Nokia N8 - Good hardware, poor software

Nokia N8 - Good hardware, poor software.

Small background info: I'm a businessman, and a phone-freak. My view is strictly from a business and process-management's point of view. I've used the the iPhone 3GS lately, and I dare to say that I know every little trick there is to know with the software version 4.1. I've used the iPhone mainly for Microsoft Mail for Exchange (which is also pre-installed in the N8), handling incoming and outgoing issues with sms/email/mms and passing contacts, copying text + images from the web and pasting the material to emails, etc.

The reason that I'm about to compare the iPhone into the N8 is simply because the N8 is clearly Nokia's latest targeted answer to the iPhone-craze, and there are so many copied little software-issues from iPhone that I think the software of the N8 would have to be commented on a bit. Straight from the gut.


Software


1st issue

Texting / emailing is of course important with a business-phone, so you really need to be able write a lot, and fast. The N8 really lacks the possibility of true speed-writing as you can only press a 1 button at a time to get them registered correctly! Usually when you press 2 buttons with the iPhone, the one that is released earlier, gets registered earlier. Simple. There's no multiple-key registering on the N8, which is terrible if you try to cope with something like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNcTE5WJGdw

Now for a business-phone, I can't really suggest any touch-pad to begin with, but this video makes you wonder..

2nd issue

Mail for Exchange: You receive an email on the iPhone, be it HTML or normal text, you can easily copy some text to be pasted anywhere, but on the N8, you simply can't mark and copy any text at all from the received email, unless you forward the email and then go and copy the text needed. It's unbelievable since so much time has passed since I used the Nokia E71, and its MFE for example didn't forward any attachments and the forwarded emails couldn't be edited at all !! Imagine, if you can't edit the text of the forwarded email! So on the N8, it's better than on the E71, but still you need to go and forward the email first in order to copy an important address for example from the email...then cancel the forwarded email.) It's also quite hard to place the cursor to the right point, as the Nokia N8 doesn't have any magnifier (like on the iPhone) that beautifully let's you move the cursor to its right point before you take your finger away from the text.

3rd issue

Let's say you have an address or a cast-listing in a text format you want to copy from a web-page to be placed in your calender for a certain day. On the iPhone, you can easily mark and copy text and images from web-pages to be pasted to almost anywhere. With the N8 you can't copy text and images from web-pages, there's no possibility for doing that. For me this is also a serious issue, since you'd expect these things to be possible on a smartphone, not having to pull out your laptop and continue..

4th issue

When you're typing text on the N8, it ALWAYS has a separate FULL-SCREEN window to type the text into, everything else on the screen goes white except the part where you're supposed to write. In case you have a chat on, using Fring for example, you don't see the other person's chat while you are typing, since when you press the area where to write, it pops up with the white blank screen again where you can only write, you don't see anything else! This issue is truly highlighted when you are registering to receive your forgotten password for OVI-services. Nokia is using CAPTCHA on confirming that it is in fact a person in the other end (i.e. you). When you start to write the necessary letters/numbers, you don't see the CAPTCHA-anymore, why?? Because of the white screen that overwhelms everything else when you are writing!! You'd have to go back and forth if you don't remember the CAPTCHA-code. I guess these guys at Nokia haven't really thought of everything, or it's a huge compromise when trying to still keep the Symbian alive.

On the iPhone, whenever there's a text-filling-area (form or whatever), surely you can write there and you see the rest of the screen at all times. It's very useful when you are commenting a post on a web-page for example and you need to go a bit upwards on the page to check on something and then swipe yourself back down to the "form" to continue writing.


The rest

On the N8, you are searching for a contact by pressing the starting letters of your desired contact, but there's no qwerty, instead the contact finder has a very quirky input in a format of a b c d e f g h... And let's say you want to find ANNA, you press A first, and then the input-keypad changes corresponding to the directory of contacts what would be the next letter. So in case you don't have a contact starting with AA, then the keypad looses A totally and re-configures itself; meaning that all the letters are in a new position on the screen! Whoever came up with this strategy, I'd like to have a word with him/her. It's super-slow to try to find people like this from your contact-list. Why can't they use the normal qwerty that stays the same, and you could simply just write ANNA as you've used to, and the contact would pop on screen?

