24 August 2010

Nokia E72 : Worthwhile to buy ????

Hi all
Hera are few experimental stability problems listed here:
  1. GPS: loses quite often the GPS signal and stop Maps application after a few times getting lost, this happens some days, not others....

  2. Email works so, so... This weeks it has begun to ask for passwords of my gmail and yahoo accounts without any reasons, last time it happened I had to remove all mail boxes, recreate them and then use a tremendous procedure to make it sync my gmail contacts and calendar. All of that creates multiple copies of my contacts and appointments (dozens, sometimes thousands....). In fact it creates copies as long as it doesn't successfully sync every thing and then it keeps syncing all the copies with all the sources (E72, gmail, gcalendar, ovi). It happens every other month. THIS IS VERY VERY ANNOYING and non professional.

  3. Random reboots : once a week...wether you are using updated version or not. dosen't matter to reboot.
  4. Battery life is no more than 2 days without wifi but with Bluetooth and 3G....

  5. It keeps finding some contacts with conflicts but self solve it almost every day! There is usually no reason for that (I did not changed anything about these particular contacts). From time to time, I have to hand solve some of those conflicts.

  6. The gps search function is not reliable: it needs to be questioned on line and doesn't find anything if you don't ask for words in the same order: quite a problem when you search in a non English language.

  7. The screen resolution and size are more or less inappropriate with some graphics in the maps application, ovi store.

  8. Loading html mails is so slow that I prefer not to do it: again a basic counter functionality with the so claimed "Mail machine" marketing position.

  9. Some warning message, usually displayed for a few seconds, vanish from the screen before I can just unlock the screen saver: they are not stored anywhere, you just should keep permanently an eye on that screen guy. Usually those are the ones that requires some real care from you.

  10. Some warning messages reflecting just a loss of 3G connection (quite usual for a gps in a tunnel for instance or just driving on a motorway in the countryside) do need some confirm action from you while they could very well be vanishing after a few seconds: in fact this right the opposite from point 9: no delay can be set off and you do not have a "do not ask me again" setup. Neither a "keep a log for that" setup...

  11. Network loss is so high even in your room it goes away.

  12. Takes hell lot of time to get re-registered with network if you just make profile ONLINE after a flight.

  13. Ovi keeps creating contacts named "Unknown".

  14. Ovi reformats your addresses (postal ones) for a non standard manner. That makes it a mess within each contact. See point 11 above for my opinion.

  15. Ovi limits the number of emails addresses per contact.

  16. The roughly one thousand contacts par phone is rapidly reached with the sync problems at points 2, 5, 11, 12, 13 happen. By the end, I think, they have never had any professional use of their phones...

  17. Battery life with GPS is 2 hours or so: don't use it if not in car with their power cable.

  18. Geotagging works every other day: you can not use simultaneously nokia maps and geotagging for photos. It gives random positioning in any application.

  19. MEMORY FULL : nokia's native error

  20. Loading contacts more than 3800 cracks the contact search function.
This is a short list but it ruins any serious use of this machine: what works one day cease to function the other day, what is important to you is not to them.

Obviously, the hardware is correct. The software is ruined by no testing before broadcast. Nokia should fix these issues if they check these...

IS NOKIA E72 WORTHWHILE TO BUY ????

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