17 posts tagged “n95 8gb”

I don't think anyone has reviewed the AC adapter that comes with the Nokia N95 8GB before and I don't think anyone ever will!  The next best thing is a few pictures showing you how small the UK one is - it's actually smaller than a regular UK plug!

That's as catchy a title as I can come up with.  However, like Ronseal, it does what it says on the tin!

These were taken whilst out on a run (okay, it was mostly a walk!) and are perhaps even blurrier than they should be as my hands were like icicles!

The N95 8GB is great for daily exercise as you can fit a ton of music on it, listen to podcasts, have up-to-the-minute weather forecasts and, of course, use the likes of Sports Tracker, Activity Monitor and Wellness Diary.  If you don't need to worry too much about the path ahead, you can even do some web browsing, watch some video or do a little IM-ing!

If 'Jumping Through Hoops' were a game on N-Gage - it might be more fun!  Unfortunately it isn't a game, it is in fact the process of getting the gaming application, and the games for it, working on a N95 8GB.

As for the freebie copy of FIFA 08... Well it took many failed attempts on the phone itself to realise it wasn't worth it.  When I finally got to my PC I figured I'd try again, the PC route!  More failed attempts and then finally... I got to the stage where the site confirmed it was sending an SMS to my phone (with the code) and 16-odd hours later... nothing!

If Nokia can't make something like this a simple and seamless process, it's never gonna take off.  That's it, end of story!  Only us early adopters would put ourselves through this - not your regular punter.

I set up a Boingo Mobile account a month ago tomorrow.  Boingo Mobile, for those that don't know, is a cheap WiFi provider/service for accessing the internet on WiFi capable phones.  I found them via the N95 8GB's 'Download' folder and figured I may as well try the free trial - what did I have to lose?  Time, as it turned out and if I can't cancel it by tomorrow, money!

Those of you that know me (and/or read about my WiFi experiences in NY) have probably figured out that I never managed to get it working!  Was that Boingo's fault or the result of complex and numerous different WLAN settings Nokia offer on the handset?  Maybe this user just wasn't clever enough, who knows?!  I eventually fired off an email to Boingo and eventually got a reply, and to say it was less than useful would be an understatement of grand proportions!  I gave up and figured when I got back I could cancel it (oh, I forgot to say that even though it was a free trial they, like many companies, still wanted billing details) and then I forgot about it...

Today I got a 'newsletter' from them and it dawned on me, I set this thing up a month ago tomorrow - I need to cancel it pronto! (I believe it was a month trial but can't say for sure, I'm through with scowering websites for such details - I just want to cancel. Now!  Which is what I was about to do but I have no idea what my username or password are and Boingo don't do the usual type-in-your-email-address-and-we're-email-it-to-you thing!  All they offer as a 1-800 number!  Argh, that's no good to me I'm in the UK!

So, why have they chosen a 1-800 number for a service that one can sign up to in the UK (and presumably much of the western world)?  Can they not just email me the username and password like most other companies manage to do?  If not, can't they have a geographical number or a UK number?

What a complete and utter pain in the rear!  I wish I'd gone nowhere near Boingo!

Back to using my N73!  It's been tough, especially since I discovered the Flirtomatic service (well I am single and it's mobile tech, I consider it research!)  Typing on the N73 is way more difficult than on the N95 8GB.  The keys are too small to begin with and the silly joystick on the N73 ...well I'd gotten so used to it I'd forgotten how truly awful it was!  It's very easy to hit send/OK when you don't want to.

So despite what may have appeared as a generally unimpressed take on the N95 8GB, it's only when it's gone that you appreciate it.  I guess things like Maps, Sports Tracker and Podcasting would impress me more if I hadn't already been aware of them.

And the N95 8GB's WiFi was a lifesaver (not literally mind!) when my laptop went M.I.A.

Now's the time to express my thoughts on the device.  What's good, what's bad and everything in between.   Until now I've been quite harsh in regards to the phone device.  My expectations were probably way too high for a start and I was pushing it to do more than a regular user might.

The single biggest thing that didn't disappoint was the camera (the main 5 Megapixel one.)  Taking pictures is a painless process and by that I mean it's quick, easy and intuitive.  The pictures IMHO look great but as I'm shortsighted and red/green colour blind, I'll upload a bunch and let readers decide for themselves.

The videos recorded by the device are pretty good but aren't anywhere near the quality of those produced by even the cheapest DV camcorder.  But then there simply aren't DV cameras the size of the N95 8GB.  The Nokia isn't a replacement for a real camcorder.  Of course a real camcorder can't fit in your pocket and be taken around everywhere with you!  They really should be seen as complimentary devices.

Hmm, now my minds a-blank!  There's so much stuff to write about the handset and it's a problem trying to think of what to write first, what stands out.  I think I should just go ahead and upload a bunch of pictures to my VOX 'collections', a video or two and then continue when I've had time to contemplate.

If anything, it's the name Nokia has chosen for the device/phone that's the worst thing about it.

'N95 8GB' when said in English is eight syllables.  If prefaced with 'Nokia' you can add on another three, making a total of eleven syllables.  That's way too many!  One thing I applaud Apple on is the iPhone name.  Hmm, well, 'applaud' is a bit strong - a child could come up with that, but anyway...

iPhone = two syllables and a name that's known to much of the civilised world.  It's also probably pronounced much the same around the world.  The numbers in N95 8GB will vary considerably from language to language and don't really lend to being anglicised.

Until I started blogging about the device I hadn't realised how much of a pain the name was, but when you need to keep referring to it you soon find out!  Abbreviating to just N95 isn't ideal as that leads to confusion with the original N95.  Abbreviating to 8GB isn't a good idea either as that could be about hundreds of different things (including another Nokia device).  The phone is also known as N95-2 but not really by the public.

I guess once I've mentioned N95 8GB in a post I can then refer to it simply as 'the phone' but Nokia calls it a 'multimedia device'!  Maybe I should just call it a handset and be done with it?