On the N8, Nokia has finally agreed on loose some of the quirkyness how and when different programs are using the internet-access. If you have a known network (say WLAN), it knows to use it like the iPhone, so the push-emails are suddenly offline from the EDGE / 3G, and switched to using the available WLAN, etc. Just like on the iPhone. But still the N8 sometimes pops up with the connection-question that it doesn't know which network to use, so it still has a lot of room for improvement.

On the iPhone, when you have sounds and vibrate on + you have a "call waiting" switched on, it's annoying to have an on-going phone-call when other calls are coming in: the phone vibrates a bit and makes a quite loud sound. Also this happens when you are notified with a calender-issue while you have an on-going call. Why can't it be just a discreet beep, why does it have to freak you out? Also when you want to end the call, and you've gotten some calender-notifications, these calender-notifications are on top of the screen that you are unable to press the end call button! First you need to close the calender issue, and then the call. I think the other way around would be more important. (I still need to see how this is handled on the N8 though.)

And this also have to be said that as I was watching a movie-trailer that came with the N8 and I had a call coming in. (This must have been the second call ever with this phone.) The call stopped the trailer which of course is ok and it popped up with the answering / reject buttons.. I tried to press the answer-button, but there wasn't any response. The phone kept ringing and I couldn't answer for like 8-seconds or so. Then all of a sudden, it opened up the line. Sounds like N97 all over again?


Hardware

The screen is great, the picture-quality is superb, the camera is faster than ever on a Nokia-phone. Jumping a bit to the software-side still: the camera knows where the faces are in the picture so it knows where to focus on. You can attach additional memory-cards to it, and even use usb-memory-sticks with the bundled cable-adapters. The video-recording quality is something you've never experienced on a mobile phone, and the fact that you can watch the shots and pics on your modern TV with the praised HDMI-output. So you basically just hook the N8 to your HDMI-TV or an external screen and off you go.

The iPhone is nothing like the N8 in this respect, however, all the functions (shooting a video + taking a pic and sharing it) are much easier on the iPhone. And when you have your beautiful image or a footage taken with the N8, you'd want to transfer it immediately to your laptop to be shared. Usually just the opposite happens on the iPhone; you share it and edit it on the device itself. Good software, less hassle.

Blackberry is in Nigeria but not in Finland?

Yes, the Crackberry, I mean..Blackberry is in Nigeria but not in Finland! There are not so many countries out there that don't have the Blackberry-hardware and the service available.

Canada has the highest Blackberry-penetration in the world, so I guess Nokia dominates Finland as well in this respect. But is that the reason for Blackberry to not do business in Finland? How is Nokia doing in Canada?

Blackberry is also very popular in the US for corporate users and in the financial sector. There is a lot of business going on in Nigeria for the US, Chevron and the others, so you need to have the corporate email covered there as well locally for the expats. How much business there is in Finland for the US, how many expats? I guess not so many.

A new Tesla, finally!

A new Tesla (Model S) was revealed just now. It's an electric supercar seating 7, 300-mile range, 0-60 in only 5.5sec, 45-min quick charge, 5-min battery exchange, all this for USD 50K. Not bad, eh? I'm already dying to get one!

This just came out, check this for more details:

http://www.autoblog.com/2009/03/26/tesla-model-s-50-000-ev-sedan-seats-seven-300-mile-range-0-6/

But when you think of it a bit more, and if you want to keep it luxurious, wouldn't it be more comfortable to also consider a new kind of a hybrid, all good for driving in the EV-mode for reasonably long, but also a car that would run on gas if needed?

So check this as well, the Fisker Karma, profiled here:

• 0-60 in less than 6 seconds (0-100 km/h 6 seconds)
• Top speed 125 mph (200 km/h)
• Two Driving Modes: The driver will be able to select between two modes of driving. The first mode is Stealth Drive, which is the quiet economy mode for optimal relaxed and efficient driving. By flipping the second paddle behind the steering wheel, the car will switch to Sport Drive, which will access the full power of the vehicle.
• Regenerative brakes featured to recapture braking energy
• Low center of gravity provides optimal sport vehicle driving dynamics

http://karma.fiskerautomotive.com/

OSX Software Update crashed the login-system

I know I'm a bit off this time from the "Saturday Mobile" but I just had to submit a report concerning the fact that the OSX Software Update on Tiger crashed the whole login-system on my iMac!

What happened was that as I was normally checking all the necessary security updates and everything on the Software Update, and as I was left with the login-window after the reboot, I couldn't log into my account anymore! When I selected the user, typed in my password, I was revealed the desktop briefly, but then abruptly slammed back into the login window.

