*OFFICIAL THREAD: Nokia N97

Why not? PDA's from the PPC days usually had glass or hard plastic without a membrane and was able to have resistance on contact. If you're thinking resistance as in providing vibration feedback directly from the glass as apposed to the built-in silent vibrator; I'm with you on the confusion.
 
Snapshots are just that....... one rarely if ever needs a 5MP 3x5 print.

I understand the cropping but even the 5MP Nokia quality pales in comparison to the 3MP setting on the Canon. A good crop can be cut from a good 3MP file IF one is not looking to print an 8X10. Most photos nowadays are not even printed and viewed instead on LCD screens.

I don't expect much from any camera phone...and those expectations are usually met..LOL The reason I prefer a 5MP on a camera phone is it can take decent 3 MP shots!! LOL Better than a 3.2 only.
 
I am wondering why Nokia seems always seek FCC approvals for the non-NAM versions that will have a NAM version. Why don't Nokia just skip the FCC process for the non-NAM versions and save some $? Maybe there will always some suckers who want the non-NAM versions that are always available before the NAM versions :mad:
 
It is precisely the point. My point, anyway. The features I'm most interested is a combo of big touchscreen, QWERTY keyboard, AT&T 3G, >16GB of storage, removable SD, wifi, and a 5mp + camera with a flash. Along with a few others, but those are the biggies. That combo is unique, so far, in N97. Some come close, sacrificing other(s), sometimes many others.

Will the Omnia take better pictures? Maybe, maybe not (remains to be seen... they'll certainly be bigger). Market leader in North America will undoubtedly remain iPhone which fails on more of them than any other. What is it going to do better than either? Customer desires are about the last thing that will matter in who wins the popularity contest when you get popular trends and a big marketing machine involved, along with a little turd polish on otherwise unacceptable negative bullets that most people will be obvlious too and continue to heap misplaced praise on supposed innovations.

I don't particularly care what other customers want. I'm interested in me, first, when preparing to plunk down my ducats. ;) Maybe I'm unique in those needs, but provided I can get it in my grips with as few bugs as possible, ultimate popularity of the phone doesn't matter to me if it does what I want it to. S60 is almost irrelevent to that. I am liking the move to open source and the non-restricted nature that apps will have, but it remains to be seen how well that will pan out. Ovi Store won't be the only place I'll have to look. If there are no apps at all, that primary feature list remains the most important, secondary only to call quality.
 
I agree with everything you just said. My only counterpoints are that the 3D acceleration goes beyond just gaming and that's why it's important to include it. The other is that since the iPhone also utilizes hardware acceleration, I would only hope that a developer would attempt to access similar device capabilities if he were to bring his/her app to S60. In this way, we can hope that Samsung would bring Nokia to make better decisions in the future for what hardware they use when enough people complain that x-application performs noticeably better on the i8910 than on the N97. Then perhaps they could earn back my business.

But I have very little faith for S60 at all at this point, unfortunately. I love it because I've used it for so long. I don't think Nokia's going to produce the love-at-first-sight OS like Apple has in time for them to recover their market share. I would like to see it happen, but I don't think it will. :(
 
Wanna hear something funny sr1239, not sure if it happens with you, but my wife and i just had our first child and i have had plenty guest over my house, my nephew has the iphone 3g, my sister in law the the 2g my niece has the g1 and my brother in law has the fuze, and do you know what phone they flock to the most my n85, why because after the few ooohs and ahhs about the touch screen and nonsense applications, when it comes down to real power or capabilities in the real world they are wowed. They werent concerned it takes them 2 seconds and me 2 and half, they were more im pressed about what i was able to do ie: good pictures, great slide show, great web browsing good loud speakers when playing back youtube or videos, i mean the n85 dont have the best speakers and they blow away the iphones. I have never had anyone that seen my phone or what it can do not be impressed and it fits my needs fine, as nice as the iphone touch screen is it just dont do it for me at all.
The reason im saying this is because, yes there are many things other phones just might do better or smoother, but it is the same on both ends we cant always knock without giving some praise as to where they excel, the iphone has tons of apps but it would take me lolnger to find 10000 apps then it would for me to browse google and find the weather, flight info ect... then it would for me to flick thru all the apps, plus for my needs i use maybe 10 daily if that. :buddies:

P.S. tell me what has 3.0 added anyway besides the very basics that were missing, we still havent heard any hardware specs yet have we.
 
Jeez, people are already skeptical about N97 when it's not even out yet. Nobody has given a review of retail unit and nobody has tested any feature of final N97. It's just rash judgment. Allow the device to show what's it's capable of!

In the videos it's pre production model and in videos and pictures, cell phone looks A LOT bigger, trust me! Software is unstable, too much finger work required, phone is big, blah blah. Check the dimensions, phone is relatively small, bottom line the phone is not even out yet and already 363 pages of thread and many other forums, means phone has already gotten potential buyers. I think people who cannot afford the phones are all over internet, writing all sorts of crap and even claiming that they used the phone for 1 week before it's even out. It's not only N97, it's pretty much with every phone.
 
That's because they knock off a decent amount from the price if you go in person LOL.

I'm kinda peeved tonight because a friend of mine saw the phone, asked me a bunch of questions about it, asked me to pre-order it for her, then changed her mind like 2 hrs later.

Good thing it's not on my credit card. Just for her stupidity and the inconvenience, I'm not telling her how to cancel her order either. :hehehe:
 
It's not the layout for me as much as it's the feedback and tactile response. I will definitely have to give it a chance to get used to it bu the KB on the N810 I have is irritating and from Jonny's comparison that is what it seems to be most similar to. It's amazing to me that the keyboards from the E71, N97 and N810 all came from the same company.
 
Different strokes for different folks. I prefer the spongey feel of the keys on the E71 as opposed to a keyboard with less "give" to the keys when you press them (unless they have a really nice "click" w/ clicking noise)

Where do you live that it's $1K+ BTW?
 
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