I just got myself a new Nokia E61i, so I wont need the much heeded E61 and E65 anymore. Both phones are up for sale at ricardo:
Both units are in a mint condition, have no sim lock and both are still covered by warranty! Take a look, if you’re looking for a bargain 
! The auctions are scheduled to end the 3rd of June 2007 at around 9pm CET.
To reset and wipe the whole memory of a Nokia E65 use this key sequence: *#7370# . You will be asked to enter the phone lock code. Contrary to the method used for the Nokia E61 holding down the “green” key, 3 and * while booting wont succeed in resetting the phone.
I just rescued a friend’s Nokia E61 which was not booting anymore. There was no way to flash the phone with the Nokia Updater since it wouldn’t boot and the Nokia Updater needs a working E61. A Nokia Repair center also told us they couldn’t do anything for us and that they would have to send the unit in to Nokia for repair.
Well, I happened to stumble across a site on the net which would describe how to reset a Nokia 6600 which is running an old version of the series 60 OS. It was using both *#7370# (hard reset) and *#7380# (soft reset) for resetting a working unit but further more it also showed, that you could format the unit by pushing the “green phone key”, 3 and * together while powering on the unit. Since the E61 powers up immediately when you insert the battery you will have to push those three keys before you insert the battery. As soon the battery is inserted to Nokia logo will show up for a while. You must hold the buttons until the pin code entry comes up. While you hold the keys the unit will reformat its flash memory and revert to a factory default state.
By doing this I was able to recover an apparently broken unit without having to send it in to Nokia for repair. I thought I’d share this as it might come in handy for someone else. Let me know if this worked for you too!
BTW: I think this works with other models like the E50, E60, E70, N-Series and others too.
I just found out that the Nokia Software Updater (v 1.0.88en) now recognizes the E61. Almost a week ago this was not the case yet. Is Nokia possibly going to roll out the 2.0618.06.05 firmware via NSU? This really would be awsome! BTW: FW 2.0618.06.05 is still not available at Nokia Service Centers.
Nokia has released a new blackberry client for the old firmware 1.610.04.04 of the Nokia E61 smartphone. This release (v 6.28.1) was released for the new, yet unavailable firmware version 2.618.06.05. Nokia seems to have finally realized that this firmware is not yet available and seems to have back-ported the new blackberry client to the older firmware. I can confirm that the installation of the new blackberry client works on the old firmware. After upgrading you will have to restart your phone and re-setup your account in the messaging section of the phone. Don’t forget to request the registration from the blackberry menu. It will take a while until the phone is registered with the network.
As for the changes in the new release, things like opening urls from an email into the browser now work. I don’t know yet what else has been changed. It would be nice if Nokia provided some kind of changelog, as it is common practice in the industry.
The new client can be downloaded from the Nokia business software site: http://www.businesssoftware.nokia.com/blackberry_downloads.php .
I just found a new blackberry client for my E61 on Nokia’s business software homepage and noticed, that it has a new firmware requirement. It is asking for version 2.0618.06.05 . But todays E61 all come with version 1.0610.04.04 which is from the 19th of April 2006.
The new requirement is odd since even Nokia’s authorized service centers didn’t get the new version yet. Still, this leads to the conclusion that there is going to be a firmware upgrade ready. Maybe I’ll finally see all those nasty bugs squashed. I hope very much that Nokia is also going to upgrade their sip client. This piece of software has so much potential but is yet so buggy…