Nokia N95 – some issues April 25, 2007
Posted by mark in : Device, Geo, Telecoms, VoIP, Wireless , trackbackLast year, I mentioned that I’d be looking for a new phone, and listed some desirable features. Nokia’s N95 looks and feels less attractive than I’d expected, but is novel at the moment in being GPS-enabled (and has a lot of other features).
GPS is a feature I’d particularly like to try, as well as some VoIP and photo applications I’ve read about over the last couple of years …to better understand the user experience, issues and other possible services and business cases. I don’t like ‘walled gardens’. (Mapperz has listed some free applications.)
Dean Bubley reports that handsets with built-in GPS were “flavour of the month” at 3GSM. Mobile Weblog reports that GPS device makers are developing mobile handsets, and a WSJ article that Nokia will use GPS (and LBS services) as a strategy to maintain its handset prices.
Issues :
- Operator-disabled features : Orange and Vodafone in the UK have disabled some features, to prevent SIP use, and prevent 3rd-party VoIP apps (which support SIP) from integrating with other features. This is at odds with their advertising, and UK Trading Standards and OfCom are getting involved. The Truphone video [via Andy Abramson] explains some of it. I want to try other VoIP apps …and to use wifi as the bearer, when available, not be forced to use cellular by the operator. (I’d prefer not to pay the upfront cost for a SIM-free version, nor switch from Orange).
- Poor battery life means that you won’t want to leave all the ‘options’ (3G, wifi, GPS) enabled. It may limit the ways I use it, but apparently the battery is the best available.
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