Nokia X7 experience

Just bought a Nokia X7. The device is not much bigger than my N8 but the big 4" screen is amazingly sharp. Although the screen is only half an inch bigger, it makes a huge difference with less strain on eye. Symbian Anna OS seems to work very well. Better screen transition (of course with Theme effect set to off). The web browser is the best feature. It is more user friendly, and somewhat faster than my N8. My X7 came loaded with Wifi spot and Shazam (which were paid apps on my N8).
The X7 looks amazing and works as well as my N8 but, there are few missing odds and ends. No FM transmitter, Photos are not as good as my N8 I guess because of fixed lens and the magic of the Cral Zeiss lens.  No HDMI output.
Phone has a very beautiful & attractive round back housing, which also makes it somewhat difficult when using the volume & camera keys. The handsfree speaker is loud enough and in much better location at the bottom of the device as compare to N8 which is next to the camera lens and it gets somewhat muffled when you put the device down. But there is only 1 speaker blowing out of the two bottom grills, hence no fidelity (Nothings beats the N95 speakers and sound quality). Ovi store, mail, social networking, VPN works very well.  GPS navigation also work great and flawlessly. I also loaded the CameraPro, Google map and SPB TV and it works very good. It seems that most of the Symbian /\3 stuff can be just loaded on this new OS. 
Nokia also forgot to include the USB adapter with this USB on-the go device. I guess they think that everyone who buys the X7 has one of these adapters on hand. Installing the SIM and Micro SD card requires removing their eprspective card holders from the device and it's also a bit of a challenge or getting some used to.
Having owned many Nokia phones, I think Nokia is getting it right with this device. It's very attractive, good looking with very fast, solid OS and very easy UI.

I'm afraid Jimmy, you are mistaken, Nokia stereo speaker phones have options to change speaker balance when playing music. Its available on the 5800, I can confirm. As for the X7, its the first S^3 with stereo speakers AFAIK and I cant confirm but I would expect it to be there. Its accessed by playing a song>options>settings>balance.
As for the other speaker not working even after balance was adjusted (the phone should quit playing anything on the other speaker once adjusted max to the other side), I would suggest to get your unit replaced.
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    Message Edited by alcroth on 12-Sep-2009 11:32 AM
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    hi ! the nokia n97 is a really an amazing device. It keeps up to the promise of live online 24 x 7. I discovered it and wanted to share. Still there are some unanswered questions and if any vetran could help would really appreciate.
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    14. Can user friendliness be something where we can do actions with a contact or on contacts screen single view... e.g see contact on google map, Help on contacts screen/n97 help, lookup contact on server, filter by category. new address, new group, view, edit, delete, activity log (incl sms, mms, email, calls), call, sms, mms, email, send as attachment, send as im, add a custom ring tone, add picture, options - sort by, separators, sync settings, actions, switch
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    SOME OF MY STILL UNRESOLVED PROBLEMS Post upgrade to ver 12. Did you also face similar bugs/issues?
    15. Contacts inaccessible – “Memory Full Error”. No other applications were active at the time of the error. Just unable to reach any of my 3500 contacts through the contacts options & do anything.
    16. Pbk2 error upon selecting contacts in the messaging application.
    17. Audio Delay upon receiving a call. No Sound upon connection of incoming call. Especially if picked up too fast.
    18. Shows as searching for network constantly many times a day. We have 2 n97s & observed that both n97 almost have similar timing of network loss. Whereas, our other devices like blackberry do not show any weak signal signs.
    19. GPS Lock. Keeps searching for GPS locks constantly i.e Drops connection to GPS network frequently.
    20. Unpredictive battery talk time, standby & required Charge time.
    21. Voice inaudible at other end, when using loudspeaker & especially during calls from moving vehicle.
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    c.Lens Cover Started to show minor scratch pressure.
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    24. Text Input touch t9 screen freezes / Hangs, especially when entering special characters like period(.), comma(,), exclamation (!) etc
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    26. Selectively Message & Message delivery display number, instead of stored contact names.
    27. Sync Issue, All contacts not synced always.
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    28. Format Mass Memory error, Unable to format. Unable to delete specific files.
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  • Nokia Experience (N97 and 5800)

