Dave cuts loose on the ridiculous battery life on the Nokia E71 mobile phone. And the code monkeys at Garmin and Nokia get a serve too.
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God I love these rants xD
'smart phone' :)))
Whatching this in 2015 puts things in proportion. "Only 1,5 days of batterylife"? You'd be lucky getting more than 8 hours a charge today.
Ahh the nokia E series the "blackberry killer" 😛
It could be worse , you could have had the E61 :P. It had a blackberry app so you could connect it to a BES like a blackberry but you could only set it up tethered could not do over the air activation. This no longer works in the newer web version of BES
There was a screen reader for blind people app and you could only reinstall it if the clock was set back to like 1970 or something, i even had to contact the company that made it and good on them they sent me the ancient software and got one of there old grey beards to fiddle it so it would work.
All the software and apps where slow as hell, the UI was terrible and the battery life was crap.
The user eventually replace it with a iPhone in blind mode and never looked back.
Well built tho compared to the blackberry of the time
I don't get why anyone would want to buy 3rd party GPS software for Nokia phones when Nokia already had/has an excellent in-house alternative with quality maps from Navteq. Nokia Maps was so great on my old 5800, the only thing that kept me from buying a new Nokia phone was the generally poor selection of apps available for the Windows Phone OS. Who knows, maybe in the future my next phone will be a Nokia/Microsoft.
I feel your pain Dave, I had a Samsung D900 for awhile and was really happy with it, the pictures it took were stunning and with a 2 Mega pixel sensor too if I remember. When I 'Upgraded' to the Nokia E71, I thought I was getting something with bells and whistles, I was wrong, very wrong.
I came to realise the keyboard was a pain to use as it was so tiny and the centre button for scrolling was a bad design too.
The worst thing for me was the camera. The pictures were washed out and didn't have the vividness of the D900. I think the camera on the Nokia was somewhere around the 5 Mega pixel range so should have been much better than the Samsung but no, I wanted my D900 back quite quickly. I couldn't wait to get rid of it.
the Sat Nav part of it was ok and I used that but doesn't compare with Google Maps today, even if Google Maps keep changing things around.
The E71 was awkward to hold, it felt like it was trying to jump out of your hand all the while, I felt sure I was going to drop it every time I picked it up.
I think these were the beginning of the Smart Phone era.
My BB gets 8 hrs, but I drive it like a Ferrari on a race track. Ha!
i had a samsung jack (not blackjack or bj2, tho it was kinda a bj3) and it looked very very similar to that thing. maybe a 'period design' thing or something.
I don't actually think it was a software thing running in the background. I think the navigation software just kept the GPS sensor on all the time, so you don't have to cold-start it when you start up your navigation. I think this mobile phone was before A-GPS, so it would probably take several minutes to get your location data from a cold start. Waiting several minutes for location data was apparently seen as worse than 2 days of battery life, so they opted to enable the GPS sensor all the time. that's my guess
My question is if you know that the software is causing it why didnt you just remove it?
Such a fucking annoying voice and accent too. Wasted 11 mins of my time, could have made a 30 sec video instead.
Crying like a mama's little boy.
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My Nokia N93 lasts 1.5 – 2 days with or without Garmin Mobile XT (I use an external BT GPS receiver with it), so I just plug it in when I go to sleep.
The guy on the video looks like a "bythqir".
@danielruffo13 I use the phone mostly in standby mode. And I now get 20 days battery life again now that I have removed the app. The software was badly written and chewed the life even when the program was NOT running.
@jamezray So I've been told!
gay… !!!!!!!!!
@EEVblog Where's the RAMEN? You know it's blasphemous to use thy name without 'ramen'!
@williefleete May you be touched by His Noodly Appendage
epic win, flying spaghetti monster background