N95 2 weeks on

By NULL , in Machines, posted: 28-MAY-2007 22:22

2 weeks on and counting, The phone is proving to be a gem with a couple of bad habits, The GPS is wonderful, though the maps need to be updated.

The firmware has real "hackential" so I hope to delve deeper within and rip it to shreds.

The camera produces the most amazing shots if THE SHARPNESS IS TURNED OFF but is an infuriating fiddle to swith it off every time asd not even the UserMode remembers that you selected "LOW" to sharpness, UGH!, The software behind it is utter crap. The images with "Sharpness" on are horrid. Turn it off at all costs, I'm working on a fix for this to be perma-OFF.

Overall, Great phone with some bad frustrating "why did they do that!" software quirks and major limitation on ram....

it's NOT a true multitasking smartphone, it's a high-powered media and internet phone with the ability of loading your own functions.

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Comment by chiefie, on 29-MAY-2007 08:01

N95 sounds great but I won't go back to any Nokia (or non-Windows Mobile) devices now. My peef with Nokia started with their utter-crap support for Outlook-sync with their PC Suite conduit. It does such a bad job at pairing fields between Outlook and Nokia's contact book, that I had to use a 3rd party software.

I left Nokia for Imate and been great with experience, and true multitask OS too.

Shame, Nokia's N95 sounds like a beast with everything but it just doesn't seem that way. I had high hope for E90 but then again I don't want to travel down the sub-par Outlook/Exchange-support.

Though, Sony-Ericsson's P1 looks great, how will that ante up with Windows Mobile 6 devices?

Comment by juha, on 29-MAY-2007 17:26

I've seen some images from an N93, which look like watercolours almost - that's probably the sharpness then.

Comment by alasta, on 29-MAY-2007 17:38

Juha - The 'watercolour' effect is usually a result of agressive noise reduction. Unfortunately this is a necessary evil when you have a tiny image sensor with a high pixel count and it will probably prevent camera phones from ever replacing 'real' cameras.
It's a shame because converged devices like the N series can do so many things to an acceptable standard, but there's nothing that they do particularly well.

Author's note by paradoxsm, on 29-MAY-2007 17:55

The "sharpening" is just awful.
But hey, all the makers "just know best"

I have taken images with the native "2mpix" cameras in the majority of the Nokia phones and the shots are very impressive indeed without all that software "noise reduction" and sharpness.

Look shortly, I'm about to upload some picture examples taken with the n95 which you will be rather impressed with.

Author's note by paradoxsm, on 29-MAY-2007 19:37

I agree with Windows mobile, The Symbian has taken some getting used to, I had a SP-JAS initially after a long-history using soley Windows mobile products (starting with a Qtek 1010 in 2002) and I loved it's operation, just flawless, so precise, and so ituitive.

The pull for the Nokia n95 is the superb Camera, videorecord, Standard jack-plugs and general media abilities.

If you are windows mobile user, Get "TCPMP" and "Total commander"
I can give you the AAC HE patch for TCPMP too once it's installed.

I am still hanging on to all my Windows mobile devices, I still use them plenty.

I'm going to be a-hacking it, that's for sure. I would like to "bare-bones" it then install the few apps I want, Manually. (I have extracted those) and it will be a dream.

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