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11 out of 12 people found this review helpful
2.5 stars
"The Power-Sucking Brick"
Pros: Easy to use camera/video recording mode, Decent 2MP camera, Beautiful Display
Cons: Expensive, Heavy, Battery Pig, No Vibrate, Slow to Boot, Slow to Load Photos, Flakey PC connection through USB, Often "Memory Full" error which requires reboot.
Summary: I really have a love/hate relationship with this phone. I think it's a nice phone I just don't think it's $800 nice - maybe $300. I could live with it being a bit sluggish and heavy just for the camera but; what has really turned me off though is the horrible battery life - lasting about a day and a half on standby.
The camera is okay. I've taken a few nice pictures and a ton of blurry pictures. The flash is rather useless and gives anything close up a bluish tint. It also takes really nice videos.
I love Nokia. I've always had Nokia phones and I'm really disappointed that the N90 didn't live up to my expectations. Seeing that the N92 already looks so much better than this phone I think they will be improving a lot soon.
I've ended up selling this phone and getting a Motorola V3 Razr (Motorola! Ew!) to tide me over until Nokia gets it's act together.
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I'll forgive you for this remark since you've probably not used a Nokia smartphone before (this had me going at first too) but when it says the memory's full it means that you've got a lot of programs running. If you start a program and then get a call or otherwise leave a program by pressing the red hangup button it leaves the program running in the background, aka multi-tasking. Some people don't like that you can't end a program quickly by pressing the red button but considering that in exchange you get multi-tasking on a mobile phone it's a worthy trade. You either make sure you leave a program properly (generally by pressing 'left button', 'up', 'select', which becomes a simple routine done without thinking) or by holding down the menu button which comes up with a list of running programs which you can then choose by selecting them or press the C button to close them without even bringing them back up.
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