Work sincerely or cheat again? Saipan Anna vs Saipan 3

IT 168 Evaluation of nokia X7 listing with new Symbian Anna operating system. With a metal body and a price of less than 3,000 yuan, many players have been eager to take X7 home to experience this high-end flagship phone of Nokia. So, what is the Symbian Anna system in Nokia X7? How different is it from the previous Symbian^3 or even the earlier Symbian S60V5? Where have you improved? Will it give us a brand-new operating experience? Now I will show you that Nokia's Saipan Anna is Nokia's brand-new sincere work or again. Pit dad? ?

▲ Domineering Symbian Anna machine emperor nokia X7

What is Symbian Anna?

To put it bluntly, Symbian Anna is the PR2.0 version of Symbian 3, an updated version of Symbian 3, and is essentially Symbian 3. Therefore, many friends who like to play mobile phones may be disappointed, because there is actually little difference between Symbian 3 and Symbian S60V5. For example, N8 of Symbian^3 and 5233 of Symbian S60V5 have almost the same operating system experience. Similarly, this time Symbian^3 is still a small upgrade, which is nothing special for ordinary users. The interface is still the same, and the third-party software that can be installed is still the same.

▲ Actually, Symbian Anna is Symbian^3, just a new name.

But let's take a look at what Nokia officials told us about the upgrade of Symbian Anna:

The (1) icon is changed to a new circular border.

(2) Mobile phones that support faster text input and use virtual QWERTY full keyboard vertically.

(3) The browser has a brand-new UI interface, which greatly improves the speed.

(4) Ovi Map supports simple and quick search function and brand-new footprint positioning function, and Ovi Map also has built-in search and social functions.

(5) In terms of enterprise functions, the new version of Symbian Anna support has obtained brand-new security and communication function improvements.

▲ Identification of ▲Symbian system.

Next, let's take a look at what different experiences and better applications these Symbian Anna have brought in our use. In order to better reflect the intuitive difference between Symbian Anna and Symbian 3, the author also found a Nokia N8 mobile phone equipped with Symbian 3 system. On Symbian Anna models, the only model of Anna system is nokia X7.

▲N8 and X7 respectively represent two typical platforms of Symbian.

"Thank you? Ruifeng Telecom? Provide the evaluation prototype, the merchant's address is Zhongguancun E World Block C 1080 10, and the merchant's telephone number is 0 10-82667058.

Is the brand-new interface just a new icon?

When using a mobile phone, the first thing we come into contact with is the operation interface of the mobile phone. Regarding the interface, Nokia said that Symbian Anna has adopted some brand-new designs. There are rumors on the Internet that the homepage of Symbian^3 will be upgraded to 5 screens. Let's have a look.

The first is the design of the home screen page, huh? Isn't the content in this exactly the same? After sorting out the location of desktop plug-ins, we found that they are almost exactly the same. The only difference is that the color of a single icon is different, and the square icon becomes a circle.

▲ The N8 (left) interface in the vertical screen is the same as the X7 (right) interface.

▲ Horizontal screen status The interfaces of the two phones are still the same.

▲ screenshot of n8 main screen interface (left) X7 main screen interface (right)

Of course, apart from the different colors of icons, there are still differences in touching the screen to turn pages. Nokia X7 using Symbian Anna will have a transitional effect when turning pages. However, unlike the previous legend, we didn't find that the main page of Anna system can use 5 screens, but like Symbian^3, it has only 3 screens at most.

▲Symbian Anna X7 main screen scrolling animation

Entering the menu, we can see that the icon of Symbian Anna is really different from the previous Symbian^3: all the icons are designed as circular icons, while the original icon is covered with a colored circle. However, that's all, the menu background is still black, and you can't customize the background or the color. Nothing has changed except the icon.

▲ Except that the icon turns around, the menus of the two are actually the same.

▲ There is really no difference between horizontal and vertical menu interfaces.

▲ The difference between X7 (left) and N8 (right) menus is that the icons are all round.

Input method has not been upgraded. Browser and map upgrades are limited.

For the second improvement announced by Nokia, a better input method, the QWERTY full keyboard in the vertical direction of the mobile phone. This didn't appear on Symbian Anna's nokia X7. Like N8 model of Symbian 3, it is also T9 touch keyboard of Nokia Symbian 3. QWERTY keyboard can be used horizontally, and handwriting can still be used horizontally or vertically.

▲ The input method of X7 (left) is the same as that of Symbian^3 (right), and there is no vertical keyboard.

