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UK: iPhone v N95 on Gadget Show Ch5 tonight

dombookpro said:
Having read some of the utter bollocks written in this thread, thought I'd have another go:

The Gadget Show review was facile in the extreme. I'm in UK, don't own an iPhone, but plan to get one. I'm in love with the device. Because it's Apple? No. Because it is a revolutionary piece of kit. Does it have problems? Yes:

Limited Bluetooth capability (undoubtedly crippled at the behest of the mobile providers - read the small print from AT&T re tethering in their iPhone contracts)
Lack of Ringtone allocation is shocking offensive
Mediocre Camera
Lack of Video Recording
Lack of MMS
Lack of integrated ways to upload images to Facebook

These are but a few of the things I don't like about the iPhone - and there are more... HOWEVER

The gadget show review was facile because it was utterly flawed and skewed towards proving that the n95 was better. The guy blatantly didn't know how to use the iPhone. He complained about not being able to find a location in the Google Maps app. er... hello! So what? He either didn't search effectively, or, in the worst case scenario, Google maps was deficient in the listing of this particular location. It had NOTHING to do with the abilities (or otherwise of the phone)! The other thing which is worth noting, is that they compared the download speeds of each phone whilst accessing the net via EDGE. Has anyone stopped to think that is was highly likely that the n95 is automatically directed to WAP based sites, and thus was quicker? (irrespective of its 3G capability?)

This is why I despised the review, and NOT, despite what ****s on this forum seem to want to suggest, because I'm a fanboy. The software on the n95, is, like on all recent Nokia phones, utter crap. It is no accident that they decided to use EDGE in the tests rather than WIFI (because they "couldn't find an open hotspot"?!) - The n95 is clunky and cumbersome trying to connect it to WIFI hotspots. I used to rate Nokia phones, before I came to the conclusion a couple of years ago, that the software on them was indeed, as Steve Jobs said, "crippled". One example is that if I tried to use Opera on my n80, it took an age to load a page - However, when I tethered it, it was pretty damn fast loading pages on Safari. It was then I realised that it was the software within the phone that was lacking, and not the capabilities of the phone itself.

If i want GPS, I'll get a GPS unit.
I have an 8mp Digital SLR
It looks like ****
It has the build of a Fisher Price toy
It sucks.

Roll on 9th.
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i agree, this is a great post!!

i think the bit of the gadget show that anoyed me most was 'even with practice this screen is never going to match up to the texting speed you get on a normal phone'

this is simply stupid, with practice you can get very very fast with the iPhone, there is no way that the traditional press press press way of typing could be faster, it would mean that your typing of any key would have to be up to 3 times slower than that of the iPhone, which is just stupid!!
 
i hope the gadget show gets better, i used to love that show, but they have really anoyed me... perhaps since the last series i have got more techie so it seems like amature hour!
 
i had the gadget show sky plussed, so watched it last night, and i thought the tests they performed were very weak..

5MP camera on the n95? so freakin what? even a 10mp on a fone wouldn't stop me from using my dedicated camera for taking half decent pics in low light..

having owned a N80 for the best part of 2 years, i will never ever EVER get a series 60 again..

the software is clunkier than clunk and so sllloooowwwwwwww..

jason went on about how he coudln't type into the text field while in landscape mode in safari as the keyboard blocked his view..
well mr dum-wit.. how about rotating back into portrait just for that huh?

i did however find it quite amusing when he had his "love/hate" moment with the iPhone :)

and i also agree with dombookpro on his points too ..

iphone > n95 :D
 
Plus ca change... anyone remember a few years ago where they pitted Mac vs PC by such enlightening tests as dropping the computers from a great height to see which would smash less? And they seemed to take it quite seriously, too...
 
MrT8064 said:
i agree, this is a great post!!

i think the bit of the gadget show that anoyed me most was 'even with practice this screen is never going to match up to the texting speed you get on a normal phone'

this is simply stupid, with practice you can get very very fast with the iPhone, there is no way that the traditional press press press way of typing could be faster, it would mean that your typing of any key would have to be up to 3 times slower than that of the iPhone, which is just stupid!!
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I type faster on the iPhone than on every other phone I have ever tried or owned. Try emailing on an N95 :rolleyes:

Try emailing on an iPhone :eek:

.mac synced mail? You bet. Sweet as.
 
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