Forigve me for my comment, I was thinking of the N95. You are correct, the N96 is 16GB, but the 16GB iPhone is still only 299. I understand the point between locked and unlocked phones, but regardless, you're still going to have to get some kind of phone service, whether in Hong Kong, United States, or anywhere else. You also have to realize the phone market is much different in the US, phones are locked to specific carriers, whereas most phones overseas are not. Also, here in the US, AT&T would be my best option for a GSM phone anyway, because T-Mobile's US network is absolutely horrid, so being locked to AT&T is not an issue. So, as was my original point, here in the US, I would rather buy an iPhone for 300 bucks than get an N96 for twice that and have to type away on T9 or triple tap on each key if I don't want the word prediction, which quite frankly, the iPhone is brilliant at.
Let me start off by saying that I have owned both iPhones and would not trade it for an Nokia smartphone any day. Mainly because it's Safari that I use most and now other smartphone compares.
If you want an iPhone in the US there really is no reason care if it's unlocked or locked if you plan on staying in the States. Unfortunately, I do travel often and I'm stilling waiting for my 3G unlock before I hit London, Dubai andKuala Lumpur in Sept/Oct. If not, then I'll just use it as an iPod but having a prepaid data package would be nice for getting around town. My TomTom will work in GB but I'd rather not bring it with me. I'm not sure how thorough the Google Maps are on the iPhone for those other cities but I assume they are better than the TomTom.
I have heard that people can get lower package plans from AT&T if they pay their early termination fee. This would have to save you more than $7.60/month ($175 ÷ 23 months) to be a viable option.
I installed the 2.0.2 upgrade with no difficulty. However, now my Edge barely loads anything at all; the time lag when I turn on 3G is much, much longer; my accelerator problems are the same as before. Basically, yesterday I was very, very happy except for accelerator problems and poor battery life. Today I am unhappy with many more things.
I installed the 2.0.2 upgrade with no difficulty. However, now my Edge barely loads anything at all; the time lag when I turn on 3G is much, much longer; my accelerator problems are the same as before. Basically, yesterday I was very, very happy except for accelerator problems and poor battery life. Today I am unhappy with many more things.
Just a thought? Having your Gmail address as part of your sign-on is probably not a wise thing to do.
Unless, of course, the object is to see how much spam you receive.
PS: You could use Skype on a Jailbroken iPhone prior to the v2.0 update. I'm not sure if they've ported it. If Skype actually creates an app for the iPhone (and I think they will) it will only be allowed to be used over WiFi as one would expect with the carrier relationships with Apple.
Apple/exclusive carrier will not allow a Skype app to go through. I can see it happening though when the iPhone distribution chain is relaxed from the current exclusive one to include more providers.
Updated last night to 2.0.2. So far, I have seen NO improvements. After the update and re-syncing, it took about an hour and 10 minutes to back up(and I have about 7.8 GB of space available). An hour and 10 minutes!!!!!
Still have the same email connectivity issue for all of my accounts. Every so often, I have to toggle the power off and on for it to finally connect with my mail accounts. I have to do this a number of times throughout the day. It just seems to stop connecting and requires a power off\\on to correct it - - for a little bit - -until it happens again. Very annoying!!
I have noticed a serious decrease in battery life.
Now, I finally got it down to a science to get me through the day with battery management. Turn location services off while at work; bluetooth is always off unless I need it; WiFi is off unless I am at home; screen brightness is always set to about 1/4 of max. When driving, I connect my charger. It has been pretty good for the past few weeks. I am not a heavy user of data or voice during the day (except for checking email) but I do listen to music throughout the day. Night time I typically use the browser with Wifi.
Since the update to 2.0.2, I can almost see the battery charge run down as I am looking at the bar. Okay, maybe that's a stretch, but it absolutely has gone from manageable to almost not acceptable.
