Friday, May 25, 2007

N95 - the Unboxing Ritual & 1st Impression


the Unboxing...






there is something in there... err, i mean there are many things in there...




like everybody else, I too got to have my N95 Unboxing Ritual...





so I got the Sand N95-1 MIF (Made In Finland) with the software version 11.0.026 from the wonderful people of WOM World... there are already many reviews of N95 on the blogs and on different forums, hence i will not concentrate on that too much, there is something else that i am planning to do, but i won't got to that yet... let me just do a quick 1st impression first...




1st Impression...

if you have been going the rounds of the many forums in the Net, you will know that there are many who are complaining about the wobbling slider of the N95... well my test unit that i will call "Lucy" in honor of Lucy from WOM World (again a big thanks to you) does NOT WOBBLE, there are no creaking edges, and Lucy is just sleek and elegant....

Lucy is the fastest S60 3rd that i have seen so far... the boot up time is fast, the menus are 6230 fast, everything is fast... err, well almost everything...


Camera & GPS part...

the camera is a bit slow when opening and saving pictures that were taken... and the GPS is also slow to lock on a satellite if you are not in a clear location, i mean it will not even lock, if tall buildings are around you... it can detect satellites but it simply will not lock...


Telephony part...

i have always believe that S60 smartphones are more of a phone 1st before a pda or a convergence device, and Lucy is no different from the rest... as a EGSM phone it is simply up there! it is one of the best among Nokia phones, and Nokia phones have always been very good in this department ever since 5110... it even holds signal like a crazy gecko holding on a tree bark...


Music- how long will it keep the tune???

when i did my 6230 user review about 3 years ago, it did 11 hours of continuous MP3 playback with a 128MB MMC card, i was hoping that there should not be a very big difference with Lucy, unfortunately it is!!! Lucy can only do 5 hours of continuous MP3 playback, which is a shame... i don't know if the 2GB microSD card from Sandisk helped with draining the juice, but i thought it should not be this much of a difference


Ending it here for a while...

my first S60 3rd is the E61 and after 5500 Sport and E50, i said i will not get any S60 3rd with FP1 but i would rather wait for the S60 3rd with FP2... well, i will make the final decision after i have completed my N95 User Review...