Hi,
I am thinking of getting either a Nokia N95, E5 or X6
Would anyone like to comment please ?
I have read some reviews on different websites, but I often wonder if they are honest or just rantings of the mad few
Jim
Maybe try one of the mobile phone groups to get a more targetted reply? Alan.
IME, people who like these things just get on with it, while the ones that don't rant.
If I ever find a replacement for my Nokia 9500, I'll be happy. It *must* do fax, and the services that send me an e-mail saying "You've got a fax, please check your e-mail" are no use at all.
The problem with these personal views is that they are often completely contradictory. One owner will say that the particular handset is the best thing since sliced bread - and another will say that it's terrible.
I have a Nokia 5800 Xpress Music and I bought it mainly for the free satnav (which is very good!). I have had the phone for a couple of years now and it has been trouble free and I like it a lot. I have no experience of the three phones that you are considering and so cannot help you there.
I have a N95, and in general am pleased with it. The camera is good - but not quite as good as the figures suggest.
Main complaint is the buttons are rather small for my fingers.
The sat nav tends to have problems 'seeing' a satellite. This could be a problem with my particular set, as it's also a bit fussy about picking up a Wi-Fi signal. The radio, however, works pretty well.
Personally I have had trouble with Nokia's software with Windows 7 64 bit.
Nokia is currently changing direction. I would do some research on future support for current Nokias before going for one.
Where do you feed the paper in? ;-)
Tim
I can't comment on the quality of the phones as it's been a few years since I had a Nokia.
However it is worth pointing out that Nokia smartphones are a dead end. They've dropped pretty much all their own original R&D in favour of building Windows 7 smartphones - they've done a major deal with Microsoft. Part of the fallout of that deal has been a large number of redundancies from their engineer & programmer base. This may not matter to you, especially if the handset comes with everything you want. It does mean the 3rd developer base is going to shrink quite quickly given the timescales Nokia have announced for moving to W7.
FWIW I can heartily recommend HTC Android phones.
LI.
And a prediction I made in an official report six years ago has come true. Symbian was a very good phone OS but other companies have the clout to push their offerings ahead of the smaller players. Even though what the sell is rubbish.
Into that handy HP Laserjet ovet there, as long as it's got the IR enabled. As I found out by accident in a random office a few years ago. I've seen a Canon BJC-70 driver for it, too.
Or, I can just forward it to that handy fax machine over there.
who actually uses faxes any more?
I'm not sure you could ever describe Nokia as a "smaller player" - they were amongst the pioneers of the smartphone idea and are still one of the single biggest "dumb" handset makers. And handsets aren't their only product.
It just seems Nokia lacked ambition and focus. For too long their product range has seemed static - too many handsets were just a cosmetic wrapper around yesterdays electronics.
LI.
people who struggle to scan and email.
Me, my solicitor, our traffic office......
Anyone who needs to get an accurate, traceable copy of a document from here to there more or less instantly. People will act on a fax immediately, and if the original is "in the post" many companies will take a fax a proof that a contract exists.
There are one heck of a lot of fax machines still out there in regular use, which is why Canon still do the cartridges for their inkjet faxes from the late 90s, while they dropped the ink cartridges for the same age printers years ago.
I used my fingernails to press keys cos my fingers are fat. Sometimes GPS would pick up satellites almost immediately but far more often would have problems which seemed to be sorted by a re-boot.
People kept leaving the 'm' out of the name and getting confused....
Why do several things when one will do?
If you scan a document (Say a rough sketch or a draft contract) in, convert it to a graphics file, attach it to an e-mail, then send me the e-mail, I need to download the e-mail, open it in the appropriate application and then print the attachment, assuming you've sent it in a compatible format that I can read. Or you could just put it into your fax machine, dial my fax number, and it comes out of my fax machine at the same time, give or take a few seconds, without all the faffing about in the middle. You also *know* that I have received it, as my fax machine sends a confirmation code on successful reception.
Assuming a tenner an hour, transmitting an e-mail with a scanned attachment costs both of us about a quid, whereas sending a fax costs both of us pennies. A few seconds for you to to out the document in, dial the number and walk away while the fax is sent, and walk back a while later to collect the confirmation slip, and I walk over to the fax machine when it beeps to let me know there's a fax.
D'you want reliable or flashy?
If I buy a phone, I want one that works *every* time, and I've *never* had a Symbian based Nokia crash on me. If I want a glossy thing that does everyting except make the tea, then I'll buy a Windows or Andoid device, and accept that it will crash frequently (About once a day for Windows smartphones, IME). I won't use it as my main phone, though, I've missed too many important calls that way. The Windows based device that Vodaphone gave me when I updated my contract (HTC Touch 2) I use as a 3G modem and satnav, and that needs rebooting at least once a week, often while I'm trying to us it to navigate.
Both please :)
Same here.... for many years I was a Nokia only user until I had to switch to Blackberry for business reasons.
I have no direct experience of the latest experience of the latest generation of Windows7 phones but my excursions with the previous generation (WinCE 6.5 and earlier) make me very wary. They were an unholy marriage of a phone "bit" and PDA "bit" which never quite came together seemlessly.
Blackberrys have never given me cause for concern as phones.
I'm on my 2nd HTC Android handset (HTC Hero and now HTC Desire Z) and have no worries about missing calls or crashing. That said I'm pretty conservative about what apps I load.
LI. Blackberrys
I have a fair number of apps on my HTC Desire and it is infinitely more reliable than either my N95 or my N86 were.
It is however not so much of a business phone and apps are required to use multiple profiles for example.
GPS is amazing but the built in turn by turn software is nothing like as good as Nokias (on the occasions I could get my Nokias to get a fix).
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