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#458001 12-Apr-2011 21:22

Yep, as is the entrie Symbian^3 range which means the C7 on 2degrees as well. The E7 is launching on Vodafone only at this stage.

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#458055 12-Apr-2011 23:43

Swapped the 2degrees SIM card with a Telecom XT SIM card. Received the configuration SMS automatically, but had to manually change the APN priority so that it connects to the Telecom APN instead of the default Vodafone APN. Changed it to 3G only... And it's so much faster.

Battery life today was a bit disappointing. I was at the AUT attending the Microsoft Imagine Cup. Started using the phone 7am with Foursquare and Google Maps. Had Mail for Exchange configured for automatic push email. Used Twitter ("Nokia Social") a few times. Used the phone to show off to some geeks around, including @nzben (Ben here on Geekzone)

About 3pm battery was down to the warning level, at which point I started using my LG Optimus 7, leaving the Nokia E7 in the backpack.

Let's see tomorrow, seeing I am changing it to 3G only and using a Telecom XT SIM now.

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#458058 12-Apr-2011 23:52

i would love to try this phone. if only the price is around ~$800!

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#458133 13-Apr-2011 09:41

Mauricio,

With my 5800 I found it took a few charges to get the battery up to maximum capacity. I ran it right down the first few times before I charged it. Now I get one day easily with heavy use and up to three days with light use.

The same applied with my wifes E75 regarding maximum battery capacity. The E75 seems to have a much reduced battery life compared to the 5800 as she only seems to achieve about one days use, however she does use her phone much more than I do.

I did find in the case of both phones that the factory WLAN settings are a big battery drain as the phones were set up to be always automatically seaching for available networks. I turned this option off and got considerably better battery life.

We are both on Telecom.

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#458138 13-Apr-2011 09:47

Good note regarding WLAN searching. Previously for the device to prefer known WLAN connections to 3G connections, you had to scan for WLAN networks constantly. With Symbian^3 this has changed and you can actually have WLAN scanning off while still connecting to known networks whenever they're accessible.

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#458143 13-Apr-2011 09:54

Nic,

I believe you can achive this on the older Symbian platforms as well. At least I am with my 5800, you do the need recognised WLAN's. By going to the access points page in the settings for connectivity you give each access point a priority and make sure that the 3G connection/access point is given a lower priority than the WLAN's that you use.

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#458148 13-Apr-2011 10:03

Hmm, has this always been possible? I have been using Symbian^3 for a while but was sure you needed scanning on to make it work when I was using S^1. My bad.

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#458150 13-Apr-2011 10:16

Nic,

It may well have been as you describe, perhaps it changed with software revisions.

One thing I have discoverd with Symbian is that there are many configuration settings that are not well explained in the manual. There are some great features hidden away. Some are very sutble and you have to play to find out what they do, others you discover by accident.

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#458293 13-Apr-2011 16:11

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Hi iistudio,

Thanks for your detailed breakdown of your thoughts on the device. I'm interested most in your comment about apps. While the Ovi Store doesn't have as many apps as Android Market or App Store, were you able to find the same or equivalent key apps on the Ovi Store for day-to-day use?

Steve Lichfield of All About Symbian compiled quite a good list of common or equivalent apps across the Ovi Store and the App Store which is worth a read if you weren't able to find some of the ones you're looking for.

Hi Nic:

I was able to find key apps I use on a daily basis on Ovi Store, easy to download, very good.

I certainly agree with idea of you dont need 200,000 apps, you only need 100 high quality, essential ones, however, from the comments section from the link above you get this one:

Symbian does not need another 100,000 apps. It needs just 100 essential ones including: Dropbox, Kindle, Google Books, Beluga, Adobe Reader, Posterous, Facebook, Evernote, YouTube. And not geeky workarounds, and long forgotten betas, but QUALITY apps handling these services really well. Without such apps, the platform is not attractive. It is not all about hardware. For example, had it not been for Ovi Maps, I would have ditched my Nokia long ago.

I dont use any of those apps on my phone so I am ok but someone else might not be ok with it.......

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#458296 13-Apr-2011 16:15

Hi Mauricio,

I'm curious to know why you'd use Google Maps over Ovi Maps?

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Brent

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#458301 13-Apr-2011 16:25

BrentR: Hi Mauricio,

I'm curious to know why you'd use Google Maps over Ovi Maps?

Regards,

Brent

The only reason would be to update Google Latitude, otherwise Ovi Maps works well (although when I decided to walk to AUT yesterday Google Maps showed I could walk across Albert Park, and Ovi Maps didn't).

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#458304 13-Apr-2011 16:28

I certainly agree with idea of you dont need 200,000 apps, you only need 100 high quality, essential ones, however, from the comments section from the link above you get this one:

Symbian does not need another 100,000 apps. It needs just 100 essential ones including: Dropbox, Kindle, Google Books, Beluga, Adobe Reader, Posterous, Facebook, Evernote, YouTube. And not geeky workarounds, and long forgotten betas, but QUALITY apps handling these services really well. Without such apps, the platform is not attractive. It is not all about hardware. For example, had it not been for Ovi Maps, I would have ditched my Nokia long ago.

I don't agree with the comment that you copied either, I don't use most of the these apps. However I have the You Tube app which works very well and a .pdf reader that works well enough for me. plus it was free. There is also the Adobe LE available for a couple of bucks off OVI.

It seems that some people want everything and they want it for nothing.

Hell, Ovi maps is free, and very very good, why would you bother with anything else in the mapping/Navman department let alone buying someting that needs a subscription for maps.

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#458383 13-Apr-2011 19:08

Symbian has a lot of the core applications, they are just sometimes not as obvious. From the above list, we have Dropbox, Adobe Reader (built in), Facebook (built in, or there are standalone clients) and YouTube. And they are all official or quality apps.

Here's another list of top Nokia apps: http://www.fonearena.com/blog/34891/top-30-qt-apps-to-show-off-your-symbian-phone.html

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