How To Use the Nokia E71 cell phone

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Some cell phones have so many functions, they're almost more like mini-computers and can thus, be somewhat tricky to use. This instructional video slide show explains the different functions and features on a Nokia E71 mobile phone. Click around this tutorial and learn how to optimize your experience with the handy Nokia E71.

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N-Gage games on E71

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Did you know it is possible to run N-Gage games on your E71? One of blog readers mailed me about a YouTube video showing N-Gage installed on Nokia E71, which is of course not supporting N-Gage platform. I’ve contacted with author of this presentation (in Spanish) and it appeared to be no fake at all! Check by yourself!

Of course the actions required to play the N-Gage games on E71 involves hacking its operating system, but if you are gaming enthusiast it might be worth trying. ;-) Whole process of hacking your OS and installing particular N-Gage client app can be found at dotsis.com forum.

Author of the presentation – RayanMX runs a very interesting page about mobile solutions, including S60 platform. If you are interested feel free to visit PoderPDA.com (ATTN! Habla Usted Espanol? The page is in Spanish!)

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Download New Nokia E71 v300.21.012 firmware

new software update for E71 has been officially released! New software marked as v300.21.012 is available vie Nokia Software Updater application.

Update Includes at firmware nokia e71 v300.21.012:

* Mail Improved Mail For Exchange
* Music Internet Radio added
* Other improvements My Nokia Application and easy-dialing added, improved USB flashing and enhanced usability

Download New Nokia E71 v300.21.012 firmware

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Free Gameloft’s Games For E71

If you use your Nokia E71 not only for business purposes, but for entertainment as well, you might be interested in games offered for our beloved device by famous ‘gaming’ company Gameloft.

urrently gameloft.com offers several titles including some hot titles like Assassin’s Creed™.

Some time ago Nokia offered simple, free game Haunted Office. If you know anything about more interesting games for E71 please feel free to share your gaming experience in here.

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How To Hack Nokia E71 with Firmware 200.21.118

Here is working method to hack the Nokia E71 firmware 200.21.118 and install unsigned application on the phone. You need unhacked Phone with firmware 200.21.118, Binpda cerfiticate file to sign applications.

Do this mod at your own risk, you may damage your phone

1. Sign 5 files in given attachment
a. MapDrives v1.00 DiskAdmin Unsigned
b. 2 MapDrive_Y
c. modo_v1.02(3)_Unsigned
d Modo 0.50
e JBakTaskMan
2. Install JBakTaskMan in Memory card
3. Install signed MapDrives v1.00 DiskAdmin Unsigned in Phone memory
4. You will see two new apps in installation folder
5. Now Copy MapDrives to ur memory card using PC suite
6. Also Copy folder Hack\sys\bin\installserver to ur memory card
7. Run JBakTaskMan press # button search Mapdrive press menu select Program rules and in task list enable autostart
8. Reboot ur device.
9. After rebooting remove Mapdrive app from installation folder
10. Now install 2 MapDrive_Y in phone memory
11. Again go to JBakTaskMan press # search Mapdrive and from menu select Launch
12. Now Install modo_v1.02(3)_Unsigned in to phone memory (It wont give you error required application access not granted)
13. Now Install Modo 0.50 (replace with modo_v1.02(3) and remember install it in phone memory only
14. Now you will see modo in leftup folder in your menu
15. Run Modo and copy installserver.exe from H:\sys\bin to C:\SYS\bin
16. You are done now you can install any unsigned APPS
17. To increase further capabalities install ROMPatcher and copy file Open4All.rmp to ur memory card in folder E:\Patches.
18. Run Rompacher select patch and select enabled
19. Yor are done

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Free E71 Themes: Black & Colors

Monday, September 21, 2009

The theme master Bandez is quickly becoming one of my favorite. He has a very unique icon pack which takes the default themes and enhances them. This theme "Black and Colors" comes in red, purple, green, pink, and recently added yellow. Right now my girlfriend is using the pink theme pictured above on the E71 and I assure you the green or yellow theme look great.

to download this free E71 theme, make sure you grab the 3rd Edition version. For the yellow version you gotta search his homepage because it's a separate post.

