Sales People - Do ANY of them have basic Product Knowledge?

Today we browsed three shops, two Telstra and one Optus, and enquiring about the
Nokia 95.

In all three shops we got varying versions of how the N95 works with respect to
its navigation and GPS features. One guy, the Optus one, told us that the N95
doesn't have a GPS receiver like the Nokia Navigator does, for example. He was
trying to tell us that the N95 relied on info from the cell and the map software
to give you a "fix".

The woman in the T-Shop said that we had to pay a $250 5 year subscription fee
to download the maps.

Anyway, we had a look on the Nokia website when we got home. It appears that we
can download the maps from Nokia using the Map Loader software then transfer
them onto the phone.

They talked about the phoen downloading data when using the GPS too. But from
what I've read so far, and mind you, I have not read all the info just yet, it
appears that this isn't the case, unless it's for extra features such as turn by
turn destructions.

Anyway, to Rod, how have you used your N95 in this respect? The missus wants to
use it as a hand held "street directory" when she's in London, and when she does
a day tour in Paris. Am I correct in assuming that all we need to do is to
install the software on the PC, download the maps, in this case of Greater
London and of Paris, install them onto the phone and when she gets there let the
GPS do its stuff?

Finally, screen-wise, is there any differences between the N95 and the N95 8gig?
The Optus 8 gig model is called the N95i.

Snapper <snapper1@y7mail.com.invalid> wrote:
> Today we browsed three shops, two Telstra and one Optus, and
> enquiring about the Nokia 95.
>
> In all three shops we got varying versions of how the N95 works with
> respect to its navigation and GPS features. One guy, the Optus one,
> told us that the N95 doesn't have a GPS receiver like the Nokia
> Navigator does, for example. He was trying to tell us that the N95
> relied on info from the cell and the map software to give you a "fix".
>
> The woman in the T-Shop said that we had to pay a $250 5 year
> subscription fee to download the maps.
>
> Anyway, we had a look on the Nokia website when we got home. It
> appears that we can download the maps from Nokia using the Map Loader
> software then transfer them onto the phone.
>
> They talked about the phoen downloading data when using the GPS too.
> But from what I've read so far, and mind you, I have not read all the
> info just yet, it appears that this isn't the case, unless it's for
> extra features such as turn by turn destructions.

> Anyway, to Rod, how have you used your N95 in this respect?

Nope, not yet.

> The missus wants to use it as a hand held "street directory" when she's
> in London, and when she does a day tour in Paris. Am I correct in
> assuming that all we need to do is to install the software on the PC,
> download the maps, in this case of Greater London and of Paris, install
> them onto the phone and when she gets there let the GPS do its stuff?

Yep.

> Finally, screen-wise, is there any differences between the N95 and the N95 8gig?

Yes, the 8G does have a marginally bigger screen.

The difference isnt huge tho.

> The Optus 8 gig model is called the N95i.

Nokia calls it the N95 8G, right on the front of the phone itself.

Rod Speed wrote...

> > The Optus 8 gig model is called the N95i.
>
> Nokia calls it the N95 8G, right on the front of the phone itself.

Yeah, as is the Optus one. Missus picked it up tonight. It's on the charger and
has an armed guard, electric fence and machine gun emplacements in case anyone
(fucked if I know who) tries to fiddle with it.

Also no problems with credit or anything. Missus merely said that she's a "home
maker". The guy even asked how long she was doing that for!

When I quickly had a squiz I noticed that after a few secs the screen dimmed,
presumably a power saving thing. Her current Nokia 6233 does that and it's
fucking annoying. You enter in text, for example and if you pause only for a
second or two it goes dim and you can't read it. You then have to press a button
to get it up again.

Hopefully the N95, if it does this all the time it can be configured to not do
it.

Also, what sort of battery life do you get from it, either if it' sitting around
idle or if you use it a bit? She'll be on a plane for 24hrs (inc. stopovers) so
she won't have a chance to charge it. And if she uses it to play videos or uses
wifi to access airport lounge hotspots I suspect it won't last long at all.
Might get a second battery for it, perhaps.

Snapper <snapper1@y7mail.com.invalid> wrote
> Rod Speed wrote

>>> The Optus 8 gig model is called the N95i.

>> Nokia calls it the N95 8G, right on the front of the phone itself.

> Yeah, as is the Optus one. Missus picked it up tonight. It's on the charger
> and has an armed guard, electric fence and machine gun emplacements
> in case anyone (fucked if I know who) tries to fiddle with it.

> Also no problems with credit or anything. Missus merely said that she's
> a "home maker". The guy even asked how long she was doing that for!

> When I quickly had a squiz I noticed that after a few secs the screen
> dimmed, presumably a power saving thing. Her current Nokia 6233 does
> that and it's fucking annoying. You enter in text, for example and if
> you pause only for a second or two it goes dim and you can't read it.
> You then have to press a button to get it up again.

> Hopefully the N95, if it does this all the time it can be configured to not do it.

Yep. And you can make it much longer too.

> Also, what sort of battery life do you get from it,
> either if it' sitting around idle or if you use it a bit?

That varys quite a bit with some of the settings, particularly the idle time.

You get the best time with the scanning for wireless lans turned off,
which is scanning, you can keep using wireless lans you have already
enabled, and bluetooth, tho I personally leave that on for convenience.
Quite a few days in that config.

> She'll be on a plane for 24hrs (inc. stopovers) so she won't have a chance to charge it.

I'll do that fine.

> And if she uses it to play videos or

Havent tried the battery life that way.

> uses wifi to access airport lounge hotspots I suspect it won't last long at all.

wifi access is fine, you'll still get more than a day even with scanning for wifi left on
and its effortless to turn it off after you select the access point in the airport too.

> Might get a second battery for it, perhaps.

Yeah, thats one big advantage over an iphone.