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Got very excited talking to the sales guy about what this phone could do, but I found the setting up painful. The whole phone is somewhat bulky and heavier than I was expecting. I've been using a Sony T610 and thought that was text-unfriendly, but please!...

The ring tones are great, but at the end of the day (call me old fashioned) but it's just an alert to let me know I'm being called. So what's the point of a full beutifuly crafted 64 polyphonic ringtone unless the local entertainment is so bad you're gonna sit in all night and listen to the phone (how sad would that be?!).

I didn't like the little rubber cover on the charger port. My experience has always been that these become detached after a few months. Also (and this may sound petty), I hate the two-piece charger thing. Isn't this 2005?

The display is good, the colours are good, but I thought that the camera was average. A bit grainy and dark and no better than any other I've seen. The 'i' mode is probably good, but when I tried to activate it, the error message told me to contact an O2 dealer to set up the account which I was not what I was expecting to have to do.

After not too much time, I put the SIM back in the Sony and have returned the handset. I've decided to opt for the V3 instead (size, weight, style, etc.) and will let you know. For the record, i recently purchased a Siemens A62 PAYG having got to work and realising I'd left the Sony at home. The A62 is brilliant, if basic. Easy to use, good display, nice tones, in short, it does what it says on the tin! and at under £30.00 Including £10 air time is a steal. My point is, it isn't sold on gizmos and features. The 411i is packed with goodies, but I feel, at a compromise as we seem to have forgotten what the end goal really is. Good, clear signal and phone quality.

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  • 2005-12-02 09:52
  • iIUs
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got the fone a couple of days ago and hmmmmm....really pissed off but its 2 late to go back
1). can sum1 plz tell me WOT THE HELL IS THE POINT IN BLUETOOTH IF U CANT USE IT FOR FILE TRANSFERS?!i mean christ....???
2).CANT USE MP3 FILES AS RINGTONES?WOT?ARE THESE PPL REALLY TRYING 2 PISS ME OFF?
3).how complicated is this phone 2 use? it took me ages to find out how 2 do anything!!!

overall i am seriously annoyed and i would advise anyone 2

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  • 2005-12-01 22:21
  • nEF4
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Well, I've been waiting for this handset since March in the Netherlands so, I ordered the N411i right after it came on the market in the Netherlands.

Well, the phone is now considered "low spec" compared to all the other new phones coming on the market, I would say.

Firstly, the design is a big improvement compared to my old phone N400i. A bit smaller and has the "high-tec" face on it.

The screen is a bit smaller than N400i or N341i and the quality is just slightly worse than N400i I would say. I personally like big screens, but that is the consequence of having a smaller phone I presume. Nothing I can't get used to. But the screen brightness is so much brighter than of the N400i, and I personally like bright screens so.. :)

I do like the desktop icons though. You can put 10 desktop icons on but I only have 4 on it. At the beginning it's easily forgotten that there is a desktop but I think you can also get used to that.

Next is the "Missed call" "Received call" & "Dialed call". You can store a double of N400i with 20 previous numbers of each, but what I DON'T like is that if the same number is missed, received or dialed, the number is clustered to one. So if you miss a call from couple of people you can't tell which person called how many times. I really liked that about N341i. So from N400i there is no improvement to my opinion.

One BIG improvement from N400i is the Alarm Clock I would say. With N400i, if you receive an e-mail during the night, the alarm clock does not go off in the morning as the screen stays as "New e-mail received". With N411i, a desktop icon is made couple of seconds after an e-mail is received, so the alarm clock also goes off which means I won't be late in the morning... haha

Now MP3 player. Many people seem to care about the fact that MP3 cannot be set as a ringtone. I do agree with that but for me, it's not such a big deal cause I often keep my phone on "Meeting Mode" anyway.

And the Memory is certainly not enough to use the phone instead of an MP3 player but I made up my mind to keep these separate for a while. Besides my black & silver Walkman MP3 player which I bought in the summer matches very well with the black & silver N411i so... I'm happy with that.

Another point is the Bluetooth. I’ve always used the cable to synchronise with the PC so there is no change there. So I use the USB cable which is included in the package. And also for the headset, I put priority on battery life, so I would rather use non-wireless headset which also comes with the phone.

One final point is the CAMERA!!!!!
Naturally, N411i is a megapixel phone and has quite a good quality for a 1.3 megapixel phone for sure. BUT BUT, compared to the N400i, the photos made in dark is absolutely terrible. N400i brightened up the room with its flash AND that stayed on the photo, but with N411i, it does brighten up the room, but if the object taken is more than 20cm away, it's pitch dark. I used to take many pictures in the dark when going out. So about this point of N411i, I would say I am definitely disappointed.
Well, I don't know about the other manufacturers but well,,,

Just to share my opinion!

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  • 2005-11-29 00:52
  • ncY2
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hi
how do you get mp3 on to the phone and how do you use the bluethooth and how do you zoom in on the camera
thanks LISA22

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  • 2005-11-24 21:03
  • MSPE
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lisa

this phone cannot be used for data transfer.. bluetooth function is headset only

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  • 2005-11-22 12:01
  • Su8w
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i just got this phone and its brilliant but cn anyone help me with how to use the bluetooth? i have no idea how to send things to another phone or even connect to one properly!

