Comments on: Nokia E71 Review

By: joe

joe — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 07:41:26 +0000

It does not tell you when you get lost.. it will just work out a new route and keep telling you where to go.

By: Nicholas

Nicholas — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 05:54:46 +0000

Hi Joe & Riaan

you’re all a gr8 help…I still struggle though with the GPS (still very new on the thing), everytime i put in my destination i will see the maps and all but how do i activate the kph v/s km v/s time, because mine remain at 0.00 despite showing the road?
As well, how do i get the device to tell/advice me when getting lost?

Tx,
Nicholas

By: riaan

riaan — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 19:22:27 +0000

Contacted Nokia today, apparently this[navigation license] is a knonw issue with older MTN sims – advised that I get the sim swapped.

For future reference, the symptom was that My licenses showed no licenses, when I would update the licenses the license will be displayed but not saved to the sim – when I return to the “My Licenses” option it would display “no licenses” again

By: joe

joe — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 18:27:19 +0000

I seem to remember it activated my maps account when I used maps for the first time. It just worked.

By: riaan

riaan — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 18:20:36 +0000

Hi Joe

Seems like you are the E71 support person, so here goes…

Did you get the 1yr license for Nokia Live Navigation? For the life of me I can not get it to recognise the license when I try and activate Walk&Drive – keeps asking for money. Is there a secret serial number somewhere in the packaging I need to find?

–
riaan

By: joe

joe — Sat, 09 May 2009 08:26:01 +0000

Connecting the phone to Asterisk is pretty simple. Try do that first, without the VPN. I’ve never used the VPN client on the phone, but I’d suggest you look at a secure SIP connection before you try the VPN idea.

By: Zeane

Zeane — Sat, 09 May 2009 00:07:02 +0000

thanks for a great blog, does anyone know how to configure Mikrotik Os so I can connect Nokia e71 to asterisk server via vpn. Pretty Please!

By: Henk Kleynhans

Henk Kleynhans — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 11:41:48 +0000

Aah! So that’s what those funny looking 2D barcodes are! Just encrypted my VCard using http://www.quickmark.com.tw/En/diy/?qrVCard

And I wasted 30 minutes of my life scanning random QR codes from websites with my E71.

http://deancollinsblog.blogspot.com/2008/05/google-qr-encoder-hidden-functionality.html

By: joe

joe — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 08:22:44 +0000

Hi Henk

The Barcode scanner reads QR-codes, it actually works pretty well.

Hehe, I don’t think the E61 had a torch, but it would be useful.

Thanks for the 0861AMOBIA tip (-:

By: Henk Kleynhans

Henk Kleynhans — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 08:03:23 +0000

Thanks for the advice, Joe! I got mine on Thursday and so far am very happy. Battery life certainly is a major bonus over the E61. There were some minor features that surprized me, such as the Business Card Reader and Barcode Scanner! (not that I could get the latter to work)

Btw, how do you use the torch on the E61? I could never figure it out.

Oh, and do dial 0861AMOBIA, simply start with the 0861 then press Fn once, and Shift twice to go in to CAPS text mode. The phone interprets the number fine.