The deal with Nokia E51
OK, heres my tale of woe.......
I had a Nokia 6820 working perfectly with BT carkit. It was a very fine thing. Worked first time, every time. Easy to setup, easy to use. I thought it was so cool, that I had to show the MFD dialling to all my buddies of course. I was a very happy chappie.
Then I wanted more cool stuff so upgraded my phone to a Nokia E51. Very good looking, t'internet, bigger screen etc and tied in contract (via work) for about 3 years.
The lifeblood drained from me when I realised it doesn't upload contacts, recent call list or anything to the MFD
Sure it 'dialls' out via car stereo and someone can call me and I can see the number on the MFD but hey, lets face it.....that functionality has been around for a decade.
So as many have posted Qs on the E51, I thought I'd share my experience.
......and just to add a bag of salt into the wound, the nokia contact download manager...........doesn't work on the E51 either.
I am on latest firmware available although I do see a planned upgrade soon.
Hopefully this saves some of you some time.
I do see on some forums that it may be 'simple' (Hmmmm) to write a symbian app which fixes this.
Oh and lastly, I see this week that Nokia are poised to buy Symbian so given that they have declared themselves as seemingly not bothered by any other carkits than their own, I can only suggest to anyone reading this forum and looking to purchase a compatable phone to stay a well away from the Nokia E-Series.
Thanks to all the helpful dudes on this forum, you know who you are.