One thing I have been meaning to do pretty much since I got the Nokia E61 (months and months ago) was to review it.
Now, first I will say that I am an impatient person. The network Three always seem to be the last to offer new phone’s, even though they are probably one of the more advanced networks.

Now, I will first start with where I found out about the Nokia E61.
I was watching the TV Show, Weeds (fantastic show) and the main character was reading a text on her mobile. As soon as I saw the screen I knew I had to have it. Big, Bright and the font looked fantastically smoothed.

So naturally I googled something along the lines of ‘What phone does Nancy have in Weeds’ hoping that someone had asked. I was lucky, they had. The result, the fantastic Nokia E61.

I immediatly went directly to Three figuring I’ll upgrade early. No chance, they didn’t have it (and it turns out they wouldn’t for a further 5-6 months). Ok, next stop, e-bay. Bingo. Found one, bought it, love it.

The downside to buying it from e-bay was that the Z and Y key’s are bound the wrong way around (the physical buttons are placed correctly but each will display the opposite letter), and most of the special characters are in the wrong places (Thankfully full stop, comma and colon are in the right place) and there was nothing I could do about it really. I considered asking 3 to repair it for me but considering they wanted to charge me £55 to stick a new joystick on my N73 (I got one off ebay for £2) I figured that they would charge me a hell of a lot more to actually get someone with an IQ somewhere above 3 to look at my E61.

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