Nick Parkin's Blog

Here it is – “Nokia N90 Review”

Nick — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 15:52:27 +0000

Nokia has a new baby or at least a whole herd of them. They call them the ‘N’ series Nokias. They are simply put ultra-smart phones. The problem with them the ‘N’ series phones is that they are terribly hard to find and I know this because I attempted to find one. After phoning many different shops and distributions I managed to get my hands on Nokia’s N90, the uber-stylish camera and multimedia phone. It only seems right to give you a review of this brilliant phone.

After phoning around for a day and having finally located and bought the phone I was rearing to get to open the device. You probably aren’t interested in the box but just quickly I must compliment Nokia on a wonderful new idea of actually showing the phone inside the box. How many times have been disappointed with a product because it doesn’t look like it does on the box? With this new solution this problem will never happen again.

After placing the phone in my hand for the first time one of the things that I noticed was this baby was quite big. If you want to know the size, imagine a Samsung D600, same width, same thickness but about one cm added onto the top. Before even popping the battery in and turning on the phone I was flipping it open and swilling the display.

Luckily I already had a battery that was fully charged from my old phone so all I had to do was stick it inside. I pressed the button on top of the device and within seconds N90 was booting up. The device takes quite along time to boot up in my experience, about 30 seconds, but I suppose that this is because of the rather powerful operating system that runs the phone.

After entering your password you are greeted with a very smart main page. This page has a series of five shortcuts along the top and a space showing all of your “today” calendar items underneath. Of course I had no calendar items so the main start page was quite empty and plain; just the way I like it to be.

Coming from other makes and models of phones I had completely forgotten about the dedicated Nokia menu button that you press to show the menu. This little button took me quite a while to learn where it was but when I found out I quickly became used to it.

It is best at this time to talk about the actual operating system of the phone and the applications that run on the phone. For those of you who know a little more about Nokia’s than the rest of us will know that the phone runs on an operating system called Symbian60 or Series60. Symbian60 is basically like the Windows for your phone. The operating system operates your phone and allows you to run various applications. In this case, Symbian60, has a huge amount of applications for your phone so you can customize it exactly the way you would like it. The phone comes loaded with applications for every task so if you do not feel like downloading and installing more applications as there are already a whole heard of them on the phone.

Another very big factor of the phone that seems to be Nokia’s major selling point of the phone is the camera. I have tried the camera out many times now and the quality in all cases is amazing. For those camera loving people who are reading this I will tell you one thing; this phone has a Carl Ziess lens which as you know is one of the best lenses in the world. The images are clear and crisp when taken with the camera and the video quality is comparable to video tape quality. I had no problem with printing the photos and at photo size they looked like they had been taken off a normal digital camera.

The biggest problem with this phone is the fact that it is quite a chunky phone. For the person that just wants the basics of a phone I recommend something else but for someone that wants a very functional phone with good multimedia capabilities then this is the phone for you.

My Mark: 83%

Oh Yes I am Sorry – “It’s a Bit Late”

Nick — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 12:36:00 +0000

Soory I haven’t posted to the blog in the while but I promise something is coming soon. I am currently working on a review of the N90 Nokia’s new camera phone but I wobt give too much away.

It’s Been A While – “Sorry All”

Nick — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 11:24:41 +0000

It has been a while since I last posted here and I am sorry it is going to stay that way for the next few days. School has kept me really busy lately but as of today I am on holiday so you all better hope some new content is coming soon.

Listening to: Disco Club – Black Eyed Peas

Changes Happen – “Finally they Do”

Nick — Sun, 12 Feb 2006 08:06:03 +0000

Well everything needs a change and this is whats going to happen to the blog. From now on I will keep the updates on my life but I am going to add some interesting news or reviews of things I like. I will also be adding a “Listening To:” at the bottom of every post because it just so happens that everytime I post to this blog I am listening to a song so I will just let you know what I am listening to.

The St Johns Social was quite fun last night but it seems to have gotten a bit young so I wont be going next year unless I am part of the MDC (Matric Dance Comitee).

Anyhow, sometime I am going to do something different here that you can all look forward to.

Listening to: James Blunt – So Long Jimmy

Quick Update – “Yes”

Nick — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 19:06:46 +0000

This will now stand as the most random post for a long time. Actually it probally wont but anyway life is usual. I am still here.
Got a lot of stuff on my plate at the moment.

Posting Genuis – “When Last Was It”

Nick — Mon, 06 Feb 2006 19:20:42 +0000

So I haven’t posted to my blog in a while but that’s not my fault. I have been really busy with school work and can’t just post everyday. So from now onwards I will try my best and post as often as I can.

A quick update on my life. I have offcially quit basketball and have moved to tennis. This is a clever descision from my side. That about fills you in.

Enjoy life.

Sooo – “Doo Be Doo”

Nick — Sat, 04 Feb 2006 13:00:50 +0000

Its now very early in the day and this is one of the earliest times I will ever end up posting to my blog. This is because I am going out tonight and really didn’t feel like missing two posts in a row.

Tonight I am going to go party at Santon and well will only be home late. The days seem to be getting more boring since I normally have a lot more to say here.

Anyway over the past few days I have just been rexaling and doing everything I need to do which is a lot of homework.

The Debate – “Goodevening Ladies and Gentlemen”

Nick — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 20:55:51 +0000

Just a quick post to the blog to tell you we lost our debate and no, we didn’t go down with a fight, we were destroyed. So we lost quite badly but as they say you loose some and you win some. Unfortunately the earlier was the case.

We wouldn’t have won anyway because the opponents we were acing were some of the brightest debaters around.

Life moves on.

Randomness Rules – “Don’t Let a Monkey Bite You”

Nick — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 17:26:21 +0000

Well I didn’t get bitten by a monkey even though my title might lead you to think so. I just feel like being very random at this point. I feel like a monkey every day slaving away trying to write a post to this blog. So you might have noticed that there isn’t a post for yesterday, that’s explainable because I was capped and had no bandwidth left to write to my blog.

Anyway I have just recieved my top up of bandwidth so here I am writing to my blog. Happy Febuary, this is the month

where you check if you actually are doing your new year resolutions. Hope you all are. I have finally come up with my resolution, to post to the blog as often as possible.

Today I found out that I have to do a debate tomorrow which adds to the pile of work I have to do. Normally I wouldn’t mind doing a debate but as this debate is against some of the cleverest people in my school it is pretty much a waste because I know I am going to loose.

School is going fine so far and lets just hope it stays that way. The homework has never been so highly piled up.

Another Basket Ball Practice – “And So I Quit”

Nick — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 15:59:00 +0000

Mabe the last quote isn’t quite right but I am surely considering it. We have a new coah helping out and boy does he make you work. It was close to hell. He really isn’t a nice guy… Ok mabe I am over exagerating a bit but it really felt like a hard practice. Anyhow today was yet another normal day.

I am working on producing an audio diary that will really take the starin off me writing every day and will accompany the text here but that idea is still in the can.

Today this blog gots its very first press, or atleast you could call it that, I talked about it in my Afrikaans speech.