my New Phone ... E61

Surprisingly, despite Nokia's dominance, never used a Nokia phone before, the last 3 phones I owned were like Sony Ericsson or Samsung, and well, this makes for a nice change. I have been considering to get this phone for quite awhile, the wait was extended also no thanks to Singtel and the Red Wheels promotion, which gave me a $100 dollars voucher but required a student plan, hmm, the corporate plan under Mindef was still a better deal so didn't use the voucher and could have just gotten the phone almost couple of months ago. Well, better late than never!

What can I say, first impression of this phone is that it is wide and kinda bulky, but it makes up for it by being both slim and quite light actually, so it does fit nicely into the pocket. I haven't gotten used to one hand operation, and it might be abit unwieldy at times but it should be a matter of adjustment.

As for the phone itself, features wise, it is amazing. It lacks a camera, which is a great thing for me, the main reason why I considered this phone over the E65 other than the larger screen. It HAS a great screen, think it is as large as the Ipod Video, around 3", I've tried watching anime and trailers on it, quality's decent and definitely watchable, even with the subtitles. Oh, it doesn't come with any easy way of getting audio out to a decent headphones, might need to invest in an connector, which adds more bulk, so thats kinda zzz.

Wifi! Wow.. so many benefits here, browsing on the go, VOIP, synchronising, emails. Especially with Wireless@SG set to become more popular, this is a great feature. It's a 3G phone but that's expensive considering that there is Wifi. The battery life is quite decent too, its been 2 days, and some surfing here and there, some phone calls, usual sms-es and the battery is still at full, will see how long it can last.

I guess, its really a geek toy, Symbian OS allows for use of various software, although probably not as extensible as say windows mobile, but it has a decent community still, and more and more programs should be coming. In the meantime, just enjoying the phone for being so feature - rich!