*OFFICIAL THREAD: Nokia N97

I think they made it because it fills a niche. The majority of touchscreen phones are basically feature phones, not smartphones. And while the 5800 doesn't equal other Nokias, it is a touch smartphone that has decent features and a decent price point. Had it been more expensive, I would not have bought it. I wanted to have a touch smartphone without too large an invest because ultimately my main phone will be one that incorporates some form of real keyboard.
 
i am trying to hold off on this phone so bad but i dont really think i can i need a phone i cant survive texting with the 8800 much longer when is the offical release date of this phone.
 
You mean that you would have preferred the harder plastic on the 5800 right? Your post says that the Eternity has a harder plastic screen than the 5800. Is this correct?
 
Not really. More refined maybe: particularly on the screen (which is gorgeous and it's main appeal) and camera. You're right that iPhone's screen is a tiny bit bigger, but that's more to Nokia's desire for 16:9 (I do think 16:10 would have been a better target, but that's neither here nor there). Nothing else was really at all comparable before. X1 has great resolution but is quite obviously tiny for example. N97 is much superior in resolution to iPhone, though.

It's lacking on others, most notably the AT&T3G and QWERTY and more than a few GB of storage. As you noted, if you're in a 1900 area, you can mitigate the former, but not the latter. Looks like a great phone, though with a bit more of a price premium. It points out the main weakness for me on N97: not enough N82 DNA and none of the advancement I would have hoped for in the camera (8mp, face/smile detection).

My ultimate phone would have both LED (for video) and Xenon for stills, though, to truly replace a point and shoot. Maybe the ******* hybrid child of Idou, OmniaHD, and N97. :D Hopefully SE can pull their head out and hit a home run with Idou in that regard... but still looks like they're going to pass on the QWERTY.

But actual innovation in OmniaHD? Not really much new in there. C905 already did the camera improvements...

Widgets are innovation, as is the concept of full integration of the Internet and social networks. iPhone didn't even innovate much as numerous smartphones already did the Internet and email thing. But Apple's genius has never really been about innovation, but refinement and polish making a UI that doesn't suck, as Steve would put it.
 
The development process of the N97 has been a lot different than their past devices. They've been more willing to show what it is they're working on, where they are having problems, what their ultimate goal with the project is. We never saw that kind of work being done to the N95 or N96
 
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