To download free e71 themes  click this link
Black&RED By Bandez
Black&Red_2nd By Bandez (3402)
Black&Red_3rd By Bandez (14030)
Black&Pink By Bandez
Black&Pink 2nd By Bandez (1563)
Black&Pink 3rd By Bandez (5471)
Black&Green By Bandez
Black&Green 2nd By Bandez (1790)
Black&Green 3rd By Bandez (9336)
Black & Viola By Bandez
Black&Viola 2nd By Bandez (1624)
Black&Viola 3rd By Bandez (8037)

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How To Opera Mini 5 Adds Copy & Paste, Multiple Tabs, Plus A New Look

Looking for a new browser for the E71? Already a hardcore Opera Mini user? Then you’ll be happy to know that Opera Mini 5 is now available for download and boy does it bring some solid updates. Opera is calling it “the next generation of mobile browsing”. Most dumbphone owners should be ecstatic about this latest release, but even smartphone people like myself are extremely impressed by what this browser brings to the table.

New Features Include:

* tabbed browsing
* copy/paste text on a page
* UI update from previous version
* password manager
* speed dial w/ thumbnails
* plus all the other great features Opera Mini has always had.

Since this is a beta version, you won’t be able to sync/import bookmarks. Good thing is when you install this version it won’t overwrite the previous version so don’t worry about losing bookmarks.

Screenshots:

Copy/Paste From The Browser

It’s amazing that Opera Mini – a java app – can give us this function and the built in S60 browser cannot.
Regardless, here is how to copy/paste from Opera on the E71:

Download

Visit m.opera.com/next directly from your E71 to download.
Have you tried out this latest version of Opera Mini? Be sure to leave us your favorite tips.

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How To Uploading Pictures From E71 To Facebook With Shozu

Sunday, September 20, 2009

Uploading Pictures From E71 To Facebook With Shozu

Ever wanted to quickly upload a picture to facebook after you've captured it? Instead of Email or MMS there's this free service called Shozu acclaimed to keep your social web mobile, here's a usage scenario for Shozu in 3 simple steps:

1) sign up on the Shozu website - download the supported application (You activate your facebook account on the site) Supported platforms: Symbian,WM, Blackberry and Iphone OS



2) snap a photo, tell Shozu you want to upload it to facebook



3) when you answer yes, it automatically uploads it to facebook



Not only does ShoZu support batch uploading of photos or videos to Flickr (only photos) YouTube (videos), and Facebook (only photos); it also interacts with Blogger, Box, Twitter, Cellfish, Kodak Easyshare Gallery, LiveJournal, Picasa Web Albums, Windows Live Spaces, Wordpress, and many more sites (see complete list).

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E71 Shortcuts

E71 Shortcuts To Copy/Paste, Mark Items, etc
With all the keys that the Nokia E71 has, there has to be a ton of little shortcuts right? You know, copy/paste, lock, highlight, etc. Knowing all these little E71 shortcuts can be extremely handy you will find.

To Mark A Single Item On The E71:

Shift + center d-pad

To Mark Multiple Items On The E71:

Shift + d-pad down/up

To Copy & Paste On The E71:

Ctrl+C (but you need to hold down Func+Chr+C to get this on the keyboard). You can highlight text (in edit situations) by holidng the shift key and moving the direction pad. Copy will appear as on of the softkey labels.

Bluetooth Shortcut On The E71 (not on all product codes):

Press and Hold * key.

Switch Between Silent & General Profile On The E71 (not on all product codes):

Press and Hold # key.

Shortcut To Launch Browser From Standby Screen On E71:

Press and Hold 0 (zero)

Bring Open List Of Open Applications On The E71:

Hold down Menu/Home key.

Thats all I can think of for now. They should all work correctly like they do for me. Let me know if you can't get some of the functions working. I jotted these down quick so I might have made some typos.

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Nokia E71 Review

Nokia E71 gsm handheld is designed with business individuals in mind, so this phone comes with the main feature of the ESeries, the QWERTY keyboard and the fast operation of the internet and LAN based networking. It also have a conferencing camera built on the front side of the phone to do your online based meetings and conference.

