It is refrershing to see people actually providing good feedback on their tools ! Great to find all this. Have been using Psions/Ipaq’s/WMob 5 for ages. I received my E90 this weekend, my first Communicator, and am starting to collect the important business soft tools (agenda’s; databases; …) to make my Symbian into a decent workhorse. However the GPS is failing, as mentioned already by others on this blog. I have the latest firmware from the start (Oct 2007 - 7.40.1.2), and although (with AGPS) it find location after 10-30 secs, it looses its position too frequently. Driving in countryside without any buildings at all it still manages to loose GPS signal (while built in car GPS happily goes on). Driving on the M40 fro oxford to London it must have lost contact 20 - 30 times, and put me 200- 400 meter away from where i really was - all this keeping E90 almost glued to car window - GPS signal is lost when i hold it away from windows. My wife’s Nokia 6110 Naviagator works brillianty and doesnt have any of the issues explained. Except the GPS rest works well. Camera’s autofocus is great - manages to take photo’s of invoices/receipts dead scharp ! no need to scan them anymore. Regards, Johan , Oxford.

I too have an E90 which I have upgraded to firmware version 7.40.1.2. Personally speaking the upgrade went smoothly and I find that the GPS is much improved with regard to lock o time. I have found that it locks on very fast if you are stationary when activating the GPS, my unit takes about 20 seconds to get a fix under these conditions. If you activate the GPS whilst in motion then my unit will take longer to get a lock, maybe a minute to a minute and a half. I know we are all busy people these days but if you stay put whilst activating the GPS then you will admitedly lose around half a minute of your life but not such a huge sacrafice. Enjouy reading your blog, regards.

Matthew, Finland

Thank you for your comment.

If you buy a new E90 now, its microphone should be OK. Anyway, if for any reason you end up with a faulty mic, Nokia will, as far as I know, replace it free of charge.

My first E90 suffered from the microphone problem. Since the issue was not well known at the time, the dealer swapped the phone for a new one, which of course had the same defect. I subsequently had the microphone fixed at a Nokia service shop.

I wasn’t charged for the repair job itself, but I had to pay 25 € in order to get the phone back the same day (instead of leaving it to lie around at the repair shop until the next week). I am going to charge the original dealer for those 25 € though.

The E90 is the best phone I have ever had, so if you need one, I warmly recommend buying one. Mine was despite the mic problem so useful to me that I put off the repair until a couple of days ago.

With best regards,

Thor

I used to be seriously consider buying the E90 many months ago until I heard that there was a defection problem with the zzzzz voice on the receiver end and Nokia didn’t know how to solve it then. now that the firmware has been realesed, could anyone please kindly tell me if that problem already fixed and shall I reconsider buying it again….

With best regards and thank you very very much

Golf.