I'm that 5G guy. I've actually been here for every "G." I've reviewed well over a thousand products during 18 years working full-time at PCMag.com, including every generation of the iPhone and the Samsung Galaxy S. I also write a weekly newsletter, Fully Mobilized, where I obsess about phones and networks.
When pundits claim that the iPhone was the "first smartphone" - or anything like that - I rage silently, because it's so far from the truth. Apple's iOS is a fine OS, but it's a second-generation smartphone OS, coming a full seven years after the first Symbian phone, Ericsson's R380, arrived in 2000. (In our review of the R380, we said that "the Symbian EPOC OS has an elegantly designed interface with a fast response to input.")
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You could say that Symbian's death was sealed by the massive shift to touch screens around 2009. Like BlackBerry OS, the Series 60 UI wasn't originally designed for touch screens, and as a result, Symbian touch-screen phones were never considered intuitive. But if you zoom out a little, you see that mobile operating systems just have about a 10-year lifespan. Symbian, Palm OS, BlackBerry OS, and Windows CE were the first round, originally designed for the low-power processors and slow networks of the early 2000s. They've since been succeeded by Windows Phone, WebOS, BlackBerry 10, and Android, all designed for more modern hardware and usability concepts.
The Symbian OS platform is formed of two components: one being the microkernel-based operating system with its associated libraries, and the other being the user interface (as middleware), which provides the graphical shell atop the OS.[8] The most prominent user interface was the S60 (formerly Series 60) platform built by Nokia, first released in 2002 and powering most Nokia Symbian devices. UIQ was a competing user interface mostly used by Motorola and Sony Ericsson that focused on pen-based devices, rather than a traditional keyboard interface from S60. Another interface was the MOAP(S) platform from carrier NTT DoCoMo in the Japanese market.[9][10] Applications of these different interfaces were not compatible with each other, despite each being built atop Symbian OS. Nokia became the largest shareholder of Symbian Ltd. in 2004 and purchased the entire company in 2008.[11] The non-profit Symbian Foundation was then created to make a royalty-free successor to Symbian OS. Seeking to unify the platform, S60 became the Foundation's favoured interface and UIQ stopped development. The touchscreen-focused Symbian^1 (or S60 5th Edition) was created as a result in 2009. Symbian^2 (based on MOAP) was used by NTT DoCoMo, one of the members of the Foundation, for the Japanese market. Symbian^3 was released in 2010 as the successor to S60 5th Edition, by which time it became fully free software. The transition from a proprietary operating system to a free software project is believed to be one of the largest in history.[12] Symbian^3 received the Anna and Belle updates in 2011.[13][14]
By the end of May 2006, 10 million Symbian-powered phones were sold in Japan, representing 11% of Symbian's total worldwide shipments of 89 million.[84] By November 2007 the figure was 30 million, achieving a market share of 65% by June 2007 in the Japanese market.[85]
The presense of WiFi is a very welcome one. Together with Bluetooth and IrDA it brings new means of wireless short-range communications to the device. I had no problem at all scanning for new networks or creating a permanent access point in my home. Bluetooth and IrDA worked flawlessly but sometimes WiFi would disconnect all by itself while browsing. After using this little hack I was able to fully use the phone with a Mac/iSync too.if(typeof ez_ad_units != 'undefined')ez_ad_units.push([[728,90],'osnews_com-leader-3','ezslot_20',128,'0','0']);__ez_fad_position('div-gpt-ad-osnews_com-leader-3-0');
So I wanted to return the phone back, because it did not fullfill my expectations. I used it for one week and carried it in my jeans pocket (without keys, coins or other metal stuff). After one week I had scratches on the metal surface, so I could not return it. There are no official ways to get a new tray, only on Ebay I could order one and hope it will be here on time before the return period is over.
HD and seekThe i8910 is billed as the first phone with high-definition-quality video recording, butthat may be overstating the case somewhat. High definition means more than justgood resolution, and, at 24 frames per second, the i8910 doesn't deliver theframe rate or lack of noise that you'd get from an HD camcorder. In fact,it's nowhere near, but that doesn't mean that its 720p quality doesn't blowevery other mobile phone out of the water. Although the i8910's video is jerkyand noisy compared to a Blu-ray movie, it would be fantastic for uploading yourhigh-quality shenanigans to YouTube.
