Neil Hopcroft

A digital misfit

Building the future with Robin. Doesn’t this make us look like a proper startup? Crazy white board, battered laptop, desk full of phones and design documents. Kevin managed to hide from the camera the experimental cable knitting that lives under Robins desk.


Categories: Memories.

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  1. orddu

    So since you’ve obviously had your paws on one, what’s the N95 actually *like* then? Any good?

    The camera seems to do the job, certainly :-D

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    • neilh

      Lets face it, its the most exciting phone I’ve seen since the N80, and that was only interesting until I picked one up and found out how poor the slide quality was.

      N95 camera is OK, not bad for a phone camera (I’m always amazed with some of the things people put up with from their phone cameras) but its not a replacement for something with decent optics (you can see the noise especially on Robins lappy, its battered but not that battered).

      It ticks all the feature boxes and has a nice feel to it. The GPS software/hardware still needs some work – we did *once* get a lock from it but we had to stand still with it hanging out the window for about 15 minutes. That might, of course, be the pre-release software on the one we were playing with, so hopefully thats fixed now. Even if not, its still a helluva phone. And its hitting the shops any day now.

      Eagerly awaiting the next of the location aware devices (probably 6110-Nav, which appears to be no relation to the original 6110) in the expectation that those bugs will all have been fixed…but thats unlikely to be hitting the shops for a good few months.

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      • orddu

        Yeah it’s the GPS I’m wondering about. If it’s not that hot, it’d be cheaper to get an N73 and another Tomtom jobbie for the other car. Plus I can’t see the O2 shop being TERRIBLY keen on me taking it outside to test it..!

        But I will go and have a play once they’re in stock. My contract’s up, so the world is the mollusc of my choice. And it’s only Nokia for me :-)

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          • orddu

            Looking at the likely prices of these on O2, it’d be cheaper to get an E65 which does everything but, then get a spare Tomtom GPS for the other car, and I’d still have change out of it.

            Decisions decisions!

        • neilh

          Yes, one of those that worked enough that you knew it had the functionality, but not enough that it was actually useful. Good to hear its fixed – Richie was certainly quite happy with his (production) software version.

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