Category : Mobile Phones
Wow, armed with my new NSeries N95 I was off on a trip last week so I carefully set the mobile on the dashboard and plugged in the destination address. ( I was delivering an ebay sale for a friend- a 100 mile round trip).
What followed was the most dangerous driving of my life as I struggled to zoom and recenter the screen as I drove.
Anyway, it worked and I enjoyed the exercise but was horribly dissapointed to discover that I had spend £7 in data charges – I should read manuals.
Anyway to cut to short I have now loaded maps ( free) from all over Europe onto my phone’s 2gig memory card from smart2go. It is superb, having the maps on your mobile rather than accessing ( and paying ) for each page reload.
You have to enable your phone for disc use rather than Nokia PC Suite for the application to work and the download was nightmarishly slow. But now I can turn on my sat Nav to my hearts content.
I just better not look at it too much.
The Nokia N95 Sat Nav ( satellite Navigation software with integrated GPS) is a wonder
The Nokia N95 has been criticised in many corners for not having a QWERTY keyboard, which most smart phones are now shipped with.
The phone, used in conjunction with a bluetooth keyboard comes into its own. This is a great advantage as the phone is, intrinsically a beautiful, compact and fully featured device; coupled with this stylish Interface Device you have most of the functionality of a small laptop/ notebook in your pocket ( well pockets).
The bluetooth keyboard is worth turning on.
OK I have been circling in on the Nokia N95 for a while now, I have had it in my catanalotic ( consumerist ) sights since it was first released.
Yesterday I checked with a friend, Luke who had upgraded to the N95 some weeks previously, as to his general user experience of the mobile – he was most impressed; and he, like me, has preferred Sony Ericssons for years.
So, today, finally giving up with the sony Ericsson M600i which drops calls at will, I succumbed to the temptation which had been eating at me.
I turned the little Finnish beauty on (although the lady in the shop has told me that the battery will be ‘shafted’ if I don’t give it a full and uninterrupted charge first time round…), err. Anyway it is good, it has a beautifully named (German?) lens with a 5 megapixel camera, it has DVD quality video, a mobile with GPS!!, it has a WLAN sniffer, MP3 Radio, man Nokia have created a beauty here, this must be a loss leader in Nokia’s battle with Sony Ericsson – and Apple…
…more to come….
Wow, get me away from it, the Nokia N95 is calling to me, whispering sweet nothings to me, there is even an advert, a full wall advert, which waves at me on the way to work.
I would love to turn one on – and I am closing on it…..
Baby it is true, no matter what I do as far as mobile phones are concerned, there will always be only one true love, my Treo.
I have battled with conformity now for years with a string or Sony Ericsson’s and, to a lesser extent, Nokias. But they all leave me cold.
The Treo ( I had a 600 ) was prehaps the ugliest phone I had ever seen when I first eased it from its box and Turned it On, but I was soon immeasurably pleased by its functionality and features.
The Treo is built on a Palm platform which is quick, responsive and intuitive. There is a multitude of high end applications for the Palm OS which never failed to amaze me.
- email client
- access ( type databases)
- paint
- sound on/ off button – very good idea that one
- action/ strategy games
- lovely touchscreen
I could go on.
Sadly Orange, my supplier, have ceased support/ provisioning the Palm Treo phones and I tried for a Sony Ericsson M600i. The Symbian OS is a long way from Palm’s sophistication.
I need one and I am looking the Treo 650 would do me, but the 680 is sweet as.
Succumbing to temptation and due to an act of generosity from a friend I availed myself of a Plantronics 340 explorer Bluetooth Headset, the cockroach type item fits neatly on my ear when I am driving and the mobile automatically diverts calls to it – even answering for me.
The device has a habit of stealing calls when left unattended around the house though so I must remember to disable bluetooth when not wearing it.
This was kind of gotten hold of in order to placate my need for a Bluetooth GPS device.
The talk time/ battery life is fantastic, it is comfortable and lightweight, easy to use and looks pretty stupid.
I am still in battle with the M600i which feigns disfunctionality from time to time so it is synched up to a Sony Ericsson W810i, which is surely a lovely machine – more about that later.
Tell you what I want, ever since I received my rather unexplored, and under appreciated, Sony Ericsson M600i I feel an urge kind of to buy a Bluetooth GPS (Global Positioning System ) transmitter.
The phone came bundled with some GPS Navigation Software – Webraska; and I read that if I plug the transmitter into my car and synch it up via Bluetooth with my mobile phone I can have, full on, Tom Tom like in car satnav ( satellite navigation ) on my mobile phone.
Now it is not something crucial to my life, not even vaguely useful, but the idea does certainly please me. Currently I take a print of Google Maps if I am to find somewhere new and obscure though it appears that the people who build roads place markers which point in the correct direction of travel and hold a text message symbolising your required destination. Finding ones way is not really too hard.
Moreover, what are we, as human beings, getting like when we yearn for technological direction on the open road ? – One of the few remaining pursuits where one is expected to use all of ones faculties.
Trouble is, and with all consumerism you get a bee in your bonnet, you need some justification, and then you see a “buy now” button and you are suddenly waiting on a delivery.
So, Tom Tom – Sat Nav – GPS Bluetooth – whatever this little device is called – I will wire my dashboard up to the max and trip along to your gently cajoling tones as I meander my way to work and back.
I am a sucker for these mulitfaceted gadgets and when Orange announced that an upgrade was due I looked at the Sony Ericsson range immediately. The new M900i appealed as it contains 4gig of mp3 playing memory. This I managed to convince myself was pretty unnecessary considering an ipod generally suffices.
I saw the M600i and as a long term lover of the open source Palm Treo phones I hoped that this would provide a decent alternative. The phone is based upon the Symbian OS 9.1 and the screen is clear and colourful.
