Three weeks on from getting the E71 and there are two bugs annoying the hell out of me:

• The first is the E71 Date Bug I mentioned in a previous post
  
• The second is a microphone problem.

I didn't notice the microphone problem earlier because I assumed it was due to poor reception, but there is an intermittent problem with the microphone when receiving calls (I haven't yet noticed it when making calls, but I receive way more calls than I make).

It manifests itself as your voice being garbled and the calling party will report that they can't hear what you are saying. They can tell that you are saying something but it is unintelligible.

The fault is transient and can come and go within a single call.

At this point, I'm looking to return the phone. I wonder if the E72 is a hardware bugfix release.

Update: I tested the phone using the supplied wired hands-free kit (believing that it may be a hardware fault with the microphone). However, on occasions I got the same problem and so it looks like it is not (simply) a microphone hardware flaw.

Update: Not a bug but an annoying 'feature'. Just ran into this while overseas: theres a 999 text message limit. What's the use of having an 8gb storage card if you limit text message storage to 999?