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Quite unimaginable!!

Here’s how it started:-

While talking with one of my friend yesterday, who is a very big Nokia and Windows fan(inversely proportional to me), he challenged me not to use my iPhone for a day and to experience symbian, I first reject his challenge but later accepted it.

Morning:

I woke up at 6am and the first thing I do usually is to switch on my iPhone, but today I went towards my iPhone took out the SIM card and got hold of Papa’s Nokia N79 and inserted it. Then I switched it on, the stupid Nokia startup sound and all blah.blah.. But the best part I found that it booted really fast. I thought of upgrading the firmware of it, but Nokia Software Updater doesn’t works with Windows 7 nor Mac, the only option left was updating it via WiFi, but it was in a no mood to enter my WiFi zone, I was too much fed up and failed it to connect it to my Home WiFi network and after many trials I left for college.

In College:

Many friends got shocked after seeing my phone, and I was forced to explain them why I am with N79. In recess I scanned for WiFi, it showed to two access points, quite amazingly this time I was able to get in and all worked fine. But the thing is that when I search for WiFi networks on iPhone in same area, I do not  get one. After some browsing I installed few 3rd party Apps and even tried them, few were pretty good but they had painful UI.

Back to Home:

Now surprisingly, this time N79 got connected to my Home WiFi network and I updated the firmware and downloaded some free tracks from Nokia Music Store.

The Ovi Experience:

After opening Ovi store I realized that it had hardly 30 Apps that is easily accessible and can viewed by a normal users, for other Apps you need to search them. The store is very badly designed with full of crappy Apps, comparing it with iTunes App Store will be sin.

Happiness:

* The phone boots fast.

* Really has a good battery life(after use of continuous WiFi, still it showed 3bars)

Pain:

* Nokia N79 looks like Rakhi Sawant( i.e super ugly and stupid)

* Symbian sucks (No explanation required)

* Camera sucks

* Don’t care to ask about ngage(worthless)

* Ovi looks like toy store.

* Keypad is cramped and D button sensor(simply copied from iPod’s click wheel)

* I cannot take anymore……

Conclusion:

After using this phone, I was really disconnected, today I hardly used twitter or facebook, checking mails on N79 was too much pain. My fingers were painful at the end of day after using the cramped keypad. Only good thing I found that it was less distraction for me than the iPhone, for which I was able to study more by keeping a phone near my side. Now, I really miss my iPhone and all it’s Apps, iPhone here I come…