Comments on: Symbian-Guru’s 2009 Top 5 Nokia Blunders

By: CwMbest

CwMbest — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:36:13 +0000

The Ovi Store, I mean, it really sucks, but why? Nokia has nearky 40 percent of the market,. So why are the prices shit and downloads fail……

By: nickE10mm

nickE10mm — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 12:50:34 +0000

HAHA!!

The Nokia 5800 launch gets my vote for the biggest blunder, no question about it.

By: rvirga

rvirga — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 05:59:35 +0000

Another mistake was this year's participation at CES.
Nokia, if you don't believe in CES as a venue to announce new products or partnerships, fine, skip it altogether, like Apple did. I'd prefer that to showing up empty-handed and giving a snooze-fest of a keynote, like you did this year. You embarrassed yourself, and gave ammunition to that part of the press who already thinks you're obsolete and irrelevant.

By: PFX

PFX — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 19:02:59 +0000

wasting time and money suing apple! this just shows that nokia is losing market to the iphone. they could have used their resources to make an iphone killer, we all know that nokia has the potential to do so…
and why go for maemo when they have symbian?

By: Louis Tovar

Louis Tovar — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 18:27:59 +0000

I'm the same adam, in late 2007 I was trying to consider an e90 or n95. I had wished there was an n95 with double the RAM and US 3g. Then the n95-3 was announce and promptly picked it up at the nokia flagship in chicago, along with my first nonprepay cell plan. I was really happy with the phone. Nokia announced the n85, which (on paper) seemed like a sexier n95. One of the first time I have ever gone with an expensive leap of faith and pre-ordered the device. Well I got it and was very VERY disappointed. The firmware update helped a bit, but things like the camera just couldn't be fixed. And 2 months after receiving the device the n86 was announced and it was everything the n85 should have been.

As of lately ATT's 3G network has been pretty garbage in the city so I decided to give verizon a go. The Droid is so fantastic… I can believe what i've been missing. I wasn't expecting as much quality from the network or the phone as it has given me. I picked up my n85 the yesterday, to show off the tv-out to some one, and just puked in comparison to what I'm getting with Android.

By: apurvgupta

apurvgupta — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:15:27 +0000

Totally agree with aman

By: Satyan Bajaj

Satyan Bajaj — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 21:08:49 +0000

Nokia itself is a big blunder now.
I have read on quite a few blogs about the Symbian UI dying out too. I don;t really know whether that is true or not, but the N97 I agree was the biggest goof up, It should have had the HW specs of the N900.
Instead of having an excellent device which makes a breakthrough again linke the Ex-Flagship N95, Nokia just shut down good services like MOSH and Widsets to convert them into the pathetic OVI Store.
OVI Suite of services are not what they should have concentrated on. What are they trying to do, Beat the apple store????
Now they are going to concentrate and invest more to develop the S40 UI further. BAD MOVE.

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By: KK1974

KK1974 — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 16:10:15 +0000

Is your phone hacked..

By: JuBaZ

JuBaZ — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 20:35:49 +0000

IMHO, the 5th biggest blunder for 2009 should go to the NOKIA E72. There has been much anticipation and hype about this phone for most of the year and in the end, though impressive on paper, it is fraught with stability issues and features that outright just don't work. Why even put this product on the market if it is not ready?!? I've been using one for about 1 week now and my last phone was an E71.

**NEW but Poorly Implemented**
OPTICAL NAVI PAD is of very limited use. It also stops working during voice calls! Plus the camera's autofocus feature appears to be bound to the Navi Pad (a light touch engages the focus). If you disable the feature you lose the ability to focus. The D-Pad of inferior quality compared to the E71 and often feels as if it clicking back into place.
ACCELEROMETER does not seem to be supported by most of the apps which utilize this feature (and mind you there aren't that many out there).
EXTERNAL SPEAKER appears a bit weaker than on the E71 (perhaps d/t its new location in the rear as opposed to the top edge).
USB CHARGING in my experience only works when connected to a computer and there needs to be a data connection established. It does not charge via car charger or power strip.

**BROKEN**
BLUETOOTH STACK, many users out there have reported difficulties with BT headsets and I echo their voices. I have experienced shutdown of the BT in the midst of a telephone conversation. When this happens I am unable to toggle the BT radio to off and the only remedy is a re-boot.
USB, faulty data connectivity. Maybe I have a lemon but when I connect the E72 to my computer, it is recognized <50% of the time. No data connection and NO CHARGING.

In closing, the release of the E72 is reminiscent of the N97, so much promise but dismal execution. Maybe after seven months we will finally be able to love the E72, that's the time it took Nokia to fix up the N97 to The Guru's liking. There's hope?!?