Do you have a Nokia E63 Fading Screen?

Back in March, we received an email from Inta who experienced some problems with her phone's display. For some reason, parts of the words on the top right corner of the screen were fading. Here is her original email and some of the pics she sent. She would like to know whether you have the same problem?

Firstly, I'd like to say how great your blog is - very useful info. I have just purchsed an e63 and have noticed that some of the letters of titles on the display are faded at the end. I was wondering whether anyone else has experienced this problem and what they did about it. Is it possible to put up a blog about this?

Later we emailled her about going to the Nokia Care centre and she replied with the following:

Thanks for your reply. I actually did go to the Nokia Care Centre and they examined it, reformatted it,etc. When I got it back they said there was no fault with the display - it just fades out the last few letters because of a space thing. He showed me another e63 they had on the premises and it did the same thing. It seems strange to me that this happens and I was just curious if anyone else had seen this on their phone.

My phone has the same problem so I was thinking maybe it's normal? If you can help Inta with this, or you have also got this problem, please leave a comment below.

Guest post - Part 2 Ovi Maps and Navigation

We now go back to KJ's review of the Nokia E72 as he looks as Ovi Maps and the recently announced free navigation. 

Ovi Maps on the Nokia E72 


Last but not least, the Ovi Map and turn-by-turn navigation. I have three points, first, the Voice Navigation interface - I am amazed how the details and thoughtfulness the developer that has created into the Map navigation function. The way it navigates, I can hear “keep left immediately”, “turn slightly right” and etc gives a very subtle personal touch and I think it is very useful if you are new to a place.

Then the Routing.. Being a local, There is a perception about how we will be heading and if we are not lead that way, we will feel weird and annoyed. However, to be fair Ovi has a couple options you can set to get better navigation result such as choosing shorter, faster or optimized route. You can also opt out certain routes based on your preference like avoiding tolls, or unpaved routes and even factoring in traffic information. I think one needs to play around to get a setting that meets individual needs and context in different countries. So I thought a wizard of Getting Started for new user could help a lot to get better experience and expectation to use the product

And thirdly, map accuracy and updateness which I think is the place where most improvement is required. Even though I think it is very difficult, but without an accurate map all will not work. I have seen buildings that has torn down 1-2 years ago and the new one is not available. Traffic information is somewhat out, that made me start to ignore what is recommended after using for a while. (note: I read somewhere the map is updated every six month, I feel it is way to long).

My overall experience of using the phone is good. I enjoyed the responsiveness of the phone and most of the functions are also applicable my daily use.

As per this post, I will like to share a video clip but I really cannot get a good one due to my video taking skill. It basically navigate to a mall that is near my place. And what I would like to show is the nice navigation voice interface.

Got your FREE QuickOffice 6.2.217 Upgrade?

This was something I posted about almost a year ago but many of you would have missed it (as well as many other nuggets of useful tips if you are just reading the front page of this site). It was the tip that you can get a free upgrade of the QuickOffice suite on your Nokia phone thanks to the great people @ Nokia.


So, if you have:

• Not upgraded yet; or
• Like me, upgraded before but installed a new firmware and forgot to reinstall the newest QuickOffice. 

then follow this link back to June 2009 and learn more about your free upgrade to QuickOffice 6.2.217 (latest).

Guest post - E72 review part 1

As you may know, recently we gave away free trials of the Nokia E72 and today we have KJ from Singapore giving his thoughts on the Nokia E72.

I have finally got my hand on the Nokia latest e-series flagship business phone – e72.   This is the first time i have tried a qwerty phone, thanks to MyE63 and womworld.com/nokia. There are already many really good and professional reviews on E72 so I will give my personal impressions and user experiences using the phone.

There are two aspects that I thought I'll touch on. Firstly my overall experience here and there of using phone and secondly also the primary objective of this trial, using the OVI map navigation.

The physical outlook has no surprise to me as I have seen many qwerty phone and friends E71.  However, once I used it. I just thought one really need to have a full keyboard phone if you like to have sense of doing serious typing! (By now...we all know Nokia is coming out with more qwerty keyboard 8-) )

In general, as a business phone, it is well qualified to be one and it has everything a business phones supposed to have. However, from the form factor of the phone has given people to have much higher expectation to what it can deliver.

What I am really looking into is the navi pad, one of the major improvement. Yes, it has done what it says. but I just thought it needs more to make it actually usefuI in particular during browsing.   I find it is duplicate of what the for direction stepping key is doing surrounding the pad.  If the resolution can be larger like what opera mini's fast scroll key is doing to complement the navi key will make the navi pad much better experience to use.

As for the PIM integration, I think it is pretty much well done and integrated between calendar, messaging, contact, multiscanner, etc. Except two of the functions and I always seek for is still missing,  one is that to create a calendar entry from messaging, also the other to create a calendar entry fast right from the homescreen.

Next post, KJ will look at the OVI Maps Navigation on E72 as well as upload a video of the navigation in action.