I was thinking about e61i from long time but was still not ready to let go my k750i. Prices at Dubai forced me to buy one.  After using for almost four months I am writing this review.

Screen, General Look n feel:
It looks like any other business phone. But it is lighter and slimmer than most of the business phone. It just weights 150gms for 320X240 pixel screen and full keyboard. Its a world phone with qudra band support. It looks good with silver finish at the back and black border in the front. Supports hot swappable MicroSD memory. You need to open the back cover to access MicroSD which is not use friendly.

Keyboard : I wanted QWERTY keyboard and E61i has it. The key board feels nice after two or three days. You can type fast using both thumbs. It has four special keys one each for contacts, menu, mail and configurable ( I have opera mini on it)

Camera: Nothing great just OK. But the video capturing is great. In fact myself and kv have done quite a few YAP episodes using mobile. It is better as video cam than as still camera.

Wireless LAN connection: Wow…Its dead easy to connect to any wifi network.

Audio/Video play back: Video looks good as screen is big. Audio playback is just OK.

Blogger’s Phone? : As a blogger I need big screen, good keyboard, great connectivity, decent multimedia capabilities. E61i excels in all those departments. Only let down is audio recording. E61i can’t record any audio for more than a minute. I have missed many great conversations due to this. Other wise I am a satisfied mobile blogger.

Update: BTW do you know any good audio recording application?

Usage of Social Media by Indian brands has increased recently. Sunsilk started it with the introduction of sunsilk gang of girls. I am not sure how far it has worked. What I am sure is there is some movement happening as more and more brands are trying to involve their customers. Which is the best part of social media, P2P kind of involvement between brands and users. Works for both consumers and brands.

Not very recently Indian youth brand Fastrack also got into an area where it wants to interact with its web2.0 savvy customers directly. Along with wrist watches they are also into eye wears [I own a pair of glasses and I am big fan of bikes that John rides both in personal & other professional life] both find consumers in youth, I am happy that social media doesn’t mean just *orkut* to fastrack. We need to see how far Fastrack will go in this new exciting journey.

Fastrack sent me a brand new neon disk watch to try out. I already have about five watches from different companies. So I guess I would be good enough to give some comments. So here are my comments after using it for about two weeks. Neon disk range is stylish anaolg watches targeted at youth. They don’t have needles but has rotating disk to show the time.
+ves : Its stylish, light and easy, It looks uber cool with your evening wear, those disks and neon light has some geek factor
-ves : May not really go well with your formal dressing. But I guess you will be using a different watch for that right? No date functionality.We need that really.

OK now the happy news is Fastrack agreed to pass on the watch to any of my reader as a gift. I decided it should go to commenter with maximum number of comments on this blog. So  ManojVasanth congrats.