Nokia E63: My Mean Machine

This smart phone was released back in November of last year. I just bought a new phone then. I saw some reviews from gsmarena.com and I didn't become really interested since the reviews were talking about the e63 being thicker than the e71 (and yes, I didn't like that =P). Also because it has a QWERTY keyboard which I thought I was going to hate to use for texting.

Months after, my friend, Lush Angel, bought one for herself since her Samsung U700 gave up on her. Also, because another friend of ours, (Flair Candy) convinced her to get one. I fell in love with it when I saw it in ruby red. But my liking did not stop there. It was packed with features which my newly bought phone then didn't have. It can open Adobe PDF files as well as Microsoft Office files. It doesn't lag when I go to my inbox which I love. The best part about it? It was around Php12,000 (approximately US$240) when Lush Angel bought it. For a smart phone that has everything (okay, not everything, but you get the idea), this was surely a steal.

I brought the phone to my recent trip and I used it for currency conversion (because I was dealing with 4 currencies during the trip!). I used the worksheet in Quick Office that came installed in the phone. Nowadays, all my thoughts (which I often have, a lot of apparently) are typed in notes. I made peace with how thick it is (and it isn’t thick at all, hehe). And I was wrong, I love QWERTY keyboard. I get so impatient these days sending messages from my other phone because I have to be pressing the same buttons a lot of times to create one. Using QWERTY keyboard is so easy and it forces me not to text while driving (which, admittedly, I do often).

To prove how much of a sensible buy this thing is, currently, I know around fifteen people who have Nokia e63 already. It's crazy. I was especially surprised when a close friend bought one instead of a Nokia 5800 XpressMusic which he had been eyeing to buy for a while. If I could bring all my fifteen friends in one room, I will be thrilled to have all fifteen e63s in one picture.

Currently priced at around Php 11,500

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