Nokia E90
2 05 2008
Less than a year after I started using Nokia N95 as my mobile phone, I have now changed (again). This time it’s Nokia E90 Communicator to be my phone. My dad (again) bought this phone in Indonesia. After a couple of weeks with this phone, he realised that he preferred Nokia N95, and so we swapped phone (again).
It’s good that Nokia has a very easy-to-use backup and restore, even between phone models. I backed up my dad’s E90 contents using Nokia PC Suite, and did the same to my N95. After both are done, I wiped out both phone clean for a fresh start. I tried to hard-reset N95 using *#7370# combination (beware when using this code, as you will lose ALL data in your phone) but somehow it didn’t work. So I tried another method to hard-reset, that is: turn off your Nokia phone, hold green button, three (3), and star (*) at the same time, then power button to turn it on. Hold on to green, 3, and * until your phone asked you to select a country, which can be as long as two minutes. Admittedly, you’ll probably need four very flexible and long fingers to do it. Luckily, it was easy for E90, I just did a firmware upgrade. The firmware in the phone was some v7 previously, while the updated one was v200, what a huge shocking jump in version number.
About 30 minutes later, both phones contents have been swapped with no issue. This phone is BULKY to say the least, it’s BIG. It’s as thick and wide as N95, and as tall as N95 slide opened. At 210 g, this phone is even heavier than my Dell Axim Pocket PC. However, using the huge screen inside was a joy, as well as typing SMS-es using qwerty keyboard. The GPS took less than 20 seconds each time to fix signal, and I have been using it to good use to geotag all my photos taken using this phone. Put it simply, with geotag, all photos taken has location information, and after you’ve uploaded it online, you can easily put your photos on the map.
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