The Jaiku N95 Unwrapping
My Jaiku Nokia N95 arrived today and obviously I had to make some nice unwrapping pictures. The package arrived within one day from Finland, which is strangely much faster than most normal packages here in the UK. Jyri had pre-installed version 0.49 of the Jaiku Mobile Client for me so I could directly start using Jaiku, but my Dutch GPRS doesn’t get recognized properly by the Series60 software. So, for now I don’t have a review of the Jaiku software as I will have to wait for my housemate to get back to help me with this.
Although the phone is quite a bit heavier and larger than my Sony Ericsson K610i, I do think I like it. Especially the combination of Wifi and GPS make it a very nice all-in-one device. I already managed to get Fring working on it, which means I can make Skype calls over Wifi wherever I have Wifi access. I can’t wait to use Fring on all those open Wifi networks out there like for example in The Apple Store Regent Street.
I also tried the built-in Flickr upload tool to upload a photo taken with the 5MP camera (see below). I think the quality of the camera is pretty good, and in combination with my Nikon D40 this camera is ideal for when I don’t want/dare to take my D40 out of my bag. Maybe it is a nice I idea to have a Flickr badge on this site with “live” images from events where I am at.
I still have to figure out 50% of the features and settings for two reasons. First off the manuals that were provided were in Scandinavian, and second I haven’t installed any Nokia software because I am using a Mac. Anyone know how the soon to be released firmware update for the N95 (as I was informed by an insider) can be installed on a Mac?
Summary (for now):
Pros
- Wifi
- GPS
- Skype over Wifi or HDSPA
- Acceptable 5Mp camera
- Nokia has recently released some nice iSync plugins
Cons
- Weird GPRS configuration
- Very big Media Button that gets pressed too quickly
- Too many buttons! (definitely not an iPhone)
- The Flickr username/password for the upload tool is not your normal username/password
In the end I am very thankful to Jaiku for awarding me this phone, and I think I am now even more a Jaiku fan.
alper http://alper.nl
April 24th, 2007Cris, I’m pretty sure you can configure Flickr+Wordpress to directly blog here from events. If you attach a short blurb, you can then later edit the post to include your writeup.
Very fun stuff. I think I am very seriously looking into getting a second hand N73. I want to run Jaiku on my cellphone.
Like you said being able to take pictures at odd times is one benefit of a phonecam but not daring to take out your DSLR is simply not an option. You really have to push your own comfort zones with regards to photography and get it out there in people’s faces.
Another application I’ve though of is that I practice some tricking and shooting myself doing that can provide me with very valuable feedback.