WHAT I HATE ABOUT NOKIA E51
November 16th 2009 00:00
In case it is named differently in your country, E51 is a 3G Nokia intelligent phone. Well, it is supposed to be intelligent.
Its features include the capabilities to carry and read your word, excel and other office files. It supports voice commands. It can help you navigate with its GPS features. You can download maps, pinpoint hotels and restaurants, etc. And if you happen to know next to nothing about where you turned out the following day, it can tell you exactly where you are at any given time.
Uh, not really the exact location, but it can give you a general idea where you are – exactly… Get it? No? Whatever.
Anyway, like any other mobile phone that, to us mortals, causes a big dent on savings the E51 comes with a camera (this one only has 2 Mega-pixels). It has the usual calendar. It plays your favorite songs provided you download them from somewhere for a fee. It has expandable memory, an FM radio and a bluetooth that connects to both my headset and laptop with ease.
It has its own PC-Suite software that in my opinion is far superior than that of Samsung - U800 (at least, it shows me where my messages are coming from) which allows me to connect to the internet using the E51 as a modem and still continue to send text messages while connected to the internet (it’s quite fast too as a modem).
Now, that’s something that you cannot do with the U800. With the U800 you have to choose which one you want to do first, send text messages or connect to the internet using the phone as the modem. You can’t do both at the same time.
And if you love using magnifying glasses to read miniature web pages, you can even use the E51 phone itself to surf the net! Or you can take, send or watch your photos and videos using the same unit. It’s really cool!
But of course, you would remember the title of this post.
So, what is it that I hate about the E51 when most of what I’ve done so far is sing praises for it?
Well, you see… this phone has a feature called “Voice Aid.” This feature enables its user to navigate the phone without looking at it. If you use this feature the phone will tell (and I mean TELL) you which part of the phone features you are navigating at any given moment by just pressing a button! It can even READ your text messages for you - if you want to.
Hey, a phone that can read text messages for you! Isn’t that great?
I’d say it is. And that feature alone could be reason enough to buy the phone. Especially if you are like me who are always driving to some distant places… But then…
Can E51 really read text messages for your? Well, yeah… it can. Except, you have to learn how to decipher the spoken languages of some still unknown aliens from outer space because that seems to be what the E51 is doing to my received messages – translate them into some incomprehensible chatter!
And that’s what I hate about this phone. It’s nearly perfect, if you ask me. Just don’t let it read those messages for you if you are driving and you are say, a Chinese or a Filipino or of any other nationality (other than where the phone originally came from) or if you are among those who use and receive abbreviated text messages!
I guarantee you, you’d wish you’d just parked your car and read the messages yourself!
I mean, Nokia has all these resources that they can use to make life a little easier for its hordes and hordes of customers the world over right? In this country (Philippines), it’s like everybody has a Nokia phone. So, why not even bother to come up with a “voice aid” that can be understood by Filipinos, or any other nationality?
Okay, let's be fair. If you ask the phone to read straight english words with the right spelling, it will do that and if you are used to hearing some funny accents, you won't have a problem.
But most texters I know, like to abbreviate words in their messages so they can fit as many thoughts as possible within the 160 characters limit per message. Now, try having Nokia E51 read those messages - and see if you don’t go nuts listening to them!
Nokia - E51
Its features include the capabilities to carry and read your word, excel and other office files. It supports voice commands. It can help you navigate with its GPS features. You can download maps, pinpoint hotels and restaurants, etc. And if you happen to know next to nothing about where you turned out the following day, it can tell you exactly where you are at any given time.
Uh, not really the exact location, but it can give you a general idea where you are – exactly… Get it? No? Whatever.
Anyway, like any other mobile phone that, to us mortals, causes a big dent on savings the E51 comes with a camera (this one only has 2 Mega-pixels). It has the usual calendar. It plays your favorite songs provided you download them from somewhere for a fee. It has expandable memory, an FM radio and a bluetooth that connects to both my headset and laptop with ease.
It has its own PC-Suite software that in my opinion is far superior than that of Samsung - U800 (at least, it shows me where my messages are coming from) which allows me to connect to the internet using the E51 as a modem and still continue to send text messages while connected to the internet (it’s quite fast too as a modem).
Now, that’s something that you cannot do with the U800. With the U800 you have to choose which one you want to do first, send text messages or connect to the internet using the phone as the modem. You can’t do both at the same time.
And if you love using magnifying glasses to read miniature web pages, you can even use the E51 phone itself to surf the net! Or you can take, send or watch your photos and videos using the same unit. It’s really cool!
But of course, you would remember the title of this post.
So, what is it that I hate about the E51 when most of what I’ve done so far is sing praises for it?
Well, you see… this phone has a feature called “Voice Aid.” This feature enables its user to navigate the phone without looking at it. If you use this feature the phone will tell (and I mean TELL) you which part of the phone features you are navigating at any given moment by just pressing a button! It can even READ your text messages for you - if you want to.
Hey, a phone that can read text messages for you! Isn’t that great?
I’d say it is. And that feature alone could be reason enough to buy the phone. Especially if you are like me who are always driving to some distant places… But then…
Can E51 really read text messages for your? Well, yeah… it can. Except, you have to learn how to decipher the spoken languages of some still unknown aliens from outer space because that seems to be what the E51 is doing to my received messages – translate them into some incomprehensible chatter!
And that’s what I hate about this phone. It’s nearly perfect, if you ask me. Just don’t let it read those messages for you if you are driving and you are say, a Chinese or a Filipino or of any other nationality (other than where the phone originally came from) or if you are among those who use and receive abbreviated text messages!
I guarantee you, you’d wish you’d just parked your car and read the messages yourself!
I mean, Nokia has all these resources that they can use to make life a little easier for its hordes and hordes of customers the world over right? In this country (Philippines), it’s like everybody has a Nokia phone. So, why not even bother to come up with a “voice aid” that can be understood by Filipinos, or any other nationality?
Okay, let's be fair. If you ask the phone to read straight english words with the right spelling, it will do that and if you are used to hearing some funny accents, you won't have a problem.
But most texters I know, like to abbreviate words in their messages so they can fit as many thoughts as possible within the 160 characters limit per message. Now, try having Nokia E51 read those messages - and see if you don’t go nuts listening to them!
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