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    The first few days were great then came an update for the N97 and things seemed wonderful.  But things started going south for both phones.  Since the 5800 belonged to my GF and ultimately caused me the most grief we'll start with that one.
    5800:
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    I use the N97 myself.  I got it because it has the Keyboad and I am a DJ and have tons of music that I like to carry with me.  After a couple of days of use and a couple of app installs..the phone became slow(er). Switching from landscape to portrait and back would cause the phone to stop and think for a second (or two).  The phone wants to go to landscape when some one call, this a very annoying and gets in the way.  I have almost 30 gb of music and phonos in the phone and I will say that digging through them is painful to say the least...why can the photos be place in folders in the gallery?  The nokia browser does the samething that the 5800 does with the shutting down problem.  The alarm clock is off by several minutes.  My phones randomly freezes for no apparent reason.  
    After searching the web I stumbled across this forum and started reading the many topic...wow I am not alone.  Many people are having the same issues and it looks like these issues have been around for some time.  Isn't this a Nokia forum?  Do they even read this forum?  How could these phone go through several updates and still have the same annoying problems?  All I can say is WOW. Before the is Phone I had a Blackberry and it too had its bugs when it came out but in subsequent updates the bugs went away.  I have heard the same for other smarthpones.  Being a first time Nokia user, this left a foul taste in my mouth.  I call the store to complain and they are willing to cut me a deal on any other phone they sell since my Nokia experience has been less than favorable.  
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    Okey, thanks. Nice to know!

  • Nokia N8 Customer's experience [Pros, Cons, and Ti...

         I am a Fan and Nokia user since the release of Nokia 3310, then Nokia N37, then Nokia 5230, and now Nokia N8. when I see the history of improvements that Nokia did achieve so far I feel glad to be a Nokia fan and user, and when I look for the future I hope for more and more.
          I got my N8 almost 6 days ago; this phone is extremely powerful cellphone, it really in a level to compete with iphone. I was lucky to have mine as a second batch, and it does not have any problem so far , only it restarted once and hanged once and this was due to the over limit multi-tasking which I did in purpose to test the ability of the phone and to know experimentally the limit of the processor.
          This is my experience summary about my N8:
    Pros*:
    1- Simbian^3 is a very powerful improvement to Nokia’s history, it is really fast. The processor is working fast even with such a good operating system.
    2- Multi home screens and widgets are very powerful feature.
    3- Contacts list had improved very well.
    4- Messaging and Social networks had improved very much.
    5- Photos and Videos editor had received a very excellent improvement.
    6- Web browser is very fast in the second batch (Same speed as Opera 10).
    7- The music player was improved very much (since the N73).
    8- The GPS was improved, and connects quickly to satellite.
    9- The ability to assign different themes to each profile mode is a very cool feature.
    10- The screen visibility and quality is very good even under direct sunlight.
    11- Sound quality is very good (however if it had 2 speakers like my N73, it would be a good addition).
    12- The ability to use USB keys is very powerful, and I really enjoyed using this feature.
    13- USB charging is very good, I wish Nokia standardize it in all its new phones.
    14- HDMI connection is a very extent addition, especially when you do have a BT mouse and keyboard with the HDTV home theatre one, as if you are using your laptop.
    15- Gaming experience is very good, especially if you connect it to TV with the HDMI.
    16- OVI store offers a good pack of apps, hopefully it will expand in the near future.
    Cons*:
    1- Simbian^3 is little bit sophisticated.
    2- No customized equalizer in the music player (I don’t like the Nokia standard equalizer sets).
    3- The FM transmitter does not support the GPS voice guidance, only music player.
    4- The WiFi widget has some problems to turn off the WiFi (It is not a one step process; I wish Nokia fix it quickly).
    5- When watching a movie, the menu key does not dim or turn off, I should hide it with my hand.
    6- Only 3 home screens (I wish it has n number of customizable home screens).
    7- Keyboard is very retarded in the vertical mood (multi letter for each key is not likely to exist with touch screens, they should replace it with a full keyboard mood even with the number rows).
    8- Keyboard is very tight in the horizontal mood (Also it is confusing for the people who used to use S60^5th ed touch) [I wish if the numbers are displayed in the top as a fourth row, as my language (Arabic with English letters) has numbers as equivalent missingletters in the English alphabet, so it is painful to such back and forth between number mood and letter mood].
    9- Only the Nokia default languages are the only set of languages for the phone (I hope one day, Nokia allow customers to select their suitable language packs, as the screen is touch and Nokia will not need to customize a set of letters on numerical pads as in N73).
    10- The camera is 2x zoom only (I wish that extended zoom could be applied to boost it up to 6x with the 3 mp resolution as it was in the N73 when selecting less resolution option we get more zoom). Also there is no way to silent the camera sound nor the red light of the capture, my Samsung digital camera has it. Also no sequence picture support.
    11- The display resolution is poor; more pixels would make it better. I know that a higher resolution means a faster processor, means a much powerful battery.
    12- Battery life is not enough (One day with high usage. ie. music & GPS all the day + some Wifi).
    13- 16 gb is not enough specially with apps that can reach over 100mb in the near future.
    14- The speaker position on the back cover is not good, when the phone is on the table, the sound is blocked.
    15- The plastic covers of the top and bottom is a big disadvantage (it could break for sure if it felt on its tip), as it would be better if it was aluminum and leave the top black part only plastic for the antenna functionality, or merge the antenna in the casing body as in the iphone.
         All in all, this phone is a good step from Nokia in its learning and improving experience, I would like Nokia to learn from the costumer’s experience, and listen to their suggestions and requests for improvements. Nokia is Nokia I know, but learning from “others” will save Nokia time and money to improve and to be creative in adding new ideas instead of being just in the average area. I believe that Nokia will take back the lead in the cellphones creativity as it was with the announcement of the first N-series device 4 years ago.
    *Future Pros and Cons will be added as I get more experience with N8

