Smartphone & Pocket PC magazine - Comments for "First thoughts of the Nokia N95 & Iâ€™ll, in the future, publish a lot of Symbian info too"

I don't totally agree that

I don't totally agree that on all N95's the remote party will NOT hear the beeps - I think this entirely depends on the firmware version, and there are many. Also, why you even reviewed Vito audio notes is beyond me - maybe because you're a WM guy. An even better solution you failed to mention is Total Recall by Killer Mobile Software (my company) - compare this against any of the solutions out there and you'll find we're light years ahead of the competition.

Cheers!

josh @ KM

You mean the beeps every 15 second? I haven't encountered anything like that on my Nokia N95-1. But that's a slighltly different model - Nokia's engineers may have left out the "beep" feature (that is, more of an annoyance) from the N95-1, while they did (re)implement / (re)enable it in the 8GB.

If that's the problem, I recommend switching to Ultimate Voice Recorder instead, which does (or, at least, is supposed to) supress these beeps.

I also recommend posting a help request to the AAS and the Symbian-Freak forums on these questions (click the links) so that people actually having an N95 8GB can also help / chime in.

Shantz, sorry for the misunderstanding. I won't really "pollute" my articles with Symbian-related info: in general, just some 2-3 additional columns in each chart and 1-2 additional sections in the article. The vast majority of the article remains WM-only, as it's my "home" operating system. Symbian (as with my Palm OS- or Symbian-related remarks in some of my articles) remains just a "side" extra in these articles, not mainstream stuff. That is, there won't be much changes in my next articles, just additional info on Symbian, which will prove to be VERY useful particularly for WM software developers.

In the meantime, I've had some heated debates / discussions HERE on these matters (skip the initial article), where I've also announced Symbian will be a small "extra" and "gift" for the casual readers and developers alike.

Dale,

1. N95 speed: as opposed to what several people have stated, I've found the N95 pretty quick & responsive - with the eyes of a Windows Mobile user. It's mainly the camera that is pretty slow - but, after all, WM cameras aren't much faster either. Furthermore, if you deploy more than 10-15 MIDlets on a storage card, after a reboot, accessing the menu will halt for 10-20 seconds at least. This is pretty similar to Windows Mobile's reading the icons from the EXE files after a soft reset and, therefore, pausing upon displaying the Start menu or folders under it.

2. The battery life is in no way good. With active Net usage & browsing, it turned out to be better than that of the 520 MHz Intel XScale-based, VGA HTC Universal (operating over GPRS, not UMTS, where the battery life of the Universal is even more dismal) but much worse than the TI OMAP-based, QVGA and, therefore, really battery-friendly HTC Wizard.

3. The HTC Kaiser (Tilt) has a Qualcomm MSM7200-based GPS, as opposed to the now industry-standard SirfStarIII (for comparison, the N95 has the previous-generation SirfStarII Low Power, according to Nokia, for battery usage reasons. I certainly think this is a flawed explanation (excuse) on their part because most people would surely prefer quick & reliable GPS to the slightly (NOT much) extended battery life the prev-gen Low Power chipset offers). According to the folks HERE, HERE and HERE, it's not THAT bad. Some state it's a tad worse than SirfStarIII, some state there's not much difference.

Smartphone &amp; Pocket PC magazine - Comments for "First thoughts of the Nokia N95 &amp; Iâ€™ll, in the future, publish a lot of Symbian info too"

I don't totally agree that

Smartphone & Pocket PC magazine - Comments for "First thoughts of the Nokia N95 & Iâ€™ll, in the future, publish a lot of Symbian info too"