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.