It lets me to get in via another account (but with less privileges), and I can open up a terminal and log in as the user that I was supposed to log in in the first place. I can then open up Disk Utilities to run the Disk Permissions -test, etc. but that doesn't help. I also booted the system up from the OSX-installation-discs, took away passwords, tried the Disk Utility functions once more. Tried also some safe-boot instructions to do some magic tricks that I found from the net for this, but no deal. (You'll find a lot of stuff about this issue by Google under: login loop osx tiger problem)

So now I'm left with two options:

1. Use the another account. Somehow lift its privileges to a super-user level, move all the privileged material from under the closed account to the one that I would be using from then onwards. Delete the ex account.

2. Trying to install the OSX from the installation discs: Can I install the OSX into a specific earlier created partition and leave the other partitions intact, thus saving the data? See I'd want to install the OSX from scratch but I'm afraid that the install will wipe out everything on these partitions.. They say you can do it, but better to take a backup first. I agree, but 500GB data to be stored somewhere, buying a new disc for this, oh man, where is my IT-support?

Apparently we need Steve J. back from his major sick-leave.

Fring with Nokia E71 is a great moneysaving productivity-tool

Fring with Nokia E71 is a great moneysaving productivity-tool

People don't even realize how much they can save and how EASY it is to install Skype for their phones!

Usually when you are traveling, the most urgent things are handled by calling but otherwise with email. But nowdays, you can use Fring as a mobile Skype over wlan (as well as on 3G). I'll tell you a bit more about that later on, but it's really really simple.

In fact it's a very beautiful system, I'll guarantee you that! Usually the biggest problem is that people don't want to hassle with anything new, but I think if you calculate your yearly savings with using Fring/Skype, it's definitely an eyebrows-rising-effect. But first I'd buy the most updated and the fastest phone there is for that; the Nokia E71, and don't worry about the cost, it'll be payed back in no time. (Also it's good to add to the bunch the Mail for Exchange for a real-time email, don't ask me why, just do it, it's comparable with the Blackberry experience, plus you'll get the Fring... Also make sure you have an unlimited data-plan, so you are charged only a fixed amount on a monthly basis for that.)

So, after purchasing the phone, download the Fring, it's super-easy! Just go to: http://www.fring.com/download/
and go from there accordingly.

And here comes the best part, the Fring doesn't need you to update anything, e.g. you are chatting at the office using the wireless internet (wlan) and then when you change your location, the Fring automatically uses the second fastest option you have, such as 3,5G or 3G. Voice conversations (Skype) need to have at least 3G in order to transfer the data for the conversation. Text chatting on the other hand can be done with a slower connection (edge and gprs). When you have a Fring to Fring conversation on the E71 in a wlan area, it's really clear and fast. You can't tell if it's a Fring or just a "normal" telephone-call. It becomes the norm pretty fast and you start to ask people can we change the conversation using the Skype instead and then you'd want even some more, like Fring supporting videocall, Fring receiving links you can open with your phone-internet-browser...etc. Using Fring is really fun and easy!

So whenever you've subscribed into a wireless network, may that be provided by your local Starbucks or for example the Union Square San Francisco, the Fring then onwards automatically switches to the network that is available in the preference-order you've selected. The preset is to find wlan, then 3G, etc.. but you wouldn't have to worry about this at all.

When I'm at the office the Fring automatically connects me to use the office wlan, then when I'm off to a lunch, it is being automatically switched into using 3G and I still get Skype-calls in and text-chats for sure, but you really need to have a good connection for the 3G-call though. Usually it's just fine. So all this for a fixed price when you have an unlimited data-plan! So there's no charge for making nor receiving the call.

p.s. I'm always curious about the radiation values, the SAR-values as they call it. The lowest SAR-value for the Nokia E71 is: 1.33 W/kg and the highest is: 1.53 W/kg. As a comment those can be actually quite alot when the highest should be only 2.00 W/kg in Europe. I don't know the regulations on the actual measurement but if the new ip-phone-protocol is being also implemented on this measurement, it might mean that the wlan-function radiates the highest. And usually it's the one that drains the battery the most in any case, so... But if you have a better view on this, please send me an email, I'm always curious about SAR-values:

paulallenthethird@hotmail.com

About the antenna positioning and the radiation values (SAR) on cellphones

About the antenna positioning and the radiation values (SAR) on cellphones

Ever been concerned about the cellphone radiation?

I have.

