10 posts tagged “nokia”
Markku from Finland has apparently visited Mobile Phone Throwing Championship. Go and visit www.blogs.s60.com to see all four chapters reviewing the event in true Markku style: "Where nature and technology combine".
Great evening! It was really nice to meet the persons behind the blog posts. Shame that Phil didn't make it. Hope to see him and you who where there again in the future!
HW on display was previously familiar, so no major surprises there. I did fondle some of the devices for the first time, so there are few notions I want to share with you: The 6110 Navigator really impressed me with it's build quality..and I really have to confess that I had some doubts over N77's ability to show a TV broadcast on it's screen. I was totally wrong to be sceptical about it. It looked great! Jukka was right to point out however, that I wouldn't change my N95 to get as N77 just for that feature (N77's specs are solid , but not that exciting compared with an N95). But an N95 with DVB-H would be a different kind of beast alltogether..
FP2 really did look great and it was nice to hear about the development of the platform. It turns out that some things I was missing in the OS/UI, where already being considered. Hopefully these will be integrated soon.
Thank you again for the opportunity to get to meet you guys at Nokia and other people of the community!
Well, actually her:
Lifeblog is one of my favorite applications. I have been useing it for 3-4 years now. Basicly it is for me an electronic diary. During the time I have had the app, I have had all SMS's, MMS's, videos (and audio notes) and pictures transferred from my phone to PC. And this with just a few mouse clicks! I have around 13000 items stored.
People have different ways to use it, but for me this bacis function is the dearest. It's so easy to take a trip to the memory lane with your PC.
Anyway, I just downloaded and installed the 2.5 and it feels good. At least I got the syncing going on again. I've recently made the leap and I'm running Vista on my HTPC. The previous version of Lifeblog didn't run properly under Vista and the new release looks more promising.
Ivan Kuznetsov has a nice run down on the new look and features. Like Ivan writes, one of the coolest new featues is image editing.
Take a look:
My N73 tends to have some trouble with situations of low light. The pictures tend to have a some kind of dirty look in them, a blueish hue (the picture in left is a good example). I think it would be better if the phone itself had better editing options, but when I download everything from my phone to Lifeblog anyway, this is a welcome addition.
Read more about the Lifeblog here.
Mobile-Review has made a great review on it. Check it out! It seems that there are more than meets the eye in this new S60 device. It even shows some new functionalities with S60 not presented before. Meet Active Notes!
Mobile-Review:
"Active Notes application can be found on the 6110, as well as on Nokia E90. The major difference setting it apart from run-of-the-mill notes built into the previous handsets is really striking. They have adopted the concept of MMS messages, which means you are allowed to add various objects onto the blank – from text and contacts to snaps, voice recordings etc. A note can be put on the handset’s standby mode, but there isn’t much of a novelty about this option. This function gains a whole lot of points thanks to the ability to set a link to a particular note for any contact found in the phonebook (and enable displaying notes during a call). Just imaging – you have prepared a note with everything you are going to talk about during a call, bind it up with a number and that’s all – when you receive a call from that number or make a call yourself, that note automatically pops up on the display. A fetching feature that is worth getting used to. Whether it will become craved-for in handsets is to be determined yet, but the very idea is quite interesting."
Read the review for more info and screenshots!
The new Nokia E65 428,50 € + 6.90 € for postage.
Other prices:
E61: 399,90
E70: 446,90
N73: 428,90
N80: 415,50
Prices are for unlocked phones.
Example for operator prices:
E61: 66,95 a month including everything you want to do within national boundaries (voice, 3G data, sms, mms, videocalls).
My N73 would cost 66,95 a month with the same deal. N93 76,95.
At 3GSM World Congress Nokia had some nice devices to launch. These have been covered nicely in the web. Just google E90, E65, E61i, N77 and 6110 Navigator and find out.
There is so much going on and you can make many kind of conclusions on the material and news presented. Time will tell which can live the test of time.
My contribution is a snippet from Nokia's monday webcast.
Like the slide says, it costs about 7 euros to ad digital tv receiver in your mobile device. That's of course if you are using the DVB-H technology, which Nokia is supporting. Sony-Ericsson is flagging for MBMS which doens't, I think, need a separate receiver. MediaFLO is Qualcomm's answer, similar to MBMS.
Nokia's DVB-H technology gives you TV as it is in your home (more or less anyway). Which of these is best for us I don't know. I think operators like more about the streaming solutions..
Check this out! Nokia has developed a Wellnes Diary! Ok, I wrote in the title that it's mainly for women, but the overview shows that it's more versatile than just your average calorie-counter.
Do you keep track that you sleep enough? I will definitely check this out.
Overview:
" It is an S60 application for storing and analyzing wellness-related data collected from everyday life.
- Monitoring and tracking everyday wellness related issues
- Lifestyle management
- Monitoring, tracking and analyzing:
- weight,
- exercise,
- number of steps,
- eating management,
- fat %,
- sleep,
- ... and more."
