Comments on: E63 Review Part-3: Software, Music, Battery, Screen

By: Aditya Singhvi

Aditya Singhvi — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:11:09 +0000

@Vignes

If you are talking about your phone, the E63 this is what I have to say,

The number of messages you have in your phone does not affect battery life…
The standby is decent, in real world that is the kind of standby time you will get, it can be better by another 12 hours with some fiddling of the power settings.
The talk time is bad!

By: Vignes Anand S

Vignes Anand S — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:35:51 +0000

Hey bro.. i have just one doubt…

Battery Back Up 72hrs
tiz includes

Msgs 587 (inbox 300 and sent 287)
talktime 49 mins and 24 sec

Is it good or bad???

By: firex

firex — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 05:03:31 +0000

hi there. very good review
i am looking a phone with Wifi (for IM/facebook/youtube) and music playing capabilities, and somehow i got a hold of an E63 and not surprisingly, it is now at the top of my list.
I agree that the E63 sounded SURPRISINGLY good with my creative in-ear earphones, but i noticed that there is a hissing background noise. Do you also experience such noise? It’s more conspicuous when you’re changing tracks.

By: Goo

Goo — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 12:45:44 +0000

Nokia discussion forum has all the answers. The configuration described here is tested in E51 and recently E63 by me. I am using WLAN, not the data connection from cellular operator. Things might be different if you are not using WLAN.

http://discussions.europe.nokia.com/discussions/board/message?board.id=connectivity&message.id=23229

By: Vishal

Vishal — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 09:12:46 +0000

Hi,
I have recently got E63.
I tried to set up action voip on my mobile.
But when I tried making call, it does not connect.
Can you please tell me the exact way to set it up.
Thank you

By: Aditya Singhvi

Aditya Singhvi — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 16:01:23 +0000

No all the symptoms are that of a defective battery, if a phone is lying idle, the battery does not heat up. And the E63 cannot just switch off with that much of battery left. I suggest you give the E63 along with the battery to the nearest Nokia Care Center and get it resolved.

By: julicka

julicka — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 05:23:03 +0000

is it normal that the E63 battery heats up even without being used?
my battery does that. and while im surfing, the cellphone just goes off even if the battery is still 5 bars up. normal or battery defect? thanks.

By: goo

goo — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 15:26:19 +0000

I am little careful about skype. Traditionally when you make a call, skype server gives you the IP address of the called party and your voice goes through internet (WIFI or GSM or GPRS or 3G). But now they are introducing kind of paid services in UK. Some skype clients, AFAIK, calls a local mobile company’s number (in UK) and the actual skype clients are running in the mobile companies computers. So you will not be able to use such clients with your WIFI. This is a good trick to get money from customers and prevent them from using their wifi. Mobile company shares some revenue with skype. The dependency is too much. You think that you are still using the traditional skype but you are not. So, I am afraid that skype, now owned by Ebay, will not be a good choice in future.

One solution is to use fring which acts as a wrapper client for many voip services. I use it with E51. It should not be different in E63. But my choice would be to register with Ekiga which is run by the Free Software Foundation like organisation. So you are sure that they will not cut your account one day. It is similar to skype but the standards are open SIP standards and run without business interests. You can see it at Ekiga.net The registered user-name and pwass-word can be entered in Menu>Tools>Settings>connection>SIPSettings>options>NewProfile in E series phones. Your contacts internet telephone address – sip:FriendsUsername@ekiga.net – can be entered in the telephone directory. Whenever you are in a WLAN the SIP client in phone informs EKIGA about your whereabouts just like skype. Others can contact you. When you wish to make a normal phone call – like skype out – you can buy an account from some other SIP provider like actionvoip.com for example. It is much cheaper than skype-out. Give it a try and let me know. Alternately FRING also comes with its own SIP client.

By: Aditya Singhvi

Aditya Singhvi — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 06:10:05 +0000

I found the E63’s battery to be giving less backup than the E71 even though they are almost identical.
you seem to be getting bad battery backup… Check the settings of your device, if you do not have 3G or you don’t use 3G, put your phone on GSM mode only and also change the power settings… that should help. If you are still getting dismal battery life… your battery is defective I presume.

By: peter

peter — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 01:53:30 +0000

about the battary my device doesn’t commplete with me 2 days with normal usage
calling average 20-30 min ber day
wi fi very low about 10 min ber day
music very very low about 10-15 min or never

so plzzzz i wanna to know is this normal or not ???