this feature. A week ago I thought I should give VoIP on the E61 another chance. I came across two services/sites that I liked - Sipgate and VoXaLot.
I like these services because they have removed ALL the issues I had of setting up VoIP on the Nokia E61. Both Sipgate and VoXaLot has excellent support and documentation to make their services work on the E61.
Sipgate let's you sign up for a German or UK (if you live in the UK) telephone number so that you can receive phone calls. Naturally, you can also call other Sipgate users for free. Their wordwide rates are also reasonable.
One reason I really like Sipgate is that as soon as you have registered as a new user (free) and signed in, Sipgate will generate all your personaliazed settings and display them on a webpage complete with screenshots for each of the set up steps on the Nokia E61. You will see each step of the set-up with your personalized settings as it should appear on your Nokia E61. With this brilliant set-up you CANNOT GO WRONG!
Simply register and sign in and you will see your own settings:
VoXaLot doesn't have the same personalized set-up page but it is as easy to set up. Thanks to very clear direction posted by Martin you can register and get it to work within a few minutes.
(Press in the joystick to get the selection screen below, in order to make an Internet call)
Another nice touch by VoXaLot is that voicemails you receive to your account will be forwarded to your email address as an attachment. Naturally, you can also dial in to pick up your voicemail but the added service to have them sent via email is very convenient.
In addition to Sipgate and VoXaLot, there are many good "how to use VoIP on the Nokia E61" posts available. Pasha over at NokMe has written a great guide of how the set up of Nokia E61 for pbxes and Gizmo. There is also good information from Christian about using Nokia E61 with Asterisk. Last but not least, Martin has posted about using the Nokia E61 with FON.
So many VoIP solutions for the Nokia E61 - so little time…
The new firmware for the Nokia E61 brings about many changes and improvements. In addition to the list of changes reported on Symbian-Freak, I have also found that the menu shortcuts have changed. The previous layout was not the most intuitive. The new layout follows the logic and layout of the numeric keyboard. However, you now have to press the Blue Function key and the number in order to access the files and application.
I'm happy to report that I had no problems installing BlackBerry Connect and Mail For Exchange (ActiveSync protocol) on my newly upgraded Nokia E61. I just downloaded the appropriate BlackBerry Connect Client and the Mail For Exchange Client and installed them. I was up and running in no time.
For those of us that prefers shortcuts, a convenient way to activate bluetooth is to press the "Blue Function" Key + "Ctrl" key.
To activate the infrared function press the "Blue Function" Key + "Chr" key.
Thanks Dias
Rejoice - the long awaited firmware upgrade for the Nokia E61 is finally available!
The firmware update deletes all data from the Nokia E61 so back up your contacts, applications and other data stored on the device. The charger must be connected when performing the update.
If there ever was a smooth upgrade then this was it. Everything worked like a charm.
I received an email from a reader of E-Series.org, Kenneth, who successfully set up his Nokia E61 to print with a Brother Laser Jet printer. Below is Kenneth's email:
In an effort to use my E61 to its fullest potential I stumbled across an application in the Office folder called “Printers.” I (like probably most people) thought it was only for Bluetooth or maybe the even more rare infrared printers. However, at closer inspection I discovered that the application prints to supported HP printers through Bluetooth, Infrared or WLAN connections.
I started looking through all the documentation that came with the E61 but nothing told me how to connect to a networked printer. I finally found a document on Nokia’s E61 support website that helped.
Here you will find the settings need to connect to a network printer. Here are the things you need:
Your Nokia E61 supports the LPR print protocol. For details on the protocols, refer to your printer documentation.
• The IP address or DNS name of the printer.
• The user name. This is only needed if the printer requires it.
• The queue name.
I tried using the DNS name but never got a connection using my Brother laser printer. It was not until I used the IP address that I got a connection. My printer had no user name so I left it blank. I found the queue name under the port setting in my printer and faxes control panel. After that I was able to print emails using my printer. I had some problems printing Office documents transferred to my E61 as the formatting was not correct and it had a tendency to spit out random blank pieces of paper. Using Office docs created with the E61 printed fine.
Thank you for sharing Kenneth!
If you have any tips or tricks you would like to share with the rest of us please drop me a note.
The orginal idea with this blog was to focus on all E-Series devices. Well, well as often is the case you have one idea but in reality it turns out quite different.
I must have focused 95% of my posts on the E61. Luckily, a lot of the posts are applicable to the rest of the excellent E-Series devices. On that note, there is a great review and write-up of the Nokia E60 by Nico over at About-Nokia. Well worth reading.
It seems as if Nokia's N-series of devices often get some innovative software before they are available on other devices (read: before they are available on the E-series). Often, these applications also work (more or less) on the E-Series devices.
This is true for Nokia's Park WiFi application suite. Although the application is for Nokia N80 and N91, it works on the Nokia E61. Because the application is not optimized for the Nokia E61 there is a great deal of unused screen real estate.
The suite contains three separate applications - Park Channels, ParkCast and Park WiFi Detector.
Park Channels contains various content from media companies, for an example NY Times.
Park Cast is application which lets you listen to various local NY radio stations and Park Wifi Detector is… a WiFi Detector.
The application is available for download here. I picked the N91 version. As I mentioned, the application is not optimized for the Nokia E61 so expect some anomalies.
Unless you buy your Nokia E61 from a carrier, which also promotes the use of mobile IM, there is no* way of using the built-in IM client. There are IM applications alternative for the Nokia E61 - IM+ and Agile Mobile per a previous post.
However, those applications are not the only IM applications for the Nokia E61. There are other alternatives.
NootMobile is a browser based IM application that just declared Beta. The solution is, understandably, not yet fully baked. There is support for MSN with support for Yahoo and AOL coming. I wasn't terribly impressed with the overall solution. It feels a bit odd to me to use the browser as my IM application. However, it is free and if you really want to IM it is well worth evaluating.
I am more impressed with Nimbuzz (is it just me or aren't these two names a bit wacky ) Nimbuzz has taken a different approach and offer a free Java client. They support MSN and Googletalk, although I wasn't able to get Googletalk to work. The Nimbuzz client is also in Beta and is, naturally, a bit rough in its present shape.
However, the company behind the client has great aspirations and plan to add voice support in the future. I will be keeping an eye on both of these companies.
*I tried connecting the native IM client to Smartvas and almost made it work. However, Smartvas seems to have disappeard.
Thanks Thimo.
UPDATE:
Talking about Mobile IM, Agile Mobile has been updated and now fixed many of the original bugs on the E61. The new version is a big improvement. Download from here.
