Filed under: Don’t try this at home
My Nokia E65 Red housing which I mentioned in an earlier post arrived. Thinking that the transformation would be as easy as when I tore apart my Nokia E61 and changed the original casing to a blue third party casing, I wasted no time and started to dismantle the Nokia E65.
The first two steps are pretty easy. Step one is to remove and replace the battery cover (duh~!).
Whoa - don’t know what happen to this week. All of a sudden it’s Friday and time for some good themes for your Eseries devices.
First up is Matze over at e61effect.com. He has “remixed” an existing theme and come up with a theme that literally screams “Weekend” and “Party” in the same breath. I love it and I need it after a hectic week.
Trance Energy Landscape by Matze
I’ve featured “Cute Orange” before but at the time the theme wasn’t optimized for the Nokia E61(i). Roman created a new version, optimized version for the E61(i) - thanks Roman!
Cute Orange by Roman Keller
Do you have a hard time deciding which colour of the Nokia E65 to buy?
Do you like the Red Nokia E65 but also think the Mocca Nokia E65 is stylish?
Or perhaps you already bought one Nokia E65 but wish you had bought the other colour?
The Nokia E61i has just been available for a short few weeks and already we have the first example of a modded Nokia E61i.
This beautiful device was “Gmasked” (the company that wraps and decorate your device in a few microns thick plastic film) to create an all black Nokia E61i.
Thanks for the great photos Benny!
Have you recently modded your Eseries device? Share the photos with us.
Do you live in the Netherlands and would like to participate in a smartphone market research study?
I did it!
After holding out for almost a month, while reading all the positive comments on these post, I caved in and bought the Nokia E61i.
Am I ever glad I took the leap!
I've had the device for less than a day so while it's too early to post any first impressions, instead I will share a list of the first five applications I installed on my brand new device and why I choose to install them.
Nokia E90 will be the first device smartphone to support BlackBerry Connect 4.0
According to the source, BlackBerry Connect 4.0 adds the ability to generate an encryption key wirelessly, wireless activation of a device in the enterprise, AES in addition to Triple Data Encryption Standard (DES), Dutch and Brazilian Portuguese language support, and the ability to erase and disable a BlackBerry-enabled device.
Via E-NINETY
There seems to be a new batch of blogs dedicated to the Eseries devices beginning to sprout. I recently became aware of three new blogs. (New to me at least 
First up are two blogs dedicated to the Nokia E90. I like blogs with a clear focus so I'll keep an eye on these blogs. Especially since I *know* I will get a Nokia E90
Mobile Monday is collective of mobile industry visionaries, developers, influentials and other people interested in the mobile trends. They organize informative meetings about anything mobile at many places over the world.
The next Mobile Monday meeting of the Silicon Valley chapter will be held at Nokia Research Center. NRC will talk about their work as well as give demonstrations of the N95, N800 and other devices.
Thinking about starting to watch videos on the Nokia E61 but don't much about the subject?
Do you already watch videos but are not satisfied with the quality?
I've got a great article on this topic to recommend.
The author tested specific parts of certain video clips that were prone to distortion, and graded each part on a scale from 1 to 10 for picture quality and smoothness of motion.
In all he tested well over 100 different optimization settings. Based on the result he created optimal SUPER settings available for download.
Read the article, I promise that you will learn a lot. Especially in regards to tweaking video quality.
Great article Nico~!
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.
I've meant to take RoadSync (Dataviz implementation of ActiveSync - Microsoft Exchange based push email) for a spin since RoadSync 3.0 was released back in December.
RoadSync got an upgrade early April which prompted me to finally give it a try - I'm glad I did.
RoadSync sports an impressive feature set. Needless to say, the push email experience including automatic sync of addresses and calendar works great.
There is a new firmware available for Nokia E70.
The new firmware version is 3.0633.09.04. It installed beautifully on my Nokia E70.
Still not sure where the improvements are but I expect it's a bunch of bug fixes and possibly some VoIP and other enhancements.
Fire up Nokia Phone Software Updater and go and get it.
Thank you to everyone who wrote to tell me about this!!!
UPDATE: If you use BlackBerry Connect you might not want to upgrade yet as there is no compatible BBC client for the new firmware version. See more information in the comment section.
