A comparative look into Nokia E Series and the Blackberry Bold 9700

Hello, hello, folks, its been a while since I’ve written. First off, happy new year and thank you for your continued support. I want to thank some of my fellow bloggers for keeping it real and showing their support during this time of personal reflection I’ve been going through during last few months as some of you may know a divorce is not an easy situation regardless of the circumstances, also a very special thanks to all my twitter followers who kept the flame alive and all those great wishes that were sent to me via DM, you guys are great.

Back to Nokia now. Recently I acquired a Blackberry Bold 9700 for personal use after being disappointed with some the Symbian solutions out there, you all know what applications I’m talking about, native apps hmm, anyway having said that, we all know the BB’s are renowned for their messaging capabilities and despite an outage here and there they are flawless.

So now the question becomes what does Nokia E Series have on the Blackberries. I’ll answer that question in a series post addressing several factors that are important to you all, ie Sms, Email, 3rd Party applications, Twitter clients, multimedia, and hardware.

Let’s kick it off with my favorites Email and Sms. So by now most of you out there perhaps have used a Nokia E series device whether it be the Nokia E63 or a Nokia E71 or perhaps a Nokia E90. Since the Nokia E71 was and still is a very popular device in the Symbian community it makes for a great comparison against the Blackberry 9700.

I won’t dive into the specs of either phone, a quick google search will inundate you with all you need to know but what is worth mentioning is the keyboard to start off. I’ve always thought the Nokia E71 has a great keyboard but when comparing it with the Bold 9700 I must say that this Blackberry’s keyboard is way more intuitive that the E71’s. The Bold’s keyboard is somewhat wider making rapid text entry a breeze, the E71’s needs some getting used to, not to say that you can’t but in my humble opinion I think the 9700 wins in this category, notice how I just mentions the additional width, guys it really is that simple those extra millimeters of width make a huge difference. As you may know the E71 has a standard nav pad and the Bold uses a touch nav pad which is absolutely amazing and very responsive. Yes I know that the E72 has something similar but after seeing countless tweets from around the world, I hear its quite unusable and most people that own the E72 choose to turn it off. Why did Nokia make this nav pad so unusable is beyond me but it is what is guys. Back to the E71, after staring and using both OS’s I must say that the E71’s FP1 seems way outdated when compared to the Blackberries OS 5.0 which is simple and intuitive to use. After 3 weeks with the Blackberry, today I went back to the E71 mainly for Gravity and I had to think hard where to find the Profile application, it was super hilarious because I consider myself not a full blown Nokia guru but above average off course, hence the blog ah haha.

SMS on the Blackberry OS 5.0 is threaded and very very user friendly, not to mention the way the whole Blackberry operating system is very contact integrated throughout. Email, what can I say about this, it simply works all the time, enough, follow up flags, tons a searchable views and parameters to make all you phone geeks out there and myself extremely happy, lol. On the E71 well, what can I say you don’t already know, it comes with the dated messaging application but off course you can download Nokia Messaging but again its not a complete and dependable solution for folks that consider email mission critical. For the average mobile users it might suffice but it still needs a lot of nurturing and a result with seen a lot folks switch over to Profimail which was my favorite email solution on Symbian. Something interesting to mention here is Blackberry’s limits on attachment that is flat out ridiculous attachments are limited to 3 mg I believe or something silly like that and you can’t download huge files with the ease and dependability that Symbian can, that’s a huge plus for Nokia on that regard. Which now opens yet another question and that is Pixelpipe and Shozu two hugely popular apps that are well integrated into Nokia pretty much not useless in the Blackberry world but very limited. I’ve now adapted to sending pics that are less than a 1mg. Is it a big deal for me, not really as my smartphone usage is mainly text based but I do off course like creating content, my answer to that Nokia N86 a true mobile content creation workhorse.

To be continued.

ps. it feels good to be back

photo via ubergizmo

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