These were more or less the words from my sister today, when she heard that I had bought a new phone yesterday. It was more or less as meeting yourself in the door. She remembered very well how much I disliked Nokia two, three years ago. But things have, as so often, changed.

Today I am a satisfied owner of a Nokia E60. Sony Ericsson is still making great phone, don’t me wrong, but they are not going for the features that are important for me. I admire Nokia for their E and N series. These phones are impressive. I have bought E70 and N70 phones for the management group at my department, and recommended them for a few of my colleagues (at other departments).

This blog entry is not to be a review of E60, the phone is already aging and about to leave the market! The fact that I bought it for 1 NOK, tells me that! There are mainly two reasons why I have developed an interest for Nokia’s business phones:

  1. Syncronization: Nokia delivers one of the best syncronzation technologies in market – period! It’s not discussible. Easy to set up and stable, both for Outlook and Lotus Notes 7.x. It also works well with Microsoft Vista, and even with Vista’s Contacts. Not even Microsoft’s own syncronization tool does that!
  2. E-mail: Support for Push Mail and a great implementation of IMAP, with support for both SSL/TLS. Works flawlessly with our IMAP server.

I find myself quite old fashioned when it comes to mobilephones. I still mostly use it for telephone calls, a few SMSes and now and then some data transfers. That’s more or less what I want from a mobilephone. People that know me, all know that I don’t care to much about SMS, MMS or camera technology on the phone. For taking digital photos you are still better of with a traditional camera. They are in quality 2-3 years ahead of the cameras included on phones. When it comes to video conferencing, the only time I established a video conference was with a friend to simply test the technology. I don’t know of anyone among my friends and colleagues that actually use this technology. But something I will give HTC and Sony Ericsson credits for, is that they have included MP3 players and memory card slots on their phones that works better then the Nokia ones. As I have to have a HTC smartphone for my work (my department is paying), I fast found myself using the included MP3 player instead of my Sandisk player.

One last thing, I love that Nokia has added wifi to some of their phones. It works brilliantly, and I am now a fringster! And I will try to set up my VoIP phone from Phonzo on the included SIP phone if possible.