Ever been concerned if the cellphone companies would know something more about this issue?

I have.

(About the cellphone radiation levels. There is a specific measurement value-system for this, and it’s called SAR, which stands for Specific Absorption Rate. It is "a way of measuring the quantity of radiofrequency (RF) energy that is absorbed by the body”, defined by the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association (CTIA). The regulations for the maximum SAR-levels are as the following: Canada: 1.6 W/kg (watts per kilogram), and for example in Europe it’s 2.0 W/kg.)

There is an interesting discussion about the issue of the positioning the antenna in the cellphone, how to minimize the levels of radiation by repositioning and isolation efforts.

Many of the cellphone companies have nowdays put the antenna on the lower-section of the phones. You have iPhone, RAZR, RAZR2 (in fact almost all of the current Motorola clamshell-lineup), and some of the Nokias now as well have the antenna on the lower-section of the phone. Does it tell us something like we’d be better off to go with the antenna as far away from the brain as possible? But it still leaves the body tissue somewhat close to the antenna. So what if it's away from the brain, but it’s close to your chin? It's your same body tissue anyhow. Some say it's better not to mess with your brains, so preferably the chin-body-tissue then, somehow I would agree on that.


What is the “lower-section” and where is the antenna then?

Here on the left-hand-side you’ll see for example from this image taken from the Apple iPhone (although reporting somewhat a high maximum SAR-level: at 0.974 W/kg), see the black area in the lower-section of the phone. It’s in the back, covered with a plastic area.

Here on the right-hand-side an image of the famous Motorola RAZR. On the right-hand-side you are able to see the phone unfolded, and the bulky antenna-part of the phone is in sight. This is the original RAZR, it has the antenna covered with a plastic area. Otherwise the phone, both the grey and the black, has a metallic shell.

Here is an image of the new Motorola RAZR2, current lineup under the Apple iPhone on the left-hand-side under this text. As you can see the antenna-area here is not visually so bulky anymore, however it’s in the same place as before, and the radiation measured from this particular model is quite significantly low, at 0.36 W/kg. (It’s one of the best in fact, positioned as the 9th in the top ten lowest in terms of SAR-levels measured at your ear.)

It’s somewhat disturbing when the SAR-levels are actually measured at your ear-level. How about then when you are on a Bluetooth, and the phone is in your pocket, let’s say near your other valuable organs? Or if the measure is taken from the ear-level, and the actual antenna is at your cheek-level, so there would be a difference on that for sure. (Then there is a whole another discussion about the Bluetooth-radiation-levels, when you are using the wireless handsfree plugin…)

The phones with the lowest maximum SAR-levels are also the longest in terms of size. The lowest SAR measured in the US market is the LG Chocolate, LG KG800 (Only 0.135 W/kg !!), and it’s quite long in terms of size when you are using the slider-phone extended. Also RAZRs are long, but also Nokia (here on the left) has the new 6555 that is very long (clamshell with the antenna at the lower-end), however the SAR-level at the ear is quite heavy in any case (0.88-0.89 W/kg), comparing it to the LG Chocolade. I think the reason for this is because of the Nokia 6555 has the 3G that is actually rising the maximum SAR-levels here. However you can switch the higher radiation off using only the 2G network (GSM-setting, not dual mode, UMTS, etc. in the selections), so you’d be better off with lower SAR-levels. Also then you’d be able to save more battery, have longer talk-time, better reception. However if you are using the 3G when using the phone as a “modem” for your laptop or surfing the web on the phone, then it’s another case; you'd want to set it working on the dual mode (3G, UMTS, etc.) and not GSM.

All phones need to have the antenna-area under a plastic, or under some other non-metallic cover. In fact you can spot the antenna-part pretty easily on the phones that otherwise have a metallic shell. The antenna cover can also be made out of ceramic materials, like Vertu Signature has. Also when you open up the battery-cover, you can see that for example here on this image, it’s apparent that the antenna is on the lower end of the phone (Nokia 6290, measuring 0.47 at ear-level, and it’s also a 3G-phone (on the left, it's opened up) with this low SAR-levels, so it is a fact that when measured at the ear-level, the radiation is significantly lower when the antenna is on the lower section of the phone)

Usually it’s also so that when the antenna is on the lower part of the phone and a candbar-design is concerned, the camera is usually positioned right at the top and also all the plugs for the chargers and USBs are at the top of the phone. Here on this image (left) the Nokia XpressMusic.


