Michael Kratz

I’ve been quite annoyed for a while that Apple haven’t added full support for most of the recent Nokia phones, including the E70 that I currently use.

I got even more annoyed not long ago, when, with the release of OS 10.4.9, Apple added support for the E61, yet overlooked support for the E70! These two phones are extremely similar, and both run the same version and configuration of Symbian. I was very disappointed. Until now…I’ve had to resort to using a manual hack or a third party plugin to sync my E70 with my Macbook Pro. I say ‘up until now’ because it appears (to my surprise) that Nokia have just released plugins for a fair chunk of their phones.

On discovering this, I promptly downloaded the plugin for the E70 from the Nokia site, and, well, it works great! Apart from having to resolve some small calendar conflicts and duplications, it works great. Apple, shame on you. Nokia, well done!

The list of supported phones includes the following models: E50, E60, E61, E61i, E62, E65, E70, N70, N71, N72, N73, N76, N80, N90, N91, N93, N93i, N95, N-Gage, N-Gage QD, 3230, 3600, 3620, 3650, 3660, 6021, 6102, 6103, 6111, 6131, 6230, 6230i, 6260, 6270, 6280, 6600, 6620, 6630, 6670, 6680, 6681, 6682, 6820, 6822, 7370, 7380, 7610, 7650, 8800, 8801, 9300i.The plugins can be downloaded from the Nokia Europe site.

Now… if Nokia would just fix the bugs in the firmware of my E70 :)