Nokia Situations

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Nokia has launched Nokia Situations, an app that changes the phones profile depending on various situations, fr example, if u have a regular Monday morning meeting at work, jus create a profile for it, set the notifications & done, every Monday morning at the specified time, the specifeid profile activates & u wont get caught with a ringing phone in a meeting.

More interesting is the facility to set a profile according to GPS location, so if in church for examlpe, it could automatically go silent, although the GPS lock will kill the battery quickly so it wont ring anyway!:)

It a really innovative app from Nokia, lets hope we see more like it soon.

http://betalabs.nokia.com/apps/nokia-situations
 
I have to say, although it is a really cool application, it is not the slightest bit innovative on the part of Nokia. This has been available on other phones for a long time. For example on Android phones one can use Tasker or Locale to do the same or more.

Using Tasker my phone: goes silent anytime the word "meeting" is in the description of a calendar entry, turns off synchronisation while 3G is connected to save data, goes silent between certain hours at night unless specific contacts phone and brings up an app selection window when I plug in the headphones to choose a video / music app. I generally don't use the GPS settings because, as you say, that would be a nightmare for the battery life.

So, while I applaud Nokia for adding this functionality, it isn't innovative. In fact, it even looks like the name has been taken from Locale's main menu :) Locale
 
A lot of newer Nokias (seemingly with the Rapuyama stacked memory/cpu) seem to have issues. My brand new C5 is in "for repairs" after breaking on day 8 (no swap after day 7). Read the Nokia forums... E5, N8, all with shutdown/reset issues.
 
proze said:
A lot of newer Nokias (seemingly with the Rapuyama stacked memory/cpu) seem to have issues. My brand new C5 is in "for repairs" after breaking on day 8 (no swap after day 7). Read the Nokia forums... E5, N8, all with shutdown/reset issues.
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So Nokia is skimping on their quality control, or did they go Toyota's way and started buying parts from unknown and unreliable manufacturers? Very sad.
 
Sucks for them because they can destroy their 15 year reputation of great phones much quicker than they established it. It took me 3 years before I gave Canon a chance again after they screwed me over with 2 dodgy S5 IS cameras.
 
Rouxenator said:
Sucks for them because they can destroy their 15 year reputation of great phones much quicker than they established it. It took me 3 years before I gave Canon a chance again after they screwed me over with 2 dodgy S5 IS cameras.
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I know this must be hard for you, cos you are/have been such a passionate Nokia supporter.

Don't worry man, I'm sure you'll find something else. Just take it easy & don't sweat about it too much. Ok?
 
:D I was a supporter because they had quality - not because I just decided to be a supporter of them for the fun of it.
But I always give something two tries - I did it with Canon and they failed to deliver twice so I switched to Kodak for 3 years.
If my 2nd N8 also dies I will switch to something else. After all, I am VIP, I deserve the best ;)

At least the customer support is great so far.
 
kingrob said:
It would be! They've only sold 5 phones so far. :p
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They work with the last 4 digits of the order number, mine was 900 and something so I guess they did a limited run of 1000 phones. I wonder how many of them were dodgy.
 
Rouxenator said:
They work with the last 4 digits of the order number, mine was 900 and something so I guess they did a limited run of 1000 phones. I wonder how many of them were dodgy.
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Most probably all of them, but guess we'll never know. The phones were all "rented out" & the reviewers were OBVIOUSLY biased (cos they could get a freebie for a good review), so Nokia thinks they're THE best phones since sliced bread.
 
Well all 4 of the N8s here at work that came through Vodacom as upgrades are still fine and some of them are close to 3 weeks old now. So perhaps the ones that were sold by Nokia stuff is dodgy? It will be interested to see if the replacement one is any better. Then again, they have built excellent phones for 15, which is a lot longer than any other maker like the iDroidBerries7 and what not.
 
No, the battery was fully charged 2 hours before it failed. I tried it on both chargers for hours and still nothing. If I could I would remove the battery (a vital feature on a Symbian Nokia) but they built the N8 without such a feature so now its stuffed.
 
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