Experience
As they say, sharing is caring, and our trial users do care. Armed with their trusty Nokia devices, our trial users recorded and shared life’s simplest moments with the growing community known as Nokia viNe. Check out their thoughts on the Nokia viNe application, and for all you know, you might find yourself as a new member of the Nokia viNe community!
After logging on, I tried the music trial and updating was fast as the actual music files were not uploaded.
As for the Singapore experience, big mistake because the photos were taken in 5-megapixel resolution and when I tried to update, wow, it really took some time.
For food pictures, I shot them in 0.8 megapixel resolution and updating was indeed faster.
Nokia vine is simple to use but it is more for people who walk around and take public transport. For people who are driving, it’s kind of dangerous as you need to watch out for MIB when trying to record.
One thing I found strange is that comments can’t be added.
The use of GPS to geo-tag pictures allows me to locate places which I have been to. This is especially useful when I am exploring an area which I am not familiar with. Whether it is a shop or a hard-to-get-to place, I can always refer to my viNes to travel back to a location which I have been to previously. I think viNe could be usefully applied when shopping for an item - I get to take a picture of the item and along with it, the location! I can be at ease when checking out my many different options without having to forget where and what each item looks like. Video function support is also great and can be used for outdoor activities such as fishing, eg. Capturing the moment and the spot where you hooked up a big one!
My experience with viNe:
When using the Nokia viNe, I was impressed by its simple and user-friendly interface. The application hides nicely and quickly, making it convenient. The use of the GPS positioning display screen and its timely updates on my position was fresh and can be, in many cases, rather useful or interesting to look at. When reviewing vines, the route appearing on the map in the main screen was relevant and efficient.
However, there seems to be a lack of battery capacity with my handset, the Nokia N96, when using the application. The phone would run flat on battery when leaving my viNe on recording mode for hours. It would have been great if I could leave it on for a whole day without landing me a flat battery, allowing me to use it like a digital diary. When I tried to upload songs which I have listened to using the ‘choose media’ function, 2 instances of each song was displayed, causing me to have to keep scrolling through double the data to select the media I wanted for upload. This problem was however not present when I was uploading photos.
Overall feel about the Nokia ViNe application:
Overall, I find the concept of Nokia viNe to be a fresh idea which is useful in many cases. Personally, I cannot see a practical application of tagging the locations of my music. Nevertheless, I can foresee myself using this application if I were to own a Nokia N series mobile phone, especially if it was packaged together with the phone. I do wonder however if the finalized online interface will allow the user log in to see the his/her personal vines, add tags to each picture in a vine, print out his/her journey and offer the choice of keeping viNes personal or public. The function of letting the user know which viNes he/she has uploaded before in the phone would be great too.
One more thing that could be interesting about this program is when users start sharing their vines, they could form a social network (or maybe a web on the map) consisting of people of the common interests. Connecting people – is it not?
There are a lot of great possibilities with Nokia viNe, but there is a drawback. When using the application, the battery drains a lot faster. I could drain the battery on a single charge on a single day just by using the camera (with geo-tagging enabled), music player, Nokia viNe running on the background, and my usual SMS, phone calls, email, and maybe a good 15 minutes of gaming. While this could be solved with a spare battery or a travel charger, it’s still not good getting cut off from an important call just because of all these things running simultaneously.
All in all, a great experience despite some niggles. I might get it for my N82 if possible. I like going to new places and I think this is the way to do it.