Topic Review (Newest First)
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| 12-08-2008 06:57 PM |
| Unregistered |
Awsome features but a bit buggy still
I have to say, I think the N78 is fantastic. I've got to write somewhere how great I think it is and here's as good a place as any. I've been using it for a week and a half and keep discovering great new things on it. It does everything that I could ever want it to do (almost, see end). These are the things I use daily in no particular order:
1. TomTom runs on it just fine with a bluetooth GPS. It sits perfectly in the dashboard of my '07 reg Renault Meganne, just between the two big dials. It's as if it was designed for it.
2. I get all my email accounts delivered whenever I walk into a wifi hotspot.
3. fring's VOIP SIP over wifi means it behaves just like another extension on my business phone system.
4. The FM transmitter kicks butt. I haven't listened to a CD or the radio in my car since.
5. On the Wifi at home I use the UPnP client to play tracks on my Vista machine upstairs. I've never managed to get any other UPnP client work with Vista, so that's a true miracle. Naturally I pump the streamed music out of the FM transmitter to my stereo in the sitting room downstairs. Awsome. It's quicker for me to browse the UPnP client than to find the original CD on my shelves.
6. SportsTracker works with the internal GPS doodah. Once home I can see on Google Earth where I've been on my bicycle. Cute.
7. The camera's perfectly adequate. It's just another USB disc as far as Vista is concerned so importing photos is a doddle. I do have to rotate photos to their correct orientation but that's not much of a hardship.
8. The Podcasting bit downloads podcasts over the wifi while I sleep. Had never listened to a single podcast until now.
9. I can see whenever my mate's have posted new flickr photos there on the front screen. Brill.
10. I play my music through the speakers when out cycling. I'v got it in an old phone case that I've zip tied to my bicycle's handlebars.
Now, all that said... The only thing that it can't do is make normal phone calls. If I answer a call when I've been using the music player (like I do pretty much solidly all day) the phone either locks up, mutes me or the caller or both. Often the only way to end a call is to remove the battery and restart the phone(!) This is quite fiddly as you can imagine. The back of the phone is very cheap and flimsy - it won't last for long I don't think. I hope this is fixed in firmware soon because I'm reluctant to make any calls or answer any calls on it right now.
I still think it's great though and hope that an update to fix this is out really soon. I'm going to keep using it, in spite of not being able to use it as a phone.
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| 30-06-2008 11:05 AM |
| Unregistered |
N78 disappoints
I upgraded to the Nokia N78 on O2 and have had the phone for a week. Here are my impressions:
Build quality: Disappointing. You may have read other reviewers’ concerns on the thin plastic back of the phone, and I agree. The back does seem cheap and ‘plasticky’, and the phone ‘rattles’ on vibrate. The back light can be seen through various cracks on the sides of the front plate.
The keypad: Personally, I like it and had no problem with the bar-type keys. However, the placement of the ‘c’ button makes texting v awkward and uncomfortable.
Design: I love the design. It is sleek, quite slim, and understated.
Nav-key: The D-pad is touch sensitive and works (or is supposed to) in the same way as the iPod click wheel. In reality, this is just a gimmick with little practical use. It simply doesn’t work well enough to make a difference.
Overall: 6/10
I was v excited about this phone, and have waited months beyond my upgrade date for it. But upon delivery, it disappointed me to such a point that I have returned it, cancelled my upgrade and await the release of the 3G iPhone.
Hope this helps.
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| 28-05-2008 02:47 AM |
| Phnom Penh paul |
Forum Spammers
Hi,
I came on here to compare the N82 to the N78.
I currently own the N73 (November 2006), and am updating to the N82 later today ($460 USD in Phnom Penh).
The 'must have' is the GPS feature.
I've been a standard GPS user since 2003, and welcome the feature to phone handsets as a godsend.
It's too easy to get lost in Cambodian countryside (jungles, dead end tracks etc), so it will be handy to have the convenience of GPS nav in my pocket, as opposed to lugging my "Garmin Streetpilot III" around!
There are now some good Garmin maps available for Cambodia for N series S60 platforms, including navigable street level maps of Phnom Penh and Siem Reap (Angkor Wat), so my phone will be superior to my $2000 Streetpilot!
I am purchasing the N82 later today after a week of comparisons with the N95 8Gb.
I decided that a bigger screen is just not worth the extra size and money, plus i'm not a 'slider' fan.
Why are these supposedly Nigerian spammers being allowed to advertise on a forum?
Is there no moderation on here?
Thanks for a good informative site.
Keep up the good work, and kick the spam scum off here!
