Nokia N8!
The Symbian
Experience Day 1
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UNNECESSARY RAMBLINGS
There comes a time
in everyone’s life that we make a stupid mistake. I have had a fair share of
stupidity but none may trump this latest one. There I was scanning for a Nokia
N8, it was my dream phone back then and I really wanted to try one out. I found
one on the second hand market which indicated a 98% Smoothness. I asked for a
discount but he did not want my price so I moved one, but he kept bugging me to
the point that he agreed to my price and agreed to my meetup. That moment I sensed
something fishy. The package was unit only. When he said he agreed to my meetup
and price he immediately texted me:
Buyer: ‘Sige munoz papunta nako’ (ok lets meet at munoz I’m on my way)
I was surprised, I did not even
confirm, but since he had a relatively good feedback, I went to Munoz. And that
was when the catastrophic clusterfuck began. They were two big bodied person
and when the unit is shown Holy Fuck it was as ugly as the Seller! Maybe even
uglier! I tested the unit and it was working fine but when I got to the camera,
I asked him how to activate the front cam and he did not know. BULLSHIT. I admit
it was my mistake for getting the unit amidst the Fail seller. It’s just too
sad. As of now I’m quitting buying units from untrusted sellers and next time I
will have the guts to back out of a deal. Charge to experience nalang. The unit
I got was working properly except for the non-functioning front camera which
still does not work amidst the Flashing of Symbian Belle. SAD SAD SAD.
Anyways, instead of wallowing and
crying, I know someday I will be a successful Electronics and Communication
Engineer or a College Engineering Science Teacher, I know I will get the money I
lost back in time. Tiwala lang. in addition to a positive outlook in the future,
I decided to use the phone instead of wasting money. For this week I will give
you a daily short experience of the phone. And without further ado this is it! The
Symbian Experience Day 1!
Friends’ Feedback
Day one is probably the
most critical day of all, I initially had no intention of showing this
horrendous looking marvel to my friends but my loud mouth and braggadocian
attitude did not contain it for long. I showed it to my friends and I was
relieved by their reception, as ugly as the unit was the greeting was filled
with praise like ‘ UYY AYAN YUNG KAY JEYO DB?’(Hey, this was Jeyo’s phone,
right?) ‘ITO YUNG DIYOS NA PHONE DATI
DB? (This was the God Phone before right).
A little bit of
sharing, 3 years ago, when N8 was launched my friend had it and we were all
amazed as it had capabilities we never knew smartphones had, his N8 had about
three key memories which made me love it, we watched a movie when we had no teacher,
through its HDMI and TV-out, it was the source of music when we had a christmas
party, PLAY VIA RADIO was badass. And it had an amazing 12MP Camera.
As bad looking as the
unit is, it was praised for its prowess and brought nostalgia to us. We were 3rd
year college back then, now look at us, unemployed graduates HAHAHAHA.
The Experience
Every day I travel,
I use my back up phone as a multimedia entertainment. There is no way I will
watch using my Note 2. Today I use N8 and after I got on the jeep, I opened
Nokia N8’s video app, and to my great relief it was able to play a 175MB AVI
File without any problem. What I noticed was the substantial lag when jumping
onto a different time. Browsing and exploring the phone was also a forgettable
experience as it is relatively laggy by today’s standards. Typing on the
keyboard using QWERTY is good for sadists out there. Fortunately, its
alphanumeric keyboard works fine, kind of like using a decade ago’s phones. I
took some snapshots along the way and boy is the camera impressive! One thing
to remember, NEVER USE THIS PHONE FOR STOLEN SHOTS! Its infrared always
activates even if the flash is off. Nevertheless, the image quality is great!
The music is also an enjoyable experience as it delivered loud, clear and clean
audio with an amazing feature namely Loudness and Stereo Widening, the former
is self-explanatory while the latter GREATLY ENHANCES your audio experience
especially if you are a stereo geek.
It did not offer
anything special but it did get me through the day. Though I still feel
saddened on how ugly and battered this phone looks.
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