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Re: Poll: Nokia N97 or iPhone 3GS?

cmcken1 — Mon, 24 May 2010 23:20:41 -0000

I hate HTC devices due to one reason- it's running THE world's worst OS period- Winblows for Mobile. It's buggy, unstable and simply put, a pile of crap OS made by one of the worst software companies on the planet- Microshaft. That is a joke. Wait until you have memory leaks and the device keeps freezing on you. Wait until IE crashes the entire device or hangs it thus forcing you to remove the battery just to get it back into service.

I have yet to see a solid review on Windows for Mobile as that last version (6) was so bad that many were dumping all over it on the net.

Even Nokia's outdated Symbian is miles more solid than Billyware's junkware. User beware of Billyware for mobile devices.

Re: Poll: Nokia N97 or iPhone 3GS?

cmcken1 — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 10:41:57 -0000

The camera on the N97 is stupidly simple to use.

Process:

Step 1: Slide open the camera lens cover.
Step 2: Point, Aim and Shoot
END

Options:

On that same screen, the user has 4 options to choose from and they are as follows:

1. Send by message
2. Send by email
3. Send by bluetooth
4. Send by upload

I compared the amount of clicks and time required to use both the iPhone and N97s cameras and found the Nokia device supporting faster workflow with fewer clicks. No need to wade through any software menus.

There's also a std camera capture button as found on std cameras as a hardware feature. No manual required as it's extremely intuitive to figure out.

Just my thoughts after comparing both devices.

Re: Poll: Nokia N97 or iPhone 3GS?

cmcken1 — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 10:35:04 -0000

Actually, the camera is a no brainer to use on the N97.

1. Open the lens cover.
2. Point, Aim and Shoot (using the top camera button just like a std cam)
3. Done

4. Optional: On that same screen appears 4 options and they are:
-send via email
-send via message
-send via blue tooth
-send via upload

So, as you can see, this is very easy to use and is not a hassle in anyway and, in fact, I found it much easier to use than the iPhone.

Re: Poll: Nokia N97 or iPhone 3GS?

cmcken1 — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 02:34:05 -0000

Thank you for your feedback. Question: What is the difference of using backgrounder vs. the menu key to tab / display the open apps?

Re: Poll: Nokia N97 or iPhone 3GS?

cmcken1 — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 11:02:16 -0000

Yeah, that's what I did. But, isn't that just going to the home screen vs. quitting safari? I was under the impression that it was always left on - no? I don' t know about the 5800 but, my N97 and E71 both tab very fast.

I like to multitask and, when on a call, often use notes and the calender along with using the maps at the same time. Often when getting directions while on a call.

But, how do you see all the apps that are open on the iPhone at once? Is there a menu or ALT-TAB / COMM-TAB type of function that allows one to see all the apps that are open? Or, am I understanding that it only runs one app at a time? This is what I am coming to understand.

Re: Poll: Nokia N97 or iPhone 3GS?

cmcken1 — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 00:50:21 -0000

How do you understand I am trolling? No, I am not trolling. I have been on this site for sometime. The one thing I agree wtih you is about is having an i-Phone for a short period of time. Actually, it's been three times now and, it's still the best looking device out there but, as far as using it and the features and that double tap for a period, (thanks for the tip) but, I prefer a period vs. two hits of the space bar or holding down letters. Takes too long. I love apple products such as their Macpro and Macbook Pros but, there's something about thier phone that is lacking other than cosmetic appeal in my opinion.

Nokia has gone downhill with their OS. It is very buggy but, so was Apples'. If Nokia had done a really great display and had gotten rid of Symbian and went with something newer looking, it may have done really well.

But, I still don't like the iPhone for useability and quick use. It's work flow just doesn't feel that fast despite it being a faster processor and a full browser etc. But, to me, it's just not intuitive or easy to bounce around from app to app while using many apps at the same time. I can get around on any Nokia device very quickly without everr opening the manual. It's very logical to where things are.

I have a quick question- on the iPhone, how do you quit Safari? How do you tab around to see all the open apps at once? Much like one can on a desktop or Nokia where you use a key command and simply tab to where you want to go.

Re: Poll: Nokia N97 or iPhone 3GS?

cmcken1 — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 12:11:14 -0000

Oh, just found this out about the iPhone last night: MMS messages sent to iPhones do not display the image on the device! My brother can't see any pics without having to go through Apples' web site and enter some huge hexidecimal number just to see the darn pic. What a joke the iPhone is. That's just ridiculous. The N97 with all it's bugs is expected to get a new SW update in Sept. Even with all the bugs, the N97 blows the iPhone away for ease of use, speed of work flow and much better camera, voice quality, reception, storage capacity, removable battery, and more. Why people keep buying iPhones is beyond me. They are nothing but fantastic looking devices. It's all in the packaging with Apple.
The email client on the iPhone is terrible compared to what's available for the N97 and, Apples' servers are down quite a bit too thus resulting in delayed emails.
Nokia all the way. It's just too bad that they didn't design in a better display and scrolling like Apple did. That screen looks really good and the scrolling and touch response is very good. Those are the only two things that outshine the N97 in my opinion.

