Comments on: Review: One Month On With the 808

By: reflex

reflex — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 01:50:12 +0000

any1 else who has a 808 like me or a red 1 like me follow me on twitter and il follow u @sirreflex

By: Aliqudsi

Aliqudsi — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 17:03:56 +0000

Not a bad idea, I hate feeding these trolls (or explaining myself to them) but say a post titles “why I use a WP- Cons & Pros” would do the trick.

By: miki

miki — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 16:18:05 +0000

I have mine for a month too.

Camera…..we all know everithing about it so leave at that.

Gallery should be better specialy editing and sorting pictures.I mean if I snap full resolution picture and i want crop a pice of it, gallery editor should have tool to crop in proper resolution as obviusly we all wis to have pictures in similar formats.

Email is good enough for me.

Keyboard should be much better.

Nokia drive is awesome!

Nokia Store is disaster:(

Homescrens are smooth and widgets are cool.

I went from android and I was a little scared how it will works out, but now definetly no regreats.

As Hypnopottamus write all platforms have weaknesses you just pick one which will serve you the best.
As GMs in any team sport will say “Dont get merried with the players” we should not be slaves of OS.

By: Shane

Shane — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 15:10:55 +0000

Just to clarify, I’m referring to the audio DSP, DAC, & analogue-out stage not the speaker config.
The speaker config. (as I recall) is “more-or-less” the same.

By: Shane

Shane — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 14:17:26 +0000

They don’t have the same SoC, completely different in many ways, one of them being the sound sub-system.*
It’s well known that the N9 was/is stronger in that area, the 900 didn’t make any changes over the 800 in that regard.
Hopefully we’ll see some improvements in that area with the 1st WP8 phones.

*dont have time to dig it all up now, nor am I subscribing to this thread (too busy ), but the detail beyond what’s on official/public Nokia sites is out there.

By: Alfr3d E. Neum4n

Alfr3d E. Neum4n — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 09:44:54 +0000

Troll

By: Alfr3d E. Neum4n

Alfr3d E. Neum4n — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 09:42:19 +0000

You seem to have a balanced assessment of this phone. I too, bought this phone a couple of weeks after it was available and been using it since. I’ve had android, iOS phones and my main line is a BlackBerry. I understand the menu structure of Symbian can be confusing at times, but with the implementation of Belle, the widget system and the home screens make it so much easier to live with on a daily basis. What I like the most, aside from the camera of course, is the fact it isn’t constantly online. You can also do just fine with the pre-installed apps. I’d like to purchase the N9 one day and see what it’s all about. I’d also like to get the latest, when they come out, Nokia WP8s, too. But I do like your balanced assessment of this 808, Peter. Thank you.

By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 08:27:41 +0000

I bought an 808 for my wife and have used it as much as her over the last month. I have used android on GS2, have an ipad and came from an old P900, main phone is an N9.

It does seem very similar to the GS2. The things that I like are the hom screens – one never really needs to move from them once the phone has widgets set up. We have a couple blank as photos of the family.

Like the email widget, my wife has two yahoo accounts that update on the same page – very nice. Use the doggles to toggle blue tooth on off, data on off etc very nice. Like the gallery, and we share generally via cutebox, but social is fine as a face book client. Gravity is really good but my wife is more facebook on the PC so no need for it yet.

webbrowsing is a mixture of the default and opera – Opera is good and we generally browse over wifi so no problems there. Messaging works well, we we have enjoyed playing with Vingo txt to speech.

I have not found the menus too bad – I just don’t need to go in an use them. They are about as confusing as android and ios – which I get lost in everyso often looking for some configuration switch. I did get lost finding the Swype config until I remembered it was an installed app. Most of the stuff we use is pre-installed on the phone which is great, none of the need with an iphone to go and get the basics.

We have added some games – nice to play Carcassonne and Settlers of Catan and at a very cheap price. We also use the music player and sports tracker.

Stability – some issues from time to time, the home screen transitions do give the feeling of slowness but if you are moving from similar backdrops there is no slow down. The Nokia Store is a pain and probably causes most of the issues with the phone, that said it has alot of apps built in the work ok.

The keyboard – we are still trying to work out which is better on this phone swype or normal. I use swype on the N9 but it is as well implemented here.

As a smart phone the maps are great, and it isn’t a bad device. Having use android and iphone os on my ipad I do find the dumping on symbian a bit strange.

The sleep screen is brilliant and going to a phone that can’t do that would be a real pain. It is really difficult for me as I do like the N9 UI but I know that photos are very important and the ones that come from the 808 are just amazing, and especially in low light – nothing comes near.

From my perspective its a nice phone, simple to use the homescreens have widgets that cover most bases, weather, maps are amazing, email, facebook. And the ability to run with little or no data usage is great.

Its interesting for me as 3 of the 5 people at work who have SG2 have had major hardware / battery issues with them.. My ipad generally has app crashes 4-5 times per week so from my experience all modern computer phones have issues just like their desktop / notebook cousins.

Peter

By: Hypnopottamus

Hypnopottamus — Sun, 05 Aug 2012 23:57:38 +0000

What a load of shit. I NEVER said he was a pathetic individual because he prefers Symbian. Learn to read asshole. I said he’s a pathetic individual because he “can’t stand the fact that someone out there actually likes (and prefers) WP.” I can care less if someone likes Symbian. It’s an awesome platform (and the most feature complete to boot).

“What the fuck gives you the right too call someone pathetic just because they prefer something you hate?”

Where did I EVER say I hated Symbian? Show me. I DARE you. My animus toward jeroenhuismast lies strictly from the fact he can’t accept a Nokia WP device exists and there ARE people out there who actually like it. After all, we are talking about an individual that wished WP users would “die a slow painful death like MS.”

By: Hypnopottamus

Hypnopottamus — Sun, 05 Aug 2012 23:47:51 +0000

The major difference is that when you are critiquing Symbian (or MeeGo) you at least have physically tried the device out (for more than a casual in-the-store try out). In this case (as with the N9) you actually owned the device. Some of these “critics” of the WP platform have never even spent more than 5 minutes (if at all) with a WP to give an honest opinion about it. I suspect many of these commentors about your work take issue with the fact that you came to the conclusion that your Lumia will be your daily driver. Because of this, they feel ANYTHING you say about Symbian or MeeGo will be biased.

All platforms have weaknesses. What one decides to use as their daily driver depends on what you want out of your device. Maybe to “appease” some of these assholes you should write an article about some of the things you dislike about your Lumia. There are a few things that bug me about it. However, it is more that good enough for what I need to sway me away from my Android device (and ultimately my old Symbian).