The battery indeed isn't great (but you need to format it first, when you charge it leave it on as well – in my case it went up from 1-1,5day to 3 days so far, and I think it's going to improve).

So about the software… Calendar – why isn't the calendar, allowing for setting up meetings with a “place” spot, making it possible to just select the place and be taken directly to nokia maps?

Why cannot I use the light as a torch in default software?

Why cannot I use T9 completion for my contact list when adding SMS reciepents?

Finally, where's the *@#$y timer? ffs, we had that in 5110!

So, to sum up, not a bad phone, but software-wise – not even half stable imo – it's more like release candidate stage or Beta2.

To be honest, it's a real downside from my K750i + Palm Zire31 duo combo, sure, I have all-in-one now, and GPS, but the gps takes ages to load and locate, and it's not even free to use (Nokia Maps costs money to use as guidance – I wonder who's gonna buy theirs if you can get Garmin for mobile or so for less money afaik).

Summing up, it's maybe worth half it's price, but not as much as I paid for it. You can easily get a HTC phone with QWERTY keyboard which superseedes this one greatly – and is told to be tried with Android, so thumbs up as well.

The battery indeed isn't great (but you need to format it first, when you charge it leave it on as well – in my case it went up from 1-1,5day to 3 days so far, and I think it's going to improve).

So about the software… Calendar – why isn't the calendar, allowing for setting up meetings with a “place” spot, making it possible to just select the place and be taken directly to nokia maps?

Why cannot I use the light as a torch in default software?

Why cannot I use T9 completion for my contact list when adding SMS reciepents?

Finally, where's the *@#$y timer? ffs, we had that in 5110!

So, to sum up, not a bad phone, but software-wise – not even half stable imo – it's more like release candidate stage or Beta2.

To be honest, it's a real downside from my K750i + Palm Zire31 duo combo, sure, I have all-in-one now, and GPS, but the gps takes ages to load and locate, and it's not even free to use (Nokia Maps costs money to use as guidance – I wonder who's gonna buy theirs if you can get Garmin for mobile or so for less money afaik).

Summing up, it's maybe worth half it's price, but not as much as I paid for it. You can easily get a HTC phone with QWERTY keyboard which superseedes this one greatly – and is told to be tried with Android, so thumbs up as well.

The battery indeed isn't great (but you need to format it first, when you charge it leave it on as well – in my case it went up from 1-1,5day to 3 days so far, and I think it's going to improve).

So about the software… Calendar – why isn't the calendar, allowing for setting up meetings with a “place” spot, making it possible to just select the place and be taken directly to nokia maps?

Why cannot I use the light as a torch in default software?

Why cannot I use T9 completion for my contact list when adding SMS reciepents?

Finally, where's the *@#$y timer? ffs, we had that in 5110!

So, to sum up, not a bad phone, but software-wise – not even half stable imo – it's more like release candidate stage or Beta2.

To be honest, it's a real downside from my K750i + Palm Zire31 duo combo, sure, I have all-in-one now, and GPS, but the gps takes ages to load and locate, and it's not even free to use (Nokia Maps costs money to use as guidance – I wonder who's gonna buy theirs if you can get Garmin for mobile or so for less money afaik).

Summing up, it's maybe worth half it's price, but not as much as I paid for it. You can easily get a HTC phone with QWERTY keyboard which superseedes this one greatly – and is told to be tried with Android, so thumbs up as well.

A little market research has never done anyone any harm!

Samantha.

Thanks for the comment, and for reading.

I'm a firm believer that there is no point in having a feature if it is useless. The music playback is useless therefore it shouldn't be there. And if Nokia insist on having a camera, at least make it work at night!

Thanks again,
Samantha.

Nice review, and thanks for spitting in plain language what many of us have said about mobiles since features became more important than it just working.

I'm getting an N95 this week, so I'll see how it compares!

Samantha.

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It doesn't matter who you are when these things arn't good.

Thanks for reading though,
Samantha.