But if people want to "rate" one smartphone against another on the basis of the ability of a developer to build anything they want (a Skype clone) and distribute no matter what onto any carrier using that handset, well those people can just go buy any phone they want and ignore the iPhone. There are not enough of those kind of people to matter at ALL in the sales of iPhones or any other handset for that matter.
There may be all kinds of apps like Skype, that "the community" out there will find a way to get onto an iPhone. Expecting Apple to facilitate or cooperate with those people against the interests of the carriers that Apple works with is silly.
Again, "the people that actually think that" won't make the silliest little dent in Iphone sales.... just buy the Nokia and quiet bitching about it.
There will be a lot of smarter phones out there.
There will be a lot of ways to distinguish one from another.
Saying that the iPhone can't do a lot of specific purpose things that others
can do will be true. (depending on actually picking things that are fact and not making
stuff up!) It will also be true that some phones will be cheaper.
The iPhone is trying to put the best internet screen size, clarity, and browsing actions
into the hands fo non-smartphone users to bring them in and make the tent bigger.
The is one way the iPhone is better than any smartphone bar none.
It will attract more non-smartphone users to the market segment than any other handset.
Advanced Smartphone users need to stop complaining and just deal with it......
I think you're getting somewhat off the mark there. As I understand, this is not a forum for Apple salesmen to wank over themselves as to how good they are at marketing - this is, first and foremost, a forum for simple consumers (regardless what kind of consumers) of Apple products to share their individual experiences, grievances and suggestions with a view to seeing those products improved.
I KNOW! I haven't been able to figure out how to change this!!!
Once you have registered as a given user name, I don't think you can change it. You may just have to start over with a new user name and let this one go.
I think it's entirely likely that the iPhone 3G, at this early stage of the game, does have more dropped calls and other problems than the other handsets that have been in the game much longer. Or maybe the users of other phones don't have forums like this to air their problems on. I don't know. There is one meme I've seen repeatedly on here, though, that I think needs to be corrected.
Several posters have said something like: "I live in (pick a big city) so it can't be lack of coverage." The downtown areas of big cities are the absolute worst spot for any kind of radio reception, and as the frequency goes up, the problem gets worse. Verizon thinks all these misappropriated TV channels it just bought will help, but they're wrong. There's a reason why those top UHF channels weren't in use in most markets, and that's because if you had anything between you and the TV station, you were going to have serious reception problems. Most cellphones use frequencies that are 2 or 3 times higher yet, and so heavily built-up areas are a desperate problem.
To make matters worse, the first network in any given city is bound to have snapped up the best tower sites, and anyone else coming in later (like AT&T) is going to have to settle for second-best spots that are going to be shadowed from some points by buildings. So comparisons really only work if both phones are in the same place and both using AT&T. I've seen enough reports to be reasonably sure that the iPhone's reception problems are real (that is, can be ascribed to the phone rather than the network,) but I have no idea what percentage of phones are affected. Maybe if people who have no problems posted at the same rate as people who do, we could find out, but that's never going to happen, so airing our problems is important. Just please don't assume yours are universal, and that anybody who doesn't have any problems and says so, is a deluded fanboy, or an Apple salesman.
Let's work together, instead of screaming at each other.
Besides attracting previously non-smartphone users to the iPhone the "smartphones are only for geeks or hardcore business users" moniker has been lifted so it's very existence is increasing other smartphone sales.
I can attest to this. My wife now has a Blackberry Curve because we switched to AT&T to get an iPhone for me.
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Originally Posted by solipsism
As for other smartphone users complaining about the iPhone not offering what they need, that is fine as it's not meant to fit everyone's needs. But they aren't looking at the big picture. How the other companies are getting off their asses to create a better product to compete against the iPhone. All smartphone users should be glad that the iPhone has entered the market and set a fire under their favourite smartphone manufacturer.
Exactly.
