@Whatleydude: I
listen plenty much, but yes... I'd completely forgotten you wrote
that - you were spot on! :-) However, it's what WOM decided was
best suited to demoing all the Ovi services (and to be fair the
extra gaming buttons are good) so I'll try to get on with it and
not whinge too much about it in the reviews, but otherwise it sucks
so much it makes me cry. Jaiku is my therapy,
1) How does the N81 8GB demonstrate OVI fully if the handset in
question does not have Location Tagger (or GPS at all for that
matter)? Given that OVI has just enabled recognition of geotags I
would've thought this was key...
2) N-Gage isn't anything to do with OVI. AFAIK anyway. How do
gaming buttons help you share your moments?
@whatleydude: Their
choice, not mine :-) but N-Gage is 25% of Ovi... Music,
Share, Maps and Games (Sync to be added one day). Will probably ask
to swap to a GPS enabled device though before I'm done.
There's no integration at all or overlap between the services.
Mapping and gaming is as much a part of OVI as image / video
sharing - it just happened to come along first.
The reviews are shaping up, but their 4 very different services
- design, interface and quality-wise.
@R200: You're right although
the co-branding suggests more in the future. The point of the
review, at least in part, is to describe what it is a little
better.
@R200 I think you've got it.
You want Nokia's stuff, you go to ovi.com. From there you can
access all of NOkia's 'services'. That's the idea, from what I've
gathered along the way.
oh man ... N81 8GB is yet another bastard born by internal corp
wiring... i wish i may say my opinion ... tho i'm biased towards
tablet anyway and have really low opinion on tech capabilities of
Symbian and S60 derivatives ;)
16 comments so far
How so?
2 months, 1 week ago by ACUK.
Fiddly buttons, slow reaction to media keys. Lousy camera - no macro mode at all. Really really poor. Even the N73 was better hardware-wise :-(
2 months, 1 week ago by bensmithuk.
Is it a loaner or did you buy it?
2 months, 1 week ago by ACUK.
Dude - why you no listen?
2 months, 1 week ago by whatleydude.
...I just read that a little earlier as well! D'oh! ;o)
2 months, 1 week ago by ACUK.
@ACUK: WOM loaner for the Ovi review.
@Whatleydude: I listen plenty much, but yes... I'd completely forgotten you wrote that - you were spot on! :-) However, it's what WOM decided was best suited to demoing all the Ovi services (and to be fair the extra gaming buttons are good) so I'll try to get on with it and not whinge too much about it in the reviews, but otherwise it sucks so much it makes me cry. Jaiku is my therapy,
2 months, 1 week ago by bensmithuk.
@bensmithuk - OK, explain this one -
1) How does the N81 8GB demonstrate OVI fully if the handset in question does not have Location Tagger (or GPS at all for that matter)? Given that OVI has just enabled recognition of geotags I would've thought this was key...
2) N-Gage isn't anything to do with OVI. AFAIK anyway. How do gaming buttons help you share your moments?
sigh
2 months, 1 week ago by whatleydude.
@whatleydude: Their choice, not mine :-) but N-Gage is 25% of Ovi... Music, Share, Maps and Games (Sync to be added one day). Will probably ask to swap to a GPS enabled device though before I'm done.
2 months, 1 week ago by bensmithuk.
actually, Ngage is part of Ovi, kinda. Ovi encompasses all of Nokia's current services, including Maps and Ngage
2 months, 1 week ago by rcadden.
Right
So exaclty what can I do with Maps and N-Gage that is OVI-related?
When the whole thing is out of beta, then I might pay attention... it's a bit premature for me at the mo.
2 months, 1 week ago by whatleydude.
Ovi is a brand. Nothing else.
There's no integration at all or overlap between the services. Mapping and gaming is as much a part of OVI as image / video sharing - it just happened to come along first.
The reviews are shaping up, but their 4 very different services - design, interface and quality-wise.
2 months, 1 week ago by bensmithuk.
Ovi is a portal to nokia services. There is no such thing as ovi-related if you ask me.. I could be wrong too..
2 months, 1 week ago by R200.
@R200: You're right although the co-branding suggests more in the future. The point of the review, at least in part, is to describe what it is a little better.
2 months, 1 week ago by bensmithuk.
@R200 I think you've got it. You want Nokia's stuff, you go to ovi.com. From there you can access all of NOkia's 'services'. That's the idea, from what I've gathered along the way.
2 months, 1 week ago by rcadden.
oh man ... N81 8GB is yet another bastard born by internal corp wiring... i wish i may say my opinion ... tho i'm biased towards tablet anyway and have really low opinion on tech capabilities of Symbian and S60 derivatives ;)
2 months, 1 week ago by silpol.
@silpol: I hear ya' :-)
2 months, 1 week ago by bensmithuk.