Nokia E51 phone

Nokia E51:
Nokia's E series of smartphones is aimed pretty squarely at the business community, but in fact it has a lot to offer the well organised consumer too.The slim and elegant Nokia E51 adds greater simplicity, faster access and tighter integration to key applications, while maintaining the smartphone capabilities and stylish design that customers have come to expect in a Nokia Eseries device.It is a mobile smartphone of Nokia e seris.It's the second Nokia UMTS / HSDPA dual band mobile.This mobile has 3 colors those are black, silver & bronze-coloured border.The black livery is smart and the ultra-thin form factor means it won't make a lump in your pocket.

Feature:
Its Operating System is Symbian OS v9.2 + S60 3rd Edition, Feature Pack 1.GSM frequencies is most important for every phone.Its frequencies are 850/900/1800/1900 MHz.The E51 is a 3G, HSDPA capable phone -- our test sample came configured for Telstra's Next G network. It also boasts Bluetooth and Wi-Fi capabilities, as you'd expect from a business-class phone. The E51 runs on the Symbian 60 platform, with support for push mail via Mail for Exchange, Visto Mobile, and Seven Always-on platforms. On the office side, QuickOffice provides access to Word, Excel and Powerpoint documents, although critically this is in a viewing capacity only. We can't imagine seriously editing a business document on the E51's two-inch display, so perhaps Nokia has a point in not including a full editor; still, some business users may find this a distinct drawback.It is somewhat weaker on the "fun" side of the equation. While it does sport a 2-megapixel camera, there's only the one camera, which rather limits the appeal of video calling. Likewise, it'll handle music and video playback, and comes with 130MB of on-board memory to accommodate these (upgradeable via microSD), but they're pretty clearly a bit of an afterthought compared to the more entertainment-focused mobiles on the market currently.The * and # keys are slightly smaller than the 7 and 9 buttons due to the tapered edges of the phone, though it doesn't hinder daily use. While we like the excellent tactility of the main keys, we can't say the same for those on the sides, such as the rubberized volume, power and record buttons. They are not disastrous, don't get us wrong, but pressing them requires a little more concerted effort.
Its ultimate feature is Processor:ARM 11 369 MHz processor,GPRS:Yes, GPRS/EGPRS Class A, multi-slot class 32,3G:Yes, HSDPA, 3.6 Mbit/s (2100MHz and 850MHz),UMTS:850/2100 MHz,WLAN/WiFi:Yes, Wi-Fi 802.11b, 802.11g,VoIP/SIP:Yes, VoIP Revision 2.3,Main screen:Active Matrix, 16 million (24bit) colours, 240 × 320 pixels, adjustable brightness,Camera:2.0 megapixel, 4x digital zoom,Video recording:Yes 320 × 240, 176 × 144 or 128 × 96, 15 frames per second, length depends on memory available,Voice recording:Yes,Multimedia Messaging:Yes,Video calls:Yes,Push to talk:Yes (Push to Talk over Cellular - PoC),Java support:Yes, MIDP 2.0,
Max User Storage:130 MB,NAND Memory:256 MB,SDRAM Memory:96 MB,Executable RAM Memory:50 MB,Max Memory Card Size:4 GB,Hot Swappable Memory card slot:Yes,Bluetooth:Yes v2.0 + EDR,Infrared:Yes (115 kbit/s),USB Mass Storage:Yes, 2.0, miniUSB,Data cable support:Yes,Browser:WAP 2.0 XHTML / HTML. Comes standard with a full Nokia Mini Map Browser,Email:Yes, IMAP4, POP3, SMTP,Music player:Yes, stereo,Radio FM:Yes,Video Player:Yes,Stereo Speakers:No,
Ringtones:Yes, Polyphonic, Monophonic, MP3, True Tones,Vibrate:Yes,HandsFree (HF) speakerphone:Yes,Offline/Flight mode:Yes,Battery:BP-6MT 3.7V 1050 mAh
Talk time:4.38 hours,Standby time:13 days,Weight:100 grams,Dimensions:115 × 47 × 12 millimeters (4.49" × 1.81" × 0.47"),Availability:Q4 2007,Else:Nokia PC Suite.Wow everything is here in this phone.Its a full of multimedia phone.You can use this amazing phone.