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| 26-05-2008 07:08 AM |
| Huntelaar |
Nokia designers are alive again
Some years ago the Nokia phones were the best looking phones. The last 3? years that is reallty not the case. But now with some new phones, Nokia is back
See for a really good example of what i mean:
http://www.n78.nl
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| 14-03-2008 04:46 PM |
| Unregistered |
better than n82 for me?
Hi Mate
When are you going to be writing your opinions on this phone?
I would like to know how this phone fares against a Nokia n82.
I am looking for a new phone and am wondering if the Fm transmitter runs smoothly enough to let fact, that is has a much worse camera than the n82, slide. Also i would like to find out if the new operating system is that great as compared to the one of the n82.
I want a phone with a suberb camera and a great quality output from the extensive audio library. Wifi is an added bonus but hey the perfect phone doesnt exist yet. SO is this phone worth my money or should i buy an n82?
THX A MILLION for you opinion
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| 05-03-2008 04:40 PM |
| bartmanekul |
AGPS will not work without GPS. So yes, it has standard GPS.
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| 05-03-2008 04:04 PM |
| NaCH |
Question.
It only A-GPS or it has GPS too?. If Im in a place with no carrier signal but clear sky still works?.
PD: sorry for my bad english.
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| 29-02-2008 11:43 AM |
| krisse |
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No, this doesn't work out. For a casual dresser who wants to keep a phone in a jeans pocket, the width and height dimensions make a big difference. A too slim phone becomes a more fragile phone.
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I suppose that's what I was trying to say too, a slim phone which is very wide may be less convenient than a thick phone which is very narrow.
Some people just talk about thickness, but like you say that's not the whole story.
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| 29-02-2008 11:07 AM |
| Unregistered |
Quote:
Originally Posted by krisse
Unregistered, it might be better to compare CC (volume) figures instead of thickness, some phones are very thin but very wide so they may actually be quite large.
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No, this doesn't work out. For a casual dresser who wants to keep a phone in a jeans pocket, the width and height dimensions make a big difference. A too slim phone becomes a more fragile phone. An N95 is only 1 cm longer than a standard credit card which is OK, but borders on the too deep, (however much better than the N80).
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| 29-02-2008 10:43 AM |
| Rafe |
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Originally Posted by BK76
Do we have "Timed profile" (where in a profile can be activated for a specific duration) in N78? I think it should be part of the FP2 feature list!
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Yes, that's a standard part of FP2.
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| 29-02-2008 10:23 AM |
| Unregistered |
I reckon K850 is comparable, its always been the width and more importantly the depth of phones that's been more important for me. But I guess everyone wants something different.
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| 29-02-2008 10:22 AM |
| BK76 |
Timed profile
Do we have "Timed profile" (where in a profile can be activated for a specific duration) in N78? I think it should be part of the FP2 feature list!
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| 29-02-2008 09:20 AM |
| Kazutoyo |
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Originally Posted by Unregistered
113mm N78 versus 102mm on the K850, that is a huge difference. Whilst the 2.4 inch screen is good, I feel that Nokia phones are suffering from some serious physical bloat and this one is another that is too big. 113mm is almost as big as a hiuge slab iphone, it's unacceptable for something that people want to carry about all the time.
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I kinda agree. I'm gonna buy a new phone soon, and I'm having a hard choice between 6120c and N78. 6120 for the smaller size and N78 for the features (3.5mm jack, FP2, larger battery and so on).
I don't feel there's any bloat here, though. The N-series is highly targetted towards multimedia, and most people who want to use their phones for multimedia, also want larger screens. I, however, think a 2" screen would be enough but I reckon I'm in the minority for these kind of phones.
If the 6120c had a 3.5mm jack, then I would easily pick that phone. I wonder how long it will take until we see a 6120 replacement (6220c is too big), although it probably doesn't matter since Nokia seem to only use 3.5mm jacks for their 5xxx phones and N series.
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| 29-02-2008 09:03 AM |
| krisse |
Unregistered, it might be better to compare CC (volume) figures instead of thickness, some phones are very thin but very wide so they may actually be quite large.
The trouble is manufacturers don't always publish these CC figures, and you can't easily work it out from the dimensions because phones usually aren't shaped like boxes.
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| 29-02-2008 08:28 AM |
| Unregistered |
113mm N78 versus 102mm on the K850, that is a huge difference. Whilst the 2.4 inch screen is good, I feel that Nokia phones are suffering from some serious physical bloat and this one is another that is too big. 113mm is almost as big as a hiuge slab iphone, it's unacceptable for something that people want to carry about all the time.
If this carries on I'm heading back to S40.
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