#975808/31/2007 08:10 amnot interested in selling off your Treo 650, eh ya?
I need to get rid of my Sprint 700p (ebay) when I go abroad in a couple weeks and it'd be kinda nice to get another cheapish palm, if only for the full keyboard, ebook reading, and mobile non-laptop GPS.
I've always had good luck with Nokias before, so I got the N80, though that's a different model to your 81.
Unlike most Nokias it's buggy as hell, even with firmware updates, and has crappy usability.
Example: To copy music to it, you plug it into your computer, and copy the MP3s across to it.
With any other MP3 player, that would be that.
With the N80 you then have to go into the music player and select "Scan for New Music".
It then scans through all its folders and adds the music to its database
IF that is, the music is tagged with ID3 tags. If it's not tagged, it doesn't recognise it. You can navigate to an individual track through the filesystem, but you can't play all the songs in a folder. The only way to navigate the music is through the ID3 tags.
Which wouldn't be so bad.
Except that if there is anything unexpected in the ID3 tags, such as a comment field with a too-long string of text in it, the "Scan for new music" app just hangs. It does not add any subsequent music to the database.
You have to guess what the offending track is by trial and error (it doesn't scan in any order that I can identify), remove it, then scan again to get the new music recognized.
I would be very very careful with this, read reviews by people who've lived with it for a while, before splashing out any money on an N-series Nokia.
By "Nokias" do you mean Series60 or Series40? Series60 is really weird to get used to compared to Series40, which are entirely different OSes. Cheap Nokias all run Series40.
I'm used to Series60's quirks and weirdnesses, though most S60 phones I've tried have had some fatal flaw (that Panasonic X800 was very crashy, the N-Gage QD shat its own firmware, and while I never owned a Nokia 66x0 we had several of them at Longtail and they were all too bulky for my pocket).
Obviously I won't buy one until they're available, and by the time they're available there'll be decent reviews saying if there's anything retarded like that.
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Unlike most Nokias it's buggy as hell, even with firmware updates, and has crappy usability.
Example: To copy music to it, you plug it into your computer, and copy the MP3s across to it.
With any other MP3 player, that would be that.
With the N80 you then have to go into the music player and select "Scan for New Music".
It then scans through all its folders and adds the music to its database
IF that is, the music is tagged with ID3 tags. If it's not tagged, it doesn't recognise it. You can navigate to an individual track through the filesystem, but you can't play all the songs in a folder. The only way to navigate the music is through the ID3 tags.
Which wouldn't be so bad.
Except that if there is anything unexpected in the ID3 tags, such as a comment field with a too-long string of text in it, the "Scan for new music" app just hangs. It does not add any subsequent music to the database.
You have to guess what the offending track is by trial and error (it doesn't scan in any order that I can identify), remove it, then scan again to get the new music recognized.
I would be very very careful with this, read reviews by people who've lived with it for a while, before splashing out any money on an N-series Nokia.
I'm used to Series60's quirks and weirdnesses, though most S60 phones I've tried have had some fatal flaw (that Panasonic X800 was very crashy, the N-Gage QD shat its own firmware, and while I never owned a Nokia 66x0 we had several of them at Longtail and they were all too bulky for my pocket).
Obviously I won't buy one until they're available, and by the time they're available there'll be decent reviews saying if there's anything retarded like that.