Having received the E75, I have been wanting to configure the Nokia Messaging, which was supposedly built into the phone’s OS.
But it wasn’t meant to be. Since the 18th till a little while ago, I had a lot of problems making the application work like it should. Firstly for some reason I was directed to the native client of the E75. This client was absolutely pathetic and does not work properly. Inspite of giving intervals of 5 minutes between two syncs, it would not sync. I would have to manually fire up the synchronization process and that also did not work properly. If it did manage to download the email, the notification would not go off. There were all sorts of problems with this phone, so much so that I had absolutely given up on this device. I wrote to everybody, asked all my blogger friends (thanks for all the help guys! I really appreciate it!) even put it on Nokia’s discussion forum. But nothing.
Let me tell you, that Nokia’s native client for email sucks big time. I absolutely hate it. Now you must be wondering, how do I know what am I using? Well, it’s simple really.
1. Go to the ‘Email’ icon on your phone’s menu, there select ‘Settings’ and in that you will find ‘Global Settings’ and the settings for your email box(es). Just select any mailbox and if you see ‘Mailbox Settings’ and ‘Account settings’, then you are definitely using Nokia Messaging and not the old native client.
If you find none of the above settings, it means you are using the native client and chances are it is not at all working properly. If in case you are wondering, what to do? Worry not. Below is what you need to do to get your mailboxes working on Nokia Messaging. This is a step by step guide of what you should do.
[The portion in yellow color are the precise steps, the writing in bold are my observations when I tried them on the E75.]
The highlighted icon would appear to be the new Email/Messaging client.
I suspect you’ve ended up with a configuration where the service initially failed or timed out somehow and ended up configuring the native client as a default.
Not sure if the following steps will work for you but this is what has worked for me in the past.
1. Uninstall Nokia Messaging using the Application Manager. (It is a 1kb file)
2. Reboot (power cycle) the phone
3. Uninstall Nokia Messaging’s left over bits using the Application Manager
4. Reboot the phone.
5. Sign up afresh at the Nokia site: email.nokia.com with a working gmail id.(In case you have an account on ‘www.email.nokia.com’, just log in with that on the PC)
6. Ask the website to send you an SMS with the client download URL. This is important, and made a world of difference to me (I did not have to open the message, the phone automatically started the Nokia Messaging setup for me and asked me for my password of ‘www.email.nokia.com’ account.)
7. Fire up the phone client. Hopefully the initial gmail id you specified in step5 works. Play with it.
8. If it works, start adding other email ids using the phone client.
That’s it. This is all you need to do to get all your mailboxes working like you want them to. Remember the minimum interval time in this application is 10 minutes. The phone automatically syncs with your mailbox and alerts every time there is an new email in your mailbox.
These steps were put up on a Nokia Discussion Forum thread, where I had shared my mailbox woes. ‘sanjaymehta‘ a member on the forum posted his comment which gave precise steps on how to make Nokia Messaging work on the E75. I tried them and it worked!
Now my only questions are, Why has this not been put up so prominently anywhere, either the manuals, online, etc.? What was Nokia thinking, when it conveniently omitted to put this information in the hands of the users of the service and phone?
I think it was extremely ‘unprofessional’ to do this act. It is ironic too, the business phones meant for ‘professionals’ had this problem. I had almost written off this device if it were not for sanjaymehta’s help.
Please make the changes Nokia to all your manuals and other refernce material and even the in phone help or endure the bad publicity for your brilliant device.
Yesterday saw the E66 and the E71 getting firmwares updates. Thee E71’s firmware has been bumped to V210.21.006.
The E66’s firmware has been bumped to V210.21.007. The firmware is available for the European and the Asian codes. The remaining countries and areas will have to wait a bit longer till it is made available there. 
The Nokia E75 is a side slider with a full QWERTY keypad (remember the HTC S740, same form factor) with a 2.4″ QVGA screen with 16.7 million colours. This is the first Eseries device to support N-Gage gaming.
The E75 will have a reported 11 days standyby time and 5.4 hours of talk time on a single battery charge. the 1000mAH Lithium Polymer(BL-4U) battery will not only make the E75 lighter but also better. Camera is a almost standard 3.2 Megapixel with autofocus allowing VGA vidoe recording. HSDPA is standard in this new Eseries beauty (111.8mm X 50mm X 14.4mm). The E75 will come with Nokia Messaging – mail and IM client out of the box. It is scheduled to ship next month at a price of 375 euros (approx $ 475, Indian Rs 23,000).
Next up was the ace in Nokia new line-up of phones, the E55. This was one device that nobody expected or even had the slightest idea of. The E55 easily overshadowed all its brethren from the different categories. The E55 is the thinnest S60 phone ever! At just 9.9mm it’s setting a benchmark for the slimmest smartphone.
And it that was not enough for you, this device features a half QWERTY ala BlackBerry Pearl. The E55 will run the S60 V3 with FP2. It will sport a 3.2 Megapixel camera. The Nokia E55 also includes a predictive engine that will be able to suggest word completions, error completions and automatically learn new words. It will also boasts full access to Email, Calendar and Contacts with direct access to Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Notes. Sound quality is also enhanced over previous Eseries devices with new noise cancellation technology.
If all that wasn’t enough to make you want it, then may be this will, the Nokia E55 offers almost one month of standby time (28 days to be precise) with a 1500mAH BP-4L battery. The Nokia E55 will also have N-Gage platform available to it. This means that you can shoot those zombies, while preparing that important client presentation in office!
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