My struggle with Corby pro

OK supposedly (acc to Samsung), this is a pro phone or a professional phone i.e.

In all the pain I have gone through it is not. I dropped my E71 and so it became unreliable to use (signal issues, battery not charging et al).

So I though why not touch screen phone. This one said, syncs easy, SNS is there etc etc so I get it. If I never did the following, this phone is good. If I did do this its useless. These were easily done by Nokia E71

1. Sync my
1. Google and Notes calendar as one
2. Notes Address book with photos which show up as caller ID
2. Connect to my laptop using cable or Bluetooth. Somehow Corby supports only cable, no BT. E71 was clever. Come near and it synched auto
3. E71 had smart-connect S/W, so if it found a wifi, it hoped on to it and synched my emails/SNS etc. No data charges. Here i have to manually configure the settings. If wifi is there and accessible still it will use by data plan
4. No call management s/w here like in E71
5. Themes, no fonts, no shortcuts of your own applications. Basically no ways you can customize the pho
6. GPS is way off by a good 2 KM.
7. Multitasking is there but most of the time it will run out of memory and then will auto close some apps as it wishes !
8. Emails are same though I would love to see the status even when its locked. I now only see SMSes
9. No status of upcoming appointments (A mandatory pro feature)
10. Sync with outlook but there are a lot of fields which it says are “not supported” including title. And in my case it reversed first and last names on all my contacts for some strange reason. Also have to sync manually. It doesn't sync auto.

Is it worth the 60% retail of E71. Yes it is , provided the ‘Pro’ is removed. It is never meant to be a professional phone and never can be. Nokia S60 5th edition are always better.

Not happy, suggest avoid the Corby family unless buying for someone who does not bother about the above 10 things. Also don’t buy it for SNS, they are crap. I use Snaptu for Twitter and Facebook anyway.

Hoping Samsung dumps their own OS here and releases a Corby with Android, then it will be appealing. Else its a piece of *** (IMHO).

Have to use it though till my e71 reaches a useable state after repairs. Hopefully the local geeks can do some magic there as Nokia Service center does do cosmetic surgery on phone and the screen/lcd/keypad are cosmetic parts and not covered by warranty !