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!
Nokia Vine is an application similar to iPhone’s Breadcrumb App, but when I first got the viNe-enabled device, boy I was so wrong. The main issue I have with Nokia viNe is how limiting it is. Although its purpose is to allow sharing via the web, it doesn’t let you input your own feelings, comments, thoughts, ideas or even ramblings. It only lets you share about what you are doing.
There are a couple of things that Nokia should improve on. Firstly, the loading time of the maps must definitely be faster. Secondly, I would like to have clear indication of whether the application or handset was to blame during errors. Thirdly, Nokia viNe should allow users to give their individual thoughts at certain locations to go along with pictures taken. This way, users can give the picture meaning. So overall, faster loading and greater customization options should do the trick.
What I really liked about the whole viNe experience: I can let it run the whole day (energy consuming though) and it’ll just record whatever I do in the day, and I can choose and pick the media that I want to upload. It’s that easy. Drivers be warned though, it doesn’t really help unless you have a free hand every 10 minutes to change a track or something.
Also, the online version of Nokia viNe is causing a serious headache to users who roam onto the site wanting to find certain submissions. Blame it on Singapore’s small land area; better yet blame it on the lack of interesting places to go in Singapore, but it is very difficult to find our submission, much less to see how our submission(s) have fared or how appealing it is to others.
On a positive note, Nokia viNe is a fresh concept that definitely has potential if Nokia can listen to what trendy phone fanatics like me enjoy doing. Not to mention I feel like a babe magnet with this new application in a shiny expensive toy.
However, the main drawback is the slow uploading. The program is still very unstable, and at times I need to retry a few times or reset the phone before the upload is successful. In addition, when running the program, the battery life is drained rapidly.
GPS is becoming more prevalent in mobile phones, so it’s no surprise that N85 comes with AGPS and Geo-tagging. “What’s Geo-Tagging?” – you might ask. Geo-tagging is a service that allows you to tag a GPS location to your media (photos, videos, music). Nokia N85 comes with a Geo-tagging service called Nokia viNe, where users can tag GPS data to their media and upload it to the Nokia viNe site. This comes in handy especially when travelling, such as trying to recall that famous place, etc. It’s like a media archive of where you have been and what you have seen and heard. When uploading via viNe, one can add metadata tags to the journey.
Geo-tagging works well as long as you are above ground, or anywhere N85 can get a GPS/AGPS signal. It could be a potential spy device for aspiring 007’s
Example, I’ve Geo-tagged the following famous wontan stall in Amoy Street. Friends can locate the stall from viNe website.