Why you care bout some weird #/# "rating", given by some unknown reviewer?
Long time ago, in Russia, there was a game magazine called "Game.exe". Their main feature and curse the same time was their style of reviewing. They didn't give ratings to graphics, sound, gameplay and other stuff. They were writing very sophisticated review that looked more like prose that review. Every author had his own style and favourite genre. But since it was too complicated format for schoolboys that wanted to buy game that with 9+ "overall points" without even reading what it is about, that magazine failed to sell well.
But it was the best magazine I've ever read in my life.
The point of that story that the only thing that you need is your own opinion. Don't pay much attention to others.
Dropped calls? What dropped calls? Does he mean calling people does not work on the iPhone?
I read an article where a guy was angry about dropping calls on his iPhone. The support guy said that he only dropped about 10% and he should consider himself lucky.... http://tinyurl.com/ybb9nw9
It's a great phone with some rough edges which will be perfected in the next version, but it is too comlicated and feature packed for the average iphone user
iPhone actually does multitasking, just not for the user applications, where it artifically insists that only one user application should be running at a time. I can't believe how many people do not understand that.
going a bit back in the history, the story Apple put out with iPhone wasn't just that you can't multitask. It was that you can't have even native apps, as web was supposed to provide all apps you ever need.
well, native apps came eventually. I wonder how long Apple can keep out multitasking with vague argumentation of use time and performance.
I read an article where a guy was angry about dropping calls on his iPhone. The support guy said that he only dropped about 10% and he should consider himself lucky.... http://tinyurl.com/ybb9nw9
I can definitely state that my iPhone drops about 20% of the calls... and a lot of that time, I'm in the office and not driving about. But do you blame the phone's reception or the network?
I can definitely state that my iPhone drops about 20% of the calls... and a lot of that time, I'm in the office and not driving about. But do you blame the phone's reception or the network?
I would guess it's the mostly network. I haven't heard of anyone here in Finland having calls regularly dropped with their iphone, or any other phone for that matter. Our networks are pretty sturdy though.
Honestly how do these people keep getting the N900 before people who actually want it and realize the full potential of it as opposed to going
“Ooooh but its not as shiny as my iphone”
Nokia should give phones to this people. Not before and not even after. This people are committed to finish Nokia. All American carriers refuse to sell Nokia phones.
That said I also confess that nokia it’s only reacting with pressure. If the iphone didn’t arrived 3 years ago they would sill stay with n95 style mobiles.
It seems a lot of people are angered by the 6/10 score and the comments left on his blog wasn't helpful. The score is a bit tough, but the review was pretty balanced. He said plenty good things about the device despite the fact he didn't like it that much, which speaks much more loudly than a Nokia fan singing praises.
I don't think the review is very informative though. For example, it mentioned that the touch interface is "painful" and "challenging", but he didn't mention how. Most of the reviewers seems to think the touch screen is pretty responsive, some even claimed that it's better than iphone's. Therefore, I am very interested in what's bothering him. Lack of multi touch maybe?
He did mention the battery life was better than iphones, which is very encouraging considering how small the battery is.
iphone and the n-series always appeal to different groups of people. To me, the lack of camera flash kills iphone, but to others, it may not be a big deal. I also didn't like the lack of turn by turn navigation altough tomtom is releasing an app for it. So far, I still rate my n95 above n900 though due to the lack of Garmin gps software, but that's just me.
