Nokia Nseries - Mobile Photo Processing
Nokia’s S60 devices are multimedia computers, and they’ve just upped the ante to anyone wanting to compete. At least in Europe. Nokia recently announced that Europeans with Nokia Nseries (not sure if it’s open to other devices, as well) can now order prints from photos taken with their phones and have them delivered to any address, all directly from their PHONE!
This is just cool. There’s a small download, available here or found in your Download! folder, and then you can select the prints you want, pay via credit card (with other payment options being explored) and the prints are delivered to the doorstep of whatever address you put in. Pretty cool, if you ask me. You can also request the prints to be on things other than paper - coffee mugs, tshirts, jigsaw puzzles, etc.
The printing is done by CeWe Color. If anyone uses this, be sure to comment on how the process went.
Yes I tried this service as soon as it came out on my n95.
Positive:
Good enough service to use if you want are travelling and wanted to send pictures to friends or your home address.
Picture quality is great, which you would expect from a 5M pixel camera
Negative:
Sadly needs some work on it. Or maybe it is just me a very bad user. I did not read the user instructions but figure it should be intuitive right?
When you go through your photos and select the one you want to your print basket it would be great to just order them all. I did this by marking all and then doing it.
It is not clear on how they get to the final cost including posting and processing. I am sure it is ok, but would good to see this when ordering, as 2x 8″x10″ which are 10p each cost a total of 1.89! A bit pricey I think when at home the cost is much lower
When you have finished the order, it would be great to clear the print basket or at least give the option to clear it. Again to clear all I had to mark all then scroll through to remove from basket.
The N123 voucher does not seem to work, or I misunderstood what it meant. I thought it meant that the first 10 are free. I assumed this meant inclusive of posting etc. However, it is only the per picture cost that is free, I think
Overall: I guess I will continue to use my ink-jet for the odd one I want to print out.