In All About Symbian Insight 74 (AAS Podcast 134) Steve, Ewan and Rafe round up recent news from the Symbian world including ST-Ericsson's SMP demo, Google's 'new' S60 Mobile App, the commencement of Nokia 5630 shipping and more. In the second part of the show Steve gives a few N97 impressions and the team answer a few listener questions. You can listen to AAS Insight 74 here or, if you wish to subscribe, here's the RSS feed.
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Correction: Despite what I say in the podcast the Nokia 5630 does not have a GPS / compass unit. I was thinking of some of the later phones. Apologies for the mistake!
Good to hear your comments on the N97 keyboard Steve. One fatal flaw in your wpm comparison with the 5800 - when typing on a virtual keyboard on any touch screen device there is not much room to view anything else, including what you have typed! So a physical keyboard will always replicate the PC experience in the had better than a virtual one.
On the wpm comparison, I really am waiting for somebody to please do some objective testing on 5800 vs N97 vs E71 for example.
Good Job! N97 Rules. . . .
"please do some objective testing on 5800 vs N97 vs E71"
Mind reader alert - this will be up here tomorrow midday..... 8-)
Steve
Please can you cover the i8910. Now that the i8910 is available please can you do a piece comparing the 2 and some comment on the camera and the text input after using the device for a while as I believe the capacitive touch takes some getting used too. The Samsung widgets also appear to lack the n97 functionality. Thanks for the good work.
We're waiting for review units of the I8910 - we did expect to have them before now. However once we do get one we'll be giving it the full run through. Same goes for the Samsung widget stuff.
On keyboards etc. - I'm very much of the opinion that past a certain point you don't get that much variation in speed (+/- 5 wpm). This is partly because you get use to a particular keyboard. However actual perceptions can be very different and software can play a big role. Earlier tests (e.g. E90 vs E71 vs E61) showed less difference than I ever expected. Obviously there are exceptions to this though.