Update: Added more games, 05/03/2009
Update: Added more games, 05/01/2009.
Update: Added detailed reviews on the games I’ve played, 04/22/2009.
Update: Added more games today, 04/19/2009.

Since I have sort of advertised and recommended the Mobile24 site as the site to get E71 games, I’ll also be reviewing the games they have posted there. This would not be a comprehensive review but would just serve a guide on whether you should download the game in the first place or not. I reviewed the games which did not have specific phone model tags and those that are for General audiences . Here goes:

Recommended Cool Games

Virtual Villagers

If you have played the PC version of this game before, then you’ll certainly love this one! Having this in your E71 games list is like having a pet. You would have to check on your villagers every now and then to make sure that they are okay. In terms of how well the game was created, I give this a two thumbs up since the graphics is above average and the game is very stable (I haven’t experienced a crash so far…).

Buzz the Mobile Quiz

Another one of my recent favorites. I play this one when I am on my way home. This game will keep you focused especially if you love trivia games.

Pirate Ship Battles

This one is of the games with cool graphics (like Virtual Villagers). This is a mini strategy game of battleship with a storyline. I won’t tell the story so just go ahead and download it!

Ok to dowload but…

Civ 4 War of 2 Cities
- Java Array Index Out of Bounds error after a couple of rounds in the campaign mode
- Ok to download for the quick game mode

If only this game was created without the errors I encountered above, I would put this at the top of my list. Another strategy game that will keep you thinking on hours at end. Well what do you expect from Sid Meier’s?

Kojak Detective Puzzles
- Some parts have out of proportion screens but playable

Good to Download

Chocolate Shop Frenzy
Path of a Warrior
Burger Time Special
Bridge Bloxx 2
Coffee Craze
Sim Fishing
Fun Park Tycoon
Kojak Detective Puzzles
Battlefield Of Tanks
Bomb sweeper

Don’t Download

City Tycoon - Invalid JAR file
Dark World 2 - Certificate error
ContrTerrorism 3D - Invalid JAR file
Pikachu - Screen out of proportion
Elven Chronicles - Screen out of proportion
Mr Bean - No english translation
Abhimanyu 3d - Screen out of proportion
Mr Buckethead - Need to connect to network first to retrieve ads
KGB Swat - Need to connect to network first to retrieve ads
Retris II - Screen out of proportion
Art of War 2 - Screen out of proportion
ICU Think - Screen out of proportion
3d Solid Weapon 2 - Screen out of proportion
Ishant Sharma Cricket 09 - Screen out of proportion
Cepteki Dunya Masterman 3D - Screen out of proportion
Delivery Express - Screen out of proportion
SU-30 - Screen out of proportion
Anytime Pool 3d - Screen out of proportion
Anytime Pool 3d - Screen out of proportion
Sessions Student SOS - Screen out of proportion
Conkers Pocket Tales - Game hangs up
Lufia - The Legend Returns - Buttons not working
TibiaME MMORPG - Need to connect to network
Glory Of The Roman Empire - Unhandled exception
Victory Challenge Mobile Sailing - Screen out of proportion
Tower Defence - Screen out of proportion
Final Fantasy - Invalid Jar file
Harvest Moon 3 - Unable to install
Hollywood Hotel - Screen out of proportion
Scrabble Mobile - Screen out of proportion
Harvest Moon 3 - Screen out of proportion, Hard to use buttons
Bookworm - Screen out of proportion
Super Mario Allstars - Keys not working
Battlefield Europe - Screen out of proportion

I stopped at page 43. I’ll be continuing my review within the week.

As I was writing my previous post, I found lots of E71 games on the net! And again the problem I saw was they were poorly organized. We (or I) as someone who is finding E71 games for our mobile phone would type out some thing like ‘e71 games’ or ‘download free e71 games’ on our favorite search engine. The problem is the top results often do not give us what we want (at least for me)! The top results would show us mobile phone sites where we can find a gazillion links and pages about games and phones but nothing about our e71 games

To solve this problem, I will show you 2 ways to get free e71 games.

