A new phone

I bought a new Nokia N95 on Friday and took it into use today. The first impressions are very positive, everything works flawlessly and the phone has everything I need.

The most impressing part of the phone was transferring all kinds of stuff from my old phone to the new one. I’ve done this earlier with not too good results, but now it worked almost as in movies.

I made a full backup of my old phone using Nokia PC Toolkit and then installed the backup to my new phone; got my messages, contacts and images in place.

There were a couple of minor glitches. First, I tried to do the sync from phone to phone, but it didn’t copy SMS (note to Nokia: get this fixed) — it copied the address book and the backup installation copied it again, so I had all contacts twice. This resulted me removing 300+ contacts manually. Not that bad as it sounds, you can delete a contact quite fast.

The second glitch was that the well-copied messages lost their connection to the address book. The phone shows the number of the sender in all old messages. Please fix this, too, in the next sync versions.

All in all, Nokia has made remarkably improvements in the phones and syncing processes.