Nokia N8!
The Symbian
Experience Day 2
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Today marks the
second day of my Symbian Experience project, since I have no classes today I
think I will have a better chance of appreciating and covering nooks and
crannies of the phone. Today, I tackled the phone’s Music and Video Playback
much extensively. Without further ado, here is The Symbian Experience Day 2!
The Experience
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| File Transfer 8MBps |
To elongate this
blog, let me share something with you guys. When I first got this phone, it had
Symbian Anna. Hours after, I could not bear with the slow interface and I
decided to upgrade it into Belle, and the experience was undoubtedly better.
Today I tinkered with the device and tried to install some apps, Nokia always had a quirky way of app installation but its file transfer is definitely very fast at about 8MBps. As mentioned yesterday, Music Playback is one
of this phone’s strong suit, playing those songs that uses the Stereo is a joy
and higher Bit Rate song sound much better here than playing them on other
phones. (Better than rebranded phones and HTC Google Nexus One). Though I have
to point out, as good as the music is, Nokia N8’s stock music player has a big
flaw. And that is the lack of search button. SEARCH is of huge importance to
me, as I have 5GB 900 songs, it’s almost impossible to find what you are
looking for just by scrolling. I have tried installing other music apps but
TTPod, my Android Favourite, cannot be installed unless I hack my phone which I
will NEVER do for the time being. Ever since Nokia’s Music Player on my N86, only
TTPod has the power to search for a song and then play another song. Most Music
players out there stop playing after the song you searched is finished. I
expected Nokia N8 to have the same power but no! It’s very annoying to whip out
my phone to search it manually every time. I installed TuneWiki but it takes
forever to boot up and requires me to have an account. I want a hassle free
player with search. Is that too much to ask Nokia? Moving on, Nokia N8’s Stock
music player feature 3 options which can give you a unique experience,
Loudness, which is self-explanatory, Stereo Widening, slightly attenuates voice
but makes better use of the song and the phone’s Stereo and play via Radio
which makes your phone an FM Transmitter. When using this feature, turn on your
radio and turn into an unused frequency. Tuning into station like 101.9, 101.1
or the likes is extremely useless as their signals can kick the N8’s
transmission even if it is latched to the radio.
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| The Simpsons 170MB AVI |
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| The OC 300MB AVI |
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| Naruto 300MB 720p MKV |
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| Acong Talonga 300MB WMV |
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| Family Guy 84MB MP4 |
After music
playing, I now moved on into Video Playback, again, I was not able to install
any other Video player due to my unhacked N8 so I am still stuck with the
Stock, as with android, baring the Note Series, stock video players tend to be
shit but Nokia N8’s stock does a pretty decent job. Opening the Videos, you see
a list of your videos, if your porn I unhidden expect to see it here LOL. It
has two tabs, your videos and web where you can download movies. The option
button brings you Sort By, Mark Multiple Videos, User Guide and Exit. I put
different types of video on my N8, Digimon (mkv), The OC (300MB AVI), Acong Talonga
(300MB WMV File GO WATCH IT NOW!), Family Guy (83MB mp4), Amnesia Girl (700MB AVI) and Naruto (315MB
720p mkv). Surprisingly, 4 out of 6 worked and you probably guessed which two
did not work. The MKV files. Honestly, I did not think it would be able to play
Family guy but it did. Digimon played the video but did not play the audio and
Naruto suffered Vice-verse Digimon. Overall, the video playback by today’s
standard is fair but I you have to know that skipping to a different time
sometimes result to a long loading time. Sound is very good also, especially on
loudspeaker. Oh yeah, I watched a 20-Simpson episode on loudspeaker and the
battery is still at 98%. BEAT THAT ANDROID.
As the day ends, I
can say Nokia N8 is shaping up to still be a good phone for today especially
for Multimedia Playback the amazing battery life is something which will
attract those looking for a phone built to last for days. I have watched about
6 hours of Simpsons today, and the battery is still at a beefy 57%. Definitely impressive. From 100% last10pm(June 24). Still I am annoyed on how this phone looks. I’m
sorry if I keep bringing its cosmetics up but you have to understand how
important cosmetics is in the world of buy and sell, its ugliness will force me
to drop its price near desperation even though its functioning properly!
Honestly, the ‘It’s not on the outside’ shit is not applicable to phones.
Better looking will always be better every day.
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