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Re: Nokia N95?
« Reply #15 on: 14 August 2007, 22:25:47 »
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Talk to laidback. he bought one yesterday.

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Re: Nokia N95?
« Reply #16 on: 14 August 2007, 22:30:28 »
I've used them, but only for testing. Wouldn't bother with one as a phone for reasons already stated. The whole thing feels bloated, with poor response from the GUI (the most important phone feature IMO). Battery life is 1 day of standby time on 3G but improves a bit on 2G only if you don't use all those bells and whistles.

Yes, it's got a good camera (why would I want one when I've got a digtal SLR?) it's got an MP3 player (so have many better phones) It's got GPS but then I've got a hand held GPS, and a TOM TOM. Rolling all these features into your phone detracts from what you spend 99% of your time trying to do with it IMHO - trying to make phone calls.

The GPS supports assisted GPS which in theory gives a very quick position fix but be aware that the firmware that's currently shipping (from Orange at any rate) doesn't support this, as I found out to my frustration >:( So you're back to a standard GPS that downloads its' data from the GPS constellation at 50 BAUD. Expect to stand around for a few minutes while it gets its' act together. Phone comes with a few lame positioning applications but haven't seen a convincing reason to have it yet.

I've just reluctanly chopped in my ageing 6310i for a 6300. It has MP3 player, a camera, radio, etc. (none of which I really want) but is much nicer to use than the N95 and it's nice and small (bit to small, IMO. looks like it belongs in a handbag  :o and requires dainty little fingers to use). Battery life is not great compared to the 6310i but it will do a couple of days between fixes in real life. With an N95 you'd have to be close to a charger 24/7 IMO.

Despite the fact that I see a lot of phones in the course of my work I don't see many that I'd like to have for myself, at least not after the initial novelty has worn off - hence sticking with the 6310i for so long. My opinion is that you can always use a phone to give a PocketPC connectivity and that way you can leave the PocketPC at home and have a nice small phone when a phone is all you need.

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Re: Nokia N95?
« Reply #17 on: 14 August 2007, 22:34:45 »
I want a small WinCE phone.  My Orange SPV m500 is great, but could do with bit more processor, and better voice dialling over bluetooth.
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Re: Nokia N95?
« Reply #18 on: 14 August 2007, 22:47:12 »
Leave it well alone. As a phone network we have had them intesting for 6 months and they are awful. They dont do much right and a lot wrong.

Our last go /. no go meeting to carry it on the network was a no go...we simply wont put our customers through or put our name to a handset with so many deficiencies.

Yes its thats bad, battery awful, video streaming woeful....need i go on....
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Re: Nokia N95?
« Reply #19 on: 14 August 2007, 22:49:14 »
oh and James if you want a good network, good phone and cheapest tariff ( x network) pm me.....

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Re: Nokia N95?
« Reply #20 on: 15 August 2007, 11:51:05 »
nokia last night announced that they were recalling a load of  batteries due to operating temp and poor performance.

I used to swear by nokia, had a 7610, 7650, and a 8800 the build quality was appauling, switched to samsung for my 'friday night phone' and have a Orange SPV M3100 as my daily (windows pocket PC running windows mobile 6)
Pocket PC's type devices are the way forward, am thinking of the iphone when it comes out here (know its not Windows, just love the mac OS)

I have sat nav installed on a micro SD, and a GPS receiver (£30 on ebay) it does everything i want it to do and a lot more.

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Re: Nokia N95?
« Reply #21 on: 15 August 2007, 12:42:07 »
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oh and James if you want a good network, good phone and cheapest tariff ( x network) pm me.....


Can you beat £60 worth of calls for £13 per month. T-mobile flex with discount ::)
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« Reply #22 on: 15 August 2007, 13:32:47 »
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Can you beat £60 worth of calls for £13 per month. T-mobile flex with discount ::)


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Re: Nokia N95?
« Reply #23 on: 15 August 2007, 15:03:09 »
Initial thoughts....

I like it. :)
It is a little larger than my W810i but it has some very useful functions which I specifically got it for.

The firmware seems to be the issue. I have updated it to the latest version (lots of improvements) and removed Oranges blocking of VOiP ;)

So far it is very very impressive. Video and camera are amazing for a phone.

Battery life is understandable considering what it does. I can live with it.

I got it free on my contract too. :)

All a question of what you want from a phone....
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Re: Nokia N95?
« Reply #24 on: 15 August 2007, 15:56:39 »
1. Make a phone call

Ermmmmmmmmmmm that's it! :y
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Re: Nokia N95?
« Reply #25 on: 15 August 2007, 15:56:43 »
I like my N95 too  :)

I had an N80 before which got slated for similar reasons and this was the next logical step. Battery life isn't the best but is definitely acceptable and the screen is great. Haven't done much with the GPS yet, I'll probably stick to Tomtom with the seperate GPS dongle - suits me fine.
This is the 4th S60 handset I've had though so perhaps I'm just a fanboy?  ::)
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Re: Nokia N95?
« Reply #26 on: 15 August 2007, 15:57:40 »
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Ermmmmmmmmmmm that's it! :y


Agree.  :y :-[
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Re: Nokia N95?
« Reply #27 on: 15 August 2007, 16:27:23 »
my first series 60 was a 6600 and i loved it! it'll be a refreshing change for me to go back to a series 60 after having series 80 for about 3 years
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« Reply #28 on: 15 August 2007, 17:08:42 »
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Ermmmmmmmmmmm that's it! :y


Agree.  :y :-[

Me too.

Mobile networks are desperate to get us all doing things on our mobiles that will increase churn of handsets, and allow them to charge more for services, etc.

The problem is their area of expertise is in putting up antennae not generating compelling web services to which I'm going to get so addicted that I can't bear not to use them for the 1 hour each day I'm away from a wired internet connection.

(During that hour I'm driving either an MV6 or a Westfield, by the way - so no chance!)

Still, tunnie'll change all that, no doubt  :y

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« Reply #29 on: 15 August 2007, 17:42:47 »
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1. Make a phone call

Ermmmmmmmmmmm that's it! :y


Agree.  :y :-[

Me too.

Mobile networks are desperate to get us all doing things on our mobiles that will increase churn of handsets, and allow them to charge more for services, etc.

The problem is their area of expertise is in putting up antennae not generating compelling web services to which I'm going to get so addicted that I can't bear not to use them for the 1 hour each day I'm away from a wired internet connection.

(During that hour I'm driving either an MV6 or a Westfield, by the way - so no chance!)

Still, tunnie'll change all that, no doubt  :y

Kevin


To be honest we ( the company i work for) are makeing massive ( market leading ) strides in this.

Its only my personal opinion that agrees a phone is a phone  ;D
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