As part of the Nokia E7 Maxis10 reviewers program, each of the 10 selected bloggers are required to record a short video of their 9-to-5 using the E7′s 8MP camera.

Since I don’t have a fixed 9-to-5 as a student pilot, I decided to film what a typical day looks like—starting with a morning roll call, breakfast (not very nice), and later a flight as per schedule.

The E7 is only capable of recording 720p videos, somehow after trimming and exporting from Windows Live Movie Maker, the video can be viewed at 1080p on YouTube.

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A quick review of the homescreen and multitasking capability on Nokia E7.

Homescreens

Coming from iOS, I would welcome any homescreens that allows the slightest amount of customization. On Symbian^3, there are 3 homescreens which can be customized with 6 widgets each.

With the widgets, you can display live information on the homescreen such as your latest emails, social network feeds and your phone’s notifications. You can also use the widgets to create shortcut icons to your favorite apps or contacts, and also shortcuts to phone functions like Wi-Fi toggle and music player.

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There was actually an unboxing video, but the second half of it lags so much it’s pointless to upload. I will jump right in straight for the first impression post.

Big. Heavy. Rock solid. These are the very few words to describe the Nokia E7 when I first laid my hands on the Nokia E7. Of the entire housing, only the top and bottom part of the device (where the ports are) are made of plastic. It’s otherwise almost entirely wrapped by its anodised aluminium chassis, except for the scratch-resistant Gorilla glass screen.

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Maxis10 is a mobile device reviewing program for local bloggers. The mobile devices will be provided Maxis, a Malaysian carrier, and the selected bloggers are expected to churn out reviews for a period of two weeks.

For this round, SheepTech is selected to review the Nokia E7, the most important model for Nokia in 2011 (sadly) according to Nokia VP Ukko Lappalainen.

I’ve previously used three mobile phones running on S60 3rd, namely Samsung i450, i550w and Nokia N82 (which I’m still using now). When S60 5th came along for touch screen devices, I’m far from impressed.

Let’s see what improvements Symbian had done in the latest Symbian^3 in the Nokia E7. Stay tuned for some extensive reviews for the coming two weeks.

When Facebook and Skype announced a partnership September last year, I was expecting a deep integration that would enable voice calls between Skype-Facebook and Facebook-Facebook—all by just using existing Facebook accounts.

A month later, Skype released a newer version of its Windows client, with almost nothing to do with bridging calls between Skype and Facebook. All it does was adding a new Facebook tab that is nothing but another way to read your news feed. You can call your Facebook friends if they made their number public, which will of course uses your Skype credit. Free calls is only possible if your Facebook friend has a Skype account.

Far from what I expected.

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Had a crush on a friend who are already in a relationship? In the age of social networks, many unthinkable way of managing life is now possible, including a possibly evil one, get notified when a friend broke up.

Breakup Notifier is a Facebook app that will monitor the relationship status of your Facebook friends of your choice. Whenever that particular friend changes their relationship status, you will be notified via email, and from there on, you can plan your next badass move.

I have not tried the app myself, but according to its homepage, all you have to do is grant permissions to it like any other Facebook app, choose a friend to monitor and wait for the moment to come, if it ever comes.