The browser has indeed been greatly improved, and the shortcut menu is directly provided in the lower right corner, which can be used for some common operations such as switching pages. However, this function is also available on the N8 of Symbian^3 system, but the position of the button is slightly different, and the button bar will block the display of some web pages. Therefore, although the browser on Symbian Anna has no eye-catching new features, these small changes are still worthy of recognition.

▲Symbian Anna's new web browser.

▲▲▲ The browser of ▲▲symbian^3 system N8 also has the same shortcut key.

The new version of Symbian Anna's OVI map adds social network functions, such as public comment and Sohu bus function, as well as the linkage between ticketing website and map, which is really a very good function. After the mobile phone is connected to the computer, you can download the OVI map for free by directly logging into the OVI account. Compared with other navigation software, the advantage is that you can download not only maps of China, but also maps of other countries in the world, and you can choose cities to download separately.

▲Symbian Anna's OVI map supports social functions.

▲ The picture shows Symbian^3. Ovi map.

Symbian Anna's experience is still disappointing.

After reading the comparative analysis of all the upgrade parts of Symbian Anna, I think you already know something about Symbian Anna system. Below, the author will make a summary of Anna's upgrade experience for everyone's most intuitive viewing.

Upgrade parts

Final experience

New interface design

No improvement.

New five-screen interface

No improvement.

New icon design

Not much improvement.

New text input method

No improvement.

New browser user interface

Not much improvement.

New map function

Not much improvement.

New enterprise functions

Unable to experience

As can be seen from the above results, only two of the five new improvements of Symbian Anna system promoted by Nokia have been improved, and many functions have been used in Symbian Anna.

After two days' trial, I feel that the Nokia Symbian Anna system and the previous Symbian^3 system have not improved much, and the only impression is that the icons have become round. If someone hadn't told me, I think the average person would never be able to tell the difference between Sabana and Saipan 3.

Apart from some disappointing improvements, there are some minor changes, many of which are the existing functions of Symbian^3, which are used to stir-fry cold rice.

Throughout the trial, the inhumanity of Symbian^3 still exists in Saipan Anna. For example, in many cases, the network connection can only be switched to other connections by manually interrupting the current connection. In addition, when using WIFI to browse the Internet, X7 equipped with Symbian Anna is not compatible with the WIFI router used by the author (not to mention the specific brand of the router), but this router has never been incompatible with domestic Android phones ranging from several hundred yuan to thousands, whether it is BlackBerry or HTC phones, or even laptops with more than 10 brands. Finally, the author had to change another router, but the new problem came again, that is, the mobile phone frequently restarts the white screen, and you can encounter 5-6 times when you open the browser and enter the URL almost 10 times.

▲ Various unknown faults

Software compatibility? Certificate? The design is still available, and the software compatibility is poor. I tried to search the screen capture software, and I chose the top five softwares to try out, but none of them worked properly. Some of them are because. Certificate error? , have a plenty of installation settings after no response.

In addition to poor software compatibility, there is also a poor experience of Symbian system itself. For example, in the UI design of Symbian Anna, it is often impossible to correctly identify long press and long press drag. In fact, this is an old problem of Symbian system, but it has not been solved in Anna's version. For example, when sliding the page, the sense of acceleration and feedback is still very stiff. The entire Symbian user experience is far behind the mainstream Android in many details, and it can't be compared with Apple's IOS.

▲ Frequent white screen restarts are maddening.

In addition, Nokia's forced bundling of OVI services also caused the author a headache. On Nokia N8 of Symbian^3, users will be asked to choose whether to log in to OVI service when they first turn on the phone, while on X7 of Symbian Anna, they must log in or register OVI service for the first time. Even if you don't want to log in to OVI, the mobile phone will automatically send text messages to the background. Although a short message doesn't cost much, this kind of bundled pop-up information similar to rogue software still makes people feel particularly uncomfortable. Later, in order to boot normally, the author chose to register a new OVI account, and the system showed that the service was being connected, but there was no response after waiting for more than ten minutes. The author had to search Baidu for how to register OVI, and then log in to OVI account. I think this will definitely be a maddening experience for ordinary consumers.

Without substantial upgrade and improvement, the software compatibility is still poor, the system stability is poor, and the maddening OVI service bundle, I don't think Symbian Anna is a reason for you to upgrade your mobile phone. Although Symbian Anna's experience is not good, Nokia's mobile phone hardware and appearance are still good. For example, nokia X7's metal texture is very good, and Symbian Anna's mobile phone is not more expensive than other Symbian^3 mobile phones, so it is ok for friends who have low requirements on mobile phone system and functions to choose Nokia Symbian models.

▲Symbian Anna and Symbian^3. There is almost no difference.

▲ Although ▲Symbian has not improved much, Nokia's mobile phone hardware is still good.