Quote:
Originally Posted by solipsism
Nokia has publicly admitted to have a poor user interface and bought a Spanish company earlier this year to assist with this. I think that is what they bought them for. They are also working with Mozilla to provide FF for their handsets. I wish they would go with Webkit since it's a better mobile engine but I understand their desire to set themselves apart from Safari. RiM is coming out with physical keyboard-less phone. Who would have though that would ever happen 2 years ago?
I have been waiting for several years for a reasonably priced device that would combine phone, PDA, and iPod. I really didn't anticipate using the device for web browsing and e-mail, but the iPhone implementation (IMO) is really terrific. I'm hooked.
no question the 3G iPhone has got bugs - more than it should.
will they get fixed in the next few months? sure.
is it good for Steve Jobs to eat some humble pie? definitely! too much worship is bad for anyone.
is the situation worth all the emotion in this thread? well, it's understandable - so i'm not criticizing - but actually, no. this is cutting-edge stuff, and if you are an early adopter, you have to be ready to roll with the glitches, not freak or get all righteous.
what about me? (it's all about me, right?) i got a cheap 4Gig 2G last year that has had no problems. the new apps are great. so i'm a happy camper.
I finally did the update. My jailbreak is gone but that should be rectified in a day or two.
The signal strength seems a little better but it's well within the normal variance so I can't make a determination. I'd assume that there would have been very little to nothing Apple could do to have 3G issues with this update.
Typing in Safari seems snappier, but it was that way too with the v2.0.1 update too. It'll probably be a couple days of using Safari before any typing issues and crashes appear.
Finally some level of confirmation to my hypothesis that the iPhone is good for the overall cellphone market. It wasn't mentioned specifically in the article but I think that the higher priced, feature rich phones will encourage people to keep their handsets longer than when they cheap throwaway phones.
Yes point 4 is particularly surprising. Apple must be working on a major update to address some of these omissions (also To-Do syncing with Mail being absent).
I'm not complaining though, because I know Apple can and does update it's software regularly. For my previous Nokia phone, I NEVER updated the firmware/software even though there were updates available because you had to buy a stupid proprietary USB cable to do it and updates weren't supported wirelessly over BlueTooth 2. This thing is already a god-send for me even if they don't fix anything.
Quote:
Originally Posted by morluk
I am very disappointed with iphone for the following resasons
1. there is no copy and paste (unbelievable)
2. there is no any kind of search (another unbelievable)
3. if you are not subscribed call display even the caller in your contacts it doesn't show you the caller
4. there is no any desktop application to update calender and/or contacts, you have to have MS products (what a shame)
Yes point 4 is particularly surprising. Apple must be working on a major update to address some of these omissions (also To-Do syncing with Mail being absent).
1) I don't under point 4. There are Mac apps that do it and you can alter and add contacts on the iPhone.
2) The To-Do/Notes thing is very odd to me. I thought this would have been added when Leopard Mail was given Notes and To-Do access. My MM syncing stores them on the server, but doesn't sync to anything else but another Mac and I think that is only if I need to restore my system.
My iPhone now experiences just as many dropped calls, and just as much static during calls. I have never experienced the 3G/EDGE switching issue that I know of, so I can’t speak to that. But the greatest annoyance? My iPhone’s iPod no longer shuffles songs. Dapping next or double-clicking the fob will shuffle randomly, but if I do nothing, once the song reaches the end, it just goes back to the beginning and stays in an endless loop.
(250MB is only a 3 or 4 minute download) LOL that's hella slow dude. @ 5-6mb/sec here in Japan, four minutes would get me about 1.4GB. Sometimes I grab full DVDs in about 20 minutes. There are other locations that are even faster.
I assume you're saying you get 6 megaBYTES/second, meaning a 48Mbps connection? That's a nice speed. I have about 8Mbps (in Australia) which is ample (for now), but I've enjoyed the use of very high speed connections.
Quote:
Originally Posted by a_greer
Caller ID isnt included???? what the heck? I have not seen a cell phone without caller ID as standard since the early 90s!
