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Needless irritations with Nokia's E51
Despite a T-Mobile store telling me it was an old model and about to be discontinued, I've finally got hold of my Nokia E51 - a phone I previewed last year.
I was impressed with the preproduction model and am equally pleased with the finished article.
There are, however, some annoyances - not least that it comes with preinstalled email accounts for AOL, NTL World and Yahoo installed as default. I wouldn't mind so much if I could actually delete these, but there appears no way to get rid of them.
It's the same story for the internet bookmarks section. Does T-Mobile really think permanent bookmarks such as Download Graphics and Download Themes are going to persuade me to one day pay for this stuff? Infuriatingly, once again, there is no way to delete them, leaving my own bookmarks (the ones I actually want) sitting down at position 11.
Another irritation is that despite a variety of ridiculous ringtones preinstalled, there wasn't a single standard 'ring-ring' tone (i.e. one that doesn't make you look like a complete fool when it goes off on the train). This left me to scour the web looking for a free one - a task that proved harder than you might think. Perhaps T-Mobile hoped I'd buy one using its helpful internet bookmarks...
Despite these grumbles, I am still very impressed with the E51. Despite coming from Nokia's business range it sports a good mix of business and entertainment features and, most importantly for me, will happily keep going for over four days on a single charge if I go easy on it.
Posted by Will Stapley on January 7, 2008 | Permalink
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whenever nokia releases new firmware you could flash it with a non-customized one using a different product code.
Posted by: Prashant | 7 Jan 2008 15:07:49
