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Now I guess you know I like gadgets being a geek and all, and I always liked the look of the Nokia E61 with it's big screen for surfing...but it was ugly as hell.

Thankfully Nokia updated and came out with the Nokia E61i with a camera (albeit a basic one) and a funky new full metal body which was sexy as hell. I grabbed myself a Nokia E61i back in May last year.

I have to say I've been really happy with the phone, it's tough and it just works. It has been getting a bit sluggish lately but I have filled it up with stuff and it's took a bit of a battering.

So recently Nokia announced a new update to the family, the far sexier and slimmer Nokia E71. It dead leak a fair while before that, but you can never believe those dodgy prototype photos.

The specs are pretty impressive, it has an updated camera (with Autofocus!) and it has GPS, finally I have less excuse to get completely lost now. It's available in Grey Steel and White Steel, I of course opted for the far more manly Grey version...the white one looks a bit Apple-fanboi-ish.

Introducing the Nokia E71.

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Couldn't stand the K750i any more, after replacing the screen once, it's starting to fail again.

Plus the inconsistent USB connection to the PC for syncing, plus the fact it just resets sometimes, sometimes turns itself off, sometimes doesn't ring when people call..

I liked the look of the E61, but not enough to buy it, it was kind of ugly, and lacked a simple camera for quick blog shots like funny things seen when walking around without a camera.

The Nokia brought out the E61i, it looks sexy, full metal, with a 2 megapixel camera so I bit the bullet and got myself one, after being a long time Sony Ericsson advocate...I have to say the software and features from the E61i are much better than what SE provides. The P990 is so much more expensive, and so much worse.

I've crossed back over to my roots, back to Nokia!

It's a sexy gorgeous phone and surfing with Wifi on your phone with a massive 16.7 million colour screen is sweet indeed. I've been wanting a PDA kinda smart phone thingy for a while, but I always wanted something more phone and less PDA, this seems the ideal balance.

If only it had a slightly better camera and GPS it'd be perfect! It has GPS capability with a bluetooth GPS module, so that's pretty cool as you just have to have the Nokia GPS unit or a Garmin unit within Bluetooth range and it'll work just fine.

The interface is nice and easy to use, Symbian isn't the most responsive OS ever but it's fast enough.

Don't worry more Kharu coming soon