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joolsburger - Member

I have an E72 and it's good.

As a phone it's perfect, clear easy to use long battery life even the L/S is useable in the car as a handsfree

I sync Gmail Hotmail and my Work Mail without any problems at all.

It's great for texting as I like a physical keyboard

It's useful for tethering and O2 seem to not notice I do it.

Sat Nav is good loads up quickly and locks GPS quickly most of the time.

Internet is fine bit small but meh I'm usually only reading the news

Have got viewranger but have yet to use it

Camera takes decent snaps.

Posted 1 year ago #
molgrips - Member

CZ, I didn't have any of the issues you had with your N95. I used the camera loads, it was excellent. I suspect you had a fault. The internal GPS worked for me with a caveat - at first, it took forever (15 mins) to lock on but that was fixed with a firmware upgrade.

Quite a nice phone I thought. Battery life was fine - lasted quite a while for me playing music.

Posted 1 year ago #
IA - Member

I am hoping the forthcoming Nokia N8 will have all the same functionality and a slightly better UI. It certainly looks much better and is slimmer (always a good thing).

All the same and more, and the UI is much, much improved. You really need to use one to appreciate the differences. It looks very similar so it's familiar, but it's all so much slicker and quicker. So solidly built too, is like a rock solid bar of alu and glass. It really is a lot better than I thought it would be.

(I'm lucky enough to be one of the few given one last week at the developer summit)

Posted 1 year ago #
racing_ralph - Member

E72 looks like its pushing ahead only down side is the small screen for web browsing

Posted 1 year ago #
Spongebob - Member

Cheers IA! Bet it doesn't have fully supported BBC iPlayer tho.

Posted 1 year ago #
cp - Member

Rr- I'd try to up the budget to 200 and get one of the nearly new iPhone 3G's that come up on here every now and then...

Posted 1 year ago #
racing_ralph - Member

i did email a bloke about one on here yesterday but he didn't reply

the Iphone 3g - can it be upgraded software wise? how different is it to the 3gs or 4? are their any hardware differences?
whats the battery life like?

Posted 1 year ago #
cp - Member

Think I responded to a q in another thread - but yes, software is upgradeable to iOS4.1 - which is what I have, and makes the 3g fast again (unlike OS4.0 which made it very slow!).

It's very very similar to the 3GS, just a little slower and you can't multi task (have more than one app open at once). The 3G cam doesn't have autofocus, whereas the 3gs does. Iphone 4 adds video, a flash to the cam and a better cam, much higher screen res.

3g battery life is fine for a smartphone. I use a lot and need to charge every day, though if i switch 3g, wifi, gps etc... off, and just use it for a phone/text, I can get 2-3 days from it.

I have a 3g, contract is up in a couple of weeks, and i'm keeping it and going SIM only. don't see the point in upgrading yet, except for something 'different'. Maybe iPhone 5...

Posted 1 year ago #
joemarshall - Member

The only thing that would put me off a 3g, is that the GPS is a lot worse than a 3gs (and there is no compass). It really is quite innaccurate compared to a modern phone GPS (HTC or newer iPhone).

Joe

Posted 1 year ago #
IA - Member

Cheers IA! Bet it doesn't have fully supported BBC iPlayer tho.

You bet wrong

I can stream stuff (e.g. spent yesterday afternoon listening to a radio show from friday on it) and download shows for later offline viewing. Which is more than I can do on iOS. Works the same as on the 5800 pretty much, just faster, and can hook it up to my telly with the HDMI out if I wanted to.

In theory most old symbian stuff runs on symbian^3, in practice some apps will need an update. I've found a few things that don't quite work right. I will stress my device has pre-commercial firmware tho.

Posted 1 year ago #
jamiemmorrison - Member

I want to get information about features of nokia n8.
Can anyone tell me what is new in Nokia n8.Because i want to buy it.
Thank you.

Posted 1 year ago #
-m- - Member

The trick with Nokia firmware and software is to resist the temptation to fiddle - once you've got something that works don't update it! Nokia PC Suite is/was the worst - about 1 version in 3 seemed to work properly.

All that aside, E71/72 is pretty good if you don't want a big touch screen. Certainly the battery life is a winner compared to many smartphones.

Posted 1 year ago #
TheArtistFormerlyKnownAsSTR - Member

After years of non-smart phones, settled on Sony Ericsson and swore I'd never go back to Nokia.

Unfortunately when I eventually wanted a smartphone the Nokia N97 Mini seemed about the best available on my contract.

What a nasty, horrible, user unfriendly, unresponsive and unreliable POS - I've listed it's faults on here before and CBA to go through them all again.

Never, ever again will I have a Nokia - I still have a year to go, but my mrs is due an upgrade on Xmas eve, so I'll be using that for an HTC Desire HD.

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