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Bye bye Nokia E7, hello Samsung Galaxy SII plus

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After more then 2½ years of service my Nokia E7 no longer wanted to charge the battery. After beginning a life on its own; mostly spontanious restarts and lately not wanting to hang up.

Having a Lumia 800 bussiness wise that was not going to be the successor of the E7. Using it on a daily basis as in between the E7 and the Galaxy SII plus made me long back to the E7. For example answering a call take two movements instead of one and it doesn’t have an auto answer function.

A colleague just got a Samsung Galaxy SII plus and was satisfied about it. Most colleageus having a HTC are not very satisfied about there device.

So I am using Linux now mobile as well. First impression of the Galaxy SII plus: good.

Nokia Lumia 800 met Windows Phone 7.8

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Windows Phone 7.8 was installed with Nokia Care Suite, making it a fresh install, no update.

Using it I noticed 3 differences so far:

  • Of course the home screen with smaller / more tiles
  • In WP 7.5 in the locked screen the music buttons where always visible, now only shortly after pressing the power button and the the disappear
  • Nokia maps faces north instead of east

A challenge was making screenshots: http://qatsi.ath.cx/diverse/lumia_2013-01-26.html

All the points mentioned earlier still exist

Nokia Lumia 800 user review

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In this article I’ll write about a Nokia Lumia 800 I have since november 1th. My first impression is that Nokia made a smartphone and what the smartphones can do, it does it well.

A con and pro list very biased by having a Nokia E7:

Cons:

  • no hardware keyboard
  • Internet Explorer behaves peculiar – like since Windows Mobile 6.1; agentstring is “Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.0; Windows Phone OS 7.5; Trident/5.0; IEMobile/9.0; NOKIA; Lumia 800)”
  • OMTP AV connection is incompatible with previous Nokia AV headsets
  • no auto answer, known from the beginning as discussed in Microsoft Community
  • no weeknumbers in the calender
  • can’t pinpoint a location in Nokia drive and “drive to that location”, an address has to be entered to use a location to drive to
  • only contacts can be exchanged via bluetooth, no other data like songs or picture
  • Nokia music and “Music and videos” is confusing they are different ways to access to local stored media
  • no hardwired way or app  to make a screenshot

Pros

  • Complete package: with a cover
  • Without cover the phone is easily held; doesn’t slip through fingers and with cover that is even better
  • earphones with symetrical wires and microphone in wire to right earphone
  • Nokia Drive finds its location fast
  • Voice of Nokia drive talks over bluetooth
  • syncs with Google calendar
  • 8 mp camera is easily accessed when phone is locked: press and hold camera button and camera function becomes active
  • music can be paused or stopped when phone is locked

There are more points and those are the differences between Symbian and Windows phone. For now the Lumia will be used for private use and the E7 for business, or when convenient.