N97 Rants

With the launch of N97, there are numerous sites putting up reviews of the phone for current and potential owners to check out.

Since these had been done to death, I will go by a different approach: stating out the flaws and bugs I had experienced on the phone. In a way, you can say I'm nitpicking on it.

So I'll list them out in 2 categories: Hardware & Software.

Hardware:
- the placement of the Menu button is placed on bottom left side of the front panel, which makes it difficult to press the button with my right thumb when holding the phone single handedly.

- no protective cover for the microUSB port

- have to press shift button in order to input full stop punctuation

Software (based on V10):
- No user customisation on setting the widget update interval

- low resolution (crappy) individual photo display in photo viewer. No such issue when using the experimental Nokia Photo Browser

- video files is displayed as well in photo viewer, wonder what's the point of having a separate video viewer.

- intermittently, phone will ring with default tone instead of user defined tone

- contact photo unable to display in full screen

- Share Online upload unable to activate access point to perform upload task (intermittent)

- screen requires to unlock twice to light up

- the phone showed HSDPA access point as first choice despite having defined Wireless network in the area. Both connection options are parked under INTERNET destination settings

- phone did not prompt user to re-select access point for widget updates when the original defined access point had been moved to another connection destination.

- No N-gage client

- No DLNA application available for the phone.

- when select a contact with multiple numbers from the contact bar for sms, phone did not prompt user to select the number to send to, hence user will not know which number the message is sent to.

- No HTML support in Nokia Messenging and Built In email app

Basically this is what I had observed based on 2 weeks of usage so far. You can share more by putting them in your comments. Hope some of the listed bugs can be fixed on the next firmware.

1-Day Malacca Trip

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As Quizesilver is itching for a Malaysia bike tour before he starts his lessons, he had organised a one-day trip to Malacca for some speed blasting, good meal and shopping spree. I figured since my Thailand trip I had not been on a road trip for a while so might as well take this chance to bring my Fazer and the Fazer Devil for a spin.

Basically it is only a one-day ride up and down the city of Malacca, 270km from Customs. Since it is only a short ride, there is nothing much to pack except a tank bag containing basic stuffs and my D90 camera. I brought the charger for my N97 as well just in case the juice runs out before the end of the trip.

The group met up at Gelang Petah Petronas petrol kiosk early and I found myself in a station crowded with Singaporean cars and bikes. Apparently many had planned some short road trips similar to us.

The group consists of Mudi on FZ6 with Maran, QuizeSilver & Alan on Hayabusa and yours truly on the FZ1. This is the first time Maran and Mudi joined us for a road trip. These 2 dudes are very nice peeps and bloody humorous thru their constant taunting towards each other hahaha....



The ride up is pretty smooth and traffic is pretty light, enabling us to keep a average speed of 120km on most part of the roads. We stopped by Pagoh R&R for petrol top up before we continue with the journey. The weather is freaking scorching with passing shower on one SMALL area of the journey. We kinda got conned into wearing our rain gear only to realise that...imagine riding in that gear under a 30+ deg weather....

Upon reaching the city, we rode thru the narrow streets to find a good spot to park the bikes and thanks to Maran, we found this Famosa Chicken Riceball restuarant where we can park the bike just outside the place. This is one of the reasons the group came for this trip: the Chicken Riceball. I came to this restuarant years back and now I'm back again.





So once we had our stomach filled and thirst quenched, we walked around the streets where this area is part of the tourism spot. Under the burning weather, with one carrying his bike gears around, it's not a real pleasure walking along these streets, as I find myself super drenched in my own sweat.. yes, I am constantly sweating as we were walking along the streets.

Along the street, we stopped by this seemed-to-be-famous dessert shop (typical Singaporean mentality lah, you see long queue means it's good :p) and some baba Ice Kacang and Chendol. Nice, but a tad too sweet for me. The rest are enjoying them though. Guess that's the reason why I can't say sweet nothings LOL.



After going one round the streets, we proceed on to the nearby shopping centre (about 15 mins walk) where we can get some cool air. We roamed the place for like a hour before we head back to the restaurant to collect our bikes.

The road is slightly more crowded as it is Sunday and most drivers/riders are heading back for Singapore, but nevertheless it was a smooth ride back. Had some dinner at Gelang Petah R&R before heading back home. That pretty much ended the day... a short but enjoyable one :)





More photos can be viewed here

Made in China

I know it's made in China but need to put such BIG sticker meh?

Mobile Powerhouse for the next 18 months

While I still like my 5800 XpressMusic, I find the lack of hardware qwerty keys provide limitations as I frequently write down song ideas and notes on the phone whenever inspiration strikes.

And upon a deal that was hard to resist (technically I paid less than half the retail price for it), I gotten this phone to suit my needs. Good camera, hardware qwerty keypad, massive storage are all in this phone.

Will come up with a review soon enough

Enlightenment

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gained some enlightenment today which is long overdue after confiding to 2 close friends with regards to my train of thoughts....

Appreciate to my close friends for sacrificing their precious sleep just to lend their listening ears.

:)