Stealthy Gecko

Nokia..... You Suck!!! written by: Lee Richmond posted on: 12 March 2010

Okay so I have yet to jump on the iPhone band wagon, but the main reason for this is because when my contract expired I was conned by my service provider, I told them I was going to discontinue service with them because I wanted an iPhone and they basically said to me that they could see why but would I be interested in trying out a new phone, They would give me a 14 day trial period and if I didnt like it at the end they would take the phone back and cancel my contract at no extra charge, this seemed like a good idea to me so I thought "why not?"

However I have since come to realise the following:

• 1. 14 days is NOT a sufficient length of time to test a phone, whoever came up with this idea needs committing to the nearest nut house or sacking!
• 2. Nokia..... you suck!!!

The phone in question is the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, there are several problems with this phone, firstly they blatantly have not put enough R&D time into their touch screen technology as it is cheap, it gets dirty with the slightest touch from even the cleanest hands and once there is even the tiniest amount of grease on the screen you can forget being able to send a text or call the number you wanted. Secondly Nokia's "Communities" app, okay this isn't technically a phone issue but seeing as the phone came with this app and if you try to use Facebook on the phone it constantly prompts you to download and install it, I think it is, the app is slow, cumbersome and most annoyingly caches images from not only the pages you look at but also pages you don't and because either due to the apps shockingly bad build quality or the phone's built in software you end up with thousands and thousands of images popping up in your gallery making it a tedious and laborious task to find any of the photos you have taken using the phones built in camera. Finally you would think that after so many years of designing and building mobile phones they would have finally solved the loose battery issue that seems to be common in all Nokia phones but nope, in this phone it is ever more present, just on my way into work this morning the phone turned itself off 6 times!!! not only that but every time you turn the phone on the battery has less and less battery life to the point where mine is now saying it is nearly dead after less than a day's use, I'm sorry but how hard is it to add an extra piece of plastic on the inside of the battery cover which holds the battery firmly in place? a three year old could have identified and solved this problem.

All in all I am far less than impressed not only with my service provider for conning me into another 18 month contract, but also Nokia for still not being able to make what should be a good phone, I personally can't wait for the day I can afford to go out and buy an iPhone.