Comments on: Nokia E52 Review

By: Gary

Gary — Tue, 31 May 2011 04:54:25 +0000

The best phone I ever had was an E51. Unfortunately the E51 had a bath (drowned) and never worked right after that. I replaced it with the E52. After updating to the latest firmware and using the phone for several months, I have decided that it has now become the best phone I ever had.

I actually have four phones and now only use the E52, I despise my touchscreen phone. I can only hope that high quality NON touchscreen phones continue to be built.

By: Lucas McWilliams

Lucas McWilliams — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 07:24:36 +0000

TW’s mark message shortcut does not work. It DOES work with the E51, but not the E52.

I’m willing to bet he doesn’t actually own an E52.

By: hp

hp — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 14:23:20 +0000

4. option to select or mark several messages in inbox is by holding ‘#’ and pressing up/down to select the msgs. there is an app called free i-sms which allows smses to be viewed in bubble forms and the received/sent smses shown under same window – alike to iphone sms, how cool is symbian now?

I WONDER HOW THIS WORKS? IT DOESN’T WORK ON MY E52.

By: rhed claris

rhed claris — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 23:14:31 +0000

i have e52, i buy it last day, the cancel button of my phone is so soft touch, is that a default?

By: tw

tw — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:00:46 +0000

i can understand glen_b’s frustrations. Symbian is not user friendly, but it is so damn powerful if you know how to use it, i guess that’s why its made for nokia’s business phone series. It needs a lot of apps to be able to do what Glen_b wants and basically all is readily available. I pity his lack of knowledge which led to the frustration, and hopes he and others can benefit from this below.

1. To access numbers or email add from sms, you need to turn on ‘automatic find on’ feature, then u’ll be able to ‘use number’ without having to write it down. turn it off once u’re done to view the msg faster.

2. option for replying to other msgs annoys me at first but now seems useful enough

3. smileys is a really missed option in the sms. problem is, all symbian phones loses this feature. only workaround for this is an app called A-SMS animated sms

5. symbols are irrelevant once u no longer need to use smileys or if u used A-SMS. the character key is not that hard to find anyway.

6. shortcut lists are accessible via a wonderful app called JBAK Taskman.

7. you can also set other shortcuts by using an app called Magickey.

Well, this is just in reply to glen_b’s comment, explore the phone and symbian more and you’d understand why these phones are most favourable. E52 is by far the best symbian phone when it comes to the battery life, at least.

By: fedup

fedup — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 04:30:59 +0000

I don’t trust glen_b’s review because I’ve seen the same post in several websites. It looks like a Samsung campaign or something. This phone is great!

By: nokia lover

nokia lover — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 19:44:32 +0000

thanks for posting. Sounds like all will suffer the same problem. I’m not getting a Nokia anymore.

By: glen_b

glen_b — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 21:14:33 +0000

Recently my beloved Nokia 6267 got stolen hier in Zürich (seems to be a rash of that of late). I had really gotten used to that unit’s ease of use, and anyone who’s been through this knows you’re suddenly confronted with all these decisions: do I move ‘up’? ‘Down’ (to something simpler..), to an iPhone, or one of its clones?
Well in order to try to approach the 6267′s great combination of biggish screen and large keys (i.e. not designed for a 12 year old girl’s fingers), I got an E52.
I’m astonished.
This phone is the worst piece of over-engineered, user-hostile piece of junk I ever saw from Nokia. Compared to the 6267 (or the 6131, 6310i. or venerable 6150…!), it’s hard to believe it’s a Nokia. First off, the most obvious and clear advantages of a folding phone:
1. you can get a big screen and a big keyboard into a compact package
2. both screen and keyboard are protected, by default (see below re: ‘unlocking’)
3. when open, earpiece and microphone are comfortably near ear & mouth, respectively..
I should say at the outset that I worked in mobile engineering (GSM & 3G) for 7 years, in engineering, but also that I see a mobile telephone basically as a tool for making calls and texting, it’s the mobility that attracts me, not the bells and whistles.
Most of my gripes with the E52 have to do with texting (SMS).
A BASIC, OBVIOUS FUNCTION: you can’t ‘use detail’ on an incoming SMS, i.e. someone texts you a telephone number, you have to WRITE IT DOWN, you can’t just ‘use number’ and call it, store it, etc. THIS IS ASTONISHINGLY STUPID. When you receive and sms, the stupid phone asks how you want to reply, instead of just defaulting to sms (the obvious and logical choice). WHY WOULD I WANT TO RESPOND BY EMAIL TO AN SMS? Maybe there’s a reason, I don’t know it, but the default should be…sms. DUMB. You can’t delete all sms in the Inbox, you have to step through menus to mark them and then delete them. DUMB – the 6267 was super easy in that regard. While typing, you want to insert an emoticon (smiley face): THE E52 DOESN’T HAVE THEM. ‘Business phone’? well, I send lots of ‘business’ sms, sometimes a smiley face is useful to tailor a message or adjust the tone. Not to mention private use. Not having them is a needless step backwards. DUMB. Which leads to the next issue: symbols. If I want a smiley face now,
I have to type it trouble is, the symbol list – sort of a ‘symbol cache’ – on the E52 is DYNAMIC. So (for a simple example) if I use a divisor sign, equals, ampersand, +, *, @ and a few other symbols, the are pushed off the ‘cache list’ and I have to – you guessed it – tap more keys to get find them & get them back. DUMB – the symbol function was great on the 6267… You trigger the camera, and there are all these %&+§$ KEYSTROKES to DO THE OBVIOUS: TAKE AND SEND THE PIC
TO SOMEONE. The reason to have a camera in a mobile phone is to make it EASY to send someone a photo of something RIGHT NOW…I don’t want a Windows experience when I try to do that. Or better: a DOS experience (for those old enough to remember..) I could taylor the 6267 ‘top left button’ to list all kinds of functions I use every day (in box, missed calls, alarm, etc) In the highly Advanced Sophisticated E52, I have to step thru stupid complex menus to find this stuff, and there’s no means to set up a pre-set list similar to the 6267. And along with all this, it seems like all I do is unlock the g#dd#m keypad – the stupid thing shuts
off in SECONDS. This was something else that was great with the 6267 – you flip it open and OPEN that sms! Invariably the stupid E52 has reverted to the menu list and to answer an incoming sms, you have to 1) press the upper left-hand key, 2) press the upper right-hand key (to get the keyboard unlocked…), 3) press the sms icon (if you’re lucky enough that the phone has reverted to that, else you have to tap around to it) 4) tap down to the Inbox icon… In this time I would have already been answering the sms, or had already sent it, with the 6267! The list goes on and on, but I want to cap it off with one of the most irritating of all: the beloved old
standard Nokia ring tone has been replaced by a sappy ‘mood music’ version, a fitting theme indeed. Meanwhile, try to find a used 6267. Talking to people in phone stores confirmed my suspicions: the 6267 was well-liked and sold out immediately after production ceased.
WAKE UP, NOKIA!

By: Necklaces

Necklaces — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 00:02:50 +0000

Daniel, a very interesting post thanks for writing it!