Cheers,

TWS

Without saying too much, a new FW for the N86 is in the works (all but finished off actually). As well as supposedly fixing some of the bugs, it also brings camera improvements, image improvements, better colour reproduction, and also, for the first time on a Nokia, Face Detection.

Due early October, it is hoped.

None hoping so more than me though, given that this morning, I have just once again added a number to my Phonebook, not typing it in, but direct from the Inbox of my Messaging Application, where I just used “Add to Contacts” > “Create New”

And nevertheless, from thence on, any messages from that number, still only appear as a NUMBER in my Messaging application.

This is the THIRD such number I have added to my phone recently to exhibit this problem.

And for clarification it is NOT a Duplicate Contacts issue that would therefore prevent it choosing which name to display. It is a specific bug in the Messaging Application Pattern Matching I would guess (I should get them to try calling me, to see what the Phonebook itself does with them), because the corresponding NAME is displayed fine, if you instead connect the phone to PC Suite and read the Inbox there, or even use “Conversations”, the threaded message view Beta Labs add-on, to view your messages.

Doing either of those, the recipient’s name is shown properly, which rules out any duplicate entry possibility.

Only in the Inbox of the phone, does it CONTINUE to show only a NUMBER for messages from these people.

(And I am aware that adding a number to the Contacts does not effect messages already received – but this is doing this for ONGOING messages on my phone, even after a switch off.)

So this is another BIG functionality bug – certain random messages, for reasons I still have no clue to, as I have tried deleting and re-creating numerous times etc, will only appear in your Inbox, with a NUMBER shown, instead of the actual stored contact’s NAME.

That’s a biggy to add to my already long list of bugs.

Actually, I think we agree. I never said that the N86 was a perfect device, simply that is was the best Nokia currently offers.

The state of Nokia firmware on release is a disgrace and once that is not limited to the N86. Every Nokia phone I’ve owned has needed at least two firmware updates before the big bugs were eradicated and the smaller ones never are.

I share your frustration at the huge – and currently wasted – potential of many of Nokia’s products. They need to get their software and quality sorted out.

Because currently, the N86 v 11.043 latest firmware, is the most Bug-ridden abomination of evil, Nokia have ever saw fit to throw our way.

You can argue all you like (it’s your site after all *lol*), but I have posted about the major issues in detail on sites such as AAS etc, giving detailed info on the key problems.

And I don’t just mean the little issues like current firmware not remembering “Special Words you spell out” (one day Nokia will finally get wise to checking that in each firmware first, given how many other phones over the years have had this bug that needed fixing), or the fact that CAPTURED photos are not even listed in the “Captured Photos” section in the Gallery, if saved to Mass Storage memory.

I’m talking more significant ones such as normal landscape photos randomly being saved as a PORTRAIT photo instead (the complete opposite of what the rotation sensor/accelerometer is even meant to be for).

Or how about the screen randomly auto-rotating when not in use, and then not being able to correctly re-orientate it when the phone is unlocked, if using a numeric key-guard, but worse yet, the Power Button then not even working, so that you can’t even switch your phone off without doing a BATTERY PULL (which with the FM Transmitter being built into the COVER, not the phone, is not something you want to be doing any more often than really needed).

I don’t even need go on to talk about the incorrect charging/battery meter indications it sometimes shows (which can be potentially devastating), and the host of other issues it currently has.

So, a lot to make it a white elephant just now, and NOT the Flagship you indicate…

..Were it not for the fact that I suspect ALL of these issues are SOFTWARE only, and can thus all be fixed in Firmware updates, IF Nokia are minded to do so.

And if they do, given that the hardware and actual feature set of the N86 is so extensive, then believe it or not, despite my ‘rant’, I’m with you on this…

…This really could be Nokia’s TRUE Flagship device, never mind the N96, N97 etc.

The N86 can be king.

IF Nokia sort out the horrible bug ridden, nightmare Firmware first.

So come on Nokia, give us the Flagship we all want it to be – the N86!