Aside from the more or less $100 price difference, here are some other differences between the Nokia E63 and the Nokia E71. Both of these phones are very similar in features and look but there are some differences worth noting in making some informed buying decisions:

1. The E63 comes with a flashlight button option. Hold a button down, and the flash LED light comes on. The E71 doesn’t have this feature.

2. While the E71 is locked, pressing the center button will show a quick time check.

3. The E63’s spacebar is significantly smaller than the E71’s spacebar in the thumb board.

4. The E71 can support HSDPA. The E63 only supports 3G. Choosing either is a matter of preference in browsing style plus in several countries, the difference between HSDPA and 3G is barely noticeable.

5. The E71 comes with a 3.2MP camera while the E63 comes with a 2.0MP camera. Barely any difference here.

6. There are less buttons on the side for the E63. For instancem volume control is easier to adjust on the E71 because of the buttons on the side.

7. The E71 does not have a 3.5mm jack. The E63 has one.

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The Nokia E63 is the cheaper brother to the more elegant E71. Slightly thicker with more playful colors of blue and “Space Marine” red, the E63 boasts a similar form factor sans the secondary camera, HSDPA. It also comes with a lower resolution 2MP camera as compared to the E71’s 3.2MP camera. Truthfully, this is not a bad deal if you’ve always wanted to own an E71 but could not spare the extra cash. The phone is obviously targeted to compete with the Palm Centro which caters to a more young and hip market that desires much for a QWERTY keyboard.

One thing that the E63 has that the E71 doesn’t — a 3.5mm audio output! The E71 only has a 2.5mm which means you’d have to find a third party adapter to plug in your regular headphones.

* S60 3rd Edition FP1
* WiFi, 3G (no HSDPA?)
* Quad band GSM 850/900/1800/1900 MHz
* Dual band WCDMA, 3 models: E63-1 900/2100 MHz, E63-2 850/1900 MHz, E63-3 850/2100 MHz
* Dimensions: 113 x 59 x 13 mm Weight: 126 g Volume: 87 cc
* 2 megapixel camera
* 2.36″ QVGA (240×320 pixel) display
* 3.5mm stereo AV socket
* Micro-USB connector
* 110 MB internal memory plus microSD socket (up to 8GB)
* FM radio with RDS
* 1500mAh battery

[photo from PhilMUG]

Hey this guy, Keith Liu funny. He’s the head of Games and Communities Services for Nokia. This is an update on what Nokia has been doing with Ovi, about a year after it was announced. Should be interesting as well.

Timeline follows. Latest entry is at the top.

## Lunch time!

## For pornography and other “questionable items” images can be flagged. Nokia does not monitor or moderate content. The community works to flag images and reports them to Nokia, who, in turn removes them in half an hour to 12 hours.

## Uploading of photos demo. You can comment via website or via your mobile phone. Ovi page very similar to Flickr if I may reiterate. It even shows EXIF data of photos. if location tracking it turned on in the phone, GPS, Assisted GPS or cell ID kicks in and determines geotagging data. Nokia does not own copyright to these images. Photographs belong to the one who took it.

## Demo of Share on Ovi mobile site. Basically the same thing, but smaller.

## Ovi allows you to use widgets, similar to Flickr and post your slideshow on your blog.

## (checks Ovi site. Hmm looks like I’ve signed up for this before). Anyway, the Ovi page allows you to create channels ofr privacy purposes. Channels allow you to filter who sees your items. You can also share audio recordings such as lectures and other sounds and basically you’ve just created a podcast. You can share over 100 different media formats. You can even share Microsoft Office documents. Yeah, yeah, they’re going the Google way like Google Docs! Full resolution downloads of photos can be made. You can subscribe via RSS to uploads of your friends / channels.

## Vast majority of media is not uploaded apparently. From media sharing, media hosting and social networking. Share on Ovi is basically a way to upload photos and videos immediately wirelessly. Service is free. The app can be downloaded from the Nokia site. Free bandwidth and storage for uploading photos. Website is http://share.ovi.com.

## In room survey of people who take vacations and take photos with them. Obviously a way to introduce Ovi.

Today is day 2 of Nokia Connection 2008. and the media workshops begin now. I’m going to be doing a running account of the show. The latest updates are posted at the top.

Timeline:

## Discussion of Ovi. Ovi Share included for all Ovi services including N-Gage, music, photos. Q&A follows. Differences between the E66 and E71 is really just about the keypad options but the features are essentially the same.

## Security: Encryption of the Eseries devices in internal memory and with the memory card. “Lock and wipe” feature for SMS. An SMS can be sent via you or your IT manager to wipe out the phone in case it gets lost with the send of a single SMS.

## Preview of the new browsing experience. Embedded VPN client for the Intranet with automatic VPN setup over WLAN. Flash support in browser (YAY!).

## The new Home Screen. The old home screen added a lot of functionality and customization. The new one improves on this: Personallized application shortcuts, configurable email accounts, plugin customization, home screen notifiers. Inteligent contact search allows you to type in names directly from the keypad from the home screen without having to go to the address book. Effortless mode switching. A “free time mode” and the phone turns into a “free time phone” which doesn’t show anything to do with business (!!!). Provides access to other services to “free time” apps like the music player, N-Gage, new wallpaper.

## Enhanced calendar: you can basically see more in one screen. Column arragement of tasks and meetings within the month view.

## Personal email setup works the same way Mac Mail works — just type the username and password and you’re set. For business email, preloaded with access to Microsoft Exchange: push email, push contacts, push calendar, corporate directory, device management. Supports also Nokia Intellisync: completely revamped - uses less data, saves battery, better UI.

## Nokia Eseries - Everything the Professional Needs. I think this is a preview of the widgets application for the Eseries. 1.5 billion email inboxes in the world. Only 4% are “mobilized emails”

## Sandra Bullock photographed with the E71. Paparrazi go around to photograph the phone, not her (speaker’s joke)

## Demo unit of E71 is placed beside me. Wow. This baby’s really thin. Emphasis on good battery life. Price is 350 Euros. Only 10mm thin. “world’s thinnest QWERTY device”

## Nokia E71 Preview. Available July 2008. Made of stainless steel. Available in grey and white. Concentrating on size of the product - unit is ultra thin. Emphasis on keyboard usability with “pillow type shape.”

## Nokia E66 Preview. Accelerometer to turn unit from general to silent mode.

## Just walked in. grabbed a donut. Really good. Keynote has already started with Nokia reps presenting the two new phones we previewed last night. Eek, I’m a *little* late (Blame it on the roti that didn’t agree with my stomach).

Today, Nokia announced their top of the line enterprise model, the E71. Though it hails from the previous oh-so-thin E61 design, the new E71 looks more elegant and is a tad thinner and sharper on the edges. The Nokia E71 also comes with a dual home screen feature which gives the user easy access to two home screens including shortcuts - one for business and one for work.

Two notable things - the E71 comes with the standard Bluetooth and USB connectivity but it also comes with IrDA support for compatibility with older devices. Perhaps the only negative thing we can say for now with the E71 is that it comes with a 2.5mm audio jack instead of a 3.5m jack. We’re thinking that it is standard for the E series to come with this type of adapter whereas the Nseries phones come with a 3.5mm jack.
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