    You are very lucky you don't care about email. For those of us who want to make Blackberry users jealous, the N8 experience is a humiliation.
    If you call your prejudices standards, please lower them.

  • Does Nokia E72 work as a modem with Leopard- any experience?

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    I am about to move and would need a mobile broadband. I wanted to know if anyone has had any experience of using Nokia E72 as a modem ( bluetooth or USB) on their Macs!
    If yours work, can you please specify how you use it and which OS you run ( i.e. Mac OS X).
    Thanks in advance!

    Hi,
    Please check with this link full system requirement for Nokia Suite.
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  • Horrible customer support experience with Nokia

    I have just had an extremely frustrating and unsatisfactory experience with Nokia's support / repair operation. Unless I can resolve this, I will put my 820 on Ebay and forget all about Nokia and Windows Phone 8. 
    I initially called Nokia because my 820 would very occasionally freeze when I tried to unlock it to answer an incoming call. The CSR told me to send it in for repair but refused to answer the question "what happens if you cannot duplicate this intermittent issue?".  After asking the question many times, being put on hold and then being told over and over again that Nokia's technicians are "very skilled and can repair it" I was put on with a "supervisor" who told me that Nokia has seen this before and can repair it. She said it was a settings issue but would not tell me WHAT settings.
    Even though I was pretty sure this was a software issue (and had called primarily to make Nokia aware of it) I sent it in for repair since it is still under warranty.
    After it had been in Nokia's hands for a week, I called to see what was happening. The CSR told me over and over that "it was in our facility for repair". After pressing him many times and being put on hold for a supervisor (at my request) he finally told me (I never reached a supervisor) that Nokia was "deciding whether to repair it or replace it" and that it would be returned shortly.
    An equally frustrating and lengthy call the next day revealed after MUCH pressing that Nokia had repaired a "mechanical issue" and would be sending it back.
    Just now I got an Email with a tracking number and a copy of the repair paperwork. The paperwork states that it was updated (GDR2 I assume) and tested and found to be working. No mention whatsoever of any repair efforts.
    In other words, I was lied to TWICE. Once when I was told that the freezing was a known issue and could be repaired. And then again when I was told that a mechanical issue had been repaired.
    Is this truly the kind of customer experience Nokia is comfortable with? Really? This was my first experience with Nokia and with Windows Phone and I am here to say without a shadow of a doubt that it will be my LAST unless Nokia can show me that this was an anomaly.
    I am writing this here because I don't see any other way into Nokia other than the "support" phone number...... and that didn't work out very well.  
    Paul

