Nokia N78 Gallery

[Rafe]

To kick of our Nokia N78 coverage we have an in-depth gallery, with commentary, featuring the latest Nseries phone (UK retail model). We'll have further coverage of the Nokia N78 on the site shortly, but please let us know in the comment thread or by email if you have any N78 questions you would like to ask and we'll do our best to answer them.

Read on in the full article.

[Dr Tran]

I want to hear about the Events settings

[Rafe]

The Event settings you refer to are part of themes (effectively), also known as Audio Themes. They allow you to set tones or a voice read out for particular events. It also consolidates things like ringing tones, messaging tones, alaram tones into one place which makes a lot more sense that what went before.

Have there been any more solid release dates confirmed yet? Specifically for Ireland? Because we generally get phones around the same time as our British brethren but there hasn't been word one on it yet.
Also the keypad seems to be an issue, but most of the videos up only concern the Navi-wheel and softkey, could you make a video of writing a text or something like that? Thanks!

[Rafe]

Basically it is available from now. However as ever it will take a while to get into channels (SIM-Free). I would expect wide spread availability by the end of the month. For operators this will obvisouly take a bit longer.

Yes I think keypad will cause debate, but it is really not as bad as people seem to think. It is an improvement over the N73, in my opinion, for example. It's one of those keyboards that looks a lot worse than it is. A bigger gripe for me may be the positioning of the S60 and C keys.

[krisse]

Have there been any more solid release dates confirmed yet?

It has been available in Finland for a few weeks, so it is leaving the factories and I'd expect to see it across Europe very soon.

I had been playing with N78 today for about 15 minutes, and I must say I'm impressed. Great quality, and I like 3,5mm jakck for headphones I'll get it and buy 8gb microsd card and use it as my music phone.
But the biggest drawback isn't the keypad. It's fingerprints. They are everywhere. I own now 6120 classic and I really hate them to clean my phone everyday.
Overall the N78 should be a bestseller imo.
Cheers.

Stefan C said in his brief review that the audio quality (when listening to music) was better than in N82. Do you hear any difference?

Henrikki (TheBlueNile)

Hmmm. The N78 is inferior in every way to the N82 and yet the N82 can be had new off EBay for around £250 plus or minus about £30, compared to the £300 for the N78 you quote above.
Sorry, but what is the advantage of an N78???

What kind of improvements are there with this new version of S60?

[malerocks]

Originally Posted by Unregistered

What kind of improvements are there with this new version of S60?

I agree with this point. It would be great if someone can come up with an article (or point us to one) highlighting what new, better or improved in S60 9.3.

[Dr Tran]

Is the call log fixed?

[Hardeep1singh]

I saw one last sunday, its available in India for Rs. 19,500 almost the same price as N82, which is at Rs. 19,300. Looking at the featureset, I'm sure the price for N78 would come down very soon, if only this phone had an accelerometer, it would've been a perfect device.

Any word on when the US version will come out?

And to those wondering why someone would choose the N78 over the N82, check out the THICKNESS. 2.3 mm doesn't seem like much but it makes the N82 a brick.

[JuhaN]

Could anyone that have used N78 or any other Feature Pack 2 device comment about the new Access Point handling. How automatic is it if I have set up a couple of WLAN networks and 3G as a last choise. I've heard that the new WLAN Wizard checks if it can make connection to internet when searching for open WLANs. Does this work properly?

=)juha