The 101st use for a Nokia E90 and the 102nd use for a Nokia N95...
Published by Steve Litchfield at 6:20 UTC, June 1st 2007
Ho yes, don't say that we at AllAboutSymbian don't put devices through the real world wringer. Among all the other uses for my Nokia E90, one of the most useful has been as a mobile cinema (shown below) and Rafe's used his Nokia N95 to er.. check the pilot's flight data on an aircraft!
The 101st use for a Nokia E90: unlike most other smartphones, the E90's widescreen display can be angled to suit and left on a desk as a makeshift 'TV'. Here I was on a day trip out with daughter (and friend) and we'd just been watching a 'show' at a museum, which I'd been videoing on the E90 for my teacher wife to use later on DVD in her classroom. And, as any parent knows, sometimes the best way to distract a child into actually eating their lunch (rather than complaining) is to stick something interesting in front of them, in this case, they were fascinated to watch the playback of the show.
Nokia E90 cinema:
(By the way, another data point on battery life. I took 30 photos during the day and 45 minutes of DVD-quality video, the E90 was my navigation device on the way there (around 40 minutes of GPS and screen-on), I checked email a dozen times, took 3 phone calls, and did around 15 minutes of GPRS web browsing and another 15 of game playing. The E90 was down to 2 bars by the end, but I'd say that's acceptable.)
The 102nd use for a Nokia N95: flight instrument checker on an aircraft. Rafe was recently mid-air and decided to see what the Nokia N95 made of the err... unusual circumstances...
Nokia N95 flight instrument checker:
Rafe can fill in detail on exactly where he was going. Note the speed and altitude!! I can remember the days when a GPS receiver would 'max out' if you took it much over 150kph....
Steve Litchfield, 1 June 2007
Categories: Hardware, Miscellaneous, Editorial Thoughts
Platforms: S60 3rd Edition
News Discussion
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Children are so easy to please sometimes, its great. Anyway, i used to watch movies like that on my old 9500. There was an occasion when on a long cross-county train journey, i shared some good minutes of the movie "The Good the Bad and the Ugly" with a fellow lady passenger via that small widescreen (not true 16:9). It was fun and i showed her that similar can be done with her MDA Vario.
Good times.:)
I see a BT paired sign on the screens. :)
Zuber
Looks somewhat unlikely to me - although that altitude/altitude acceleration/speed combination might barely be possible (a special high altitude version has been brought quite a lot higher than 11 km, accelerated by diving - Spit's level max is stg. like 600 km/h - and is now pulling up again), I find it somewhat unlikely that any of the surviving examples would be stressed (and risked) like that ;).
Finnish shops are listing it as being released sim-free on the 12th of June, so that's next Tuesday. I don't know about release dates outside Finland, but presumably they'd be within a few weeks of that.
Can anyone enlighten me on how one may watch feature films on the Nokia E90 ?
Like on the IPod one can watch films and tv shows that are formatted for the pod
can we do this on an e90 ?
thanks