*OFFICIAL THREAD: Nokia N97

The layout of the black/orange is what the NAM has now. Just replace the orange with blue and that's the production NAM in both colors.
 
During browsing with the native browser, I found a visual cue that the lower right zoom icon (a cross in a cricle) would be greyed out if phone registers your touch input on the screen to go to another web page and it starts loading. That is the only way so far I know that the phone is doing something while loading a page during browsing. I found the oveall touch experience on the 5800 is much better if I use a stylus.
 
I don't know that it's because the "tech" isn't ready. Nokia just chose to use a less expensive resistive screen. The resistive screen is fine as long as the UI is designed to be finger friendly. I have no issues what-so-ever with my N810 on the aspects of the UI that are designed to be finger friendly. The issue that plagues the N810 and the 5800 seems to be that the device comes with a stylus and the UI seems to be finger friendly in some areas and then suddenly require a stylus in other areas. Since the stylus is delivered with the device this seems to be an acceptable solution (though it annoys me at times when I can do most of what I need on the N810 and then suddenly I need to pull the stylus to click an Internet link in the browser). With the N97 not shipping with a stylus my hope is that the UI is TOTALLY designed to be finger friendly and this will greatly improve the user experience.
 
Yeah Maan! Sweet as Suga-cain!



IDou is OMAP 3430 but it doesn't support 720p for video recording; just cause its capable doesn't mean the design or engineering team has to choose it in the final product, we'll see though. Omnia is pushing the 36xx chipset I think but at AAC mono for audio by default - HD video recording is NOT worth it.
 
I really hope Nokia is putting a decent amount of cash into the bank accounts of certain individuals in this thread because the amount of pro-Nokia posts is pretty sickening.

After all, I am sure we are fools for wanting current generation specifications in a near $800 smartphone.
 
for the smell of it, i was just looking at n85 prices cause it was going for 224 dollars the other day on dell, which is a GREAT deal if you think about it. anyway it just hit me that once this n97 is released, it quite literally instantly outdates every Nseries phone nokia has made previously. the small QVGA screens are just crap from this point forward. this includs future Nseries that will still have QVGA. it just is insane that nokia have NOT had higher than qvga for this long, 2009! so there's no way i could get an n85 or anything smaller than 640x360 anymore. still cant believe it took nokit till the middle of 2009 to get here.
 
I think the hardware is good. The screen is nice, the keyboard though you wouldn't know it from all the girly men ;) , the firmware is in serious need of updates.

That's not as bad as it sounds really. All the bugs I have with it are easily fixable through OTA firmware upgrades. The worst/annoying bugs I've found so fat:

1. WTF doesn't the back light come on when I open/unlock the phone. Really Nokia, how could QA/shipping/sales/engineering release it with that???

2. Nokia Podcasting will refuse (crash on start) if it's shutdown due to low mem. It takes a few times to occur. *#7370# is the current solution.

3. Mfe can get deleted and you have no way to reinstall it.

4. Web browser while faster and improved consumes crazy amounts of ram and kills itself. Try opening http://slashdot.org/ in the built in browser. Wtf?

4a. Please Web browser, you made tranparent scroll bars now stop popping the menus in/out of existence. If you want to show status why can't you do it the same way.

5. Widgets and net access, wtf?

Off the top of my head that's it. I think stability wise it's worse than the N78 when it came out.

Voice calls are great, especially when dealing with IVR. The prox sensor detects when you take the phone away from your ear and powers the display. Great! Now why can't you take little touches like that and apply it to the rest of the system?

I like the phone though. When the web browser is running well it's wow, a fantastic device.
 
On the E71, it's left of the enter key but it's a row higher on the N97. And when you press Shift and the period key, it's a comma you'll get, apostrophe is mapped to the function key (in blue)
 
+1.

although i'll add that it wasn't until the demand paging update for NAM that things really came together.

i think in this respect, maybe i've gone from a Nokia fan boy to an N95-3 fan.

the environment in which the OmniaHD and N97 (and Palm Pre and iPhone 3GS) are being released is much more competitive than what it was two or three years ago. the N95 was a watershed in the industry and punctuated N-Series as a force to be reckoned with. it's not so much "problems" (although it remains to be seen just how many there are with the N97, or if fears around CPU, etc are warranted), but MUCH higher expectations now.

Jonny, your point about the camera is well noted with me. it "bugs" me, you know? 5MP camera was ridiculously massive two years ago. today: Carl Zeiss, yes, great. but really, 8MP, 12MP are coming on-line. time to get in the game at least with updating the software.

qwerty keyboard, touch screen? not exactly revolutionary either now. when low-end messaging phones like the crappy LG Neon brags about qwerty, big whoop. and the iPhone remains the standard by which all TS are judged. getting a bit disturbing to read "not as" whenever the N97 touch is compared to Apple's baby or those Android phones.

and let's not forget that while N95-3 was rocking the joint, cracks started to show in N-series.

N95-8GB: fatter storage at the time, bigger screen, but then why remove SD? not really a huge reason to upgrade from -3.

N96: video king, bigger screen, but laggy, and we lose the 3D chip. again, not a huge reason to upgrade from -3. unless you like the kickstand, lol.

N85: light-weight updates to form factor. again no real reason to upgrade.


N97 has yet to be released, reviews could be biased, etc. etc. i totally get that. but really, after all this time, after all the competition, is the N97 (as currently spec'd) the best that Nokia could come up with?
 
Back to the N97 for a second. I asked this earlier but I don't think I got a response. Someone mentioned that you can pull up a virtual T9 while in portrait mode. Is there any confirmation on this ? Can you do this in the emulator, because I wasn't able to find it.

Thanks.
 
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