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Jonathan Oxer is probably the most pissed off Nokia E61 user

Categories: Ideas and rants
By: , IntoMobile
Tuesday, December 26th, 2006 at 1:22 PM

Do you know who Jonathan Oxer is? Neither do I but his about page speaks a lot about his credibility:

I’m currently President of Linux Australia, the national organisation for Linux users and developers, and author of How To Build A Website And Stay Sane (Oft Press, 2004) and Ubuntu Hacks (O’Reilly, 2006), write regularly for The Age and Sydney Morning Herald newspapers, and my articles have been translated into French, Brazilian Portuguese, Italian, Norwegian, and Spanish and appeared in dozens of publications.

I’m one of the few people in the world to have been surgically implanted with an RFID chip, which I’m using to experiment with technical issues such as authentication techniques and exploits as well as philosophical issues such as privacy and identity.

I’m also Founder and Technical Director of Internet Vision Technologies.

… (cut for brevity, this man has one long, and impressive, about page)

Source: Oxer’s About Page

Ok so what does he actually have to say about the device?

Frustration! On paper the E61 looks absolutely perfect for what I want, but in reality it’s driving me nuts. Every single thing I want to do with the phone is broken in some annoying way.

Source: Oxer’s blog

He talks about having issues with wifi, network instability, VoIP, SyncML, the keyboard, SSH, and the devices responsiveness amongst other things. I hope someone from Nokia is looking at this, these are some serious complaints that need to be looked at ASAP. I know the E61 is a first generation device in the blackberry form factor, but the OS is under it’s 3rd revision. If it’s still having these basic issues now then it says a lot about the development team.

He doesn’t have comments enabled, nor trackbacks, but he does post his email in his about page.

About The Author

Stefan Constantinescu

Stefan Constantinescu (@WhatTheBit on Twitter) has loved technology since as far back as he can remember. It started with computers, but in the past few years his passion has turned to mobile devices. As a mobile phone enthusiast who lives and breathes devices that connect to the internet, he knows he is not alone with this radical fascination of all things wireless. He is strongly opinionated and enjoys a good debate so leave comments in his posts and he’ll get back to you! Stefan began blogging as a hobby in the fall of 2006 and joined IntoMobile in the summer of 2007. Later he got a job at Nokia in March 2008, but as of June 2009 he has rejoined the IntoMobile team. He is currently based out of Helsinki, Finland.

  • Tony Ng

    Beware of anyone with a long resume or about page…

    Most E61 users are quite happy, thank you

    Tony

  • Stefan Constantinescu

    I have an E61, and I too am happy with my device, but just because we’re happy with our device we shouldn’t ignore the complaints of others.

    I too have complaints of the S60 operating system

  • Angelo

    If your anaverage mobile phone user, you wont have any problems with your E61. Its when you push the device to its limits that you realize its cons.

    Low volume, web browser crash, slow response. I have the latest firmware by the way.

  • Jonathan Oxer

    That’ll teach me not to blog when I’m frustrated! I suspect my reaction when I first started using my E61 was similar to going to a movie that’s been hyped long and hard: your expectations are way up, and so even little annoyances really get on your nerves.

    Since that post I’ve slowly been doing better with the E61, or at least becoming so accustomed to its oddities that I don’t notice them much anymore. The big thing that still really annoys me is the messed up keyboard layout: my @ symbol is on the A, the brackets are on X and C, etc. Trying to type any character other than A-Z0-9 is like playing a memory game. Other than that I’m much happier with it now than I was a few months ago.