Comparing the Nokia XpressMusic with the phone that has the antenna on the upper-section. Here you can clearly see that the camera is positioned a bit lower.(Nokia 3110 on the right)

Usually the whole phone is plastic, so you can’t always tell where the antenna is, so then it’s more likely that you’d have to look at the SAR-levels provided on each model. Now here something that I find interesting, not all of the phones that have the antenna in the lower part, has the lowest SAR-ratings, there are also surprises on the list. It is also so that some of the phones on the list are quad-band-phones (850, 900, 1800, 1900) with 3G / WCDMA etc. capabilities and the maximum levels might come from the usage of one of these networks, since the radiation for example in the 3G-networks is ultimately higher. (Also now there are IP-calls over the WLAN, so that might rise the overall radiation levels measured as well.)

Let’s see the list here: (US market, the lowest SAR levels from the current lineup)

1. LG KG800 0.135
2. Motorola Razr V3x 0.14
3. Nokia 9300 0.21
4. Nokia N90 0.22
5. Samsung Sync SGH-A707 0.236
6. Nokia 7390 0.26
7. Samsung SGH-T809 0.32
8. Bang & Olufsen Serene (Samsung) 0.33
9. Motorola Razr2 V8 0.36
10. Nokia 6263 0.43

There is also surprisingly the Nokia 9300 Communicator at the no. 3, (0.21 W/kg) that has been replaced by the newer version called the Nokia E90. However the newer model has WCDMA and it’s a quad-band phone, so you’ve got now (0.65 W/kg), which is not bad considering it to be also a candybar design. It’s possible that the antenna is somewhere in the lower part also, or it can also be the thickness of the phone so when the antenna is at the other side of the earpiece at the outer edge, so the radiation-level would be so much lower. Or is the antenna somewhere else? At least I remember that the 9500 Communicator had at least two places for the different antennas for WLAN and others.

Then we will see the US market, the highest SAR-levels from the current lineup (Notice here that it’s surprising that the Blackberry Curve is on this top 10 list highest SAR-ratings! I’ve opened it up once or twice and I thought that the antenna must be on the lower part of the phone, but I guess the high SAR-level report is due to the fact that the phone is actually not so long at all. Also here the funny thing is that the number 1 radiator here is a clamshell phone, Motorola V195s that is just barely legal in Canada! (Clearly the antenna is not at the lower end of the phone, instead it's in the middle where the hinge is. And the upper part where the earpiece is, isn't that long.)

1. Motorola V195s 1.6 (Barely legal in Canada!)
2. Motorola Slvr L6 1.58
3. Motorola Slvr L2 1.54
3a. Motorola W385 1.54
4. Motorola Deluxe ic902 1.53
4a. T-Mobile Shadow (HTC) 1.53
4b. Motorola i335 1.53
5. Samsung Sync SGH-C417 1.51
5a. Motorola V365 1.51
5b. RIM BlackBerry Curve 1.51


Radio frequency heating effect and testing

It’s known that the high levels of radio frequency radiation can produce biological damage in terms of the heating-effect. The SAR-level-testing is mainly done by the phone manufacturers themselves for the FCC pass in the US, so I’m also a bit sceptic about that really…

Positioning of the antenna

I don’t know if it was the Motorola RAZR that started the antenna-positioning in the lower-section or was it some other brand. It can be argued also that the positioning of the antenna on the lower-section might be better because of the better reception (thus lowering SAR-level, saving more battery…), since people usually tend to hold the phone with their fingers touching the back of the earpiece, where the antenna usually is. On Nokia manuals, they used to say at least before that 'hold the phone like this' (an image), pointing that “no fingers at this area” because of the reception/battery drain, etc. Also on normal clamshell-phones (the antenna being not in the lowest part) people tend to keep their fingers on top of the antenna area, which is basically the area where the hinge is near by. When you have a candybar phone you’d have to position the antenna quite far away in the lower-end to reduce the SAR-level measured at your ear. So the longer the phone is, the further away the antenna is. When you unfold the RAZR2, it’s so long that I think it’s the clearest reason why it has so low SAR-level reported.

Contradictory handsfree-issue

There has also been a lot of discussion that the handsfree-cables might not reduce the radiation at all, since they might also act as aerials for the radiation, channeling the radiation into your ear. The best is to rely on the SAR-level provided, at least for the time being. I’d value my brains more than some other tissue.

But then again, you can’t really trust on the positioning of the antenna itself either.