1st Way

I will give you here legitimate links to sites where you can download free E71 games. As of now I only have 2 but as I find new ones, I will update this post. Here is the list:

Mobile24
4shared

2nd Way

The second way is a bit long and manual. Here I will show you how to find free E71 games by giving you the keywords you would have to use in the search engine form. Here is the list (use them without the quotation marks):

“free e71 games 240×320″
“download free e71 games 240×320″
“free java mobile games 240×320″
” _______.jar 240×320″ => in the blank, fill out the name of the game
” _______.sis 240×320″ => in the blank, fill out the name of the game

If you notice, all the search terms/keywords contain the term “240×320″. This is because the E71’s display is 240×320 in size. Also, most of the games I found are appended with that term in their file name so you will most likely find games that are compatible with the E71.

How to Install?

Now on the installation part. There is again 2 ways (that I know of) you can install those games into your E71 phone.

Direct Install

If the site you found allows you to download the game by providing a mobile version of the site, then by all means go to that link and download it from there. Once you have downloaded the game, make sure to install it in your phone memory and not in the memory card. This is to improve game performance (this is another discussion so just believe me :)).

Install via E71 PC Suite

This type of installation involves the following steps:

1. Download game from site and save it in your PC/Mac
2. Open your Nokia E71 PC Suite and choose the ‘Install Applications’ option
3. Find the game you saved and install it into your E71 by pressing the ‘Install’ button (right arrow button)
4. Install game into your phone memory
5. Voila! It’s done.

Update: Added more downloadable games here: http://www.phawville.com/blog/mobile24-e71-games-review/

It is quite hard to find free e71 games for download in the internet. The reason is not because there isn’t any but because there are a lot of sites that saturate the search engines with irrelevant results (try searching the term ‘download free e71 games’ and you will see what I mean…). I saw my officemate’s E63 phone (E71’s smaller brother) and found out that he had several games installed! He said that he had to sift thru several different site, forums, etc.. just to find those games.

To help you cut to the chase, I’ll be providing here the list of games that he had (not all but some) and the sites where you can download them from:

Text Twist Turbo

Want to play the all popular PC text twist game in your mobile? Here it is! (click on the image)

Chessmaster

Want to play chess on the run? Here you go! (click on the image)

Luxor 2

Just wanna play Luxor? (click on the image)

I’ll be doing sifting on my own and find sites where we can download free E71 games. So come back next time and check out how to get more free E71 games!

What free E71 application gives you free calls? None other than Fring! Well, what is Fring? Fring is a free mobile application for the Nokia E71 and is compatible with other mobile phone units as well.

So how do you get free calls using Fring? The answer is Skype. First and foremost, you and the person you are going to call should have Fring installed on your E71 phones. Then, both of you should have Skype accounts as well. Once you meet this req’ts, the only thing left is an internet wifi connection or any connection that would connect your E71 phone to the internet.

Once everything is set, here are the steps to follow (by both you and the callee):

1) Open the Fring E71 application.
2) Once connected, login to skype.
3) Select the person you are going to call
4) With the person selected, select the Option button and choose Skype Call.

…and that’s it!

I got married last year December 6, 2008 to my beautiful wife Janet. Yeah I know, there was no announcement of any sort in this blog. The reason was plain simple, I was too busy. From work to getting ready for the wedding, time to blog was not a convenience (if you notice I was not able to blog for about 2 months…).

To make it up to you though, I’d like to share the checklist that I used to prepare my wedding. I don’t know if you will find this checklist in some other site (I think you would find something similar) but I’d like to share the things that you need to get ready with and prepare for before that big day. What I would actually share at the end of this blog is actually an excel spreadsheet that I used to track the important items/things for the wedding, or what we are calling the wedding checklist that I am giving out for free. But before that let us go through the process of getting married (at least how I did it and the technical aspect of it). Please be reminded as well that some items here might not be applicable to some of you as you might be living in a different country and have different customs and traditions.

