At least they're not censoring comments. Which is a BIG deal. As long as they keep it that way I'm fine with the sometimes over the top negative attitude towards Nokia. I won't necessarily like it but I'll tolerate it.
For anyone planning to buy a Nokia 5800: it's a good phone. I recommend you read some other reviews as well before making up your mind.
You're right. Much as Engadget's ridiculous tolerance for Apple's weaknesses - I mean about 10 articles on the new Shuffle which is the laughing stock of even the diehard Apple community FFS - and habit of focusing on totally the wrong things about other manufacturer's products they're still a gazillion time sbetter than the black pit of hell that goes under the name Gizmodo.
And yes, don't ever take Engadget or any gadget blog as your primary review site because that would be crazy. Have a look around before you buy.
One of the easiest phones to use, ever? Seriously?
Look, I continue to believe that 3.2 is one of the most brilliant platforms on the market, but it does NOT scale to a touchscreen UX. Nokia took the easiest way out and made the fewest number of changes possible to support touch, and they can't be given a free pass for that.
At least they didn't go with Windows Mobile like almost every other phone company.
I'd take S60 v5 over Winmo anyday, even if it wasn't built for touch from scratch. It works very well. I don't get what you mean by not scaling to a touchscreen UX. Seems to be doing a good job to me (and countless others).
Hmmm, it would seem that replying when following an email link to the comments doesn't work. It'd explain why the two comments I posted Yesterday never showed (one here and one on Joystiq) and why I had to post the above comment a second time by having to navigate to the actual article.
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The 5800 would only be frustrating to use if you're a complete fucking spastic.
For fuck's sake, it's one of the easiest phones to use, ever. Get off Apple's dick, seriously.
At least they're not censoring comments. Which is a BIG deal. As long as they keep it that way I'm fine with the sometimes over the top negative attitude towards Nokia. I won't necessarily like it but I'll tolerate it.
For anyone planning to buy a Nokia 5800: it's a good phone. I recommend you read some other reviews as well before making up your mind.
@papari
You're right. Much as Engadget's ridiculous tolerance for Apple's weaknesses - I mean about 10 articles on the new Shuffle which is the laughing stock of even the diehard Apple community FFS - and habit of focusing on totally the wrong things about other manufacturer's products they're still a gazillion time sbetter than the black pit of hell that goes under the name Gizmodo.
And yes, don't ever take Engadget or any gadget blog as your primary review site because that would be crazy. Have a look around before you buy.
One of the easiest phones to use, ever? Seriously?
Look, I continue to believe that 3.2 is one of the most brilliant platforms on the market, but it does NOT scale to a touchscreen UX. Nokia took the easiest way out and made the fewest number of changes possible to support touch, and they can't be given a free pass for that.
At least they didn't go with Windows Mobile like almost every other phone company.
I'd take S60 v5 over Winmo anyday, even if it wasn't built for touch from scratch. It works very well. I don't get what you mean by not scaling to a touchscreen UX. Seems to be doing a good job to me (and countless others).
Hmmm, it would seem that replying when following an email link to the comments doesn't work. It'd explain why the two comments I posted Yesterday never showed (one here and one on Joystiq) and why I had to post the above comment a second time by having to navigate to the actual article.