Nokia N78 - user opinions and reviews
- Arpit Patel
- bJf
hey guys using N78,
i have a question. i wanted to check the microphone prob with nokias. those who have n78, please do this and tell me yr experience.
call up customer care or any free of cost no. after the call starts, mute using options--> mute. now go to recorder (i think in settings/ applications), press record to record yr call. now just say something..."hello.. hello.." for some time and then hangup. now check the file that is recorded, go to gallery, refresh it and then in sound clips find the recording and play it. we had muted our microphone, so there should not be any "hello... hello" in the recording. please tell me what did u find.
all phones nowadays have digital mic in them. so when u record a call with mic muted, the caller wont hear yr sound but the recording will catch up all the surrounding sounds. this is not the case with n73. n78 and n79 (as told by nokia care)
Plz guys and gals, help me find a clean recording abled phone.
- Anonymous
- Yee
ok...so after you reading everyone's rants about the Nokia N78, I decided to write a short review regarding it..since I've been an avid user of the device for over 2 years now.
1) Design: The device is modestly built. It might not be for everyone. You either hate it..or your love it. It's as simple as that.
2) Exterior functionality/Build: So it seems like everyone's biggest problem has been with the keypad. True, sometimes the buttons are hard to click but once you get use to it, it's all gravy. Sometimes I have trouble pressing on the different buttons on the keypad. It seems like Nokia built the buttons too compact together. Again, it takes a while to get use to There's definitely useful buttons on the side such as shutter, and zoom in/out. To tell the truth, the back cover for the battery of the phone has been troublesome since day one. It just doesn't seem like it fit right and keeps moving up and down. That's my most disappointing upset about the phone. Other than that problem, the phone is pretty solidly built and the screen is quite nice and bright for a phone from 2008.
3) OS: Nothing much to say here...Symbian OS...let's just say it does it's job and leave it at that.
4) Camera/Video Recording: decent camera for a phone from 2008. You got your 3.2 MP in the back and a VGA front facing camera. The 3.2 MP camera takes decent photos. Can be shaky at times. I do warn that the flash is very bright and at times annoying at night. However, all in all, the picture quality is quite good. Nothing much to say about the video recording. Quality is also decent and viewable. Nothing spectacular.
5) Call Quality/Sound: Very good. Haven't had any trouble with calling and receiving. Calls are relatively clear and reception good in most places.
6) Audio/Speakers: Very good. Needless to say, one of the phone's best qualities are the speakers. Very loud and can be heard at the other end of the room. Nokia built the speakers very well and are probably evenly matched with the smartphones coming out these days.
7) Software Functionality: I bought this phone knowing that it wouldn't really be a smartphone. You have a phone which is in between a feature and a smart. Your able to connect to wi-fi but it's just too damn slow to really do any surfing. Surfing the net, GPS, and downloading apps is laggy at best. There are limited apps which Nokia offers. Lots of games though. The most I play is Tetris.
8) Battery Life: Really good. After 2 years of non-stop use, I'm still getting a good 2-3 days on one charge. At the beginning, it was almost 5 days on one charge. I'd say I still charge less than someone with a smartphone, so it's quite decent still.
9) Conclusion: After using this phone for 2 years, I'd have to say that it has gotten the job done. When needed, I've been able to make the calls, and take the photos. There hasn't been any problems with the phone over heating or shutting down by itself. I am still a bit cheesed about Nokia's build quality on the back case. I do have to also note that the phone is starting to become a bit slow and getting on my nerves. It takes a good 2-3 seconds to open contacts or text messages. So the reality is, I'll be needing to upgrade some time soon.
- Anonymous
- m7I
i cant get over it, im finding myself typing on the keypad and wondering "what were they thinking?". Its just impossible to make sumthing like this, its much worse than it looks, its so small spacing between those 4 bars, its so weird, its so cheap, so useless.
And the front is really a fingerprint magnet, the "keypad" makes it more so since ders more front surface coz of the lack of real keys.
The onli reason why you should consider an N78 is for mp3 player, in car for example, the FM Transmitter is very useful. It also is said to have a better GPS than most other N-series, thats another good thing for use in the car.
- Anonymous
- m7I
haha, i just received an N78 for changing display, the keypad.. Laugh or cry, very hard to choose, its really the worst ever, totally ridiculous. N78 must have been conceived when drunk and constructed during hangover. And den i mean really drunk and the worlds biggest hangover, too many empty bottles of Koskenkorva or Finlandia in Nokias engineering department that day. I hope there was whores also, must have been quite a party =)
- Anonymous
- IaH
its a good phone at first but then after about 6 month its terrible
- Anonymous
- IaH
its a good phone at first but then after about 6 month its terrible
- Anonymous
- IaH
its a good phone at first but then after about 6 month its terrible
- N78 lover
- vbR
i love this phone.. I have had it for about 2 years. Its simply superb. Just that the keypad design isnt that good but its fine once u get used to it. One of the best phone from nokia.
- Anonymous
- KgQ
one of the best phones by nokia,i like the key pad,im comfortable with it,the phone looks better than any other nseries phone,and is feature loaded n faster
- Anonymous
- Pa{
I had one for more than a year. I got used to the lame keypad (I'm still prefer the one of my old 5310 XpressMusic) but there were some other issues that I had to deal with.
The Battery cover is fragile at best. The worst thing about this is that the WiFi antenna is in the battery cover, so when it broke and hardly remained on it's place, I lost all WiFi signal.
GPS never worked as good as I wanted. Nokia Maps was terribly slow, at best.
Syncing with my Mac was easy and effortless by bluetooth it was quite nice.
Nokia Messaging Service worked extremely well, but it consumed too much internal memory.
After a year it started to fail drastically... become slower until it didn't even accept my SIM card.
Rest in Peace
- vivnis
- YMH
nokia forgot 2 put an keypad thtz works d lights of keypad work accoding 2 ther wish......feedup feelin 2 crash this shit
- jasim
- up6
worst pece ever made by nokia its all bullshit the keypad , i have fade up of this phone the circuit is totaly un reparable of camera even care center dont knw 2 repair bloody dumb pieace
- n78 lover in past
- vwn
worst keypad ever made by nokia
phone ig great but yhe keypad sucks.
- Valadar
- f4T
I have had my Nokia N78 for almost 2 years. It restarts sometimes just randomly when messages are open. Or if some apps are open. I used to have a problem with the phone keeping on kicking me out of the settings&I had 2try 3 or 4 times to get back into it. Now since I've deleted somethings on my microsd card. It no longer has this issue. I have firmware ver 30.14. I wonder if I redo the firmware whether it will fix these issues?Thanks
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