Adventures of Steve the Smartphone n00b – Nokia Lumia 800 day 1 first impressions
After a little over 24 hours, we checked in again on Steve our smartphone n00b who has moved up from a regular mobile phone to the Nokia Lumia 800 smartphone.
We got some of this thoughts in a quick chat and will be following him again in about a weeks time after he’s had some proper use of it. (Apologies for the appalling camera work. I’m such a DLSR n00b myself, unable to work within the 50mm 1.4 frame. I didn’t want to record again as I just wanted a quick first impression)
He likes the speed of the Lumia 800, the fact there’s no lag anywhere. Steve’s also been playing with the Voice control a lot to open apps, as well as to start calling or texting people. He said the initial set up was a breeze and as we told you before, he managed to set up BT contacts transfer so was very happy in not having to add his numbers manually like he’s always been doing. I wish I had that on my Omnia7.
He’s set up the Calendar from Uni with ease just by subscribing from Live. He did that much quicker than I did with GMAIL. Steve’s even managed to find some really good apps, a few of which I hadn’t heard of yet and I’ll be reviewing them in future. He’s very pleased with the look of the 800 as well as its GPS performance, noting how Maps was able to lock faster than his actual GPS (I think that’s an inherent Nokia thing). He’s also downloaded the entire UK maps on his own too so that I guess was a pretty simple enough task.
I should have asked him on camera what he thought of stuff like the phone’s design, the screen etc. I know other people commenting on it have said its just stunning, particularly the curved glass of the display and off camera he’s said it’s beautiful.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2a_Eu9RC50
He doesn’t like however the bundled headphones, preferring his own. He also is worried about data usage, having never used a phone and now uses a phone that syncs calendar/contacts/facebook/his office work (oh he was really impressed with that too – one note with all his Uni work instantly on his phone). Lastly the keyboard. Fortunately he’s actually been finding the virtual keyboard quite good despite it being used to physical keys. Apps that he wasn’t keen on he was able to just uninstall that quickly with long press. No fuss going to some kind of app manager. However he does not that the animation is not as smooth as the iPhone. Other than that, very positive so far.
If you look at the first image where voice texting is in action….as for that massive spider?
Only joking. It was only half that size.
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That’s a massive spider!
Hell! Is that spider thingy a fake? It´s HUGE!
How about reading the article before posting, no offense. It’s written between the two pictures:
“Only joking. It was only half that size.”
You didn’t get my point… that spider is HUGE!
I was watching the video while I posted that
I like the way you do these presentations here Jay!
How about we make two categories, one with the noobs and one with the pros, so both sides are satisfied…
I know you make the money with the masses, the noobs
But we also want to see how things stack up for smart ‘phone’ users…
Cheers
I DID read that sentence! BUT: He´s holding his hand right against the wall where the spider is sitting. (fake photograph?)
Even if that thing is half that size it´s big…
Haha. I still remember when I shift to Smartphone world and get first one of my own, the Sony Ericsson P1i, which I am still using today as main phone. Before it I used a couple of imates of friends, I did use heavily Sony Ericsson P910 I think which made my mind to Pseries.
About P1i (UIQ Symbian) I was excited too much that I spent hours on its virtual simulation that Sony Ericsson put online.
So, I did everything like I am using it forever, but when the screen/keyboard lock kicked in, I had no idea how to unlock it. Lol. I spent half an hour to figure it out how to unlock the device. The most funniest moment to date.
Give him your SGS 2 to know true definition of a smartphone
yeah give him a sg2 to witness the hideous hardware quality of samsung phones combined with the most ugly design wise UI in the mobile world
Nothing says true smartphone like a raped Linux kernel running a virtual machine.
haha
good one
Ehhh… MMMM… This bring to my mind… What is the definition of a Smartphone today???
Because if you ask me, WP, iOS not qualify for that class…
These days a Smartphone is (apparently) everything with a huge highres screen and apps
This is what I say: A smartphone is a phone that can multi-task (doesn’t matter if it’s REAL or not, as long as it has the ability to have more than one app running at the same time) and has the ability to install native apps on it.
No matter how people try to put it, iOS and WP are smartphone OSes.
This from wiki:
“The distinction between smartphones and feature phones can be vague and there is no official definition for what constitutes the difference between them. One of the most significant differences is that the advanced application programming interfaces (APIs) on smartphones for running third-party applications[4] can allow those applications to have better integration with the phone’s OS and hardware than is typical with feature phones. In comparison, feature phones more commonly run on proprietary firmware, with third-party software support through platforms such as Java ME or BREW.”
“No matter how people try to put it, iOS and WP are smartphone OSes.”
Indeed. They have a bespoke API, they are smartphone OSes.
“and has the ability to install native apps on it”
by that definition wp is still far away from being an smartphone os
Why is that? Perhaps I used a wrong word. By “native” I didn’t mean native code. I meant that you can create OS specific apps for it contained in XAP files.
If WP isn’t a smartphone OS cause it doesn’t have native code apps then android isn’t a smartphone OS either.
Lol this discussion is so fruitless
Some of the mOS lack features but all are way above feature phone OSs… So yup even WP is one… I know you know but this native apps stuff doesn’t count. So far J2ME only apps don’t make a phone a smartphone by the limitations of it’s framework… But anything else should qualify.
its funny cause it doesnt matter what you will say – Android keep selling.. A LOT!
and im a nokia fan btw.
Jay, what does he think about the tiles? Is he comfortable with them?
I guess if you are new to the smartphone world, accepting the tiles is one of the minor problems
lol +1
He likes them. Organized to his liking and pins stuff he uses often.
Love the artsy gonzo style camera work! :p
using your canon 60d? the focus is killing my patience
but what a nice idea with the noob^^
keep on going!
House Spiders in Manchester / UK are massive
LOL
Jay, you need a tripod… Please do get one
Thats funny how things change with time.
Before a smartphone was a powerfull tool with superior funtionality over the normal phone. But now it only need to have its own framework to enter into the class.
So go S40 go Nokia bring Qt to it as its framework and start kicking ass
Funny fact: first iOS device wasn’t classified as Smartphone. At second try when the store was ready Steve call it Smartphone and voila you know the rest of history.
Holymotherofohmywordwhatthe****************
Dude, I’m *seriously* arachnophobic. Please warn people before they scroll down to a pic like that. Now my skin’s going to be crawling all day