Packed with WiFi, HSPDA and a NMEA 0183 GPS satellite receiver, you can be sure that this phone is one of the best phones for business. The phone casing is quite slim and seems like a modified Blackberry Bold from the sides. And to add to that, it also supports Blackberry devices. With a 128MB RAM and a whooping 256MB ROM drive, you can be sure that this phone is quite faster compared to other E-Series smartphones. It weighs around 120 grams with the battery inside and is powered by a 328 MHz processor speed with a symbian OS 9.2 firmware. The top part of the exterior is covered by a chrome casing which really promises us a sturdy and robust performance for a long time to come.

The wide screen 320×240, 24 bit pixels TFT screen is well optimized with a nice and even back light for a reliable usage. It internal antenna also supports the quad band GPRS and EDGE so whether your state or country have a 3G connection or not, you can be pretty relaxed knowing that at least you will still have the fast performance that EDGE delivers. It also has a 8GB hot swap MicroSD and comes with a main 3.2 mega pixels camera and a LED mobile flash. Infrared is also built in beside Bluetooth, Fast 480mbits USB, 54mbits WiFi and WLAN connectivity. It also comes with a BURY hardware for the car which is quite handy and something almost all other models lack.

The camera supports MPEG 4 and 3GPP uninterrupted recording and the quality of the pictures and video is quite well, almost better than N73 Music Edition. However this phone lacks the analog Tv out and audio out capability which is understandable in a ESeries phone. The navigation is quite easy specially with a 5 way directional navigation button on the center and since the phone’s operating is quite fast, it should really be an outstanding experience for any Nokia E71 user. Nokia E71 carries a Li-On battery which is a major improvement than its predecessor Nokia E61i. Since this comes with a fast Wifi, the battery seemed to be one of the main concern of the R&D division of Nokia and they have really done a great job so far. With a 1500 mAh battery, the life of Nokia E71 is promising and very impressive! 3G does work well and the WiFi works like a charm on this phone. It does lack USB charging though, which is one of the weakness of this phone. The calendar is quite ordinary and nothing special have been developed in this version. This phone is also a lot thinner than the Blackberry Curve, Nokia N95 8gb and the Apple iPhone! It also supports IMAP emails and has an inbuilt mono microphone and loudspeaker. The usual audio output is stereo though obviously!

AT&T is heavily rumored to get this contract which might be a very good news for all you ATT user base. It is not confirmed, but most probably a 90% chance of it ending up with ATT. Trust me, its way better than the Blackberry Curve and almost as fast as the iPhone and since it comes with the Symbian OS 9.2, it really is a treat to enjoy!

Here are some additional screenshots of the Nokia E71 front and back, also compared with the iPhone and the Nokia N95 8gb.

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Nokia E71 Tips And Tricks

Nokia E71 is one of the best mobile phones released by Nokia in 2008 (E72 is coming up and you will soon see an article on E72 on this blog). I am sharing some useful tips and tricks for Nokia E71 users to use your phone in style and smartly.

One Touch Mute: You can mute the call by pressing the button between volume keys, on the right hand side of the phone. Press it again to cancel the Mute.

Time and Date: When phone is in the locked state and screen is blank, press Navi button to display date and time in large font.

Text Messages: When in standby mode, hold down left soft key to read new text messages.

Silent Mode: From idle screen, press and hold down # to switch between silent and general mode.

Bluetooth: From blank screen, press and hold * to switch between Bluetooth on and off.

Open multimedia messages: If you receive multimedia messages that are not supported by E71, try to send that message to another device or computer and open.

Organize/ sort messages: To create a new folder to organize your messages, Select my folders > Options > New Folder. To move message to another folder select options > move to folder. Select the folder and press ok. To sort message in specific order, select Options > sort by. You can sort the messages by date, sender, subject, message type.

Camera auto focus activation: Press “T” when in camera mode for auto focus function.

Full screen: For full screen image or video viewing, press “Fn” + “Space”.

