*OFFICIAL THREAD: Nokia N97

It's supposed to be a 5gb cap, though Roger can probably tell you all about how he has gone over that with plenty of tethering.

If you're using 28mb in a month on EDGE and quadruple that to 115mb when you start to use 3G, AT&T won't notice.

I was on the $15/month with a family plan too (with a FAN discount). I recently changed it to the $10/month for both lines on my family plan and apparently it wasn't eligible for the FAN discount. My net difference after dropping $10 off my bill was less than $2 :mad: .
 
lol that's gotta be with T9. I can do about 120wpm at a full keyboard with 5-finger by touch. So far, all of the bigger phone blogs have liked the keyboard and said the spacebar placement is easily adapted to within a couple days.
 
LOL this thread, has made so many 360s I cant stop laughing. I dont think I have ever seen a thread with this number of topic changes in my 24 years of life. lol.

I am still waiting for my mine to arrive today here at work. Luckily I have meetings all day long today to pass the time.
 
The same people were expecting this to be $800-1000 on launch and street price is clearly going to be the cheapest N-series flagship yet. These other manufacturers can be counted on hand and only one with the same software. While lacking many features specifically listed desirable. Go back through the first 15-20, hell 50-100 pages of this thread and you don't see alot of clamoring for improved hardware. There are people who wanted keyboards... people who wanted touch... people who wanted both.... some who were hoping they wouldn't keep backsliding like they did with N96 shortchanging just about everything except the storage.

N97 is a step up from N96 in just about every way possible and much cheaper at launch.




lol You've already supplied evidence that they're already doing it., which renders that last point completely moot. Still not appropriate in this thread, nor is your desire to have people man up to you, like you're the Lord of Hofo or something.

I've already said many times in many threads that there's no real good excuse to NOT do 256MB of RAM. I'm CPU agnostic and don't think putting in just because would accomplish anything and can see several reasons why that could/would impact Nokia's development schedule for N97. Both a linux-based tablet and a future Symbian Foundation OS escape those time specific concerns since they're both in the future. Unless you just don't want Nokia to do ANYTHING until they can do it your way. Which combines both arrogance and myopia in one remarkable package that I could admire in another context. ;)



lol, I'll take LA to Atlanta any day of the week, even though I'm in a much nicer burb than near anything realistic in city limits. I only take my guns to the bathroom because I enjoy polishing that bling. lol jk.
 
Definitely possible. If they do ultimately do that, I'll let the order go and order from Amazon or more likely a local vendor (which I'll probably be hitting up this weekend anyway).
 
All this discussion goes to show that everyone has different needs from their mobile devices. I, in fact, tend to line myself with THETRUTH#34 in most of my preferences. I also use all features that sr1329 does but I don't care much about how many key presses it takes me to access my emails or my appointments. So as long as the information is there and I can get to it somehow, I'm ok with it.

Now the multimedia aspect is extremely important to me. I'm a family man and I have a 4 year old daughter and it's very practical to be able to take a picture (or shoot a video) of whatever she's doing at any moment I want. I concede it's not gonna be equivalent even to the cheapest point&shoot, but it's good enough to keep forever. I also enjoy watching videos, some games and browsing the web (full web, not wap, puh-lease) on my phones.

I'm hoping the N97 will be good in those areas. If it does the same job the N95-4 does in a larger screen then I'll be happy. To me, anybody who says the N95-4 is slow (menu transitions and stuff like that) is way too anal or used to the kind of speed I've never seen in my life.

So my concerns with the N97 are:

- Lack of hardware 3D acceleration. I've seen a couple of videos comparing some game on a N95 and a N96. The N96 was horrible!

- Free RAM. I like to have multiple applications open at the same time and if this thing starts having memory problems I'll be annoyed.

Even with these concerns I jumped on the $454 deal. But if Nokia goes ahead and in 3~4 months launches an upgraded version of the N97 with bigger RAM or H/W 3D acceleration I will definitely throw away my membership card and never buy one of their phones again. I will be then convinced that this is all a plot to sell the same phone twice, those mofos.
 
@ming387

Nice try at deflection but i didn't say anything about sales growth i was talking about their rise in Market share the true indicator of how well they are doing. I mean if i started a company tomorrow and sold 1 unit and then waited till next year to sell 4 it would mean a 300% increase in sales but it wouldn't increase my market now share would it? It doesn't matter that Nokia is the biggest the fact is of late there market share is only going in one direction and that's down they are losing it to thier rivals and as i said as the competition continues to improve i can't see anything from Nokia to combat them losing more and more market share. But lets wait and see what the next set of figures reveal shall we.

As for this

"In fact Ovi was create more of people in 3rd world countries"

You have to be joking right i mean you really can't be serious you really think people in 3rd world countries who tend to buy low end handsets to make calls and text on are going to spend $3-5 on a ring tone Wallpaper or a Game that's even more expensive LMAO at this suggestion one of the funniest I've read all year. As for OVI is a real monster i think you find it's more like bad dream actually.

@Blaxx

These are your words

"or are so mired in their Enterprise roots that they have to trick people into thinking that they are making devices that aren't business tools (RIM)"

This is what you said and your wrong they now handle listening to Muisc and playing videos as well if not better than most devices maybe not every model but all the newer ones do. In the same way there are now loads of apps for them as well and not all just for Business either and that's what they are advertising as this for them is a relatively new ability. They are still quite weak for taking pictures and recording video but not everyone is obsessed with these features. As for tricking people why or how does that work they actually do what they are advertising no tricking involved. Unlike Nokia who claim the N97's the most powerful mobile computer or whatever wording they use a big claim that the device just can't live up to and that's not tricking people it's straight forward lies.

I'll say your talking garbage when you are and with out the need to to
tell you to quote your words "and eat a ****." i suppose i should really cut you some slack now that i realise you are just 24. Just so you know I've been involved in the Mobile phones Business longer than you've been alive as i am just over double your current age. So I've most probably forgotten more than you seem to think you know.

Once more I'll point out this very simple fact for you because you still seem to have such a hard time grasping the fact YOU don't get to tell me or anyone else what i should do or can or can not post not now not ever and if you don't like it tough live with it.

As for this well sorry buy you don't get to decide this either

"Oh don't worry, I'm done. Marc insulted me, I insulted him back and we can squash it now"

I have to say if you think I've insulted you really must be very sensitive and i hate to think what will happen if i actually do decide to insult you as you won't be left in any doubt about. But that's not my way or how one should behave on a forum but again i suppose at your age you've still got so much to learn about manners and how to speak to people even if you disagree with them.

@rapidstar

I agree for video recording and taking pictures but for playback most definitely not although i can't compare it to a N96 as I've never had one. But i can to both a N95 and N95 8GB and the screen is definitely better on the Bold same goes for sound quality to. But that's your opinion and your entitled to it but this is mine and obviously it doesn't look like we will agree so will have to agree to disagree.

Marc
 
That's true, I meant to include things like media players for video playback (or just really super visualizations), flash-optimized web browsers, and all manner of applications as well. Nonetheless I will stick to S60v5 and see how it goes.. if not, I can always jump ship and say I had a great show (at the beginning at least).

I don't think we were really disagreeing in the first place, just some initial miscommunication. :p
 
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