I just bought this phone a couple of days ago and overall I'm very pleased with it. It certainly beats my 2 year old 6610 :P I just have a few annoyances with it which I'd like to air. I'm sure some of these have been mentioned before but I just wanted to add my 2 cents. 😊
- Changes into camera mode too quickly. This seems to be a common annoyance. There should be an option to set how long it waits or be able to turn it off completely, or just change the delay.
- 'Go to' application support. As I mentioned in my first post on here, hardly any of the preinstalled applications support this shortcut application. Due to the large amount of applications and features these phones support, it would be very handy to have a good shortcut menu that would allow you to add a shortcut to any feature you needed to access quickly instead of going through a mountain of menus to get to it.
- Lack of type of rubber stoppers on phone flip. Unlike most clamshell style phones (that I have seen anyway) there is nothing stopping the two flips from hitting and rubbing on each other when the phone is closed. You can hear the two parts of the phone vibrating against each other when the flip is closed and the phone is set to vibrate. Could wear the finish off the phone where it touches.
- LED on outside is under utilised. I think i've seen this one mentioned before too. The LED only flashes when there is an incoming call and is solid on when charging. It could have been used, possibly with different colours or simply just varied strings of flashes, to notify if there has been a missed call or if a message has been received when the flip is closed. It would stop the need to open the flip to look at the screen all the time to see if you've missed a call. Surely adding support for it to blink a certain way if there is a missed call or message wouldn't be too hard to do?
- Camera resolution bug. The bug that only lets you take full resolutions in work or browse mode... I don't see how this could be a hardware thing? all its doing is rotating the camera 90 degrees. According to the PDF version of the manual, there is meant to be a VGA Setting in the camera settings. This should be fixable through a firmware update. There should also be the ability to view fullscreen when taking a picture! Instead of just a tiny little image in the middle of the screen.
Excerpt from the manual:
"VGA resolution - Select On to set the camera to take all the pictures in VGA mode (480 x 640 pixels). This option is available for Standard, Portrait, and Night modes."
Most of these things as far as I know should be possible to be fixed at the software level. So does anyone know if nokia is working on these things? Is there any way of finding out?
I hear your pain... And yes, I mentioned on the under-utilization of the LED 😞
Considering the phone is supposed to be a smart phone the alarm clock and calendar apps are very basic.
I'd like to use the phone as my alarm clock, but there's no way to set a repeating 'workday' alarm as far as I can see.
I've tried to get round it by specifying repeating weekly alarms, one for each day of the week, but they cause the whole calendar to be filled with red markers signifying meetings, which makes finding genuine appointments difficult!
Ravenger wrote:Considering the phone is supposed to be a smart phone the alarm clock and calendar apps are very basic.
Not just a smartphone, but a business orientated smartphone. So you'd think they would have included some basic features like that...
I do think there are third-party applications out there that can do what you want Ravenger, but why should you have to pay extra for very some basic features you'd expect in a phone of this type?
How do we get Nokia to look into these issues? I understand that the VGA bug has been addressed in the latest software which is good, so what are they looking into fixing in the next update?
I'm seriously thinking of returning the phone, even though I like its style, and I find the big buttons make writing text messages very easy.
Firstly, there's the very basic calendar and clock apps - as sedated says, very poor considering it's supposed to be a business phone.
Secondly the battery life seems very poor - my first charge didn't last much more than a day, with a 5 minute call and transferring some data via IR.
Thirdly the speaker is very poor - on my phone it distorts on some frequencies, which hurts my ear.
Fourthly the MP3 playback is mono and poor quality. Now I didn't buy the phone for this, but I did expect it to be able function as a reasonable MP3 player given that it uses memory cards.
I'm going to try it for a few more days then I might return it.
Yeah... While this phone does have a few things that I don't like about it, i'm not ready to give up on it just yet :P And regardless of whats wrong with it, it still beats my 6610 features-wise. 😃
Must say I have noticed the battery life hasn't been too good, but I've only had the phone for a couple of days so i've been playing with it an aweful lot (watching lots of streaming video, etc). I expect it will last a lot longer once I stop playing with it all the time. Does the screen actually turn off when its in closed mode? From what I can tell it doesn't which seems strange to me...
Can't say I've noticed the speaker problem you describe so there may be an issue with your handset. I do however agree that the speaker quality is very poor.
I've tried emailing Nokia to see if some of these issues could be looked at, but every time I tried to submit it, from a number of their different worldwide sites, it just gave me an error. I doubt emailing them would help much though anyway. :frown:
Your gonna love this then, had mine since beginning of Dec04 and the paints started to chip off 😡 - the display part on the back where it twists some paint has chipped off - 3 weeks of use and that happened arghhh 😡
also the bottom part - underneath - the two leg parts one has had the paint chipped off...can only think vibration has caused that!
MP3 Player is utter rubbish, i have the sports earphones from Nokia (clip behind the ear) and the quality is pathetic also the Real player crashes when I play MP3 tracklists.
I upgraded from a 3650 to this phone thinking it would be better, yes it is and no it isnt.. I'll just live with it I think. Oh and I fitted a 512mb RS-MMC card to it. So sweet!.
I've decided to keep the phone, especially now I've found some nice apps for it. (Though not yet found a decent alarm clock app that works).
I'm pretty amazed at how powerful the phone is. I've now installed the Frodo C64 emulator, and it's fantastic. I wouldn't have believed such perfect emulation was possible on a phone.
The battery life has improved tremendously after several charging cycles (i.e. drain completely, then recharge to full). Still not amazing, but much better than when I first got it.
Anyone manage to find any software that manipulates the LED for missed calls and unread SMS?
One other annoyance: If you use the radio and close the phone then the radio app becomes minimised, which means you can't use the volume buttons to adjust the volume. Bit of a pain to have to open the phone, select the radio then change the volume then close it again.
Ravenger wrote:One other annoyance: If you use the radio and close the phone then the radio app becomes minimised, which means you can't use the volume buttons to adjust the volume. Bit of a pain to have to open the phone, select the radio then change the volume then close it again.
Yeah I've noticed that one too, not that I use the radio much but it is pretty stupid. Those buttons on the side of the phone are really under-utilised. Actually the fact that there is no option to allow an application to stay in the foreground apart from the 'phone' is kind of annoying too. It would be nice if you could make an open app 'sticky' so it stays active when the flip is closed then opened again.