tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12906299.post4090586414279862311..comments2023-05-26T09:52:30.568-04:00Comments on This Old Blog: Apple rocks, Nokia sucksBillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06749942763035029635noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12906299.post-56308209966849173942009-06-25T18:04:01.524-04:002009-06-25T18:04:01.524-04:00Had nothing but Nokia Phones for years. N90, N95, ...Had nothing but Nokia Phones for years. N90, N95, N95 8Gig. All great phones. Waited a year for the flagship N97, pre-ordered two months in advance. Finally got it. It crashed after a day and a half. I mean CRASHED. Have you ever had a phone CRASH? Called Nokia, and it took them a week to finally issue an RA. They issued a Call Tag with FedEx. Pickup turned out to be the same day I also had FedEx delivering a package. Well, the delivery guy picked up the package by mistake and the pickup guy came too late. After two days screwing around with FedEx, I finally got the package back. Now I have been on the phone on hold with three different Nokia departments since they will not re-issue the Call Tag that Fed Ex cancelled. And nobody can give me an address to send the package to on my own dime! Can you believe it? One guy flipantly told me that it was on the web site. Well, it is NOT. Not only was the N97 a HUGE dissapointment, the experience of returning it has been a fucking nightmare. So what did I do? I bought an iPhone 3G-S. WOW!!! What a phone. Awesome. Sorry Nokia, you guys have shot yourselves in the FOOT. Nokia used to be great, NOW YOU SUCK!!!cbfirthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08654673756817594335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12906299.post-77734975564350590582008-12-13T18:19:00.000-05:002008-12-13T18:19:00.000-05:00I retired my aging LG phone after 4 years of great...I retired my aging LG phone after 4 years of great service and replaced it with a Nokia, thinking I was stepping up to something better. I just returned the Nokia after the most frustrating month of my life: non-intuitive mystery menus, with the common items 6 or 7 levels deep; forced advertising at the root menu level that you can't move or get rid of and must click past in perpetuity; photos kept in non-sequential order with no thumbs to scroll by; keypad designed so that your mis-keys will launch you into additional cost service areas; vibrate mode can't be felt, resulting in missed calls and texts. What was simple, intuitive and required few clicks on the faithful old LG was complicated by extraneous and frustrating menu navigation and many, many clicks on Nokia. <BR/><BR/>Conspiracy theory #1: Nokia was designed by hyper-obsessive safety fanatics to reduce cell phone use while driving, as it takes both hands and 2 minutes of concentrated effort to do what other phones do easily and quickly with one hand, by touch.<BR/><BR/>Conspiracy theory #2: Balrogs and Orcs are heavily invested in Nokia stocks until Frodo completes his journey someday. <BR/><BR/>Well, my wife convinced me to get an I-phone -- already lovin' it! For starters, I can pull it out of my pocket, still locked, and with one single click, see the date and the time. Wow -- simple and effective. Wow -- intuitive and easy to use. Doesn't take 20 hours a month to figure out what used to be simple.<BR/><BR/>Go Frodo!!!Mustanghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05081148142646722499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12906299.post-77546091787631548712008-10-12T08:02:00.000-04:002008-10-12T08:02:00.000-04:00Considering how long ago I wrote this, and the his...Considering how long ago I wrote this, and the history that's transpired since, your comment makes little sense. The App Store has since allowed third party apps (in spite of the controversy surrounding the acceptance of a half-dozen of them), and Flash, in spite of still missing in action, isn't missed all that very much.<BR/><BR/>No, the Nokia 770/800/810 still continues to suck greatly. And the iPhone/iPod Touch continues to rock on.Billhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06749942763035029635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12906299.post-56804519345821145812008-10-12T06:10:00.000-04:002008-10-12T06:10:00.000-04:00NO third party apps, no adobe flash? Gosh, it suck...NO third party apps, no adobe flash? Gosh, it sucks.Samuel Siihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04174568308303740601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12906299.post-6094577644447273602007-01-22T12:51:00.000-05:002007-01-22T12:51:00.000-05:00not even Java on the iPhone... by my experience, y...not even Java on the iPhone... by my experience, you get bored with phones very fast, no matter how sophisticated the tech is... all i really want is good voice quality & texting capabilities... does combination of iPod+Phone solve that?? time will tell...<br /><br />and what is the use of OS X if there are no 3rd party apps? you could put lotsa eye candy on any other OS for the same effect...Laxman Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01701864601448565132noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12906299.post-48355729153749454432007-01-14T14:48:00.000-05:002007-01-14T14:48:00.000-05:00The iPhone has two main flaws, in my opinion, and ...The iPhone has two main flaws, in my opinion, and for some people these flaws may override all of its huge advantages:<br /><br />1) You must use Cingular (I used to, don't anymore, and there's a reason for it)<br /><br />2) Jobs claims they aren't going to allow 3rd party software on the device. (or non-controlled apps, hard to decode between Slashdot and the original article)Derekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14640499079957252690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12906299.post-70299175213233394412007-01-11T19:57:00.000-05:002007-01-11T19:57:00.000-05:00I kind of agree with you, iPhone seems to be quite...I kind of agree with you, iPhone seems to be quite interesting. But I still have some different thoughts on this subject.<br /><br />First, you are comparing two little different products here. One is already available internet tablet with big high resolution screen, hackable open platform and some great software. The other is a hype product that can not be bought anywhere, does not have FCC authorization, lacks openess and locks the user to Cingular for two years. And is a phone.<br /><br />I think iTunes is one of the features people are going to love on iPhone, but unfortunately it is limited to usb only. So even if iPhone has both edge and wlan, they can not be used. It's bad.<br /><br />But like I said, I totally agree with you that iPhone has some great features and is interesting. I still love my 770 and I don't consider changing it to iPhone. It's because what I need is an internet tablet, not a phone, I need programmable and open platform and there are other reasons too. If I needed a phone, I would go for something smaller than iPhone. My current phone is a cheap basic one with several years of age and it is smaller than iPhone. iPhone is thinner though and it's of course a great thing.<br /><br />You say (about wlan on N800) "That means you get to struggle finding a hotspot". I am afraid it's not true. With iPhone you can use the phone to get internet access. Same thing with N800. Only difference is that since N800 is an internet tablet, it does not have a phone integrated, so your internet connection would lay in your pocket and communicate via bluetooth with N800.<br /><br />Maybe you are interested on <a href="http://www.mobileburn.com/review.jsp?Id=547"><br />this review of smartphone from 2003</a> also. It's very interesting. Small Finnish company had a smartphone several years ago and it had many of the features that are now praised as new and innovative after Steve's keynote. Swithches automatically from landscape to portrait, used with fingers, motion sensing, mp3 player, real internet browser... And one quite interesing: some kind of force feedback on touch screen. I would love to see and try it. You could really feel the buttons when you press them.<br /><br />The UI of iPhone looks smooth, but I still wouldn't say that the UI of N800 pales in comparison. I believe both of them are easy and intuitive to use and both of them look beautiful. Apple has great eye for usability, I hope the lauch of iPhone makes competitors to pay more attention to ease of use.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08082950580077287404noreply@blogger.com