I wasn’t actually at all surprised when I spotted the list of the least amount of maximum radiation-level -phones, the most likely suspects were all the ones with the antenna in the lower-section of the phone, even though not all of the phones on the list were clamshells with their antennas on the lower-section of the phone. For example the lowest radiator, LG Chocolade (LG KG800) is a slider, that has the camera placing where the antenna normally is. Now it’s somewhere hidden in the lower part of the phone. Just like it’s sibling the LG KG810 which is a clamshell phone, you’ll see that the lowest part of the back of this phone has the area for the antenna.

When the radiation is measured at your ear, it’s clear that those phones that are in a clamshell-form, have the least amount of maximum radiation (those with the antenna in the lower-part are the best in this test), comparing those with the ones that are in a candybar-form, the antenna behind the ear-piece. Sliders usually have the antenna in the upper section, although this remarkably low SAR-level measured from the LG Chocolade -slider is an exeption in this class. But it also proves the point; the further the antenna, the smaller the SAR-level is measured. And when it's measured at the ear, the lower the rating.

To minimize the radiation-levels absorbed in your body, find a cellphone with a low SAR-rating and preferably the antenna within a longer distance from your brain / body. Some of the cellphones still have these little holes covered with a soft plastic cover that you could hook an external antenna if needed.

Clearly the cellphone companies must have an emergency-strategy for a possible unfavorable development in this regard such as an acceleration of cancer cells reported on humans, linked with a cellphone-use. As some tests have shown that cellphone radio frequency (RF) could accelerate cancer cells in laboratory animals, the studies have not been replicated on humans.

All in all, nowdays my first concern when I choose a new cellphone is to find one based on the antenna location, with as low as possible SAR-rating, preferably a clamshell with the antenna in the lower-section of the phone.

All comments and suggestions welcome:

paulallenthethird@hotmail.com

Function and purpose on cellphones

I don’t look down on older phones, you know for me it’s great to have many different cellphones around and have fun with them. Sometimes you pick up older clamshell phones, like the ones Jack Bauer and his enemies are keeping touch in earlier seasons. Sometimes you want to pick up a sturdier, a really rugged one (those used to be hard to find, Motorola has one or two such models, and they sure look like police-models.

But then always at the end you are using the business-phone to get all the emails in so why carry the two phones?

I’d like to have a clamshell with email and business capabilities.

Why clamshell? Because it’s dead-easy to put the keylock on since it's not anything you'd have to remember, just close it and that's it! Also you are not answering to any calls by a mistake because of the tight jeans you have. So just when you are about to sit down and someone calls you, your jeans are starting to press the answering-button, and so there you go, you are caught gossiping perhaps!

Well, you could always argue that there is a switch on many of the different phones that you can press and then you’d have the keylock on, but still even today, I end up getting answers to my calls by accident, people being not aware that the phone in their purse or jeans-pocket is answering the call!

When the clamshell-form is further studied I find that having buttons outside the closed phone is usually messy. If you have buttons outside, make sure they wouldn't be harmful in terms of usability and/or they'd need to be pressed hard in order for them to be effective. Motorola Razr is pretty ok since the camera button needs a quite heavy push in order to function, so you won't end up having totally dark photos from your pocket, wheareas for example the Nokia 6126 is horrible in this respect. You end up putting it into your pocket eventually. (It hasn't got the automatic keylock when folded, couldn't find it even from the settings.) So what happens is not just that accidentally the side-button for the camera is being pressed down several times and you end up having black photos, but the real deal is the power button! You start to wonder that the phone is not buzzing at all for a while, since you've turned it off accidentally!

How an earth you're designing a phone that has the power-button on the side like this: (see from the side the red dot, that's the power button). Nokia design-engineering at it's best on this one for sure :)

With the Motorola Razr you can read email pretty easily (although it is painfully slow to write long texts since the operating system slows down significantly), and switch it to check the emails in different time-intervals. That’s pretty good since with low-end Series 40 Nokias have a separate program that handles emails and there is no possibility of “autocheck emails in 10-minute intervals”, or such. So in ads they claim they have the email on those phones, and that’s a load of bs, since it’s not even work properly, it doesn’t have an unauthorized certification pass, etc. Series 60 (as they say; smartphone) however has all the nice functions, but the problem is that you have to constantly take the battery out of the phone if you are using other than the normal phone / sms -functions. (Crashes)

Has Nokia become the new Microsoft?