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Hi Everybody,

Sorry to keep everyone in gr8 anticipation!! I was tied up with my work and couldnt find time for blogging. However, I will make it a point from this time along that my blogs will be regularly updated.

Also partly to be blamed is lack of Nokia's commitment to the Indian Market and to people working in secure areas. I find that Nokia releases a lot of devices, but they are not available in India. Examples are Nokia LD-3w(I got Holux GPSlim instead), N810, BH-500(Got Jabra BT3030 instead). Also camera free version of Nokia E51 is not yet available in India... WHY NOKIA???? I almost lost interest in Nokia this time around until I saw the E71..:-) Hope they release a camera free version of it. :-(

I'm starting this new blog http://www.thegadgetfreak.net or http://thegadgetfreak.blogspot.com/ aiming at all types of gadgets and my experiences with them and will not be updating http://rockure61.blogspot.com/ anymore. Thanks ....

Nokia E90 Steps into the Market Officially

Nokia launched the E90 officially on June 13th at Jakarta, Indonesia where its market is said to have sold the maximum number of communicators in the world. It was made available in the market from today i.e. 14th June and reports are in that its available in Finland also. You can find more snaps of the event at these links

http://www.e-series.org/archives/376

http://www.symbian-freak.com/reviews/previews/e90/e90_snapshot.htm

Here is a look of how the Invitation looked! :-)


The first 1000 E90's were sold for USD1198 each!! Which is approximately INR Rs. 55000/-. Now I donno what will be its cost when it reaches India!! Anyway a great phone and a great buy. Fantastic device and fantasic marketing by Nokia!!

S60 Bible Reader

It feels great to have a bible that can get you all the verses at the blink of an eye. I use this software on my phone quite often and would suggest you to try it.




The S60 Bible is free and it has many features. Its ported from the palm Bible+ software and feels great. However its still in Beta phase and the formatting may not be to some's taste, but I like it very much.

I will update this post with some screenshots later, meanwhile you can go through the following links

The S60 Bible Reader can be found here
http://www.compactbyte.com/symbianbible/

For various Bible versions you can go here
http://thechan.com/

Symbian Freak giving away Nokia N73ME, Nokia N70 and Nokia BH-203

Hey all you mobile photographers... note this...

Symbian-freak has this cool contest...

"Priceless Moments captured with your Phone"

And the prize winners can be anyone WORLDWIDE.... so hurry up and remember to stick to the rules :-)

All the best and remember the competition is only for pics taken on mobile phones and each person can post only one pic.... There are several other simple rules, make sure you follow 'em.

All the best Everybody!!

Here is the URL:

http://www.symbian-freak.com/news/007/06/symbian_freak_giving_away_n73me_n70_bh203.htm

Waiting for Nokia E61 Firmware V4

I think its time that nokia releases the next firmware for the E61 with the low volume issue fixed. I guess the volume should be a little more louder, and I feel many will agree with me.

I did happen to come across some bugs with WIFI. It doesnt connect to an RSA secured network, not even the E61i... Nokia should consider this bug seriously. I also experienced sudden pauses and stops in the music player and sometimes the music player closes itself but the active standby shows its running... These are some rare instances that popup with the E61 sometimes..

The frequent problem I have is with WIFI. Just goto the settings of the web browser, and within the access point set "always ask". Now whenever you are near a known wifi hotspot and start the browser, the phone doesnt always scan for wifi hotspots. I guess many of you would have experienced this. Eventhough I stand next to the wifi router my phone many times could not scan for the network..thats sad. So I always set the access point as user defined and it always connects when I am within the range of that network... Well I will discuss more about some bugs on my later posts, but just had this thought in my mind to share it with you all! I guess you all might have encountered with many other bugs...Please feel free to share em here.

Nokia E61's Keyboard

The E61's keyboard is a masterpiece and I do know many will agree with me. Hmmm I was rather astonished when I came across this article which terms it as a lousy keyboard... Hmmm and also furthur says that the treo 650's keyboard is better...

Its an old article though, but just cought my eye...

http://www.zdnetindia.com/cstech/cellphone/reviews/stories/164919.html

Well I would say that the Keyboard of this phone is one of the best and is not at all lousy, but has a very firm and solid feel. What do you say?? How many of you agree with me??

Some pics of the beautiful masterpiece. I googled and got 'em:

UPDATE: Alfa989 was kind enough to share his E61's pics on Flickr. You can find them here.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/alfa989/526015492/

Nokia E90 Already available in India??

Slightly off topic but this really took me off... Have a look yourself. I dont know how they are doing it..but.... Have a look

http://shopping.rediff.com/shop/productdisplay.jsp?prrfnbr=10183521&source=browse&frompg=New

Too much to HaNdLe!!

Well hi everybody. I am Ajit from Chennai, India. My Passion for gadgets got me gain many friends at almost every place I go. I have been into computers, gadgets, electronic circuits, software programming, hardware tweaking and benchmarking. I also had passion for the Linux OS. Then last year the Symbian Series 60 OS was a new platform for me to learn in terms of developement... Then days went by, I had to start working which made me change to this beautiful E61 from the 6260 although I wasnt happy initially as I was aspiring for the N80. Later blogs like the www.e-series.org made me really interested in the device and I kept hunting new tricks for the phone from then on. Now I am a proud owner of the E61!!

These blogs really inspired me to start my own blog dedicated to the E61. I am finding it hard to manage posting as I am new to this and I find very less time for blogging. I always take enough pics to post on the blog but since I am at work most of the time I am not able to blog frequently. However I have lots and lots to share with you all. Right from the way I listen to music, GPS in India, Music from E61 in my Car...etc. I was really overwhelmed by the support I recieved from Ed of www.e-series.org... Thanks Ed! I also would like to thank all the visitors of my blog and I will try my best to keep up my job. You all have encouraged me a lot, otherwise this blog would have been a single post blog! Anyway, I hope that I would be seeing many more visitors in the future.... in other words many more well wishers of this blog :-)....

E61i Unboxing

Its been three weeks since I purchased this phone..... Finally I could find enough time to post the unboxing pictures...

I bought this at a priority dealer in Chennai. I was not able to find the phone at the Ritchie street which is famous here in Chennai(It is available now though!). I also happened to know that its available for a lower price in Mumbai... But I was in a hurry and couldnt wait :)... Got it for Rs 19,500(India).

PS: My E61 is going to stay with me... I work in a place where cameras are strictly prohibited... This fine device is for my Dad after his 9300 breathed its last.

Nokia had a bug already... This was very funny to me... Guess what I found on the box!!

For the benefit of those who dint see anything funny here...
The picture shown above is that of Nokia LD-3W Bluetooth GPS Reciever....