Day two – Skype Video call (Fring), GPS Navigation and Video Recording
Yesterday was my second day with the N97, I went to the ‘Nieuwstraat’ in Brussels and used the GPS a lot.
In the morning, I had to ask something to a friend on MSN, so I launched Fring. Unfortunately, he wasn’t online. But my granddad was online on skype and I knew he needed some help with his pc. So I called him with the option ‘Skype Video Call’ in Fring. I could see myself in the upper right corner, and when he turned on his webcam I could see him in the middle of the screen. I worked well, but I couldn’t always hear him fine, and the audio wasn’t syncronized with the video, although I think this is caused by the fring servers.
After I’ve been sporting, I launched Nokia Maps and tried to get a fix (no A-GPS fix, because I don’t have an unlimited mobile internet connection), it took 5 minutes to get home, but it still didn’t have a connection, I went to the garden, and after one minute or, my location was found.
I called my friend and he gave the address of his dad. I went upstairs, searched it on Ovi Maps and saved it to my account. After I took a shower, I synced my favorites with my ovi account, and when we finally left, the device got immediately a fix.
When we were in Brussels, the phone got a fix in 30 seconds, something that wasn’t possible with the N85 (or i just had no luck, because sometimes when i took pictures inside with the N85, it was tagged as well).
The only thing that wasn’t always correct was the Digital Compass, but you can turn it of very easily. I noticed that you have to recalibrate the compass a lot.
It’s fantastic that the Turn-by-turn Navigation is free from now on. Doesn’t seem more than normal to me, if you pay a lot for a device with GPS and you notice afterwards that you have to pay extra for the Turn-by-turn feature.. That sucks.
And last, but not least. The video recording.
It had the same camera as the N85, but the N85 had sometimes a stupid bug, that the phones ‘lags’ every 5 seconds. So the video’s were sometimes worthless..
The quality of the video is actually better than it looks like in Vidly. I’ll upload it on youtube as well. Video Geotag
