On 2008-10-30 17:30:33, Hrc4u wrote:
On 2008-10-30 09:25:32, marty mcfly wrote:
On 2008-10-30 00:03:09, Hrc4u wrote:
I don't believe that for a second, sorry. The slider mechanism doesn't work like that. The phone locks when the slider goes down, and only when it's half way. An open slider would have no effect on locking the phone.
He can't have had the phone for a week yet anyway.
well it true anyway!! ..in that case his magnet switch or whatever is triggering the on/unlock status must be loose or something then...(he bought the phone 24/10..so ok...he had it almost 1week...and already broken
/H
Viral counter-marketing by Nokia who don't have an answer to this model (yet). Total rubbish, unless he used the handset as a hammer or had it run over by a train, this doesn't happen to slides. Too many readers here are too happy to believe it - could be an epidemic of acute sour-grape-itis ? (It's not cheap, even when 'free' - requires a hefty contract. SIM-less it's steep.)
The Nokia employee (or friend-of-a ) who seeded this viral campaign will argue like mad that this
did happen to him and may even post pictures to'prove' it. Phone is in warranty - by now he should have had it replaced by a brand new one (can't convince me that the new one did the same; mine doesn't)...
Other claims about
picture quality seem to be of 2 kinds: there are also some possible competitor mud-slinging campaigns, but far more are simply
unrealistic expectations. There is no magic phone that does brilliant pictures when used by a clueless dummy. "
It's not the camera, stoopid - it's the photographer!" And this is a
photographers' phone, designed and made for people who understand exposure, lighting conditions, optics, ISO-s and lots more. As was the k850 (also much whined about) - excellent phone, with which I have won a few photographic awards. I got decent results from a W900 before that, and from a S700, too (you may want to check out
http://www.flickr.com/photos/maistora/sets/ - there are sets from each past phone I had, many shots are in 'Most Interesting' and in 'Explored').
If you don't want to bother to learn about photography and just want to be a 'happy snapper' - do NOT buy this phone! You'll be far better off with any Walkman phone or, indeed, with an iPhone (the best non-camera phone in the world. Period.)
In case you think I might be a SE 'under-cover' marketer, I'll tell you
where the 905 truly disappoints:
- Battery life: I am routinely switching off 3G (which sucks juice like a black hole) and it still can't do more than 2 days with average use. Set to 'GPRS only' my older SE phones would last 3-4 days before recharge. With GPS on, my battery ends in hours, not days. They could have put a better battery (latest technology or just larger physical size, as in other models) when they have stuffed so many power-hungry fuctions here
- GPS receiver: a joke. Totally unfit for purpose (navigation in places where most people need it: in cars and/or in urban environments). Without a clear sky it is simply 'not there',and even taken to a window it takes ages to find those sats (and I am in a flat suburban area with no hils or big buildings nearby). Move a little and it loses them. In the car it can't see through the roof, so you need a cabrio or to throw it as far on the dashboard as you can, under the windscreen. Then it catches the satellites, but you can't see the map from the distance, the moment you bring it under the roof, you lose it. Speed? What speed can it measure, when it loses coordinates so often that no measurement can be reliable... It might be useful in the desert, with endless clear sky (or on the open seas, come to think of it) - if only it had the maps stored and didn't rely on the cellular network to receive them (not too many base stations out there in the Atlantic, are they?..) More of a marketing trick to make it sound a high-tech', feature-rich phone.. But with the expensive technology built in they could have spent the money on proper creative marketing (as other brands do) and bull$#!+ the brainless crowds into buying an expensive status symbol
without the functionality (which doesn't function, anyway...)
- Size and weight: having briefly tasted the sleek 902, I was expecting at least the same if not sleeker design. I got a brick instead
The excuse is probably in all those features above.. (catch 22 or what?)
-WiFi: here I hope to be proven wrong. It is
probably the most useful addition to the photographic abilities fo the 850 and 902 - if it only worked. I haven't been able to set it up yet - but it may be just me (and I'm only a reasonably dumb engineer with 20 years of networking experience). Please, Sony Ericsson (or dear forum members) - prove that I'm an idiot and show me, step-by-step (as in WiFi for Dummies)
how to connect to my wireless router at home or at the office (before I try those pay-by-the-hour hotspots in Starbucks and at foreign airports).
[ This Message was edited by: nyamago on 2008-11-04 19:47 ] 
Posted: 2008-11-04 19:08
C902, 
W810 & 
T29