I think Morluk was complaining that if you weren't subscribed with your provider to have caller ID, then the iPhone didn't show the caller ID. This makes no sense as a complaint against the iPhone but that's all I can think of - caller ID certainly works fine on the iPhone.
iPhone needs to catch up in terms of various basic software bugs as well as the basic functionalities, platform openness and reception quality
Definitely has some software bugs and reception quality which must be addressed.
In terms of the platform openness and basic functionalities - I think that's what we get with Apple. They redefine what a platform can do, and at a basic level they make it easier to use but with fewer functions. They break the mold of how we do what we do and replace it with a better one, from which they can then build. Sometimes they do remove (or don't provide) things that could have easily been left and I find that disappointing - which is why I'm very glad they're not the only game in town, just a game that has a significantly different approach to the others.
Long live competition
ps. Keep buying the phone that works best for you.
yep, 2.0.2 corrected the text lag, it works very well as I said a bit earlier.
you'd be surprised at how many americans text.... especially on the iphone
I am somewhat doubtful that the update fixed the lag. It is just the fact that you rebooted your phone and all of the caches cleared that did it. When I updated to 2.0.1, it was much faster...then a few days later, it was slow again.
First point - let's go back to the topic here, which is smartphones and comparable phones. Nokia makes one third of the world's mobile phones - it's normal that many fuck-up as a result (what would you expect of a low-end device anyway)? But please, in the top-end segment, their phones are still magnificent both in terms of manufacture quality as well as the general functionality and ergonomics. I've had N95 for almost 2 years, and I had no single problem with it. The same goes for Sony Ericsson top-range phones (a friend of mine still misses his good old P990, having replaced it with an iPhone because of the hype).
OK THEN...
The only semi reliable handsets nokia puts out are the NON smartphones. All of the issues we have are with their symbian based handsets which are complete crap. Sony fairs better with their handsets as they implement the OS better and their handsets are less buggy.
The N95 is a popular handset but I have 16 of them in the workshop which are all faulty and all only a couple of months old.
Problems range from
Bluetooth wont connect
mic doesnt work
earpiece wont work
slider broken or slider loose
dead keys
no signal
weak signal, drops calls constantly.
audio cut outs
terrible battery life (<90 mins)
no sim card message
power issues, e.g. turning off when answering incoming calls
Of course, there are a multitude of software issues too but these can normally be fixed by switching the handset off and on again.
Even though Nokia has done their best to squash the bugs even the newest 8GB handsets still have signal issues and power problems and thats after dozens of firmware updates.
Anyone who deals with mobiles is well aware of Nokias history with symbian. The N70, N73, N90 were all plagued with bugs.
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Forigve me for my comment, I was thinking of the N95. You are correct, the N96 is 16GB, but the 16GB iPhone is still only 299. I understand the point between locked and unlocked phones, but regardless, you're still going to have to get some kind of phone service, whether in Hong Kong, United States, or anywhere else. You also have to realize the phone market is much different in the US, phones are locked to specific carriers, whereas most phones overseas are not. Also, here in the US, AT&T would be my best option for a GSM phone anyway, because T-Mobile's US network is absolutely horrid, so being locked to AT&T is not an issue. So, as was my original point, here in the US, I would rather buy an iPhone for 300 bucks than get an N96 for twice that and have to type away on T9 or triple tap on each key if I don't want the word prediction, which quite frankly, the iPhone is brilliant at.
Let me start off by saying that I have owned both iPhones and would not trade it for an Nokia smartphone any day. Mainly because it's Safari that I use most and now other smartphone compares.
If you want an iPhone in the US there really is no reason care if it's unlocked or locked if you plan on staying in the States. Unfortunately, I do travel often and I'm stilling waiting for my 3G unlock before I hit London, Dubai andKuala Lumpur in Sept/Oct. If not, then I'll just use it as an iPod but having a prepaid data package would be nice for getting around town. My TomTom will work in GB but I'd rather not bring it with me. I'm not sure how thorough the Google Maps are on the iPhone for those other cities but I assume they are better than the TomTom.
