N90 First Impressions [Archive] - 3G forum : your 3G community and resource.

bavlondon

01-06-2006, 08:00 PM

Ok, well so far ive played around with it a bit at work but nothign heavy.

My first impressions were that the phones was very well built. There is a nice chrome finish all the way round the sides (which unfortunatley shows up fingerprints badly).

One thing I really like is the side buttons. There is one for taking pics and the one below it os for navugating around the camer menu. It really has a good feel to it that suggets its been designed and made well. No one can say this phone feels cheap.

Like i said before I had the pleasure of playing around with an n93 not too long ago and straight away I knew I wanted that but I couldnt stand to wait for Nokias delays and what else was round the corner. I also though that if i wantd to get used to the zize well just get an n90 now and you can upgrade later. (e2save told me i could upgrade after 6 months)

The phone advertised was blue but i really wanted the black version. The lady at e2save told me we onl stock the blue one but luckily i got a black one!

If you own a n70, n91 or one of the few n80s that are fully working then you may not be that impressed as you have seen it before.

How ever if your a Sony Erissson fan then take a look when i post some vids up and you can see what youll be missing in the k800 when it comes out.

This phone has autofoucs bit apart form that it has always been emitted form Nokia models. I have to give credit to SE on that front as the w800 and k750 were great imaging devices but when it comes to video i am yet to see any company equal let alone surpass Nokia. They have yet again raised the bar with the n93 but ill leave that for another day.......

The video res is CIF but for some reason it looks slightly different. Not in a bad or good way i just cant put my finger on it. Youll see what I mean when i post some pics and vids on the weekend. (man i wish i was going to the world cup now). My first suspicison is that the video looks different becasue of the Carl Ziess optics.

Anyway onto the phones navigation. Its not fast like a series 40 phone (6280) but its a lot faster than my old n70 when it comes to opening the gallery ect....

Ive pretty much got used to the size but I think the weight will take some getting used to. N91 owners will know what i mean. Becasue of the weight it seems to be a natural reaction now where I wont handle he phone as casually as I would any other.

Pictures so far look great but the real test is when there in full size on the PC (they will be up in due time hopefully on the weekend).

As in dont really use 3g services that much I have the phone on GSM and my normal usage consists of maybe at the most 10 mins of calls, 3 or 4 minutes of browsing, 3 or 4 pics and vids. The battery lasts me around 3.5 days with this usage but I charge it every night anyway.

Thats it for now but ill be posting lots of pictures and videos on the weekend so check them out when I do.

If any of you have any questions about the phone itself please ask and I wont hesitate to try and help.