I found this one via Helsingin Sanomat (in Finnish).
Okey, I live in Helsinki Finland. We have had 3G for about two years. Well, sort of. Even to this day the coverage is not 100% in Helsinki city centre. Not at least with my current operator Saunalahti, which basicly uses the same network as Elisa.
Before I used Dual mode at the network settings. That doesn't however work too well if you want to maximise the download sepeds and the 3G experience. Dual mode uses both gsm-edge and wdca (or UMTS or 3G) -frequencies and the device decides which ever to use according to the signal strength.
You start to appreciate how complicated these devices are when you notice that on places where the 3G coverage is weak and the thing starts to think that may by it should use the edge or even gprs connection now. It slows down the browsing experience and wrecks havoc on the battery life.
I noticed that with my N73 this thinking starts at a point where there still actually is 3 G coverage, but it's weakening. Lately I have been experimenting with the 3G-UMTS mode only. First impressions are positive. I don't know about dropped calls (and I don't mind a few dropped work related calls..), but the browsing seems to be as fast as it should be on a regular basis.
No thinking required!
Don't try this outside metropolitan (Hah!) areas.
Well, The Reg got it wrong. Others still don't get it, but fact remains the new S60 Browser is the best invention since sliced bread.
The Reg review was written by Adrew Orlowski. A man who's writings I often find informative and to the point. Lately I've discovered a pattern of excessive whining. At least when he is writing about "smartphones". Not inspirational, no, not at all.
I haven't seen he apolosizing his
careless and clearly unprofessional review. So Andrew, this is for
you..
Note: This is how I actually use it. There is a link for technical details in the end of the post.
1. Picture:
This how it starts. No, I know, doesn't look good.Well, we will start by pressing number 8 with our keypad, which is the shortcut for overview. Pressing it doesn't slow the downloading.
Please could I get the picture 2. please..
2. Picture:
Yes, now we are getting there. Good old The Reg. I hope you notice how nicely you can preview the page and the content with this view.
For me the S60 Browser has these advantages:
1.
It is fast! And when visiting familiar pages you can even stop the
downloading process and then go directly to the area of site you
want to
go without waiting the whole page coming down the wire. It's
fast even with pictures. I have a 3G connections and all I can eat data.
2. It can go places others can't
touch. Yes, it is even better than the Opera
on my Nokia 770
Internet Tablet.
3. It shows pages as they are. No need to
adjust the reading habits to obscure layout and fonts.
The
text too small to your eyes? Picture 3 please..
3. Picture
You can manage the size of the zooming with the * and
# shortcuts respectively.You can see the zoom level on the left hand
upper corner of the display.
Ok...two pushes with the # gives us nicely all the three columns of The Reg. posts in line. Still, somebody, like Andrew (you miserably old git), would prefer the comfort of small screen rendering and scrolling up down the individual posts. More on that later.
Now, on this picture you see one post highlighted. I chose it with the cursor you can control with the joystick. It can move around without limitations on the screen. So choosing a post to read is fast. You don't have to jump or scroll from post to another.
Oh no, didn't you notice! Andrew didn't like that! Let's seewhat he was writing:
"The decision to show a viewport onto a page, rather than formatting the page so it's one vertical column, makes for an immensely frustrating experience. It's like being on a boat in a storm - the user is constantly lining up the column to be read in a horizontal plane - a fiddly experience. And even then it truncates the text of many popular sites horizontally, obliging more scrolling.
The decision to navigate in two planes also robs it of the one navigation method that's become a de facto standard. Usingthe small screen approach taken by the Opera and NetFront browsers: a down key takes you through a screen at a time, while a left or right highlights the link. Nokia's designers also had the brainwave to keep a cursor on screen visible all the time. Nor, incredibly, are there any shortcut keys."
So, de facto standards must apply. Everything else is automaticly bad for us? Hey guys! Stop inventing! You heard me..Nobody move! -- And some shortcut keys are already been mentioned. Was busy with the deadline, ehh?
Ok, let's see what the hell is wrong with Google Deutschland.
4. Picture
So here we have the actual post. see, how nicely it renders the individual posts. There is no need for boat trips. Or maydy you where having a another kind of trip?
Granted, you can see, that the topic goes a bit wider than the rendered page. That can happen with pictures as well, if they are wider than the text column. No need to start trippin' though, It's nothing you can't handle with the zoom keys.Well, of course it's not perfect. It needs password manager and auto-fill, would be nice. These are coming in the next version of the browser. And if you pay highly on your data..well, mayby Opera Mini would be the right choice for you.
As for memory consumption.. I haven't had any problems lately after getting regular firmware updates from the NSU. The broser and it's visual memory works fine, but I wouldn't risk running too many apps during a browsing session..:)
For more information see mobile-review's excellent peace here. Eldar's English can sometimes be a bit funny (like mine), but at least he has done his homework.
