RE: Mobile phone for web browsing and HA use?

["Paul Gordon" <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

That of course is my main worry, - will not most faults be common
across
the "N" range?...

However, I think that the audio quality / call reliability isn't a
general N-series fault, it sounds like it is particular to the N73
design...

*IF* the N95 has an improved processor then the responsiveness may be
better... (Fingers crossed).

And from what I gather, the N95 will (does) have a *slightly* newer
version of the Symbian OS onboard...

When it becomes available, I will get one on trial for a week or so &
see how it goes. If it is still no more satisfying than the N73, then
I'll abandon the N-series completely until they sort them out (N99
perhaps?). The 8800 seems like a good business phone...

Paul G.

PS: the best phone I ever had was a venerable old 6310i - had one of
those for about 5 years, - it went 14 days straight on a single charge,
never dropped a call in it's life, and worked flawlessly with all my
other devices... Just a damn shame it was a company phone & I had to
give it back...



> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Paul Crate
> Sent: 12 March 2007 14:18
> To: UKHA_D Group
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Mobile phone for web browsing and HA use?
>
> Wow - that's quite a list of faults.
>
> Does the n95 not have the same OS as the n73?  If so, then surely that
> same faults will prob be present on the n95....    hmm,,  what to do..
> Maybe I will just stick with my trusty 6680.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Paul Gordon
> Sent: 12 March 2007 12:50
> To: UKHA_D Group
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Mobile phone for web browsing and HA use?
>
> Aside from the usual, expected shortcomings common to most modern
phones
> (cr8p battery life, sluggish OS speed, etc.) there are more
fundamental
> problems with it...
>
> *everyone* I speak to on it complains of terrible echo at their end of
> the conversation. It's definitely my N73 that causes it, and it
happens
> when the other end is a landline too.
>
> The call quality is sh1te, - not only the audio quality, (which is),
but
> also the signal strength, and its tendency to drop calls frequently. I
> don't think it's an exaggeration to say that 50% of all calls get
> dropped part-way through & I have to reconnect. I have heard
reports
of
> other people reporting both the above problems too (including one of
> SWMBOs colleagues)
>
> The OS is buggy... the handset has an annoying tendency to frequently
> dial the 1st number in the address book, EVEN WHEN the keypad is
> locked... - *sooo* many times I've picked up the handset only to find
it
> is connected to Admiral Insurance, and endlessly sitting there
listening
> to their automated switchboard repeatedly going through the
"Press 1
> for..." options... I've had to add a dummy entry at the top of
the
> addressbook just to stop this happening.
>
> Also, I'll put it away with the keypad locked, and the display showing
> the "home" screen. Then at some point later I'll pick it up,
and it
> won't be in the home screen any more, it will be in the phonebook,
> displaying a contacts details...  - of course the keypad is locked, so
I
> can't cancel that & return to the home screen without unlocking
first...
> (very annoying).
>
> Applications are slow to launch, it feels like running XP on an old P3
> machine... just generally not satisfyingly responsive.
>
> Bluetooth is unreliable when paired with my laptop (although to be
fair,
> that could just as easily be the laptops fault). However, the N73
> supports LESS Bluetooth functions than my old 6310i - E.G. when paired
> with my TomTom GO 910 it doesn't support downloading the phonebook, or
> accessing text messages, both of which my 6310i did flawlessly (so
much
> for progress!)
>
> Every now & then, it just seems to go "mental" -
launching apps that I
> don't want and didn't (AFAIK) run...
>
> Oh, and I have changed the handset once, and all the abovementioned
> problems were common to both of them, so it wasn't just a duff handset
> that I had...
>
> I'm just waiting for the N95 to become available before I change it,
and
> if the N95 isn't any better in all the areas above, then I'm thinking
of
> trying out an 8800.
>
> Paul G.
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On
Behalf
> Of Paul Crate
> > Sent: 12 March 2007 12:21
> > To: UKHA_D Group
> > Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Mobile phone for web browsing and HA use?
> >
> > What is the problem with the N73?
> >
> > I am in two minds between getting this or waiting for the n95.  A
> friend
> > of mine has the n73 and he said that there is probs with it.
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On
Behalf
> > Of Paul Gordon
> > Sent: 12 March 2007 11:03
> > To: UKHA_D Group
> > Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Mobile phone for web browsing and HA use?
> >
> > I can resolutely NOT recommend the Nokia N73... biggest sack of
sh1te
> > that ever there was....
> >
> > The N95 is due to be available "real soon now"; I'm
hoping that one
> will
> > be somewhat better...
> >
> > Paul G.
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On
> Behalf
> > Of Paul Gale
> > > Sent: 12 March 2007 10:58
> > > To: UKHA_D Group
> > > Subject: [ukha_d] Mobile phone for web browsing and HA use?
> > >
> > > Time to replace my phone again:
> > >
> > > What's the dogs' danglies at the moment in terms of phones
with
> large
> > screens, slim size that will
> > > properly surf the web and display CCTV video (G3 from
Geovision),
HA
> > server pages etc?
> > >
> > > Ta,
> > >
> > > Paul.
> >
> >
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