I am really liking the N80 now that I’ve had it for a while. Thanks to Andy, I’ve been able to overcome a few glitches it seems were perhaps pilot error than the fault of the device….
For starters, there is a zoom function in the camera — you just use the 5-way and press either up or down to zoom. Easy. I was getting a bit used to the more advanced functions on the N73 and N93 to realize this was right there – doh! The pictures are not as good as either the N73 or N93, but quite good for a camera phone…
Disabling Birdstep, smartroaming has made a drastic difference in my battery life. In fact, since disabling it I have not seen the low battery message. I charge each night so I can’t tell you exactly how long the battery does last but in my case a full day is sufficient with limited WiFi usage.
I’ve also been able to get Gizmo VOIP working – confirming an issue on my home network. I spent the last couple of days in Philadelphia and successfully activated Gizmo on both my parent’s and sister’s home networks…
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What’s Birdstep?
Birdstep Smartroaming lets you create a stack (Group) of connections that are seen as a single point of access by the phone. So instead of having to make a decision about whether to use WiFi or packet data, you can have both and the phone uses whichever is available at the time which is quite handy — but apparently taxing on the battery. It does work really well though…