seremify007
Junior Member
We all laugh at Apple fanboys who blindly buy Apple products the moment Steve Jobs announces something. Then we laugh at the almost cliche anti-Apple club which is as non-conformist as... wait a sec, doesn't that mean they use Windows? (bar the <1% of people who use *nix of some sort). Anyway, at least those guys are buying products which have proven that with enough of a userbase, they get better, and with more support, there's more applications and features and bugfixes and things get better, etc...
I'm like that except for Nokia. For many years I've bought countless Nokias- off the top of my head I've owned: 3810, 6110, 3210, 6210, 8310, 3650, 6100, 7250i, 7610, e65, n93, e71, e51, n97 mini.... (also owned an SE w800i, Samsung D600, Ericsson T... somethingarather). The point is, I've stood by Nokias for a long time even when they started to become a bit boring and tried to reinvent themselves.
Now, despite buying flagship Nokias several times bar the luxury models, and typically at launch, I feel like I have been very left behind by Nokia as someone who they take for granted to pay lots of money for sub par products.
So what am I disappointed about?
The fact that Nokia releases buggy devices, buggy software, and doesn't do squat to fix it. The n97 mini was really the tipping point where I avoided buying an iPhone and thought Nokia's trusty series 60 interface would be the winner in the end especially with touch screen and better hardware (and supposedly a better camera).
The firmware- yes there are updates; but they're locked. I have an unlocked n97 mini yet I'm not able to access the latest firmware updates in Europe which have been out for 6 months now. My email still crashes and isn't reliable. I've had several hard resets and even lost the licence to some programs I paid for through Ovi store.
The applications- despite trying to mimic the Apple App Store, Ovi store is slow to load, feels half assed, and the other applications are just poorly implemented with touch screen controls which are clearly an afterthought. Nokia Email is a joke and so is their web browser. Doesn't even support secure online websites properly.
The battery life is decent at the start of every Nokia product but it's as if they have been designed with planned obsolescence from the start. My e71 barely lasts a day without a full recharge... and that's without me using it much now due to me being scared it'll run out before my work day is over.
Other features which were meant to be 'iPhone killer' such as tilt to switch orientation are fruitless. Why would I want a 'slide to answer' button if it moves when I pick up the phone (i.e. tilts from potrait to landscape). Making matters worse, the hardware is so laggy that the screen goes blank for about 2-3 seconds which means by the time the answer button reappears on the screen, it's too late to answer. Funnily enough the hardware buttons to call/end don't do anything when keylock was on (which is what your phone would usually be in if you were picking up a call and not already using your phone). In the end I found a way to turn orientation switch off.
Anyway the point of this rant is to warn people against buying Nokia stuff. The only reason I'm suckered into this is because AFAIK I can't synchronise calendar and contacts with my work software (Lotus Notes) and I have 1500+ contacts which may not transfer smoothly to another device; nor is there a comparable product which lets me synchronise two iPhones easily for contacts/etc without relying on a computer (I carry at least two phones all the time).
So as a heavy duty mobile phone user (monthly bill ranges from $100 to $200 not including handset costs), let this be a warning. There's probably a reason why every company is trying to match the damn iPhone.
I'm like that except for Nokia. For many years I've bought countless Nokias- off the top of my head I've owned: 3810, 6110, 3210, 6210, 8310, 3650, 6100, 7250i, 7610, e65, n93, e71, e51, n97 mini.... (also owned an SE w800i, Samsung D600, Ericsson T... somethingarather). The point is, I've stood by Nokias for a long time even when they started to become a bit boring and tried to reinvent themselves.
Now, despite buying flagship Nokias several times bar the luxury models, and typically at launch, I feel like I have been very left behind by Nokia as someone who they take for granted to pay lots of money for sub par products.
So what am I disappointed about?
The fact that Nokia releases buggy devices, buggy software, and doesn't do squat to fix it. The n97 mini was really the tipping point where I avoided buying an iPhone and thought Nokia's trusty series 60 interface would be the winner in the end especially with touch screen and better hardware (and supposedly a better camera).
The firmware- yes there are updates; but they're locked. I have an unlocked n97 mini yet I'm not able to access the latest firmware updates in Europe which have been out for 6 months now. My email still crashes and isn't reliable. I've had several hard resets and even lost the licence to some programs I paid for through Ovi store.
The applications- despite trying to mimic the Apple App Store, Ovi store is slow to load, feels half assed, and the other applications are just poorly implemented with touch screen controls which are clearly an afterthought. Nokia Email is a joke and so is their web browser. Doesn't even support secure online websites properly.
The battery life is decent at the start of every Nokia product but it's as if they have been designed with planned obsolescence from the start. My e71 barely lasts a day without a full recharge... and that's without me using it much now due to me being scared it'll run out before my work day is over.
Other features which were meant to be 'iPhone killer' such as tilt to switch orientation are fruitless. Why would I want a 'slide to answer' button if it moves when I pick up the phone (i.e. tilts from potrait to landscape). Making matters worse, the hardware is so laggy that the screen goes blank for about 2-3 seconds which means by the time the answer button reappears on the screen, it's too late to answer. Funnily enough the hardware buttons to call/end don't do anything when keylock was on (which is what your phone would usually be in if you were picking up a call and not already using your phone). In the end I found a way to turn orientation switch off.
Anyway the point of this rant is to warn people against buying Nokia stuff. The only reason I'm suckered into this is because AFAIK I can't synchronise calendar and contacts with my work software (Lotus Notes) and I have 1500+ contacts which may not transfer smoothly to another device; nor is there a comparable product which lets me synchronise two iPhones easily for contacts/etc without relying on a computer (I carry at least two phones all the time).
So as a heavy duty mobile phone user (monthly bill ranges from $100 to $200 not including handset costs), let this be a warning. There's probably a reason why every company is trying to match the damn iPhone.
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