Nokia E61 dust problem
Multi-billion dollar company creates their ‘blackberry killer’, Nokia E61 business phone/PDA hybrid. It builds upon decades of EPOC/Symbian OS development and probably many millions of R&D on this particular model. Yet the phone started collecting dust particles under the screen in merely a week’s time of business (carrying in the suite pocket) use. Infuriating!
E61 is a potential bear in today’s fast expanding mobile market. Calling a product of this potential ‘E61′ throws me off the chair for a start. How about calling iPod something like “Apple Xi-M145″?
Nokia is not your backyard garage, where a group of geeks are hacking for fun. It’s rather a mammoth with over 60,000 employees reaching EUR 9 813 million in net sales just in the last quarter (EUR 1 140 million net profit). There have to be a few dollars left to create a dust-resistant screen?!?
–end of rant–
Nokia’s vision, Nokia as a company.
Some interesting links for E61 owners among you:
e-series.org blog
e61addicted.de
nokme.com
s60.com
Roman Keller’s themes
what did you do against the dust? warranty? let it clean by nokia?
havent used yet mine, but already dust under the screen …
i gather that nokia phones are known to be under-the-screen-dust-collectors.
Comment by cyberholz — 8 November, 2006 @ 12:08
Cyberholz: haven’t done anything, except that immediately after noticing I ripped off the screen protector and loosened my protective attitude. I must have been quite mad, which is reflected by the fact that I wrote the above.
Since then this dust particle has been the least of my problems with this device. Don’t get me wrong, E61 is the best Smartphone the world has seen IMHO, but the endless software bugs, usability breaches and plain stupid application design could easily win a contest. For instance if the phone is connected to WLAN within email and you open the browser, it has to find a new connection. Duh! Or set up word to default to TXT instead of DOC and the setting just jumps back on the next restart of Word. Also, don’t get me started on incompatibilities with Office. And not being able to open TXT files directly from the file browser and edit them sounds like a real failure for such a powerful OS. I can’t even set file associations or open many PDF’s, which are just a bit larger than what the Acrobat LE can digest. And then the frequency of updates from Nokia is staggering! One? Two a year?! On top of that the last update brought so many new issues. How many people are assigned to this at Nokia? Ehh.. one software engineer? OK, I’m getting mean, so it’s time to stop. Enjoy the phone, it still is awesome if you don’t expect it to be perfect.
Comment by Roman — 15 November, 2006 @ 12:14
[...] When I first saw the E61 I noticed the body doesn’t cover all glass screen sides, so dust could theoretically get in under the glass (top on my device). I was told its a different way they mount the glass on E61. Luckily im spared from this problem but others may not share my luck. So, anyone experiencing dust issues? Here is one with this problem. [...]
Pingback by Dust issues at e61life — 29 November, 2006 @ 19:07
Strange, you are first user of E61 (among about 10 I know from our company) experiencing dust issue. It is also my first phone with no dust under the display, luckily. I hate this issue too, but thought that E61 was well protected from dust…
Comment by Milan — 29 November, 2006 @ 20:08
Me to not yet experineced dust problem.
the problem was common with 3230
Comment by Harshal — 30 November, 2006 @ 10:40