Got the E61i

It’s been some time since I wrote my last post. After much thinking, finally decided to get the E61i and I think I made the best decision ever!

Got my E61i from United Mobile in Islamabad, Blue Area for Rs.26,000 in December 2007.
Before buying I had looked up Nokia’s official website to check which company was providing Authorised Services in Pakistan, United Mobile and Teletec were the only ones listed.

Getting it directly from United Mobile’s shop was expensive, but most of the shops in Jinnah Market & Blue Area had the E61i with “Advance Telecom” warrenty. I did not want to risk getting bad after sales services from Advance, so got United Mobile’s Warrenty.

The package of the E61i included:
Free Nokia MicroSD 256MB card.
Nokia Pop-Port USB connecter.
Mono Headphones.
Charger.

The E61i has exceeded my expectations. The browsing is pure pleasure with Telenor’s EDGE. Downloading speed is 1MB/30 to 45 seconds, which is awesome.

I have installed two free messengers to use MSN messenger & GoogleTalk in the E61i. These softwares also work with all other Symbian S60 3rd Edition phones.

Fring Mobile VOIP messenger with Chat:
http://www.fring.com
Fring has;
SKYPE,
MSN Messenger,
Yahoo Messenger,
GoogleTalk,
ICQ,
SIP,
TWITTER.

Slick Messenger:
http://www.lonelycatgames.com/?app=slick
Slick has;
MSN Messenger,
ICQ,
Yahoo,
AIM,
Google Talk,
Jabber

I have installed free MobiReader to read Ebooks, which you can find here:
http://www.mobipocket.com/en/DownloadSoft/application.asp?device=SymbianOs

And free Beta Nokia Audiobook player to manage & listen to Audiobooks, which you can find here:
http://www.nokia.com/betalabs/audiobooks

Please note that Nokia AudioBook is still in testing Beta phase, so there might be some bugs. To date I have not encountered any bugs.

Will write more later.