Design:
Nokia's E series of smartphones is aimed pretty squarely at the business community, but in fact it has a lot to offer the well organised consumer too.There's the now familiar 240x320 pixel display in 16 million colours. There's 130MB of internal memory expandable with a microSD slot, Bluetooth and of course all the usual features you'd expect from a Nokia.The beauty of candy-bar handsets is you can almost never go wrong with the design.At 12mm thick, the E51 is one of the leaner enterprise devices from the Finnish phone-maker, second to the E61i which is 0.5mm thinner.Cementing the durability are the stainless steel runs on the entire edge of the front faceplate and battery cover.To sum it up quickly, the design approach to the E51 is a very reserved and safe one. Nokia didn't conjure any fancy tricks for this enterprise device. Although we adore the slim profile, the handset looks a tad too tall due to the two-tone fascia. That said, the phone is still relatively compact and should fit comfortably in the pocket.
The bottom half is peppered with various shortcut keys and a generous-sized keypad. Above that is a modest 2-inch QVGA display with an ambient light sensor and LED light indicator customizable to light up in the event of missed calls, incoming text/multimedia messages or emails.The screen is readable even in bright outdoor conditions, which is great. However, it's probably not suitable for prolonged Web surfing or document reading, unless you want to end up straining your vision.It's trivial, but one that's definitely appreciated. Pressing the key from anywhere in the phone's menu brings us to the standby screen. The same can also be done with the End call control.

Problem & Solve:
# Problem was that Nokia E65 / E51 would associate with AP and everything
# worked fine using _no_ encryption, but the phones were not reachable
# when using encryption, although browsing and initiating calls from phone
# was fine.

# Solution was, of course, easy ;-), but not being a total network guru,
# it took me some time to find the right parameters. Also, I first did not
# think it to be a settings problem since using no encryption everything
# worked perfectly, so I thought it was a bug using encryption. :-(

This is somewhat surprising since I would not expect these settings to
have much difference regardless of whether encryption is used or not..
Or at least UAPSD should affect both. Maybe there are some WMM-related
interop issues that apply to encryption, too.

I've seen number of interoperability issues between Nokia S60 phones and
some APs when power saving is enabled and this happens also in the
unencrypted configuration.

# To get Nokia E65, E51 (and possibly others) working, parameters
# "uapsd" and "wmm" both have to be _disabled_ by setting them to zero
# with iwpriv. This has to be done _before_ the phone associates with the
# bridging AP. Changing these parameters while the phone was associated
# did not (always) work reliably.

Did you try just disabling UAPSD? I haven't done much testing with WMM,
but I've been able to work arounds most issues by disabling power saving
the phone configuration (advanced options for Wireless LAN).

# Also, I set rts very low to 250 and frag to 512 with iwconfig which
# might also help with the bridging setup since the bridge-utils docs say
# something about MTUs on bridged interfaces have to be same, but using
# encryption, hostapd raises ath MTU to 2239 (while eth has MTU 1500).
# Getting only small packets from ath might prevent bridging problems here.?

RTS and Fragmentation Thresholds for IEEE 802.11 do not actually change
the MTU at all; they are done at a lower layer in the network stack.
Changing of the MTU could probably be removed from hostapd, but I would
not expect it to cause problems in most cases since the bridge interface
MTU would likely be used for figuring out how large a frame can be sent
out and most other sources of packets would use 1500 octet MTU anyway.

Some user comments:

Steven Says:Got the phone (E51) for 3 days now and I dont have any idea how I can use the Push mail (Yahoo Mail) and IM (MSN/Yahoo Messenger) via WLAN. Do i need to buy some softwares for these programs to work onm WLAN?? According to my local service provider, I can only access IM and Push mail via WAP. I want to access it via WLAN so I don’t have to pay for GPRS usage. Is it possible??

Kamaldeep Says:Well I guess everyone is happy but still This phone has few problems. When ever I go to a no network zone and then come back to network zone this phone gives problem and does not catch network even on searching manually. Effectively I have to re-start the phone everytime this happens while going from work to home

Farah Says:Hello everybody,Hey m here to join the group of Nokia E51 users… well, its been 2 months now and m not facing any problems as of now… if you have read the manual well then you will know that there are some cool applications ready to be downloaded from the download option in the mail root folder… It comprises of the antivirus program, maps, navigators and many more..Uptill now was still figuring out the new’s in the phone. Its simply jsut great and works efficiently too.. have heard that there are battery problems or it getting heated but none of it I have faced.. Its pretty sturdy too. There are a number of freeware sites providing great softwares for 3rd edition softwares..Would love to see a solution for IDB’s question about the picture being too small when a call arrives.

cognosco:I have a solution for those of you having difficulty connecting your e51 to home wifi/wlan network.I have a Sky broadband router, manufactured by Netgear and it uses WPA security. I received the message 'no gateway found' when attempting to connect to the wifi network.The solution was to manually edit the access point settings (tools, settings, connections, access points).Then I entered 'advanced settings' and manually edited the IPv4 settings. You will need to assign the phone an IP address, define the subnet mask, and default gateway.The subnet mask and default gateway for your network can be found by going to the command prompt on your PC (sorry, don't know how to do this for Macs) and typing 'ipconfig'.For the manual Phone IP address, simply use the default gateway address and change the last number to something else e.g. 10.Good luck! My thanks to other folks who take the time to post their solutions for others to benefit. It was through scouring the forum that I figured this solution. My next challenge is to see if it can connect to a VOIP service.