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Satio - mixed experience so far. |
jetsetwilly
Joined: Jun 17, 2005
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Well I must say that based on 2 days with the phone I'm torn. I've got it configured nicely and I'm happy with the general setup but there are some significant niggles which mean I may still return it.
1. Battery life - Absolutely awful. Fullly charged at 5pm last night. By 7am this morning it was down to a quarter. I had barely used it and nothing was running at all.
2. GPS - Very slow to get a lock outside . My N95 was almost instant, but this is taking up to 15 minutes.
3. 3.5 Jack, well lack of. It's a pain, the included adapter cable is long and just creates hassle. The location of the socket is also poor and means you can't use it with my car holder and most others.
4. Stability - Whilst it's not awful I've had 3 lock ups so far resulting in needing to remove the battery. Worse that that on day 1 I had to do a hard reset because one of the themes became corrupted. Selecting it sent the phone into meltdown and restarting it didn't solve the issue.
5. Signal strength - It's definitely far weaker than my previous phones. My house has always had a full strength signal with vodafone on various phones, I'm now stuck with a couple of bars.
As for the positives, as you would expect the camera is excellent. The screen is very nice and the phone just has a very nice feel to it but I'm really not sure that those factors justify the cost when balanced against the cons I've listed above.
I would love to hear from other people and see if they have similar issues. |
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goldenface
Joined: Dec 17, 2003
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From: Liverpool City Centre
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Hi jetsetwilly.
I've just been reading the manual from the  site.
Under Location Services and GPS it says that - The first time that you use the GPS, it may take up to ten minutes before your location is found.
Is this still the case?
The demos I have seen on Youtube show the GPS locating quite fast.
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gregpot2000
Joined: Nov 23, 2008
Posts: 136
From: Huddersfield, West Yorkshire,
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I have to say the gps on my Satio is lightning quick and alot faster than my c905. It's surprised me as well as GPS is only supposed to work outside with a clear view of the sky, and alot of the time on my Satio I can get a signal sat in the middle of a building no problem - even my Tom Tom can't do that.
Although I am still surprised about the Geo-Tagging, you can do it and set it to on, but yet there is no option to "view on map" like on the c905. I know people say you can use pc software to view the data, but not really the same is it?
One problem I am facing though, when i first loaded up the You Tube app, I accidently set the language to Spanish, and no matter how hard i look there seems to be no option to change it back! so everytime I search for something i get Spanish video's! anyone know where the option for this is? |
goldenface
Joined: Dec 17, 2003
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From: Liverpool City Centre
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@gregpot2000
Well that's good to hear about the gps. I'm coming from the C905 like you. What would you say has impressed you the most about Satio so far (my phones comes on Tuesday)?
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jetsetwilly
Joined: Jun 17, 2005
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Afraid the gps isn't getting any better and it's probably my biggest gripe. Once I finally got a lock today, it was of no use because it couldn't hold it. I've been trying google maps and Sygic maps 7 and both were effectively rendered useless.
Given the positive feedback from other people I guess it could be a faulty phone so I might go for a straight swap before abandoning the Satio. |
HxH
Joined: Dec 26, 2008
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about Battery life you should decrease brightness helping so much
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Toney_Ericsson
Joined: Feb 20, 2005
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From: United Kingdom
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The battery life on mine is more than my C905, I was using the phone on the web and talking all day long and by the end of the day had half a battery left.
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sdx
Joined: Oct 14, 2009
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Thought i'd share my experiences after my first week.
Battery life is not the greatest though better than the c905. I think forgetting to close applications is not helping that situation though, many times I have left my web browser running along with a few others.
Camera is top notch
No freezes as such.
Start up is longer than any phone i've had before.
My main gripe at the moment is mainly with Vodafone about taking the playNow app and FB app off and also messing up the application store and losing it. also seems SE have a lack of support with the phone not been listed on many sections of their own website.
So far its been a good experience, even my girlfriend enjoys using it and she is useless with phones, |
voda_jon
Joined: Nov 28, 2004
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sorry to hear ur having problems jetsetwilly... i've now had mine over 2 weeks and not experienced any of the symptons you have had.
Battery lasts 2 days with moderate internet and camera use. i've never had any freeze ups or hangs...
I'm running the latest vodafone firmware and using my O2 sim and signal is great, much better than my iPhone 3G would give me.
Make sure u r exiting programs properly, if they are still running in the background then the phone will be using more battery power and thus ur battery will deplete more quickly! |
SE-Naz
Joined: Dec 23, 2003
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From: LONDON
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@voda_jon
How are you finding the phone compared to the iPhone 3G???
It would be good to know your thoughts on this
Cheers
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pt020
Joined: Aug 14, 2006
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From: Amsterdam NL
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On 2009-10-18 15:09:57, gregpot2000 wrote:
One problem I am facing though, when i first loaded up the You Tube app, I accidently set the language to Spanish, and no matter how hard i look there seems to be no option to change it back! so everytime I search for something i get Spanish video's! anyone know where the option for this is?
when you on you tube scrol down the page ... there you have "Current language" click on the spanish and there you have the choice of different languages
[ This Message was edited by: pt020 on 2009-10-19 15:47 ] |
jetsetwilly
Joined: Jun 17, 2005
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Thanks for the continued feedback everyone.
The battery life does seem to be improving with every charge and I've had no new lock ups so I'm really only bothered by the poor gps issue. Could just be a fault with that so I might get them to do a switch if possible. Shame as I've got it all configured nicely now !
Handytaskman is helping with the application shutdowns and I'm keeping it clear where possible. |
etaab
Joined: Jan 23, 2004
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From: UK - South Yorkshire
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GPS on mobile phones is a funny issue. Through my experience ive found sometimes theres no reason for the phone not to get a lock, but refuses, then other times ive been surprised at the poor conditions in which my Nokia N95 picked up the GPS. My N95 never seems to pick up GPS when set still, but when speeding along the motorway at 70mph its often picks up the GPS signal within seconds.
I always keep assistance off, as ive found through trial and error it can take longer for the GPS to lock if it also has help from cell tower signals. As strange as that sounds, its a bit like the added information from the cell towers confuses the phone(s) further.
Im looking forward to getting my Satio, but im worried about the lack of Nokia maps ive become accustomed to this past 2 years. Is Google maps fully downloadable or do the maps on the Satio stream as per other Google map equipped phones ?
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gregpot2000
Joined: Nov 23, 2008
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From: Huddersfield, West Yorkshire,
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Thank you for taking the time to reply to my You Tube post.
But I was actually talking about the dedicated app, that can be found by going to Organiser>My App's>You Tube.
there doesnt even seem to be any settings that can be changed on it! |
iqmaster158
Joined: Jan 18, 2008
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I shld recieve my Satio sometime next week and i am gettin really eager. I have my C905 now and i was really unsure to buy the satio or not. I have fear that it will be a waste of my hard earned money without deeper thinking The only thing i hated about c905 was the keyboard (...and GPS yes). SMS is my nightmare. Still, is 420 pounds worth it? |
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Posted: 2009-10-18 10:58
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