Keith Shirley

I’m never satisfied for long with a gadget before I start to find things I
don’t like. I’m talking about my new N95. Don’t get me wrong – I still love
it – but there are a few things that are annoying me.

General annoyances
- I hate the fact that I’m going to have to get yet another charger (I like
to have one at home and one at work). Sony Ericsson and a few other
companies recently announced that they would use the mini usb socket for
charging – this would mean you could interchange them. I can’t wait and I
feel it’s just plain stupid and very environmentally unfriendly to force us
to keep buying new ones. They probably didn’t make much money anyway, with
all the cheap Chinese versions available.

- I find the memory problems annoying – I would like to be able to have
multiple apps running but if you push it even a little bit then it says low
memory. I guess maybe I don’t need Skype running all the time.

- I find entering text a pain in the thumb. The old Motorola A1000 had a
stylus and touchscreen. That was a mixed blessing as the letters were very
small so it was difficult to use on a train etc. The T9 predictive ‘stuff’
on the Nokia just does not cut it in my opinion. I look forward to the
results of ongoing research into better ways. The iPhone has a touch screen
where the predictive text makes the next expected letters bigger – that’s a
good start. Reading my mind would be better but that will have to wait.

General Likes
- Oh how I love the fact that it seems to just work. The Motorola had a bad
habit of rebooting with VERY loud startup sounds. It was very annoying in
meetings.

- Speaking of sounds – it may seem a stupid thing but I’m happy every time I
download mail to the phone. I’m happy that it just makes one nice bing. The
Motorola made a weird loud squawk for every single mail. Just imagine the
amount of mail I get – I was a lunatic by the time it was finished. Trust me
- I tried to find a way to get rid of it. I even had a look at the
developers toolkit – but chickened out in the end out of fear of killing it.

- People complain about the slow GPS. With the Assisted GPS functionality
however I found it works well and have already been able to make use of it.

- I love the good camera. I bought a Canon years ago but never use it (my
better half does). I just could not be bothered to carry it. I’ll always
have the phone with me however so I look forward to being able to photograph
my life and leave memory space in my head for tech stuff.

There are more but this post is getting too long…