Nokia E71: My Netbook? Cellphone

Today, I had the time to really play around my cellphone, Nokia E71. It was something that I’ve used for almost a year and haven’t really touched much of the stuff other than sending texts or making phone calls. It was then that I realized that Cellphones or Mobile phones are moving fast that it can do almost everything my laptop can do.

Nokia E71 was one of Nokia’s premier business phones, it features a full Qwerty keyboard, Wifi and a high quality QVGA display. What I really like about my Nokia E71 is the applications and themes that it allows me to download (thru Ovi) and install on my phone.

– Nokia E71 –

 

Having spent a day playing around with it, I realized there are so many things I could do with it. For example, VOIP. There are applications like Skype and NimBuzz, which could allow me to chat and speak (thru a call) to people for free. What’s even more shocking is the browsers that allows it to function just like a laptop. I have the default Nokia browser, SkyFire and Opera, all of which allows me to watch YouTube videos, browse the web, access javascripts which is exactly what my computer browser does.

One thing that I found interesting is that even if I browse the web with my phone, I don’t end up going to a .Mobi website. I would always go and access full page websites and Search Engines pretty much works the same for local area. This is one of the reason why I believe .Mobi isn’t really going to pickup, it’s more expensive than .COM or .NET and it just doesn’t seem to get much love from Browsers.

Going back to my E71, I realized that if my phone can do so much, what else will the next generation be? All I can say is that, a netbook might not be able to cut it soon as my phone can do much much more.