Thread: Awesome and Classic Nokia Phones!
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2015-04-02 , 10:07
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Originally Posted by chenliangchen View Post
My all-time favourite form-factor.

It's a shame that form-factor ditched on 2007, the successor naver came. And why N95 sells much more than N93i.

When folded like "laptop" it was perfect for playing games. I remember I got the (un)official N-Gage client 2.0 and bought tons of games.

Optical zoom is great even nowadays, and taking picture in a camcorder style is just so cool.

I can control music with the side joystick even when folder is closed. I can see the track info inside the mirror.

So much memory about it. And I miss it.
Having used the Nokia N93i for a few years (after the great Siemens SX1 and before the greater Nokia N900), I'll tell you why:
  • the keyboard was horrible - the worst keyboard I've ever used. Typing sideways wasn't the worst thing, the quality was the key factor. You never knew if you pressed a key, because there was little to no feedback. Even after months/years of using it, you would accidentaly press the 'Reject call' instead of the tiny 'Backspace' key that was right next to it and you would do it too often to be acceptable. I can remember the rage of losing long texts, just because of the bad design decision. Too bad the 'Reject call' key behavior was changed to 'Close app' instead of the original 'Minimize' from older Symbian versions.
  • camera cover - sure, optical zoom was nice, but the camera cover was almost useless, as it would fall of (or even break) almost instantly. I remember not using the camera at all in later days, because it was scratched and I didn't want to buy another useless camera cover.
  • slowliness of the system

Other than that, I must agree that the form factor was interesting and it had quite a few nice things:
  • the OLED display - it was nice before it stop functioning right after the warranty period
  • flashlight and the ease of turning it on

Overall, it was quite a bad experience, though. Due to the bad keyboard of the N93i, playing N-Gage games was much more fun on the Siemens SX1

My brother had the N95 at the very same time and I would say it was much more reliable.
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