I have heard that people can get lower package plans from AT&T if they pay their early termination fee. This would have to save you more than $7.60/month ($175 ÷ 23 months) to be a viable option.
I installed the 2.0.2 upgrade with no difficulty. However, now my Edge barely loads anything at all; the time lag when I turn on 3G is much, much longer; my accelerator problems are the same as before. Basically, yesterday I was very, very happy except for accelerator problems and poor battery life. Today I am unhappy with many more things.
Just a thought? Having your Gmail address as part of your sign-on is probably not a wise thing to do.
Unless, of course, the object is to see how much spam you receive.
Just a thought? Having your Gmail address as part of your sign-on is probably not a wise thing to do.
Unless, of course, the object is to see how much spam you receive.
I KNOW! I haven't been able to figure out how to change this!!!
Now this I can agree with!
PS: You could use Skype on a Jailbroken iPhone prior to the v2.0 update. I'm not sure if they've ported it. If Skype actually creates an app for the iPhone (and I think they will) it will only be allowed to be used over WiFi as one would expect with the carrier relationships with Apple.
Apple/exclusive carrier will not allow a Skype app to go through. I can see it happening though when the iPhone distribution chain is relaxed from the current exclusive one to include more providers.
Updated last night to 2.0.2. So far, I have seen NO improvements. After the update and re-syncing, it took about an hour and 10 minutes to back up(and I have about 7.8 GB of space available). An hour and 10 minutes!!!!!
Still have the same email connectivity issue for all of my accounts. Every so often, I have to toggle the power off and on for it to finally connect with my mail accounts. I have to do this a number of times throughout the day. It just seems to stop connecting and requires a power off\\on to correct it - - for a little bit - -until it happens again. Very annoying!!
I have noticed a serious decrease in battery life.
Now, I finally got it down to a science to get me through the day with battery management. Turn location services off while at work; bluetooth is always off unless I need it; WiFi is off unless I am at home; screen brightness is always set to about 1/4 of max. When driving, I connect my charger. It has been pretty good for the past few weeks. I am not a heavy user of data or voice during the day (except for checking email) but I do listen to music throughout the day. Night time I typically use the browser with Wifi.
Since the update to 2.0.2, I can almost see the battery charge run down as I am looking at the bar. Okay, maybe that's a stretch, but it absolutely has gone from manageable to almost not acceptable.
I'll keep everyone posted!
Agreed.
But if people want to "rate" one smartphone against another on the basis of the ability of a developer to build anything they want (a Skype clone) and distribute no matter what onto any carrier using that handset, well those people can just go buy any phone they want and ignore the iPhone. There are not enough of those kind of people to matter at ALL in the sales of iPhones or any other handset for that matter.
There may be all kinds of apps like Skype, that "the community" out there will find a way to get onto an iPhone. Expecting Apple to facilitate or cooperate with those people against the interests of the carriers that Apple works with is silly.
Again, "the people that actually think that" won't make the silliest little dent in Iphone sales.... just buy the Nokia and quiet bitching about it.
There will be a lot of smarter phones out there.
There will be a lot of ways to distinguish one from another.
Saying that the iPhone can't do a lot of specific purpose things that others
can do will be true. (depending on actually picking things that are fact and not making
stuff up!) It will also be true that some phones will be cheaper.
The iPhone is trying to put the best internet screen size, clarity, and browsing actions
into the hands fo non-smartphone users to bring them in and make the tent bigger.
The is one way the iPhone is better than any smartphone bar none.
It will attract more non-smartphone users to the market segment than any other handset.
Advanced Smartphone users need to stop complaining and just deal with it......
I think you're getting somewhat off the mark there. As I understand, this is not a forum for Apple salesmen to wank over themselves as to how good they are at marketing - this is, first and foremost, a forum for simple consumers (regardless what kind of consumers) of Apple products to share their individual experiences, grievances and suggestions with a view to seeing those products improved.
