Adam wrote:Sure all new phones tend to be buggy, but are people generally unhappy with the performance of the N70?And is there any news on specific firmware fixes that correct our known issues?
Adam
Hi,
I've upgraded from the 6610. In general, i'd rate my happiness with the phone at about 60%. It just came out here in Oz, and the firmware version I got was:
V2.0536.0.2
12-09-05
RM-84
Just googling on the net, there's several versions newer than that, so was not impressed. Nokia AU say there isn't any newer one here. I also bought the Jabra BT 500 and it worked quite well... The voice tags were at first impressive, until I started testing it with really difficult ones... it passed stuff like acronym company names: e.g. 'IBM Support', but some of the easier ones, esp. short names, it has a bit of difficulty. (It kept deciding to call my work!)
My list of gripes or stuff that I think are wrong focus on 4 areas: Silent mode, Contacts, Active screen and Shortcuts.
1. Silent mode - when you put a phone in silent mode, you would expect it to be fully silent. As mentioned by other people in this forum, some apps totally disregard this, e.g. play a video and you get full blast sound, whilst in Silent mode. This would be very embarassing esp. in a meeting, when you need it to be fully silent. 😛 Either that, or the phone needs an independent 'Turn off Sound' option.
2. Contacts - I am unhappy with the way it presents, or makes assumptions on the phone book, in terms of Sort by: First Name, first, or Last Name, First name. I prefer 'First Name first'. When I set this, I expect the function to be cascaded to everywhere else. Instead, what happens is, if you execute searches/finds, on a letter, it orders it by Last Name, First Name. Similiarly, the Messaging decides to put Last Name, First Name as the name of the Contact, irrespective of your 'preference'.
e.g. Dave Brown, Trent Brownhouse, Borris Mannings, Brent Masters. If I choose B, it will present it in that order (with First Names, Surnames set up correctly; option to Sort by First Name first set). In messaging, it appears as Brown, Dave.
There is a workaround I can think of, but with hundreds of contacts, I don't want to rename or put everyone's name in the Surname part(!). Can anyone advise whether this is 'normal' expected functionality, or whether they've corrected it in newer Firmware?
3. Active screen - is there anyway to *not* have the Cell ID location display hide itself all the time. I actually want to see it all the time. On my N6610 and all previous ones, it worked great, I haven't changed service providers so I know it's there, but with the N70, you cannot force it to tell you where you are. Perhaps an option to customise the Active screen some more?
4. Shortcuts. I have not been able to work out how to create shortcuts on Go To (even read the manual - tried to even from applications that say you can have a shortcut). What i'd like to see is a 'macro recorder' or something that can make shortcuts. I wish to activate Call Diverts on Voice Calls, or deactivate it when necessary. It's alot of buttons to pushes to get there.
Those are my gripes for 2c. Would most people say that they agree with the above, or have I got bits of my understanding wrong?