Re: Poll: Nokia N97 or iPhone 3GS?

cmcken1 — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 02:14:48 -0000

And when it hangs, how's that doing? Not too good. Especially when the battery is not removable. My brother has one and it's a HUGE PILE. He hates it and wished he'd never got it. He gets two calls around the same time, call waiting, he goes to answer the second caller and it froze up solid on an incoming call. The reboot power down...how did that work? Not too good, in fact, it didn't work at all and, as a result, he had to let the battery die in order to recharge and reboot. Now, that's something no one has to deal with other than iPhone users. The only great thing about it is the touch screen technology that Apple ripped from someone elses design. That was around in the military touch screens that I worked on years ago that have capacitance touch screens ALONG with the two finger pinch zoom in / out. A friend of mine codes for the iPhone and, in no way does it blow away anything. THe screen gets stuck, or, it doesn't rotate at all, slow and crash happy browser. Apple had no clue about making web browsers. Hell, they don't even do Java but some ported C-object code that's a Java substitute so, what you see on the screen is not even what the web site looks like sometimes but how they code it to appear. Then people wonder why it crashes. Well, make the code standard and compliant with Java script and maybe it will work as good as Opera. Opera blows Safari into a ditch for speed. Safari is integrated with all the other apps and that's a great thing for interoperability but, that's about it. I found the screen to hang and not be able to type out a message when on the web client email site. The board got stuck. I had to gently tap it on the table to free it up. Sure, the scrolling is the best as is how it responds to touch input. That device was designed as a multimedia box with the radio X-mitter as an afterthought. Even the 3G models were so badly designed it was dropping most of the calls due to a lousy arse radio. Now, the new ones are overheating and discoloring. Decent phone? I would have to say no based on all the factual evidence of real world users who are in the majority of disappointing with the device overall.

Re: Poll: Nokia N97 or iPhone 3GS?

cmcken1 — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 22:08:36 -0000

What, are you serious? Cut and paste was around on my OLD 9300 communicator. Nokia has always had cut and paste as does blackberries, palm, G1 as well as most phones. Only Crapple was again late to the game to deliver that in the third round. What a joke that is- cut and paste. N97 has cut and paste and between apps just like a PC or Mac.

Re: Poll: Nokia N97 or iPhone 3GS?

cmcken1 — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 21:15:24 -0000

It's times like these where I had to go put things into perspective. I did so by dropping in over at AT&T. I spent all morning in there trying the new iPhone 3GS. Doing so made me glad I stuck with Nokia. Despite all the bugs we are having now- I would still choose a Nokia over an iPhone and here's why:

The iPhone still has issues with rotation which, my buggy N97- fairs better than the iPhone. The keyboard does not rotate on the iPhone as advertised. When I finally did get it into landscape mode, I could not find the commas, periods etc as they are on another menu- another screen. Who was the programmer that came up with that? Talk about no flow when typing. Their whole speech is about "flow" but here we have to go to another sub menu just to enter a period? WTF is that all about? Talk about impeding your workflow. Nokia's full qwerty keyboard burries Apple's in my opinion as it's all there laid out in front of you. No sub menus just to get a punctuation mark. Not well thought out at all.

Safari vs. Opera Mini. Here's some perspective that I found shocking. After I struggled two times to enter in a web address on Crapple's horrid iPhone virtual keyboard that refused to rotate by the way again when using Safari- I finally hit enter and got an error message. Ok, what happened? The address is correct when input but, at time of enter- their software cut the address thus resulting with an error and no web page. I got the address in on my second attempt vs. flying through it with the N97s full qwerty board with ease.

I hit enter on both devices and Opera pulled the site faster than Safari. Now, here's the kicker: The N97 is running in EDGE / GSM only- as I am on T-Mo and they don't support 3G so, anyway, the N97 burried the iPhone for pulling in the web page. I did this a few times to make sure it wasn't a cached page in one device and not the other. Now, whether there was a network issue on the AT&T iPhone or whatever- I don't know but, the bottom line is that I found the iPhone to be so much slower to get around on than Nokia's N97 and Safari is not that impressive as they make it seem in ads.

Contacts: On the iPhone, some genius put the search function as part of the scroll page so, if your at letter W and you want to start a new search, you have to scroll back to the top of the list just to get the search window. That doesn't make sense to me at all so, I began thinking logically that there must be another way to jump to that search window but, I could not find it nor could the sales person. It's not intuitive to where this function might be. Nokia has a fixed search window so that no matter where your at- it's there when you need it. Again, I like the N97 over the iPhone for contacts and faster workflow. As neat as they are in the iPhone and how the GUI has that "pop" I don't like it one bit to use. To me it's good to look at but, not to use. More bling bling than functionality. It may have a faster processor and way more ram but, in the end, it's real world use that proves that the iPhone is not as great as people make it out to be. It is way overrated.

The user can also use the N97 like a laptop whereas, due to the curved back of the iPhone, it's simply not possible without it wobbling all over the place plus, you can't see the screen as good as on Nokia's N97.

The camera is also better on the N97 and so much easier to use. All you have to do is open the lens cover, point aim and shoot. Then, right on the screen, there's an option for emailing the photo, using MMS, Bluetooth or Upload- way easier than on the iPhone. There's no menus to scroll through, no menus to click, it's right there as an icon on the camera screen to the right. Great workflow and, it takes better quality pics than the iPhone. I didn't test video but, pics were way nicer on the N97.

I also prefer the narrower width of the N97 as the iPhone is too wide in my opinion.

Lastly: what's the battery life on this new iPhone 3GS? I get three full days of use out of the N97 so, chalk up another point over Crapple's iPhone.

Summary: the only clear advantage that is really obvious with the iPhone in general is it's display and touch screen and it's GUI. It is very clean, sharp, crisp and clear. Even with the bright control dimmed it still looks better than the N97 set to full brightness. But, aside from that- it's a no brainer for me as to what device works better for me. Even knowing how many bugs are present in the N97 at current- I would still choose it hands down over the iPhone for ease of use, it's intuitive design and faster work flow.