Ok. So I first said they were going down the tubes, then retracted the statement with the N76, and now, less than 48 hours back on my N95, I’ve deleted ShoZu, and I’m missing it hard-core. If you’re thinking, "Ricky, seriously, come on already," you’re absolutely right. Only you shouldn’t be directing that towards me. You should be directing that towards ShoZu. What?
Ok, here’s the skinny. I LOVE SHOZU. ShoZu allows me to truly enjoy my technology and use it to enable and enrich real life. It’s that simple, and that’s exactly what technology should be doing. With ShoZu on my device, I can easily and without doing a thing snap photos and have them upload to Flickr, Facebook and Twango, and just about any other online photosharing site I wish. Not bad.
Not bad except for that thus far, it’s only ran successfully on a phone with a piddly 2MP camera.
Who wants to share pictures taken with that poor of quality? Meanwhile my sexy beast of an N95, with the
mighty 5MP Carl Zeiss lens, is left out in the cold. Why for? It’s not
like the N95 is JUST out on the market. It’s been publicly available
since early this Spring. And it’s not like developers (especially
recognized ones such as ShoZu) couldn’t get their hands on one early. And I’m not buying the whole "The N95 has too little RAM" spiel. It ran on the N73 and every other S60 before that with ~20MB of RAM.
So what gives?
I’ve tried to be nice, but I’m calling them out now: If you’re not
going to fix ShoZu on the N95, then just stop trying and admit you can’t do it. Seriously. I’ve
posted several times on their forums and haven’t seen a response in
weeks (I check every week or so). I’ve posted 2 times on my site here
and haven’t heard a single peep out of their PR department or anything (usually if I rant about something, I have an email within 48
like that
hrs asking to go over the situation in detail. The list of those
include Winksite, Orb, even Viddler (though I never got a 2nd response
from Viddler). They all at least pretend to be interested. ShoZu seems
to have a "well, we tested it on our N95 in the lab with nothing else
installed and it worked fine" attitude. Well, I don’t care what you tested, if it’s not working then you need to do something else. *Update* ShoZu has contacted me and we’re working on trying to fix things. I will update with a new post if anything changes.
Newsflash, ShoZu, PEOPLE INSTALL STUFF ON THEIR S60 DEVICES.
THAT’S WHAT THEY’RE FOR. Yesterday I had TalkPlus running (which is a
lightweight app and a requirement for me nowadays) and nothing else.
I tried to open the Gmail app and I got the out of memory error. Drat,
I thought, so I rebooted the device in an attempt to free up some RAM.
No dice, same thing from a fresh reboot. Uninstalled ShoZu, rebooted,
and tried it again, WA-LA! I haven’t seen an out of memory error since.
This is just piss-poor. And frankly, Nokia’s not helping. Sure they’ve
updated their web upload service, but I still have to interact with
that (ALOT, actually, to get it to do anything). Where is my no-click
upload?! I don’t want the Vox app, because I don’t use Vox. I need
another blog like I need a hole in my head.
All I’m asking for is a simple no-click way to upload my photos. That’s
it. Is it so hard to ask? I’m not even asking for videos anymore (I’ve
given that up, sadly no one wants to do it. Again, piss-poor). All I
want is something that sits on my device and uploads stuff to Flickr.
If it works with Twango, too, great. Facebook? Cool, but not required.
Personally, I wish ShoZu would release a "ShoZu Lite" client that
doesn’t have all that messy ZuCasts and Contacts sync business. Stick
to what you know, ShoZu, stick to what you know.
