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UK: iPhone v N95 on Gadget Show Ch5 tonight

You could see Jason really likes the iPhone and i think he could have done with using it a bit longer before taking up the challenge as he had trouble with the virtual keyboard which it has been said can take a while for people to adjust to the new type of keyboard.

When it showed you the N95 browser compared to the iPhone I know which one i would have though.

Granted the camera is not as good as the N95 and it does not have video but I would still have an iPhone over the N95 as i want 1 device instead of carrying a phone and an iPod.
 
why nothing about the UI, the ipod, the video player, ease of use???????
what a load of crap.
next time i'm jumping of a bridge i'll make sure i've got a spare 95 in my pocket!!!!!!!
 
illitrate23 said:
if you had to choose between Suzi Perry and an iPhone, what would you do? :D
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I would only be tempted if she was wearing just a wolves top...:D
 
dombookpro said:
Gadget Show iPhone vs N95 Review:

Fatuous facile ill-informed ********.

I got the distinct impression that the whole review was "produced" to within an inch of its life - Working in TV myself, the artiface was transparent.

Being unable to find a location in Google Maps is a flaw within Google Maps, or a flaw with your spelling/search string, and nothing else... So that bald ****'s inability to find specific locations on the iPhone, had nothing to do with the iPhone's capability, and more to do with the supposed limitations of Google Maps (or possibly with his inability to spell foreign place names whilst using a non-English version of Google Maps)...

And as for not being able to see the text field of a website whilst using multimap - Is this true?! I don't have an iPhone yet, but I got the impression that the text you were entering appeared in its own box on the text entry section, and one was also able to tab down to the next field using a handy button... Anyone with the iPhone can confirm this? If true, it's an indication of how the gadget show was utterly dishonest about the limitations of the phone, and simply because the bald moron didn't know how to use the interface. The whole review irritated me beyond belief. Typical Channel 5 tabloid bollocks.

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I completely agree. Annoyed the hell out of me. Unrealistic tests that seemed to be designed to make the iPhone appear poor.

For one, I've seen plenty of photos taken with the iPhone's camera on a night out, and they're pretty good - and that bollocks about 'not being able to do video because the camera is so poor' is an absolute outright lie.

On several occasions he also implied you could download video using the WiFi store - clearly wrong!

ARRRGGHHH! What annoys me most though is there will be some people watching that who believe what they say - and having owned an N95... Well, let's just say I no longer have one.

-Leemo
 
maybe if jason had longer to play with the iPhone and get used to the interface more then maybe it would have had a better chance of coming out better. If you are not used to the iPhones interface then it will take longer to do tasks on it but after time it will get easier like the virtual keyboard.

Although I dont think i will be jumping from a bridge with mine. The iPhone meets my requirements which is why I am getting one and yes it does lack some features but this is apples first attempt at as mobile phone and i think they have done exceptionally well. Roll on nov. 9
 
this review set out to prove that the n95 was better than the iPhone, and that the iPhone is "style over substance" - Having owned an n80 (n95 but without GPS and media buttons), I don't believe either proposition based on this childish dumbed-down review. When I used my n80 (it is now gathering dust having broken twice), I found it torturous to connect to a Wifi hotspot, impossible to surf the web (including with the pointless Opera browser), and the most ugly piece crap I've ever owned. I hated it with a passion cos it's functionality was worse than crap.

With the n95 there seems to be a massive smoke and mirrors game going on with the GPS feature. It, for me, is a TOTAL non-feature! Especially if the software is as terrible as the n80... which I suspect it is.
 
I was genuinely surprised by that programme as he does love his Apple stuff. The tests were very contrived and they did seem to skip over a lot of the features of the phone. Still, its just one guy's opinion. I was disappointed with the performance of the camera, but I've been pleasantly surprised by the thread on here which shows pictures taken with the camera.
 
sneeks said:
:D The N95 is a nice phone but after having owned a painfully slow N73 for the past year I have had enough of Nokia handsets. My old Nokia 6630 was far superior. The more they keep adding to the N series phones the slower they seem to run. Until they receive a worthwhile processor upgrade then they are not worthy of my consideration. Also the iPhone is far more sexy looking.
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There was a recent firmware update for the N73 that according to my mobile phone and gadget obsessed colleague has transformed it and really speeded up the UI.

After waiting 2 months for the new Sony Ericsson K850i he took that back within 2 weeks and has swapped it for an N95 which he took great pleasure in showing me today - knowing that I'm getting an iPhone.

Tomorrow will be interesting :rolleyes: :p

TBH I was quite impressed with the N95, even though it is a brick and will never get you laid ;) The GPS is complete rubbish though - my colleague embarrassingly couldn't get a satellite fix, just like Suzi on the show. There is a new 8GB N95 out now on Vodafone, in a smaller form factor and sexier black finish. Hmm, wonder what Nokia are hoping to compete against?

Me, I went from a hand-me-down Sony Ericsson T68i for 5 years (Steve Jobs used to have one trivia-pickers!) to a freebie Nokia 6300 just recently - which is actually a lovely phone but has no big-wow features.
 
On the bright side though, it might mean smaller queues on the 9th. :D
 
anoyed with the gadget show, totally unfair... yes the n95 has a big camera, its also twice as thick and heavy as the iPhone... stupid comparision

i usally find with the gadget show, that it gets better as the series goes on;

i am disapointed
 
MrT8064 said:
anoyed with the gadget show, totally unfair... yes the n95 has a big camera, its also twice as thick and heavy as the iPhone... stupid comparision

i usally find with the gadget show, that it gets better as the series goes on;

i am disapointed
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I understand what you're saying. It was a silly review, but think of it in a positive way; perhaps it's put off that person who would otherwise have been in the queue ahead of you! :)
 
CD3660 said:
I understand what you're saying. It was a silly review, but think of it in a positive way; perhaps it's put off that person who would otherwise have been in the queue ahead of you! :)
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i've already got mine!! imported it a few weeks ago, i just feel sad that quite a lot of people will be put off such a great phone, well atleast it means i will have a rare gadget for a little while longer!!
 
you certainly didn't miss much, they didn't show nothing of the touchscreen interface, nothing of the ipod, nothing of the phone features.
in fact nothing!!!!!!!!
 
dombookpro said:
And as for not being able to see the text field of a website whilst using multimap - Is this true?!
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i've come across that same problem with my iPod Touch
the solution? you turn the screen so it's in portrait mode, gives you more vertical screen space and then you can scroll the webpage down to see the input fields better. it's simple and obvious and intuative just like the rest of the interface and i was gobsmacked he wasn't smart enough to think that

honestly, i'm sure he hadn't used the iPhone for more than 5 minutes. i'll admit, typing on the screen isn't as easy as with a keyboard, but after writing a couple of emails with it, i've gotten quite used to it - my error rate is way down to hardly anything. being a techie of course i find the qwerty layout more intuative than the phone 9-key ABC layout so it's not a problem to find the right key

as you say, they purposely concentrated on the flaws
no mention was made of the video playback and the quality of the screen - for which the size makes it far more suitable than the n95

fair enough really, if they hadn't focused purely on the flaws, the iPhone would have pwned (or should that be iPwned :) )
 
I visited someone last night who had the show on in the background. Can anyone explain why they were bungee-jumping off a bridge to test these phones? :rolleyes:
 
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