Moody Downgrades Nokia in this July 27 article. This means there are lesser investors who can "legally" invest in them. That's what it means. And by investors I mean investors who actually believe Moody - w/c is just a rating company.
Why?
1. The keyboard placement - that's again different from other Nokia's I've used before (I'm a customer since the Nokia 100 of old, their very first phone) - this time the E52 causes me to cancel a message while I'm composing it. This is frustrating keyboard design that I haven't gotten the hang of even after half a year of using the E52.
And nokia always changes keyboard layout for each of their phone so It's not like I'm used to it. I've gone through an N70, N3220, N3550 touch screen and other older phones.
This is the first time my muscle memory has not adapted to a phone - and I just have this one phone.
I always throw away this phone on the bed in disgust when it does that - cancel my message when I'm in the middle of making it.
Nokia, is this what you want? A disgusted customer? If so, if nobody in Nokia replies to this then you do deserve being left out by Samsung and Apple in the phone race.
2. The E52 3.2 Megapixel camera that's actually worse than a 2Megapixel N70 camera.
I've been warned by cellphone forums -but gently - that the E52 cam is useless (GSMArena said the camera is a "letdown") They were right. Only they should have said AVOID THIS PHONE LIKE MALARIA if you like taking photos. They probably think big executives have no kids or go on non-attractive vacations and junkets.
Why?
a. It has a non-removable loud clicking sound everytime you take a photo it's distracting.
b. Activating the camera takes a long time, unlike the N70 which uses the single clicker to activate the camera. The E52 wants you to go through a menu system to take a photo. By the time you take a photo, the subject might have moved on.
To make things even harder, the new 2011 Firmware update removes the CAMERA icon and replaces it with a near-dead OVI store link.
Thanks Nokia for worrying about making sales via OVI to the detriment of the customer experience. What your firmware should do is to assign the CLICKER to activate the camera just like the old N70 -which is you also created. Shessh.
Yes in some countries you need to have a noisy phone that takes photos. But not in the Philippines, please?
c. 3.5 MP photo quality is very very very bad. Sometimes there are streaks of red on my photos. Why is that?
d. The flash is always firing even it shouldn't. It takes a long time to remove the flash and if you're going to stop taking photos for a while you'll have to set flash off again. Really? Yes I know some digicams work like this - the settings aren't saved. But this is a supposed to be a high-end phone the E52 - and saving settings should be simple enough to implement from a programming point of view (I used to be a programmer).
This is the reason I welcome the Microsoft Windows 7 replacement to the Nokia Symbian. But remember, by the time Windows 7 appears on the Nokias, I'm probably selling my E52 and getting a new Iphone 5. At least with Iphone, I know what I'm getting into. With Nokias, you never know until you got the phone and are stuck with it for like 2 years.
Note to MS Windows 7 phone UI designers, do not ask me Y/N if I want to quit. I just pressed the quit button, what else do I want to do? Don't ask me if I want to save if I just pressed the SAVE button, what else do I want to do?
Now you were telling me "Jomar, teach me how to blog!" Well, this is a blog post I wrote entirely out of dismay at my E52 phone. It's connected to news events of today. How many of you actually use your Nokias - and are happy or not? Express it in your blog. It's newsworthy!
