VC’s Techie CockTail

For those who had or seen Nokia N95 8 GB, then according to me they won’t see any major differences but for new users looking for a multimedia / gaming phone here is a slivery black slider phone which might be just for you provided you can live with some glitches.

• First & foremost the slider seems more slimmer than N95 and tad lighter. Its official measurements being 103 x 50 x 16 mm, and weighing 128g. But in hand it didn’t feel like a premium handset to me.
• The front face of the slider has a 2.6″ 240 x 320 16 million color OLED screen. The picture looks great in respect of color reproduction but a higher resolution screen would have been great.
• Call quality and sound quality wise it was a typical Nokia with no problems
• The 369 MHz processor with 128MB RAM made the running of symbian S60 rel 3.2 FP2 nice and smooth to use.
• The accelerometer was a nice option but it was tad too sensitive
• Connectivity wise it was packed with Quadband GSM, 3G,Bluetooth, Wireless LAN, HSDPA  and a GPS receiver too
• The 5 megapixel camera was good to use . Performance and features similar to N95 i think
• The media player with the stereo speakers and 3.5 mm audio jack makes it a nice portable media player coupled with the 8GB micro SD card provided in the package
• The usual set of softwares like quick office, pdf reader, dictionary and a flash capable browser makes it a capable smartphone
• I always liked S60 phone’s themes and here they have taken it to the next step by providing a way to design our own themes.
• It had the N-Gage gaming platform and the games were quite nice but most of them were trial versions only

Actually this was my friend’s phone , and within a month of purchase its call speaker had gone and after service one of its stereo speakers is not working and it seems it has to be sent to a Delhi service center. After buying a phone for 23,000/- bucks(470 $) I would have preferred a more reliable phone……

written by Vignesh \\ tags: N series, N85, Nokia