I KNOW! I haven't been able to figure out how to change this!!!
Once you have registered as a given user name, I don't think you can change it. You may just have to start over with a new user name and let this one go.
Several posters have said something like: "I live in (pick a big city) so it can't be lack of coverage." The downtown areas of big cities are the absolute worst spot for any kind of radio reception, and as the frequency goes up, the problem gets worse. Verizon thinks all these misappropriated TV channels it just bought will help, but they're wrong. There's a reason why those top UHF channels weren't in use in most markets, and that's because if you had anything between you and the TV station, you were going to have serious reception problems. Most cellphones use frequencies that are 2 or 3 times higher yet, and so heavily built-up areas are a desperate problem.
To make matters worse, the first network in any given city is bound to have snapped up the best tower sites, and anyone else coming in later (like AT&T) is going to have to settle for second-best spots that are going to be shadowed from some points by buildings. So comparisons really only work if both phones are in the same place and both using AT&T. I've seen enough reports to be reasonably sure that the iPhone's reception problems are real (that is, can be ascribed to the phone rather than the network,) but I have no idea what percentage of phones are affected. Maybe if people who have no problems posted at the same rate as people who do, we could find out, but that's never going to happen, so airing our problems is important. Just please don't assume yours are universal, and that anybody who doesn't have any problems and says so, is a deluded fanboy, or an Apple salesman.
Let's work together, instead of screaming at each other.
Besides attracting previously non-smartphone users to the iPhone the "smartphones are only for geeks or hardcore business users" moniker has been lifted so it's very existence is increasing other smartphone sales.
I can attest to this. My wife now has a Blackberry Curve because we switched to AT&T to get an iPhone for me.
As for other smartphone users complaining about the iPhone not offering what they need, that is fine as it's not meant to fit everyone's needs. But they aren't looking at the big picture. How the other companies are getting off their asses to create a better product to compete against the iPhone. All smartphone users should be glad that the iPhone has entered the market and set a fire under their favourite smartphone manufacturer.
Exactly.
Nokia has publicly admitted to have a poor user interface and bought a Spanish company earlier this year to assist with this. I think that is what they bought them for. They are also working with Mozilla to provide FF for their handsets. I wish they would go with Webkit since it's a better mobile engine but I understand their desire to set themselves apart from Safari. RiM is coming out with physical keyboard-less phone. Who would have though that would ever happen 2 years ago?
I have been waiting for several years for a reasonably priced device that would combine phone, PDA, and iPod. I really didn't anticipate using the device for web browsing and e-mail, but the iPhone implementation (IMO) is really terrific. I'm hooked.
will they get fixed in the next few months? sure.
is it good for Steve Jobs to eat some humble pie? definitely! too much worship is bad for anyone.
is the situation worth all the emotion in this thread? well, it's understandable - so i'm not criticizing - but actually, no. this is cutting-edge stuff, and if you are an early adopter, you have to be ready to roll with the glitches, not freak or get all righteous.
what about me? (it's all about me, right?) i got a cheap 4Gig 2G last year that has had no problems. the new apps are great. so i'm a happy camper.
The signal strength seems a little better but it's well within the normal variance so I can't make a determination. I'd assume that there would have been very little to nothing Apple could do to have 3G issues with this update.
Typing in Safari seems snappier, but it was that way too with the v2.0.1 update too. It'll probably be a couple days of using Safari before any typing issues and crashes appear.
.......................v2.0.1..............................................v2.0.2
I'm not complaining though, because I know Apple can and does update it's software regularly. For my previous Nokia phone, I NEVER updated the firmware/software even though there were updates available because you had to buy a stupid proprietary USB cable to do it and updates weren't supported wirelessly over BlueTooth 2. This thing is already a god-send for me even if they don't fix anything.
