A little while back I wrote a N82 and N95 8GB comparison to pick out a winner and although close but the 8GB won. When we look at the Eseries for a flagship, there is only one device looking us in the face, the E90. While Nseries has a tendency of churning out flagship devices at a quick clip, this isn’t quite the case with Eseries. Traditionally Eseries has been all business with poor cameras, the old pop port, not so great music and so on while the Nseries has been all of that and then some more. When the E90 came out, it bridged this gap, at least theoretically with a 3.2 auto focus camera, stereo speakers, A2DP, GPS almost everything that one looks for in a music phone. But is it enough to make a long time Nseries owner jump ship?
This post pits two unlikely phones, flasgships of two different series against each other and we try and pick a winner.
Nokia Conversations caught up with Danial Dhondt, designer of the upcoming N96 and Joeske Schellen, designer of the soon-to-launch N78. In this series of two videos, they chat about the collaborative process of designing Nokia devices and what goes into giving a phone a sense of identity.
In the second video, they talk about the role of sustainability in design and how the smallest design details can often be the most significant ones. (Video after the break)
Zach from over at SiMo brings news that Psiloc has just released one of the most useful apps you will ever see, Psiloc Connect. What is does is something that should have been implemented already - access point prioritisation i.e. the phone will use access points in the order you choose without having to manually select them each time. For example I can setup the phone to use my home WiFi as the first option, if not available my neighbour’s WiFi (;)), next my operator’s data (3G, EDGE or GPRS) connection and so on in any order I so choose. For this to happen we were supposed to wait for FP2, however Psiloc has decided to make that option available now and that too for all existing S60’s. (According to Ricky, E61, E61i users will need to wait and the company is working on a solution)
It simply creates a new access point called ‘Psiloc Connect’ that you will need to set as default for all/any application(s), set the priority in the settings and you are good to go. You can select more than one WiFi connection also for say times when you want to make the phone check for your home and office WiFi before moving onto operator data. You can even stop the operator data from being used in case you are roaming or due to any other reason. All in all a highly customisable nifty utility.
The application is available from the Psiloc store, and costs US$15.77 (EUR9.95). More screenshots below (courtesy of Zach).
