Posts tagged with: Nokia
Warm sound, great comfort and beautiful build-quality from Nokia’s BH-905
As you may have seen in our video yesterday, as part of Nokia’s #NokiaNav promotion, we’ve been given their latest Bluetooth noise cancellation headset to try out. We’re hugely impressed. From the moment you open the box, this headset reeks of quality. It has a satisfying heft and bulk to it but it’s still smaller [...]
By The Prodigal Fool, published on 13 May 2010
We successfully complete challenge two of #NokiaNav
#NokiaNav week is proving a lot of fun. Today, we woke to an email from Nokia with instructions on the next challenge. Using Ovi Maps’ syncing capability, we had to download the details of the next meeting point and make our way there using the Nokia N97 mini. On arriving, we were given a…. Wait [...]
By The Prodigal Fool, published on 11 May 2010
Just because: Photos of the Nokia N900
Just because we were cleaning out the memory card in our Nikon D80 and came across these photos we’d shot of our trial Nokia N900, we thought we’d share them with you. If you missed our review of the N900, go check it out here. It’s fair to say this impressive smartphone left us more [...]
By The Prodigal Fool, published on 6 May 2010
Nokia launches the N8 and history looks set to repeat itself
Yeah, OK, this looks rather nice. Announced today, the Nokia N8 is all set to provide some healthy competition to the iPhone HD when they’re both released some time in Q3 this year. History looks to be repeating itself though: The Nokia is likely to have the edge from a media capture perspective (the sample [...]
By The Prodigal Fool, published on 27 April 2010
The seven reasons why you should buy Nokia’s N900
#1 The N900 is cool The iPhone is state of the art industrial design. Really superb. But nowadays, it’s also completely ubiquitous. When every other person you encounter is clutching the wonder phone from Cupertino, there is something very cool indeed about the more butch, the more rugged-looking N900. True, it’s bulky and the slide [...]
By The Prodigal Fool, published on 19 April 2010
The seven reasons why you should avoid Nokia’s N900
#1 The screen is yesterday’s technology The N900 has the best resistive screen we have ever tested. Really. But here’s the thing: despite what Nokia might have you believe, resistive screens are not different to capacitive ones, they’re inferior to them. They’re inferior in every way that matters in daily use. Where a capacitive screen [...]
By The Prodigal Fool, published on 19 April 2010
Our definitive review of the Nokia N900. Sort of
It’s been weeks since we returned our trial N900 to Nokia and we’re only now writing the review? We’re lazy, it’s true, but not this lazy. No, the reality is, we’ve been dragging our heels over this one because the N900, like no device before it, has left us utterly conflicted. The number of things [...]
By The Prodigal Fool, published on 19 April 2010
Nokia responds to our criticism of its Messaging software: An interview with Davis Fields
We’ve been rather critical of Nokia recently. First we dismissed the N97 mini as an also-ran in the premium, touch-screen race; then we wrote a rather curt letter to OPK, Nokia’s CEO; and finally we concluded that the E72 just didn’t live up to the high standards set by its predecessor: the E71. In each [...]
By The Prodigal Fool, published on 22 February 2010
Does lightening ever strike twice? The Nokia E72
Nokia’s E71 was that perfect storm of rock-solid build-quality; powerful, stable software; and a great-looking form factor that included one of the best keyboard and D-pad combos ever on a smartphone. At the time of its release, we had no hesitation in declaring it better than the iPhone. It really was that good: one of [...]
By The Prodigal Fool, published on 15 February 2010
An open letter to Nokia CEO, Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo: The 10 things you need to do today to be a contender in the high-end smartphone market again tomorrow
Dear Olli-Pekka You’re keen on telling people how Nokia is the world leader in smartphones by market share. That’s true. At the moment. But since you don’t get to be the head honcho of one of the world’s biggest companies without having your wits about you, we’re pretty sure that you know that’s simply not [...]
By The Prodigal Fool, published on 28 January 2010
