Video: Straight up nokia 808 PureView Review
Remember this guy? He’s a tech fan with a soft spot for Nokia. We featured generalthedestroyer a couple of times or so enjoying Lumia and related accessories. Here he is this time with the Nokia 808 PureView which he’s thoroughly enjoying.
Outside of being extremely impressed of the camera, he’s liking Symbian too. It’s as fast as Android in most operations, only slower than iOS/WP.
Note: there is occasional cussing in the video.
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Well im a retired senior, so Symbian is fast enough for me.. My lightning fingers son however, wouldnt be happy with it..
Really. It’s fast enough – also for me
Just how fast does a phone have to be? My 808 swipes between homescreens faster than my iPad 2 can, and the iPad doesn’t even have to deal with widgets and changing background image transitions.
Closing/hiding apps is faster on Belle.
Swype 2.0 is a faster typing method, and the arrow keys are certainly better than using iOS’s magnifying glass method to move a cursor.
Switching between apps may be a little slower, but a Harmattan-like swipe app or other customisation can fix that and prove that it’s not a Symbian issue. The long press of the menu key is the cause of the delay all by itself. And the iPad often closes apps completely so you have to wait for them to reload from scratch.
Launching apps is slower on Belle than on iOS, but I would guess this is because iOS has its core apps like Safari loaded into RAM all the time. Bit of an advantage of not having to worry about the memory management issues of genuine multitasking. But since the 808 has far more RAM than any app needs (given the lack of Belle FP1-specific apps), you can leave the likes of Web or Opera open and ready.
640k is…
It probably is fair to say that Symbian Belle is currently the mobile OS equivalent of Windows ME. That is, still built around a core that was never made with GHz processors and lots of RAM in mind, and therefore most attempts at improving it tend to result in bugs elsewhere. A clean slate is necessary. Not unlike the S60v2 to S60v3 transition.
But I feel it’s also fair to say that it really isn’t slow, featureless, or more bug-ridden than some of the competitors that are now running into a similar set of problems.
Is this the gentleman who was running around screaming his his off first for not receiving a Lumia 900 then later when he got one?
yes
As a one who can only type about 70 letters per minute, I have nothing but just admiration.
The bug where text messages stop getting received until you realize it (2 days in this case) bit my 700 AGAIN.
Is this also affecting the Pureview? When is this going to get fixed?!
I (and a few others) have reported an SMS bug on the 808 – it doesn’t always want to send.
Message goes to deferred (saying it’ll send at say 19:06, current time being 19:03). Symbian has always had this behaviour – if there is no signal, and it’ll try to resend. Except the 808 doesn’t.
You have to force it to send.
Signal is fine, so its not that. Its definitely a FP1 bug.
Definitely. It happened on my 603 FP1.
This is catastrophic!! It destroys all confidence in the device. How can they let it go for this long?!
If it were my only phone, I would not be using it.
This guys funny! and he’s right in many ways!
I agree other than iphones most phones feel too cheap and nasty!
very goooood guy