1) Finalize budget and guest list

For me, this is the hardest part of the preparation. Budgeting takes a lot of time as you have to canvas with the different stores to get their different prices and quality of service. While budgeting is hard, finalizing the guest list is even harder. At first I targeted 150 as the maximum number of persons I would invite. However, this number shot up to 200 as the wedding day drew nearer. But I guess, this depends on you. If you are going to be strict with yourselves and really control your budget, then you don’t have to do what I did where I changed the maximum number of guests to accommodate more friends (guests).

It is good to take note that I put the budget and number of guests together as they are directly proportional meaning the more guests you have, the higher the budget should be.

I am not going to itemize the things you need to prepare here because it is already in the wedding checklist. However, what I want to point out here is that instead of utilizing products and services from different merchants, it is better to get a package deal on the important things in a wedding (like what we did). For example, if you are already going to find a venue for your wedding, why not ask if they offer wedding packages as well that would include catering for the food, wedding cake, sound system, etc… Getting a wedding package deal won’t only spare you from a couple of headaches but also trim down your budget a bit (most package deals are cheaper).

If you are getting married, live near Laguna and want a wedding package deal, you can check out this site where we got married:

Ciprianos Garden

2) Create/Prepare and Send Invitations

If you’ve already noticed, we were trying to save money as much as possible (package deals remember?). That is why for the invitations, we created them ourselves using Photoshop, photo paper and hard cardboard. I did the design using Photoshop and printed the invitations using photo paper. While Janet created the invitation envelopes using hard cardboard. Here is a sample:

And yes, those are our wedding rings on top of the invitations.

I am no Photoshop expert but I do know basic stuff with it. To learn Photoshop effects and advanced techniques, I learned via the websites below:

Photoshope Essentials
Finesse FX

Once the invitations are ready, send them out! It is good to send them out early to give you time to get their RSVPs. I sent out mine a month ahead of the wedding.

3) Ready Documents for Marriage License

Though this is at number 3, this is one of the most important things you have to get. Without this, you cannot get married. To get your marriage license, you need:

• Personal appearance in getting marriage license
• Birth certificate
• Certificate of Attendance in a pre-marital counseling and family planning seminar
• Written parental advice(a written indication that the parents are aware of the couple’s intent to marry, for persons aged between 22-24)
• Written parental consent(a written consent from the parents, for persons aged between 18-21)
• For persons 25 above, nothing is needed from parents. However, a ‘certificate of no marriage’ might be required by certain municipalities (or religious organizations, i.e. church)

For more information on the legal requirements needed in the Philippines, you may check the government’s website itself: Legal Req’ts

4) Ready Other Things (ex. Bridal Car, Cake, etc…)

There are many ‘other’ things that needs to be prepare beforehand. But as pointed out just now, this other things may vary depending on background and culture so I’ll leave this out for the couple to figure out. But for the sake of reference, I’ll put the ‘other’ things I considered for my wedding (not exhaustive):

• Sounds
• Video
• Pics
• Cake
• Car
• Chairs
• Table
• Dress
• Invitation
• Champagne
• Quartet
• Guestbook
• Floral
• Lights
• Frame
• Tarpaulin
• Chandalier
• Gazebo
• Red Carpet

And here is the checklist. If you find something unclear, please just comment below:

Free Wedding Checklist

If you do like this checklist, I could also discuss here another checklist that I used to make sure everything falls into place during the wedding itself.

Imagine being stuck in traffic and you’ve got nothing else to do except wait. But then imagine again being stuck in traffic but now holding a very cool cellphone with all the features you want and need. Aren’t you glad that sometimes you are stuck in traffic? Introducing the Nokia E71, the only smart phone you’ll ever want (at least for now…)!

Want to check your email while stuck in traffic? Get the E71! Want to check the NBA scores during gameplay? Get the E71! Want to watch youtube while on the go? Get the E71! Want to organize your life? Get the E71! Want to play games? Get the E71! Want free calls? Get the E71!

All of the benefits above I have experienced firsthand so if you really want a professional, for-business-and-pleasure smart phone, the Nokia E71 is the phone you have been looking for.