I am very disappointed with iphone for the following resasons
1. there is no copy and paste (unbelievable)
2. there is no any kind of search (another unbelievable)
3. if you are not subscribed call display even the caller in your contacts it doesn't show you the caller
4. there is no any desktop application to update calender and/or contacts, you have to have MS products (what a shame)
Yes point 4 is particularly surprising. Apple must be working on a major update to address some of these omissions (also To-Do syncing with Mail being absent).
1) I don't under point 4. There are Mac apps that do it and you can alter and add contacts on the iPhone.
2) The To-Do/Notes thing is very odd to me. I thought this would have been added when Leopard Mail was given Notes and To-Do access. My MM syncing stores them on the server, but doesn't sync to anything else but another Mac and I think that is only if I need to restore my system.
Has anyone else experienced this??
(250MB is only a 3 or 4 minute download) LOL that's hella slow dude. @ 5-6mb/sec here in Japan, four minutes would get me about 1.4GB. Sometimes I grab full DVDs in about 20 minutes. There are other locations that are even faster.
I assume you're saying you get 6 megaBYTES/second, meaning a 48Mbps connection? That's a nice speed. I have about 8Mbps (in Australia) which is ample (for now), but I've enjoyed the use of very high speed connections.
Caller ID isnt included???? what the heck? I have not seen a cell phone without caller ID as standard since the early 90s!
I think Morluk was complaining that if you weren't subscribed with your provider to have caller ID, then the iPhone didn't show the caller ID. This makes no sense as a complaint against the iPhone but that's all I can think of - caller ID certainly works fine on the iPhone.
iPhone needs to catch up in terms of various basic software bugs as well as the basic functionalities, platform openness and reception quality
Definitely has some software bugs and reception quality which must be addressed.
In terms of the platform openness and basic functionalities - I think that's what we get with Apple. They redefine what a platform can do, and at a basic level they make it easier to use but with fewer functions. They break the mold of how we do what we do and replace it with a better one, from which they can then build. Sometimes they do remove (or don't provide) things that could have easily been left and I find that disappointing - which is why I'm very glad they're not the only game in town, just a game that has a significantly different approach to the others.
Long live competition
ps. Keep buying the phone that works best for you.
yep, 2.0.2 corrected the text lag, it works very well as I said a bit earlier.
you'd be surprised at how many americans text....
I am somewhat doubtful that the update fixed the lag. It is just the fact that you rebooted your phone and all of the caches cleared that did it. When I updated to 2.0.1, it was much faster...then a few days later, it was slow again.
First point - let's go back to the topic here, which is smartphones and comparable phones. Nokia makes one third of the world's mobile phones - it's normal that many fuck-up as a result (what would you expect of a low-end device anyway)? But please, in the top-end segment, their phones are still magnificent both in terms of manufacture quality as well as the general functionality and ergonomics. I've had N95 for almost 2 years, and I had no single problem with it. The same goes for Sony Ericsson top-range phones (a friend of mine still misses his good old P990, having replaced it with an iPhone because of the hype).
OK THEN...
The only semi reliable handsets nokia puts out are the NON smartphones. All of the issues we have are with their symbian based handsets which are complete crap. Sony fairs better with their handsets as they implement the OS better and their handsets are less buggy.
The N95 is a popular handset but I have 16 of them in the workshop which are all faulty and all only a couple of months old.
Problems range from
Bluetooth wont connect
mic doesnt work
earpiece wont work
slider broken or slider loose
dead keys
no signal
weak signal, drops calls constantly.
audio cut outs
terrible battery life (<90 mins)
no sim card message
power issues, e.g. turning off when answering incoming calls
Of course, there are a multitude of software issues too but these can normally be fixed by switching the handset off and on again.
Even though Nokia has done their best to squash the bugs even the newest 8GB handsets still have signal issues and power problems and thats after dozens of firmware updates.
Anyone who deals with mobiles is well aware of Nokias history with symbian. The N70, N73, N90 were all plagued with bugs.
The top end segment? Far from it.