Nokia E63-2 Unlocked Phone with 2 MP Camera, 3G, Wi-Fi, Media Player, and MicroSD Slot–U.S. Version with Warranty
- This unlocked cell phone is compatible with GSM carriers like AT&T and T-Mobile. Not all carrier features may be supported. It will not work with CDMA carriers like Verizon Wireless, Alltel and Sprint.
- U.S. version unlocked quad-band GSM cell phone compatible with 850/900/1800/1900 frequencies and US 3G compatibility via 850/1900 UMTS/HSDPA plus GPRS/EDGE data capabilities
- Access to corporate/personal email; QWERTY keyboard; Wi-Fi networking; Bluetooth stereo music; 2-megapixel camera/camcorder
- Up to 11 hours of talk time, up to 430 hours (18 days) of standby time
- What’s in the Box: handset, battery, charger, wired headset, user and quick start guides
Product Description
Espoo, Finland – Nokia today announced the latest addition to its Eseries range, the Nokia E63, designed for people who need to manage their business and personal lives equally well. Building on the success of the Nokia E71, the company’s flagship messaging device, the Nokia E63 brings the QWERTY keyboard form factor to a broader audience at a great price.The Nokia E63 also has the ability to switch modes with a single key press, switching from a view of corporate mail, appointments and intranet data, to a personal mode with a picture of friends, personal email and shortcuts to favorite hobby blogs or websites. Petersen adds, “The amazing response we have seen to the Nokia E71, which has very quickly become the best selling model in its categoryAmazon.com Product Description
Designed for people who need to manage their business and personal lives equally well, the Nokia E63 is a more affordable sibling of the popular E71 mobile phone and it featu… More >>
I have owned Nokia phones ever since I have owned phones and this is the worst I have seen. I think Nokia is loosing it. It reminds me of companies that become complacent and think they are top of market now and are in vincible – in my opinion this company is going down the tubes (the one behind the comod). Think about it when Apple was coming out with the iPhone (my wife owns it so I know how good it really is) Nokia’s CEO (I thought he would know everything – he is the highest paid employee of the company) said apple has no clue what they are getting into. Oh guess what its been 2 years and nokia has no clue how to create a competitive product that can be a iphone clone – forget about surpassing it.
This phone cannot play any games and it cannot play any music. I downloaded 4×4 monster tuck game from nokia web site and it would not even install. I sent an email to tech support and then the mess begins. It seems Nokia does not have a US support center. No no its not in India or some cheap country its in Europe. So they call in the afternoon and they can support you for like 2 or 3 hours that it – time to go to the pub. So first they sent me an email that seemed to indicate that they have sent me a link of some sorts on the phone – which never came to me. I waited some more. Then I got a survey email – looks like issue resolved. I responded with a very positive survey and sent them email as well. They came back oh sorry here is the link oh and that link will expire after 2 hours (aka we will be in the pub by then). And that link downloaded the file but install failed – this time certificate error. OK back to them – did not install blah blah blah. Oh just make sure you have correct time and date on the phone. He dumbos who does not have correct time and date on a (apprently) smart phone. Anyway oh OK then reset the phone. OK I did. oh the link has expired – here is another one – oh I need to go to the pub now. After all then still certificate error. Next day it start again – reset the phone… I gave up on that bunch of panzies. The game was only 2.99 but the you get the point.
OK I cannot play games on the phone. I can live with that – may be. Can I play my music on it? My old nokia phone that costed me exactly $0.00 (with the contract ofcourse) did the job pretty well. Nope you cannot do that either. If you load more than 20 songs on to the phone – either in its memory or on the external card – you get all sorts of errors and it will not play any thing. Forget about playing it wont even show the song list and every now and then the external card is corrupted. If it plays the song (rarely that happens) try hitting pause – it takes a good 1 sec to pause – hello this is 2009. Is that a 2MHz processor in there – nope its the crappy software I am sure written by the invincible sleeping nokia designers and supported and released by the even more invincible nokia management.
Rating: 1 / 5
Very poor coverage with At&t and dropped calls, connection errors, and powers off randomly. Obviously this phone is no good. Got it to replace my stolen iPhone, worst mistake ever. Hiddeous email and internet screens. Slow everything.
Rating: 1 / 5
While this phone does operate on the 3g networks, it does not have HSPDA aka “high speed data” like the E71. Please make sure your review the differences on Nokia’s website if high speed mobile data (not wifi) is important to you!
Rating: 3 / 5
In some of the general use, this is a nice phone, however, I only give it one star because it would not connect to my home WiFi. The phone kept giving me error messages ROUTER BEHIND ROUTER. I tried several times to connect to the WiFi with no avail. This is strange because I own the Nokia 5530 Xpress Music and it has NEVER had a problem connecting to my home WiFi. This phone just did not work for me.
Rating: 1 / 5
If you want this phone because of the supposed IMAP client, you might be disappointed. There are other problems too, but I’ll start with the long one.
If you have it already, and set up your email by following all of the menu prompts, you might like it just fine without realizing what it is actually doing.
The way life ought to work, and does on other phones:
If you have an IMAP email phone, and an email service which supports IMAP, you get free “push” email (instant delivery, not waiting for the next dial-up) with no extra charge beyond your data plan. Very simple.
Nokia doesn’t seem to care. There is an option for email alerts, but it doesn’t seem to actually work unless you agree to the terms of their new “Nokia Messaging” service. Instead of the phone connecting directly with your email provider (eg, GMail), the phone installs the Nokia application which connects with Nokia’s server, and that server at Nokia is actually connected with your email provider. Not only is this a ghetto work-around, but if you read the terms of the service, it is only free until Nokia decides they are done “testing” it and want to charge you money.
So you might be happily using what you think is IMAP push email on this phone, and for all we know it could stop working next month and Nokia could demand that you pay their subscription fee… for something which ought to just work anyway.
No pretend that this doesn’t matter to you, or you think I am nuts, etc. On to the next problem.
If your email provider has IMAP available, the phone will not allow you to set it to download whole email messages. The setting option which allows either “headers only” or header+body when you use POP3 is neutered when you have an IMAP server address, and the only option is headers only. So if you look at your phone and see several new emails, every time you click on it you have to wait for it to connect and load the email. My SonyEricsson w595 is not so stupid. I have instant IMAP delivery, and get the body text automatically.
So forget about the email client, what about other Internet applications?
Here’s two problems with that stuff:
1. You can’t turn off the menu option which stupidly asks if you really want to allow a web browser to access the Internet… every single time you use it. Other phones at least skip this if you installed a signed application (eg, Opera or Bolt browsers). The popup has no “never ask” option, and there is no setting for it from the application manager either. Only Nokia’s own browser is exempt.
2. The fancy e63 also lets you select an “access point” every time you do something which requires Internet access. This would be a great feature if you use both WiFi and cellular, and want to switch back and forth all the time. But it’s a total annoyance if you don’t. The e63 lets you turn this “feature” off for its own web browser, but it still does it for everything else. Google maps, Bolt browser, GMail application… every one makes you select the access point every time you use it.
Rating: 2 / 5