And the winner is ... the N86 8MP
by Volker Weber
A few surprises from the lot that I took to the Frankfurt stock exchange for the TV interview:
- The N97 is even worse than I had expected. It is a wonderful piece of hardware bogged down by increasingly complex software. I tried about six hours in total to get this configured to a few simple rules: get my mail from GMail via IMAP, sync calendars and addresses with m.google.com, use Wifi first prio and UMTS second. There are promising configuration forms, but in the end it does not work. And it crashes. A lot. A whole lot. I can make it die in less than a minute.
- The Samsung Jet is ... ah, just forget it. It is a dumb phone pretending to be smart. An iPhone is a smart phone pretending to be dumb. Much better. Much much better.
- I like the N86 8MP. There, I said it. A slider without querty keyboard, and it does not get the Wifi/UMTS trick either, at least not in mail. I have not been able to create MP4 videos it can play. But I like it anyway. Needs more playtime.
Update: This is the trick to find out what kind of videos it likes. Shoot one with the camera and look at the properties. Apparently it uses a frame rate of 30.22 fps in MPEG4 H.263. Once I transcoded my videos to those settings they would play.
Comments
Wer den Fernsehbeitrag, wie ich, nicht live gesehen hat, hat ihn bei der ARD als Stream sehen, und dort ab 00:31:05 :)
Danke für den Hinweis, wusste ich gar nicht. Aber unbedingt auf DSL umschalten, sonst ist das ja zum Fürchten.
Nicht dafür.
Im Gegenzug wusste ich nicht, dass es dort Alternativen zu DSL gibt - es stand, vielleicht aus alten Zeiten heraus, bei mir automatisch so.
Übrigens tausche ich noch ein "hat" gegen ein "kann" aus, wo ich gerade dabei bin.
Hannelore Fischer... Ich fühle mich gerade in meine Kindheit zurückversetzt :-)
Wusste gar nicht, dass sie noch im Fernsehen moderiert.
Für das WLAN/UMTS Problem gibt es eine Software namens SmartConnect im "Landen!" Programm. Zumindest auf meinem E71 ist es damit möglich, einen "Zugangspunkt" anzulegen, der zunächst bekannte WLANs und nur zur Not UMTS benutzt. Diesen Zugangspunkt trägt man dann einfach in alle Programme ein.
Funny coincidence: I was planning to go to the Nokia store tomorrow to buy an N86.
i am thinking of getting the Nokia N97 as an upgrade, however if it is so much hassle just to configure what you mentioned, then i might as well forget it...or?
Joe, if your rules are simpler, it won't be so complicated. Mail for Exchange for instance was not preinstalled but I needed to find it hidden on C: drive. What bothers me is the complexity. I just feel that it's too early and Nokia has not yet finished the software for the device.
The N97 is not necessarily an upgrade from an E71, but certainly from an E61. I prefer the E71 to all other querty Nokias, especially the newer E75.
