Typical price: £600
What is it: Large-screened smart phone with full Qwerty keyboard
What we think: It's one of the best Communicators to date, but you might find it too chunky compared to other smart phones
Average user rating
7.8
very good
Average user rating from 4 users
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Nokia E90 user reviews
March 29, 2008
Posted by: haddock
"Fundamentally flawed"
What I like:
Screen, keyboard, potential huge functionality
What I don't like:
It's just too slow
Review:
I have given up on the E90 after about 5 months - and with 13 months to run on the contract. It would be wonderful if it worked, but it doesn't work well enough. Collecting exchange email is absurdly slow, takes minutes just to check. GPS takes up to half an hour to lock onto satellites. Firmware updater software is hopeless, and even after battling through to install updates they don't really do much to improve things.
If this phone worked instantly, responded to key presses immediately (instead of taking seconds to even register that the key has been pressed), worked smoothly with email and just generally didn't keep you hanging round for far too long, it would be the perfect phone for me, the one I hoped it would be and the one I signed up to this stupid contract to be able to get.
Instead it's a real disappointment, an expensive mistake. It might impress in the reviewer's lab but in the real world it's an encumberance.
Now I have a Blackberry and am wondering, when it comes to email, if they can do it why can't Nokia?
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