Well that was pretty much a total failure on the blogging front wasn’t it. I definitely should not have taken the M528 out with me. It’s not ready for service yet. [Note: Its a production sample from at least 2 months ago. No indication of what the final build will be like] I just couldn’t get the browser to work without crashing on blogger.com. I lost two posts!
What was a success was the tracking and photo tagging. The S60 Sports Tracker software does a really nice job there. There are lots of things for Nokia to improve on but the core system is sound. I’m sure we’ll eventually see it merge with Nokia Chat and Nokia Maps under Ovi.
Other things that didn’t quite work so well:
- My Jack Wolfskin body bag. Despite having some good straps, this over-the-shoulder style doesn’t work when blogging.
- Battery life on the N82. With audio playing, GRPS data uploads, GPS calculations and other apps running, the phone needed a battery swap after a few hours. It wasn’t dead but I definitely would not have made it back
- The crappy Nokia headset keeps falling out of my ears. I hate those in-ear things.
- It was a bit too hot for jogging. 30 degrees!
In the end I did 10km in three stages taking 11500 steps and burning 839 kcals. At least that’s what SportsTracker is telling me so I think i’ll go and light the BBQ after this post!
As for the blogging part, well i’m going to have to try that again I think. I think online tools are going to be OK through the browser so I won’t have to switch to XP or anything silly like that. TheM528 form factor is pretty much perfect and it appears that the CPU power, although less than I’m used to, is acceptable for this sort of work. I’m going to need a slightly better keyboard than the one on this demo device though. I hope they use a different one on the final version.
So that’s it for Jog and Blog #1. There’s a few thing to work on for #2. You’ll see a notification through friendfeed if I do another one.
