S60 Open to new features

Interesting read

Posted by: Ricky Cadden | September 8, 2007 06:58 AM

Rather than concentrating on the shortcoming of products from other companies, the users of you products (this one included) would like to see things fixed in your own wares.

Rather than concentrating on the shortcoming of products from other companies, the users of you products (this one included) would like to see things fixed in your own wares.

I have to agree with Mike on this, Nokia have a lot of work to do - product quality is a significant issue. I love the E61i that I have but there are annoyances/bugs that seem to go unanswered (e.g. of the 58 keys referred to the in the review a number of them stop responding - contacts, mail and own key) after a period of time and require a reboot to regain functionality.

I'd also like to see more posts about how Nokia/S60 is answering to the challenge brought by iPhone.

Any number of things could be causing your issue, James: older firmware, an operator variant, some other software on your phone. I can recommend doing two things: a factory reset (dial *#7370#) or updating to the latest firmware with Nokia Software Updater.

Jukka, I agree with you. If I knew the product roadmaps and were authorized to speak about them, I would. Trust me. ;)

Dameon, thanks for the response. The issue occurs on a clean phone i.e. just the apps that are on the Nokia supplied memory card. Seems to happen even when the phone is unused for a period (say up to 24 hours which is the longest it goes without use!). I'd love to be able to do a firmware update but there's none available - that's an area which could be improved I think, update delivery. There are no clues given to users when they can expect an update. The variation between release dates across territories is puzzling. The issue has been encountered by others, noted in the discussion forums and feedback has been sent. After that it's a mystery as to whether or not the problem is even being viewed.

It's a shame, the E61 is a good phone overall but the bugs stop it from being great and more importantly from telling others to buy one. Where the iPhone beats the Nokia contender that you chose from the current lineup is that updates are coming out already and the delivery channel is far more effective.

James, I know the support guys are paying attention to these things, even if they aren't responding publicly.

For any given phone Nokia sells, there is a firmware for each particular variant (operator and/or region). Testing all these variants in a timely manner is no small feat.

Posted by: PhoneBoy | September 29, 2007 01:32 AM

Don't you think most people reading this blog are already more interested in S60 phones than the iphone? Sort of preaching to the choir with these "iphone can't do this" posts...