Rafe also spent a lot of time with the Nokia N78 at Mobile World Congress. Here's his detailed and illustrated preview. A natural evolution of the best-selling N73, despite the hardware improvements, it's the software and services improvements that really caught Rafe's imagination, taking Ovi and a much more rounded package to the mass market.
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Read on in the full article. Great preview Rafe, like you say it's a budget alternative to more expensive smartphone models and the N73 proved there's a large market for such a device.
Interesting to see GPS included, it's also included on the other upcoming budget smartphone the 6220, and one wonders if this will soon become as ubiquitous on phones as a camera. It's now getting easier to see why Nokia has spent literally billions on purchasing satellite navigation companies, they clearly see GPS' future as not just a popular feature but a must-have feature. Very nice preview Rafe, looks set to be a very successful handset.
Like you Krisse I see GPS becoming ubiquitous in the medium-term. From Nokiaworld it was very apparent that this is a key direction for Nokia, its almost certain that they view it as a "must-have" feature (or at least attaining that status very soon).
From my own experience, coming to an N95 having never had a GPS device before, its one of those things that "you never knew that you always needed to have". Good analogies would be power-steering in cars, or broadband internet; once you've experienced them they are not something that you'd be willing to forego afterwards. I think the penetration of GPS is such that its close to reaching a critical mass in the average consumer awareness, I think Nokia's research tells them this also, and they're positioning themselves well to reap benefit there. Rafe, thanks for the first real review of this phone. Regarding the FM transmitter, you mention that it is activated within the Music Player. Is it also possible to direct Internet Radio output to the car's sound system? One can imagine how useful that would be during a long road trip. I think that if it would have had the 5mp cam and xenon flash, it would possibly be the best seller of that batch of phones (N96, 6220 classic, 6210 navigator etc).
Personally Im looking forward to a 6220 classic hands on review.
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Quote: 113mm N78 versus 102mm on the K850, that is a huge difference. Whilst the 2.4 inch screen is good, I feel that Nokia phones are suffering from some serious physical bloat and this one is another that is too big. 113mm is almost as big as a hiuge slab iphone, it's unacceptable for something that people want to carry about all the time.
If this carries on I'm heading back to S40. Unregistered, it might be better to compare CC (volume) figures instead of thickness, some phones are very thin but very wide so they may actually be quite large.
The trouble is manufacturers don't always publish these CC figures, and you can't easily work it out from the dimensions because phones usually aren't shaped like boxes.
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