Symbian gets touchyAt first glance, the i8910 looks like it's rocking the same userinterface as the Tocco Ultra,which we liked a great deal. It has a larger version of the spectacular AMOLEDscreen, and the same homescreen with customisable widgets that can show thingslike photos of your contacts or a mini media player. But pop the hood andthere's a major difference -- the i8910 sports the Symbian operating systeminside, and that means this is a fully fledged smart phone.
And that's just one example of the ways in which the i8910 stillfalls short of the usability bar set by the iPhone.There's very restricted multitasking on the iPhone, and it's missing keyfeatures like copy and paste, but the i8910's flexibility and power comes at aprice. The user interface is more complicated and less intuitive, and performanceslowed down when we pushed the phone to its limits.
Tapping and typing The i8910's glossy black plastic body, trimmed with a chrome edge, andtouchscreen goodness can't help but prompt comparisons with the iPhone. But itsreal peer is Nokia's touchscreen phones, such as the N97,which runs the same powerful Symbian smart-phone operating system.
There's plenty of room for the bigimages and videos thanks to the 8GB or 16GB of internal memory, and there's room for up to32GB more in the microSD memory card slot. You can also pack that space full ofmusic. The i8910 supports heaps of formats, including MP3, AAC and WMA. You canlisten to music on your own headphones too, thanks to the standard 3.5mm headphone jack. Ifit's all too much effort, there's also a good old-fashioned FM radio to keepyou entertained.
That great screen, huge memory ofup to 48GB, 3.5mm headphone jack and support for a wide range of file formatsmake the i8910 an excellent entertainment phone. And, with unmatched videorecording and speedy upload speeds, you can keep everyoneelse entertained with your own movies too.
Maximising battery life has been important for all smartphones since time began (2002!) With the Symbian^3-powered Nokia E7 and N8, both with slightly underwhelming battery capacity and no easy way for a user to swap cells, it has become an all-consuming, critical obsession. Which is why we're doing everything we can to help you eke out the milliamp hours... In extreme cases, by implementing all of the dozen measures detailed here, you can even double the battery life of your device - I did!
Cynics will point out that just by not using your phone for anything, you can get fabulous battery life(!) - while hardcore, power users will point out that a smartphone is only really smart if you're using all its features and using them to the max - in which case a life measured in hours is the order of the day. Or indeed only part of it. And that's true for almost any 2011 smartphone.
These tips apply in their entirety to all the new AMOLED-screened Symbian^3 phones, namely the C6-01, the C7, the N8, the E7 and the new X7 - though the N8, E7 and X7 are in needed of the tips most because of the fixed nature of their batteries - it's impractical for most people to slip in a spare when needed! The tips also apply, in part, to many older Symbian-powered phones and, to an extent, to other non-Symbian smartphones. Your mileage will, as ever, vary!
I mentioned the power drain from data connections above. You'll obviously want data - this is a smartphone, after all, but you can help battery life by not choosing ridiculous refresh frequencies in email and social clients. The exact details will vary depending on which applications you're using, but think about knocking email checks down to every 15 minutes (if applicable - some systems use 'push') and social network update checks down to every 30 minutes.
As with any other electronic devices powered by Li-Ion or Li-Poly rechargeable batteries, don't 'stress' your phone too much. Avoid leaving it in the full sun or outside in the snow(!) and never, ever leave it stored for any length of time with a drained battery. Doing so can kill the battery for good.
The Camera application is unusual in that it directly controls some hardware in the phone, powering it on. After you've snapped a shot, don't just press the home key to get away from Camera; take a moment to explicitly 'Exit'. This will make sure that the app doesn't hang around in the background and possibly cause unnecessary power drain by keeping the camera hardware powered up.
We're not sure we'd go that far, but the Nokia N8 sure is packing a lot of power under the hood. For starters, the phone, pictured at left, gets a 12-megapixel Carl Zeiss camera, a whopping upgrade over the 3 megapixel camera found on the Apple iPhone. (Read our standard disclaimer about megapixels.) The Weiss camera is also capable of shooting HD video; a second video camera on the front of N8, meanwhile, can be used for video calling. 2ff7e9595c
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