Oct 18, 2006 06:15 PM
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I had used a cameraphone previously and was pretty disappointed with its results. So this time I wanted to make damn sure that The phone I buy has an excellent camera or none at all! I dont believe in the saying something is better than nothing. I`m a perfectionist and after looking through the reviews and test images of cameras from all smartphones in the N series at gsmarena.com, I decided I was better off taking my fujifilm finepix f10 along.
The best thing about this phone is the untra high res screen. None of the existing or upcoming phones better the 352x416(not considering phones with a considerably larger dimension like the widescreen 7710 or the communicator series. The result is a complete video/images viewing delight.
Next up, its neat arrangement of keys and their size. The most comfortable keypad. I do sometimes wish that I had qwerty keyboard for typing emails, but its still better than the cluttered tiny keys of the n series devices and it costs much lower.
Wi-fi, I cant really speak about because I havent got a wifi router yet, but I`m sure it`ll come in handy. but for the time being, I`ve set up both my gmail accounts on my phone and I can retrieve emails from both of them. I even blog from my cellphone on blogger.com. I was using agile messenger on this to communicate with buddies on yahoo messenger and google talk and it had become very necessary for me, to "stay in touch" but when the software went paid, I had to switch to alternative like mig33.
bluetooth is amazing. being v1.2, it can communicate with 6 devices simultaneously so no more "bluetooth connection is already in use" errors. and it even has infrared that was missing in many phones surprisingly.
The battery is somewhat of a disappointment because the screen drains it out very quickly. And using wifi will decrease the life even further. I have set the baclkight intensity to lowest still it goes down at the worst moments...like I cant even predict how long it will work for.. So, I`m really hoping for an improvement in power management and battery capacity.
Its voice recorder is handy but the time limitation gets in the way. The speaker is also pretty good for listening to those recorded voices or mp3 or videos. the dedicated volume keys help a lot! And It plays mp4 videos too! If you dont want to use the speaker, you can buy any stereo headset seperately because package only contains the simple "one ear handsfree set" That was a disappointment for me, but if you intend to use this solely for business, you dont need stereo headset anyways.
The operating system is symbian os 9.1(s60 3rd edition) which is immune to all the viruses that plagued the models from 6600 onwards (s60 1st and 2nd edition) But it also means that you wont get many free third party softwares that are compatible with this phone..but the umber of good softwares is increasing by the day. you already have smartmovie player and many file system explorers available..but due to os restrictions, you cant access or meddle around with system files even using 3rd party software.
feel free to contact me is u have any more queries.
