So I got a Nokia E75. Great phone, with some awesome features. Except for two things; the battery life sucks, and some of the best features of the phone seem to be poorly implemented or executed.
To elaborate, the high-level feature set that I was interested in was
- A-GPS
- HSDPA / HSUPA
- Not one, but two! keyboards. T9 keyboard, and a slide-out QWERTY
- Symbian Series 60, version 3, feature pack 2 (read latest, great Nokia OS)
- improved messaging support
- tons more
Sounds great, but what doesn't work ?
- the 1-business day battery
- the fact that the built in E-mail client doesn't understand Destinations, Nokia's implementation of access-point bonding (i.e. try WLAN A if its present, otherwise WLAN B if its present, and then as last resort, 3G)
- the fact that the built-in accelerometer doesn't seem to work with the tap-to-silence feature
- the stupid Vodafone firmware on it (which amongst other things disables the built-in Nokia SIP client
So, how to get around these things ?
- Go read this thread, and download the Internet telephony client
- Go and download Birdstep SmartConnect, which implements bonding correctly
- Charge the damn thing daily
- Change the firmware to make it a generic Nokia phone (haven't figured this one out yet)
I hope a new firmware upgrade comes out soon, because this is currently not that great. But it beats the pants off an iPhone, which, BTW, can't even do any of these things that are badly implemented.
Handy tip: I bought an application which I see as very important to me; Best Profiles auto-switches the phone profile to a silent one when I have a calendar entry, and changes it back when its scheduled to finish. Now that is useful!
