Pros: Display, Battery Life, Looks Cons: Not for business users Opinion: I could not agree more with the last review. I was conned into buying this phone by a slick Nokia executive. Very bad decision. I have upgraded from a 9300i and it has been a total dissapointment. A lot of gimmicks have been added and lot of truly useful business features have been deleted. In addition, the menu system is unfathomable to an S80 user. And what happended to the Escape Key!!
Pros: Excellent Display, Memory, Build Quality, Features Cons: Very Cumbersome Menu's, No Escape Key Opinion: Poor upgrade from a 9500. I think many of the features are not useful to true business users. The calculator is has been downgraded, the units converter programme is unavailable, the fax function has gone, the voice recorder is downgraded from 60 min to 60 sec. The biggest problem is that the menu's are completely non-intuitive and long winded. The escape key is gone! You are now committed to all the changes that you make. What took one key stroke now takes three. The power supply goes in at a place such that you cannot use the handset while it is charging. A terrible dissapointment
Nokia's Communicators have come a long way and its latest in the series, the E90, arrives more than a year after the 9300i Communicator. The E90, however, virtually packs all the features there are available right now including HSDPA, Wi-Fi, built-in GPS, a 3.2-megapixel camera, large 800 x 352-pixel LCD (not touchscreen, though) and a full QWERTY keyboard.
One of the biggest changes on the E90 from the earlier 9300i is the inclusion of a camera. Nokia explains the main reason for this is to capture a broader audience and also an increasing group of business execs who use their work phones after hours as well.
Unlike the 9300i, the E90 runs on the Symbian Series60 platform which has a more robust interface. Other business smart phones that are on the S60 operating system include the E61 and the E61i, both offering candy-bar form factors compared with the E90.
When the QWERTY keyboard is not needed, users can still rely on the numeric keypad and 2-inch QVGA screen on the top face. That, however, comes at a price. The E90 isn't the smallest or the lightest smart phone available in the market. But if you look at it from another point of view, its size and weight are justified for its target audience who wants a portable computing device.
We used the E90 for a few days and one of the things we noticed about this Nokia was the speed. Opening applications and navigating the menus on the unit were a lot snappier compared with the previous 9300i.
There are numerous shortcut buttons for commonly used applications and also two customizable My Own keys for user-specific programs. The QWERTY keyboard was a joy to use although it's still impossible to type with two hands like on a full-size keyboard. Most times we simply used our thumbs or two index fingers to type.
A flaw with the 9300i was that the keyboard didn't light up. This is fortunately corrected on the E90 with a dedicated button to adjust the brightness of the screen and also to light up the QWERTY keyboard.
Setting up with E90 to connect to our Exchange server was also a breeze with the Mail for Exchange program which can be downloaded for free from Nokia's Web site. The application allows us to sync our calendar, contacts and email on our server to the mobile device. There's also an option to set how often the synchronization should happen although we left that to manual most of the time.
Other features on this Nokia include FM radio, 128MB of onboard memory with external expansion slot for a microSD card, Quickoffice for document viewing and editing, and a 2.5mm audio jack.
3 comments:
Pros: Display, Battery Life, Looks
Cons: Not for business users
Opinion:
I could not agree more with the last review. I was conned into buying this phone by a slick Nokia executive. Very bad decision. I have upgraded from a 9300i and it has been a total dissapointment. A lot of gimmicks have been added and lot of truly useful business features have been deleted. In addition, the menu system is unfathomable to an S80 user. And what happended to the Escape Key!!
Pros: Excellent Display, Memory, Build Quality, Features
Cons: Very Cumbersome Menu's, No Escape Key
Opinion:
Poor upgrade from a 9500. I think many of the features are not useful to true business users. The calculator is has been downgraded, the units converter programme is unavailable, the fax function has gone, the voice recorder is downgraded from 60 min to 60 sec. The biggest problem is that the menu's are completely non-intuitive and long winded. The escape key is gone! You are now committed to all the changes that you make. What took one key stroke now takes three. The power supply goes in at a place such that you cannot use the handset while it is charging. A terrible dissapointment
Nokia's Communicators have come a long way and its latest in the series, the E90, arrives more than a year after the 9300i Communicator. The E90, however, virtually packs all the features there are available right now including HSDPA, Wi-Fi, built-in GPS, a 3.2-megapixel camera, large 800 x 352-pixel LCD (not touchscreen, though) and a full QWERTY keyboard.
One of the biggest changes on the E90 from the earlier 9300i is the inclusion of a camera. Nokia explains the main reason for this is to capture a broader audience and also an increasing group of business execs who use their work phones after hours as well.
Unlike the 9300i, the E90 runs on the Symbian Series60 platform which has a more robust interface. Other business smart phones that are on the S60 operating system include the E61 and the E61i, both offering candy-bar form factors compared with the E90.
When the QWERTY keyboard is not needed, users can still rely on the numeric keypad and 2-inch QVGA screen on the top face. That, however, comes at a price. The E90 isn't the smallest or the lightest smart phone available in the market. But if you look at it from another point of view, its size and weight are justified for its target audience who wants a portable computing device.
We used the E90 for a few days and one of the things we noticed about this Nokia was the speed. Opening applications and navigating the menus on the unit were a lot snappier compared with the previous 9300i.
There are numerous shortcut buttons for commonly used applications and also two customizable My Own keys for user-specific programs. The QWERTY keyboard was a joy to use although it's still impossible to type with two hands like on a full-size keyboard. Most times we simply used our thumbs or two index fingers to type.
A flaw with the 9300i was that the keyboard didn't light up. This is fortunately corrected on the E90 with a dedicated button to adjust the brightness of the screen and also to light up the QWERTY keyboard.
Setting up with E90 to connect to our Exchange server was also a breeze with the Mail for Exchange program which can be downloaded for free from Nokia's Web site. The application allows us to sync our calendar, contacts and email on our server to the mobile device. There's also an option to set how often the synchronization should happen although we left that to manual most of the time.
Other features on this Nokia include FM radio, 128MB of onboard memory with external expansion slot for a microSD card, Quickoffice for document viewing and editing, and a 2.5mm audio jack.
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