Jane Talks Tech!

Based on the scores of comments left on my series of Nokia E71x posts, there are people using this phone actively. I am no longer one of them. Reason: over 6 months ago, I cracked the screen (not the plastic covering, but what's underneath said plastic covering). I'm now an active ATT Tilt user albeit with a 'cooked' ROM from XDA Developer's forum). With that in mind, my instructions are 6 months old and your mileage may vary....

So, my love affair with the Nokia E71x phone has ended albeit rather prematurely and unexpectedly. An accidental blow to the screen of the E71x phone rendered the device unusable and I have had to awaken the ATT Tilt that I owned & didn't really like. Windows Mobile 6.1 has some nice features (threaded SMSes is just one of them), but it was boring. I then decided that I had nothing to lose by checking out the XDA Developers website. The XDA Developers forum is "the largest Internet community of smartphone enthusiasts and developers for the Android and Windows Mobile ...

The influx of searchers looking for info on installing Ovi Maps on their E71x phones is strong. This is good. :) Sadly, the post that they typically hit upon first is this monster about installing Nokia Maps 3.0.1 on the Nokia E71x. That information is out-dated and I have tried to redirect people to a much easier way of getting Ovi Maps installed and functional on their devices. The entire point of this post is:...

This is one of the several posts I've made since I obtained the Nokia e71x phone. As you know, connecting the Nokia E71x phone to your computer via USB is a piece of cake. Pairing the Nokia E71x via bluetooth to your computer is also very easy. ...

So, after using the ATT Tilt phone for awhile (read less than 2 months), I went back to using the Nokia E71x phone. Why? For starters, I discovered that I did *not* become more productive primarily because of the slide-out keyboard which is a good idea in theory, but not in practice. Secondly, for whatever reason, there was NO way I could turn off the touchscreen option in the ATT Tilt phone when making a phone call so a lot of times, my phone calls ended rather abruptly because I'd accidentally hit the "End" button. *sigh*...