RE: Mobile phone for web browsing and HA use?

["Paul Gordon" <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Aside from the usual, expected shortcomings common to most modern
phones
(cr8p battery life, sluggish OS speed, etc.) there are more fundamental
problems with it...

*everyone* I speak to on it complains of terrible echo at their end of
the conversation. It's definitely my N73 that causes it, and it happens
when the other end is a landline too.

The call quality is sh1te, - not only the audio quality, (which is), but
also the signal strength, and its tendency to drop calls frequently. I
don't think it's an exaggeration to say that 50% of all calls get
dropped part-way through & I have to reconnect. I have heard reports of
other people reporting both the above problems too (including one of
SWMBOs colleagues)

The OS is buggy... the handset has an annoying tendency to frequently
dial the 1st number in the address book, EVEN WHEN the keypad is
locked... - *sooo* many times I've picked up the handset only to find it
is connected to Admiral Insurance, and endlessly sitting there listening
to their automated switchboard repeatedly going through the "Press 1
for..." options... I've had to add a dummy entry at the top of the
addressbook just to stop this happening.

Also, I'll put it away with the keypad locked, and the display showing
the "home" screen. Then at some point later I'll pick it up, and
it
won't be in the home screen any more, it will be in the phonebook,
displaying a contacts details...  - of course the keypad is locked, so I
can't cancel that & return to the home screen without unlocking
first...
(very annoying).

Applications are slow to launch, it feels like running XP on an old P3
machine... just generally not satisfyingly responsive.

Bluetooth is unreliable when paired with my laptop (although to be fair,
that could just as easily be the laptops fault). However, the N73
supports LESS Bluetooth functions than my old 6310i - E.G. when paired
with my TomTom GO 910 it doesn't support downloading the phonebook, or
accessing text messages, both of which my 6310i did flawlessly (so much
for progress!)

Every now & then, it just seems to go "mental" - launching
apps that I
don't want and didn't (AFAIK) run...

Oh, and I have changed the handset once, and all the abovementioned
problems were common to both of them, so it wasn't just a duff handset
that I had...

I'm just waiting for the N95 to become available before I change it, and
if the N95 isn't any better in all the areas above, then I'm thinking of
trying out an 8800.

Paul G.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Paul Crate
> Sent: 12 March 2007 12:21
> To: UKHA_D Group
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Mobile phone for web browsing and HA use?
>
> What is the problem with the N73?
>
> I am in two minds between getting this or waiting for the n95.  A
friend
> of mine has the n73 and he said that there is probs with it.
>
> Cheers
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Paul Gordon
> Sent: 12 March 2007 11:03
> To: UKHA_D Group
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Mobile phone for web browsing and HA use?
>
> I can resolutely NOT recommend the Nokia N73... biggest sack of sh1te
> that ever there was....
>
> The N95 is due to be available "real soon now"; I'm hoping
that one
will
> be somewhat better...
>
> Paul G.
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On
Behalf
> Of Paul Gale
> > Sent: 12 March 2007 10:58
> > To: UKHA_D Group
> > Subject: [ukha_d] Mobile phone for web browsing and HA use?
> >
> > Time to replace my phone again:
> >
> > What's the dogs' danglies at the moment in terms of phones with
large
> screens, slim size that will
> > properly surf the web and display CCTV video (G3 from Geovision),
HA
> server pages etc?
> >
> > Ta,
> >
> > Paul.
>
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