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N95-1 for a week - Day 4, 5,6,7 thoughts - N95-3 sounds great!

Posted Mon, 2007-10-08 21:38 by Roland

More N95-1 observations:

  1. shutter lag is less, still too much lag in general (sensor turn on lag, focus lag and shutter lag)
  2. I seem to get more out of memory errors on the web browser than the N93 browser
  3. Video stabilization like the video stabilization on the N93 doesn't seem to do much
  4. I prefer the larger keys on the N93, but love the N95 compact form factor
  5. Assuming the doubled free RAM on the N95-3 allows you to run ShoZu, Twitter in the web browser and the Jaiku mobile client simultaneously without crashing, the N95-3 looks to be a killer device. for mobile multi-media creators like myself. I can't recommend the N95-1 but based on the early reviews for the N95-3, I can definitely recommend the N95-3; too bad Nokia isn't giving N95-1 North American owners a rebate like Apple did for iPhone early adopters


N95-1 for a week - Day 3 thoughts

Posted Wed, 2007-10-03 20:56 by Roland

More N95-1 observations:

  1. Had my first spontaneous power off of the N95-1 3/4 of the way through my commute to work this morning. ShoZu bug? S60 bug? N95-1 firmware bug? Who knows. Very annoying
  2. Webkit browser still doesn't work properly with Twitter i.e. you don't see your twitter immediately like you do if you twitter from Firefox
  3. Video looks great. Indistinguishable to my not very discerning eyes: Check out 5:21 of my morning commute video
  4. N95 is not as conducive to videoing on a bicycle as the N93. Not a surprise since there is no pistol grip so you have to hold the phone upright which means you can accidentally turn off your recording which is what I did!
  5. ShoZu still hasn't crashed on me yet, yay! But after about 30 or so photos, the camera app (I think it's the camera app, maybe it's the gallery process doing the thumbnails?) slows the phone down which looks like a crash but really isn't!


N95-1 for a week - Day 2 thoughts

Posted Tue, 2007-10-02 16:28 by Roland

Day 2 thoughts:

  1. Seems faster shot to shot than the N93
  2. Photos seem more vivid (more sharpening)
  3. EDGE s*cks but just like on the N73 less s*cky than GPRS
  4. Video seems just as good as the N93
  5. Got my first out of memory errors from the browser (at this point I only have ShoZu installed and a few videos and a few photos :-) )
  6. ShoZu owes me lots of beer :-P for the number of people I have taught how to configure ShoZu over WiFi and how to config ShoZu in general (it's not that bad but it could be improved, the flickr authorize screen could be more obvious and that "chess piece" capcha has to go)
  7. Just like using a Tom Tom GPS puck with a N93 and N80, the GPS lock is problematic and works erratically

N95-1 for a week -blink reaction

Posted Tue, 2007-10-02 01:48 by Roland

I am doing a mobile study with Simon Fraser University and have the original N95 for a week.

"Blink" :-) reactions after 12 hours with an N95-1:

  1. The double slide *does* appear flimsy as reported by many others
  2. It is much lighter than the N93
  3. Limited battery life reported by others hasn't affected me yet
  4. Not sure I like the multi-media key menu - after over 6 months with the N93, I am used to invoking ShoZu by hitting the multimedia key and then up; the N95 way (multi-media key and then use arrow keys to scroll to ShoZu) is slower and takes more keystrokes
  5. ShoZu hasn't crashed on me yet ! Yay! But I have only taken about 20 or so pictures. I'll stress ShoZu more during my commute tomorrow morning by taking 40 or so photos during my 40 minute door to  door commute
  6. Love the hardware volume keys (which I believe the N91 had)! Wish the N93 had that.
  7. Love the smaller form factor. Don't miss the optical zoom of the N93 yet.
  8. Menus changed yet again on the N95 versus the N93. It's a bit disconcerting but not hard to find where things are!
  9. Screen seems sharper
  10. Photos seem better. Need to compare with N93. Haven't tried a video yet


Lazy Web - Give me unlimited mobile uploads to a video service of my choice over WiFi

Posted Wed, 2007-08-08 07:03 by Roland

I've asked for this before from ShoZu but nobody is listening :-) ! In the wrap up meeting today of the mobile rich media research study at SFU at that I was part of the last two months, I expressed my frustration at not being able to fluidly upload videos (sorry but email, FTP or Bluetooth or USB just don't cut it from a mobile device) to my favourite video sites like I can easily do with photos. I know videos are much much bigger but we have phones that support WiFi. so LazyWeb let's do it. And I'll pay! The USB / Bluetooth chain of pain doesn't work if you take as many videos as I do and if you use a phone like the N93 which takes gorgeous videos that have huge files which easily exceed the limits of today's mobile uploaders (the biggest I know is Vox which supports video uploads up to 50MB; unfortunately this doesn't work since the N93 videos can easily be well over 100MB).

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