Selling / Returning N95 8Gb - What should I do?

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Bought a Nokia N95 8Gb as an upgrade from Vodafone a week ago for £110 on a £20 a month contract but TBH I'm struggling to like it.

I previously had a HTC TyTn (Vodafone V1605) and have gone back to using it as I miss it too much. The N95 as a phone is a smashing device (esp the camera) but unfortunately it's the Symbian OS that lets it down for me - lack of support mainly and it isn't really up to the job where office apps are concerned e.g. Push E-Mail for Exchange etc.

Anyway, I digress! I am still within the 14 day 'cooling off' period and don't know whether to return the phone to Vodafone in exchange for something else (would have to be a WM device such as the TyTn II or similar) or sell it. I'm thinking I would get around £200+ for the Nokia which would be a nice little profit but would I be in my rights to do that?

Incidentally I can get another phone in July for free when our business contract at work expires so I could always get a TyTn II or something when that time comes.

Advice appreciated!
 
Return the N95 8gb. Get a N82. Get a TytnII in July or whatever HTC have released then.
 
Rhys said:
Return the N95 8gb. Get a N82. Get a TytnII in July or whatever HTC have released then.
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Thanks but the N82 would be no better than the N95 as it still runs Symbian. Whatever device I go for it should be WM6 based.
 
Whats wrong with push email? I have full support on my E51 and had it on my old E60, surely its on the n-series hidden somewhere too? Or do they disable that for general joe public and leave it for the business e-series?
 
H0wz3r said:
Bought a Nokia N95 8Gb as an upgrade from Vodafone a week ago for £110 on a £20 a month contract but TBH I'm struggling to like it.

I previously had a HTC TyTn (Vodafone V1605) and have gone back to using it as I miss it too much. The N95 as a phone is a smashing device (esp the camera) but unfortunately it's the Symbian OS that lets it down for me - lack of support mainly and it isn't really up to the job where office apps are concerned e.g. Push E-Mail for Exchange etc.

Anyway, I digress! I am still within the 14 day 'cooling off' period and don't know whether to return the phone to Vodafone in exchange for something else (would have to be a WM device such as the TyTn II or similar) or sell it. I'm thinking I would get around £200+ for the Nokia which would be a nice little profit but would I be in my rights to do that?

Incidentally I can get another phone in July for free when our business contract at work expires so I could always get a TyTn II or something when that time comes.

Advice appreciated!
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I had exactly the same issue mate, I really wanted to like the N95 but I just hated the thing. I sold it on the bay for around £260, I bought an iPhone with the cash, unlocked it and put the contract sim in it :)

So many people bash the iPhone but it really is the best phone I have ever owned, and by quite a way.
 
H0wz3r said:
... or sell it. I'm thinking I would get around £200+ for the Nokia which would be a nice little profit but would I be in my rights to do that?
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You bought the phone, and so it is yours to keep or sell as you please. The fact that a phone is sold at a deep discount (or given away for free) is irrelevant -- you've still bought the phone. Of course the network gets back the discount, by having a minimum term length in the contract and charging a higher monthly amount than they really need to to provide the service.
 
LeperousDust said:
Whats wrong with push email? I have full support on my E51 and had it on my old E60, surely its on the n-series hidden somewhere too? Or do they disable that for general joe public and leave it for the business e-series?
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The problem with push e-mail on the N series is that the free app from Nokia (Mail for Exchange) only syncs the inbox, calendar and contacts. Unfortunately it has no support for subfolders which is important to me. To enable subfolder sync, I tried another app called Roadsync which does the job well but it costs $49.99 ($29.99 this month only) and still doesn't sync tasks. In addition, Roadsync doesn't notify you when a new mail is received, something that M4E does so it's a no-win situation.

The E series phones have the ability to display an active standby mailbox whereas the N series doesn't.

Lastly, neither the E nor the N series phones allow syncing of e-mail by any other method other than over-the-air be it by WLAN or via your network. When you spend most days in the office, it isn't too much to ask to be able to sync stuff offline i.e. via a USB cable is it? Syncing over the air can work out pretty costly, especially when your office doesn't have a wireless network to utilise!
 
CoreRipOffDuo said:
Sell the N95 on E-bay (most people who get them free do), then buy the TyTnII.
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Will do that methinks. I'll wait until July when our work phones are due for an upgrade and get a TyTn II then (unless something better comes out!) can't see the point in splashing out £200+ at this stage for the sake of waiting 6 months!

Thanks for the advice everyone :)
 
Or keep the N95 and wait to see what other mail apps come out? Thats the beauty of Symbian... You never know whats going to come next! :D

Choice is really yours alone though, theres so many phones and software out there and everyone has different tastes!
 
Roady said:
Or keep the N95 and wait to see what other mail apps come out? Thats the beauty of Symbian... You never know whats going to come next! :D

Choice is really yours alone though, theres so many phones and software out there and everyone has different tastes!
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TBH, even if the perfect mail app came out now it wouldn't be enough to convince me to keep the N95. One of the main reasons I got this phone above the others is that it has an integrated GPS which I thought would work fine with any given satnav software.

Unfortunately, the only real solution I found was Route66 which I didn't like at all due to its bizarre routing. On a trip back from Hereford to Huddersfield it took me through just about every major city centre, avoiding the motorways like the plague! (and no I didn't have motorways turned off!) Even when I turned onto the M6, knowing that it would be much quicker, it still tried to get me off it at every opportunity! That left me with Nokia Maps (not impressed - took AGES to lock on to satellites then navigation was slow to update itself) or TomTom. TomTom works ok but is slow to navigate compared to my WM6 phone and only works with an external GPS.

You're right though, everyone has different tastes and needs and the N95 just isn't the phone for me, I'll stick with WM in the future.
 
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