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  • 2005-11-21 12:43
  • mHpx
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Tom..welcome to the i-mode world. the phone is capable of mp3 ringtones, just look at the wap version (e540)...it is just that i-mode doesn't have mp3 ringtones

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  • 2005-11-19 13:34
  • mmNJ
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cant use mp3s as ringtones on n411i - rubbish
also cant seem to set videos as ringtones if transferred from a pc rather than created using phone cam

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  • 2005-11-14 18:00
  • MVAv
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I recently purchased the nec n411i i-mode and have had a couple of problems with it. First of all it says in the manual and on the spec you can download polyphonic ringtones, i have now tried to do this 6 times (from 3 different websites) but still haven't received the ringtone does anyone know why this is? Do i need to do anything before i try and download one? usually they arrive in a text format and you down load it from there but i've not even received a text. I've checked on all the websites for compatibility and they have all said the phone is compatible so where is my ringtone?? Does anyone know how to fix this problem? If so please email me and let me know as the manual is useless! Thanks.

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  • 2005-11-09 16:38
  • TXIT
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thanks alot paul, it has worked well, however it wont play the full song, it seems to stop about 3/4 of the way through each song i put on my phone

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  • 2005-11-08 20:13
  • nEfM
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the phone does not get damaged. The phone is supposed to work with a program called NEC Mobiling Suite. The drivers are on the disk. The button that you select to install the software also has the option of selecting the drivers. The drivers allow the PC to recognise the phone when it is connected.

try http://www.intexdesign.net/nec...1i_link.html

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  • 2005-11-08 14:14
  • MP}i
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thanks but what are these drivers and how do i install them? if i connected the phone before anything will this damage the phone?

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  • 2005-11-07 20:07
  • nEfM
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using NEC Mobiling Suite to transfer data.. Install the drivers before the software. don't connect the phone until the drivers are installed. in fact don't connect the phone until the software is installed.

When you connect your phone, ensure the display is on the home page and no applications are open. These can cause conflict and tell you the phone is busy

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  • 2005-11-07 16:30
  • MP}i
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i love the phone, but when i plug in the USB to my pc, nothing happens, i cant access the phone, and i have installed the USB and the synchronisation from the disc that it came with, how can i get my mp3's onto my phone?
very appreciated

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  • 2005-11-06 19:44
  • nEfN
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help! when i transfer files from the pc to the phone, it always gives an error message, saying that the phone cannot support current data transfer because of (1) phone not displaying standby screen, or (2) phone currently busy with other stuffs.

what's a standby screen? how would i know if my phone is busy or not??? need serious help here to transfer my files. somehow it always says "file size too big" when i tried downloading it from the net...

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  • 2005-11-05 16:37
  • PFMY
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I just got this phone off a free imode package. A bit hesitant because I've always been a Nokia follower but my previous HP met with an 'unfortnate accident', so here I am:

So, 24 hours after meddling here's my verdict.

Bad:
1)
I can upload my mp3 but I can't seem to use them for my ringtones. This, in my humble opinion is my PET PEEVE. I feel slightly ripped off. I mean, what's the POINT of uploading MP3 if you can't USE it as a play tone?

There is one way to counter that, perhaps, and that is to convert my *mp3* into 3gp (aka vid), because they allow you to play that as a ring tone. I have yet to experiment, so hope spings eternal.

2)
Keypads are a bit more difficult to press compared to otherphones I have used before.

3) Way too little short cuts to get some things done. but that could be just a matter of me not reading the instruction manual and might be resolved with time.

4) I suspect either my formatting or images /mps/vids are too large, or the memory of this baby is not as satisfactory as I would like them to be. It's pointless enabling you to download stuff if your phone doesn't have the power to store that much in the first place, now does it?

5) The volume is way too soft even at maximum vol. I really can't handle that because i'm quite deaf, really. I won't be able to hear it at all if I was in a busy street and my phone's in my bag. So minus points for that, plus for being a consderate non-whore attention seeking phone -- but that effectively thwarts purpose of me trying to show it off. ;)

now on to the good!
1) Able to upload videos. I've converted some of my shorter vids/clips (about 1min 30 sec, and uploaded it to phone. It plays okay, but they say file size is too large for ringtone display. hmm. still, yay!

2) Imode.
Yahoo messenger rocks, as do yahoo mail.
The rest of the sites are okay, but I am guessing I will get bored of them within a week.

Although, bring in MSM and mail2web into imode and you've got yourself a subscriber to the service.

3) able to upload Mp3s. I guess, but all phones do that now, AND THEY ALLOW RINGTONE FUNCTION. *headdesk*

4) nice design. and I don't even like clamp phone models all that much.

Overall, except for the little iffy i have with mp3, all's fine by my book. Now... let's see if I can go against the system.

5)

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  • 2005-11-05 09:03
  • F4pr
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for the N411i u can't set mp3 as ringtone due to legal issues but the mp3 player sound is quite loud if u turn it on to the max vol and point the sound to ur direction. meaning close the flip

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  • 2005-11-04 17:12
  • PFMY
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hey i got problem using mp3 songs as ringtone and the mp3 speaker is so soft that its more for mouse... any help?

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  • 2005-11-04 07:34
  • F4pr
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I also have the same problem of setting my video as ringtone and wallpaper. It is all grey. And the manual is totally useless.

Can someone pls help me.

And can i noe where to download videos that can be use for this phone.

Thanxs

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  • 2005-11-03 09:55
  • PFMY
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i recently purchased the n411i yesterday and am very disserpointed.the blue toothe really doesnt work and also how does it send picture messages?? i really dont like this phone and it seems not many ppl dont either.who wants problems with a new handset? if it has mp3 player and blue toothe y dont they work properly.im taking it back tomorrow for a refund!

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  • 2005-11-03 00:39
  • m9IN
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