    adrianhughes wrote:
    guys, please just persist with your local Nokia Care outlet and have your phones repaired to your satisfaction, there is no point taking out your frustration here as it does not get anyone anywhere.
    Where do I find a "local Nokia Care outlet"?  The only entry to Nokia support I find is the phone number on their web site.  If you read my original post, you will see why I found calling that number that a less than stellar experience..... many times.  I / we take our frustration out here because there is NO other place to do it.... Nokia is very well insulated from its customers.  Maybe I should open a Facebook account?  
    Since writing my original post, the phone has arrived and I find I was lied to yet again.... although that "lie" kinda cancels out an earlier one.  Contrary to the paperwork which states that the ONLY thing they did to the phone was test it, I find that upon close examination they actually seem to have replaced the screen.  I can tell because there were a couple near microscopic nicks in the screen that are now absent.  
    As for whether that actually resolved my original issue, I cannot tell yet.  That may take some time since I am in essence trying to prove a negative.  
    The repair paperwork includes the statement "Passed, software update".  Not sure what that means.... the phone as it came back to me was NOT updated to GDR2 / Amber although those updates were available prior to their receiving the phone.  The phone came back to me with the same firmware that was in it when I shipped it and I had to do the GDR2 update myself.  
    Yes, I needed to vent.  Yes, I feel (a little) better.  But based on my experience this time around, I will go buy an iPhone before I EVER deal with Nokia "support" again.  And I am DEFINITELY not an Apple fan, so take that as an indication of my level of frustration.  I actually LIKE the 820 and the concept of Windows Phone.  
    Paul

  • Nokia 5800XM V50.0.005 FW experiences

    New firmware release for Nokia 5800XM: V50.0.005
    info: http://symbian-freak.com/news/010/04/new_firmware_​for_nokia_5800_now_available_as_fota_update.htm
    Experiences?

    Sorry I know is in spanish I just make a screen shot
    but the problem it does't download
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  • Nokia E6-00 User Experience and Development needed...

    My Mobile Details:
    Device Info:
    Model E6-00
    Product RM-609
    OS : S60 5.1 (Symbian ^3)
    Symbian Symbian^3
    Firmware 021.014
    OS 5.2 ; QT 4.7.3 ; QT Mobility 1.0.2
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    Profiles :
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    Music (Music Player):
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    * In playlist sorting feature is not available. Moving the songs becomes difficult by using move by option. if there is drag & move feature , it will be good.
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    Videos :
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    Mails :
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    Taskmanger:
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    I Hope this features will be included in next software update. As its the New Version of Anna OS. Waiting for someone to look at this post and reply.
    Any additional info needed , feel free to contact me.
    Thanks & Regards,
    Raja Gopalan S
    Community Manager's note:
    Corporate identity details removed,

    I'm generally disappointed with the user experience and functionality offered by Symbian Anna on the E6 too. It's ok but nothing to shout about at all, especially considering that it is supposed to be the current pinnacle of Nokia's offerings in the smartphone market.
    The last Symbian/S60 phone I had was the Nokia 3230 about six years ago and apart from the very obvious cosmetic changes as far as I can tell there have been few other leaps forward.
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    Silly things like I can't choose which folder the camera saves pictures to. My two year old 6700C running Series 40 lets you do that, Anna doesn't. Come on catch up!
    Oh and when you enter the directory in which images are saved, Series 40 gives you a little thumbnail preview in the listing. That's a bit too much for Anna.
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    ... and don't even get me started on the disorganised unintuitive mess of the photo viewer application.
    I'm now thinking that Anna is just a cosmetic facelift to Symbian to bridge the gap between now and when the Windows 7 Mobile devices are released. In places, Anna doesn't even compare well against Nokia's own feature phone OS.

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    That was it for me.
    Since I live in a third world country and Microsoft's support is almost non-existant and the services too I nearly couldn't setup a payment method to purchase apps. And the official nokia service center does not accept the warranty on the phone since it is bought from another country  i cannot return it.
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    Sounds to me like the charger you are using is not powerful enough. Are you using the charger that came with the phone? You mentioned adaptors etc so thought you may be charging with another charger. You could also try charging with high output usb chargers, typically ones for tablets. 

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    Applied the PR1.2 last week on my Nokia N8 (not carrier-locked having PR1.1
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    2) Mail syncronisation really works well now
    3) The FM transmitter power seems to have been improved.
    No issues so far.
    Anyone find anything else better (or worse) with applying PR1.2 ?

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