Wish I'd bought an iPhone...
I can't believe the amount of work I had to do to get my N95 up and running properly.
It's like pulling teeth!
Seems like Nokia haven't got a clue how to get a product to be up and running straight out of the box.
Updates, installations, non-installations (with maps grrr), software incompatibilty, password confusion (sync profile)...
They say the phone has Sat Nav... but only if you purchase extras to give you vocal directions...? It's not satnav, it's access to something like google maps.
I could go on and on.
I wanted a phone that would do what I wanted.
I should have got an iphone!
Rant over.
Sorry for being so negative - just rather frustrated at this point in time...
Hi,
yeah I've got over my irritation with the thing coz I've sat here all bleedin day trying to make it work properly. I now have OVI suite which seems to work fine - if only I'd known that in the beginning or if Nokia had given me the disk with that on instead of nseries pc suite.
Should've done my research re: voice navigation - got sucked in by the 'satnav' advertising.
I have no idea what you mean by S60 3rd edition but now things seem to be working, I may leave it a while before i research into that ;-)
I know updates are good - just that nseries pc suite wasn't working properly.
That was the main problem i spose.
Got a headache from staring at screens all day so gonna take me dog out for a walk to complete the saga!
thanks for your response.
I was kinda ranting into thin air :-)
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Welcome to the Apple Support Communities!
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Dear sir
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that must be really annoying !!
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the only way around this is to have the previous owner reset their apple id by going to @ applied.apple.com
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