FF video: For fast forward video, press Navikey “UP”.

Rewind Video: Press Navikey “Down” to rewind the video.

Zoom image: Press “Fn” + “0”.

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Nokia E71x Tips & Tricks: Get rid of those demo games and apps

Nokia Experts has a post for E71x users which teaches how to get rid of extra software that comesNokia E71x preloaded on E71x (actually I still do not understand the whole deal of E71x by Nokia for the North America market). There are some features that are missing on E71x but are there on E71 as John rightly pointed out in the comments to the post on the dictionary on E71 by Nokia blog.

I was horrified to know that using these applications costs money! (except for yellow pages and Cellular video). No application costs less than $2.99 per month! To see the full costs please see the post on Nokia Experts.

All the more reason to get these application off your E71x! Mathew Miller kept the AT&T Navigator and WikiMobile application on his phone as he finds them useful. So head over to the post and follow the instructions (which are pretty easy to follow) and get a faster E71x!

Since I personally do not own a E71x please share your experiences about removing the bloat ware on the E71x.

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Nokia E71 tips Keyboard Shortcut

Well, these tips are well known, but for people who doesn’t know yet, here some keyboard shortcut for Nokia E71:

- Quick double press on the bottom left ‘number shift’ key locks it. Most useful when particularly navigating around the GMail app to invoke actions instead of keep pressing the button before every keystroke.

- Copy and paste can, in some situations be done with Ctrl+C (but you need to hold down Func+Chr+C to get this on the keyboard). You can highlight text (in edit situations) by holidng the shift key and moving the direction pad. Copy will appear as on of the softkey labels.

- Page up and page down are Ctrl+Up and Ctrl+Down. Again you access control by pressing the function key first (so Fn+Chr+Up on the keyboard). Doing this directly is awkward. You can press Fn then Ctrl+Up. If you doble tap the function key it becomes sticky (i.e. like cap locks and as describes above) and you can then do multiple page up and page downs easily.

- From the idle screen hold down # to switch between silent and general profiles. Press and hold down * to switch bluetooth on and off.

- Press Fn Key + Return Key for quick Mark/Unmark of items like Msg. emails etc. for deletion or moving.

- On keys that show a symbol or number, hold down the key to get it.

- When in locked mode you can hold the large center ’select’ key to get a large back lit time and date display w/o unlocking or needing to re lock.

- Pressing Shift + Backspace = delete letters after cursor

- In Notes and Messaging, press Fn (most left bottom button) + Spacebar = gives input option such as turn on/off predictive text, settings, writing language, input method.

- Hold down left soft key to read out new text messages.
Well, these tips are well known, but for people who doesn’t know yet, here some keyboard shortcut for Nokia E71:

- Quick double press on the bottom left ‘number shift’ key locks it. Most useful when particularly navigating around the GMail app to invoke actions instead of keep pressing the button before every keystroke.

- Copy and paste can, in some situations be done with Ctrl+C (but you need to hold down Func+Chr+C to get this on the keyboard). You can highlight text (in edit situations) by holidng the shift key and moving the direction pad. Copy will appear as on of the softkey labels.

- Page up and page down are Ctrl+Up and Ctrl+Down. Again you access control by pressing the function key first (so Fn+Chr+Up on the keyboard). Doing this directly is awkward. You can press Fn then Ctrl+Up. If you doble tap the function key it becomes sticky (i.e. like cap locks and as describes above) and you can then do multiple page up and page downs easily.

- From the idle screen hold down # to switch between silent and general profiles. Press and hold down * to switch bluetooth on and off.

- Press Fn Key + Return Key for quick Mark/Unmark of items like Msg. emails etc. for deletion or moving.

- On keys that show a symbol or number, hold down the key to get it.

- When in locked mode you can hold the large center ’select’ key to get a large back lit time and date display w/o unlocking or needing to re lock.

- Pressing Shift + Backspace = delete letters after cursor

- In Notes and Messaging, press Fn (most left bottom button) + Spacebar = gives input option such as turn on/off predictive text, settings, writing language, input method.

- Hold down left soft key to read out new text messages.

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