E65: New Phone
Wednesday, May 21st, 2008...10:18 pm
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My old N73 had a broken ‘1′ key so I took it back to the O2 shop. As in was still under warranty they swapped it straight away for a new phone. Pretty good service. Fortunately, they didn’t have another N73 in stock so I was offered an E65 instead. It’s a slider phone, still based on Symbian v3, with much bigger keys (the small ones on the N73 were beginning to annoy me) and built-in Wifi!! Sure, the camera is only 2MP instead of 3MP but frankly, who cares? I’ve got a nice shiny new phone for no additional outlay. Now I’m off to move to Vodafone so I can actually get mobile reception at home 
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August 1st, 2008 at 4:10 pm
I got me one of these a couple of months ago aswell.
I can’t say I’m very impressed. It’s dog slow… I don’t know what Symbian is doing that it takes 5 seconds to bring up the text message screen.
I like being able to run multiple applications at the same time like skype, gmail , google maps, opera etc. (it’s slow even when I’m not running loads of stuff)
Battery life is a bit shit though.
The screen is brilliant. It’s very readable in bright sunlight as the back light turns off and the LCD is readable by reflected light, or so it seems.
All in all I’d give it 6 or 7 out of 10. must write a proper review
I miss my SE W880i. Stupid me for getting drunk and losing it.
August 1st, 2008 at 5:25 pm
I must say, the message app is really slow — even slower than the N73. No good reason for it.
There were some things I liked about my old Sony Ericsson (like the predictive text implementation) but since the joystick deteriorated it was impossible to use (apparently it wasn’t dust, the contacts were oxidizing - Blah! Put me off SE forever). Battery life on WLAN and 3G is rubbish but that’s to be expected.
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