Living The Dream: The Nokia N97 Mini Journal, Day 2 ~ SCRATCH e-PAD!

Day 1 was a charm, N97 Mini works its way to become my best phone yet, will it change on Day 2? Find out...

08:o0 hours, UTC/GMT 8+, December 03, 2009

Waking up with my temporarily-owned Nokia N97 Mini for the first time and the best way to describe it, waking up with Paris Hilton on your side, it brings unexplained happiness and joy yet expensive to keep, but in anyhow, I like to make use of her as much as I could. ;)

I can say that I'm more familiar with the phone now, getting use to the QWERTY set up, etc., I have to admit, N97 Mini needs a little familiarization as it have different set up to that of E75 but after I got the heck of it, the typing messages became pleasurable. Few discoveries, the use of arrow keys is a comfy in navigating web pages and the key below the backspace stands as an enter key, Eureka!

Usual morning routine, text, check eMail and tweets... tweeting can never be much fun without the QWERTY, so for anybody of you out there who were stuck with T9 but loves to tweet, N97 Mini is the only perfect device for you.

09:o0 hours, UTC/GMT 8+, December 03, 2009

Yes, I didn't go to work today, haha, that's how powerful this phone was, it stop my world from revolving, kidding! That's because I got lots of plan for the phone today that's more important than earning a living and that time is ticking fast, Nokia might snarl it back very soon, freaky I know. c",

10:o0 hours, UTC/GMT 8+, December 03, 2009

Setting the phone for its first Photo shot, usually happen inside my room and all casual using my N82. I never have a hard time during the shot, N97 Mini is a charm in all angles, by the way speaking about angles, I like the screen angle of the phone than that of the N97, its inclined a bit further down giving a better view of the screen when the QWERTY is slide out.

12:o0 hours, UTC/GMT 8+, December 03, 2009

The best thing about the N97 and the N97 Mini's form factor is that you can place it on a table with screen open and view the Homescreen with all its widgets updated online as it happens. My lunch table now comprises my plate, spoon, pork, glass and my Nokia N97 Mini, just make sure that you can balance your attention between your phone, your food and the people around you so you wont look ridiculous. Its a matter of mastery and technique. c",

14:o0 hours, UTC/GMT 8+, December 03, 2009

Wrote my first impression of the phone, yes its again very bloody as usual, whats unique about this experience though was that I was writing and editing everything using the phone. It's easy by the way and a comfortable experience since it has a wide screen unlike the E75.

16:o0 hours, UTC/GMT 8+, December 03, 2009

Back to my studio to work on a video, I hope everything works fine, its going to be my second video created to be posted on the blog's youTube channel. My first video was a vRingo ringtone that I created as an entry to the Symbian-Guru contest to win N97 Mini, I hope I won, I really need this phone badly!

I tried the camera of the phone as well which is a 5MP and found out that its not very much different from N82's image quality in well lit areas, still need to try the flash capability later on.

19:o0 hours, UTC/GMT 8+, December 03, 2009

Just going through my eMails, Tweets and a bit of web browsing while listening to my fab music tracks, its called multitasking and the iPhone junkies have not experience this yet, hah! poor souls. c", I like the way Nokia implemented the browsing scheme of the phone, they added an automatic full screen transition maximizing its huge screen unlike before which only renders 3/4 of its size, thumbs up!

I also tried the phones Dual LED flash and as what I suspected, image quality were sub par, it really pulled down the phone a bit in the camera department as it produce a cloudy and blurry night images. Xenon flash t still rules! Then cap my day with this article, again with the phone. I like this better than writing on a laptop since I can write post at my most comfortable position.

Tomorrow I'll be traveling back to Zamboanga Peninsula so I will be testing the phones battery life, it has a 1200 mAh power reserve same to that of the 5530 XpressMusic and the E75, let see if it can stand up par with both. So far my E75 is the champ in this department rendering a full 2 days power without recharged. My staffs will definitely be shock again because I'm carrying a new phone. Well, they should get use to it. Day 3 post tomorrow, discover more about the phone with me, stay tuned.