*OFFICIAL THREAD: Nokia N97

This coming from another person who hasn't used an S60 device before. I agree with your points, but what you're asking for can be done on numerous other devices already. The things that make S60 unique and desirable are heavily weighted with the burdens of development neglect over the years throughout the entire course of its growth. Use their devices for a couple years and you'll see exactly what I'm talking about.
 
It was corny but it made me smile so I don't mind it. I mean they could do boring walkthrough videos until their noses bleed but it's nice to see them have some fun.
 
Skyfire browser doesn't act like that at all.

Crappy hardware - I don't think we have actually researched enough yet to decide if that is totally true or not. Everyone seems to keep forgetting that it has DDR ram. It could have DDR3 ram which would make it 8x 128mb under heavy load (If I'm reading/understanding the definition of DDR ram right).

We still haven't determined exactly the nature of the cpu/core we just know that they say 4thirty something

For some reason we keep forgetting that these MX**** freescale boards always have a separate but probably generic or not noteworthy

"Integrated Imaging Processing Unit (IPU) video accelerator"

http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/prod_summary.jsp?code=MXC300-30&nodeId=01m6cyDbFf
 
I'm done speculating on the shipment date..it comes when it comes. My 95-1 is such a trusty device that July..August is ok with me. Eventually it will arrive and it will be cool
 
i swear i was JUST thinking the same thing about my 5800. something about its candy bar form factor, call quality, etc. for some reason its a keeper. and high screen res! that's all i've really wanted.

in fact i bet all 5800 wanted was a nokia with a decent screen.
 
i know a lo of hofo-ers were not impressed with nokia making the n97 their key release of 2009 as many were hoping for a new outstanding e series phone like an e90 upgrade, but if the final release is as quick as the video and the proto that gwapz has confirmed, once the build quality is good enough and email is adequate, i see some e-series users coming over to n series for this one, i will be for sure.......

its just those 2 q'ns i have for gwapz, with relating to how big it feels, and the build quality so far in comparison with the e71 and e90
cheers
 
There's no frigging way I'd pay a large one for a resistive screen and LED flash. Hell, I won't even pay the $700.00 Nokia wants. Good luck to anyone who's got that kind of dough to drop. I'll just wait for a used one at half price in few months.
 
Here's more: "The call and terminate buttons are touch sensitive, which adds an elegant sleekness to the phone but can be murder to hit accurately half the time, even with haptics turned up to full blast. The menu button is thankfully raised, but you always have to look to see where your fingers are when using the green and red buttons, again adding time to the calling process."

What are we getting into? I've thrown away $500 on many things-bad investments, etc..but this sounds very unsettling
 
Very true, and if that's the opinion around here, you can bet it's much more price-sensitive for the general public. The problem is 90% of the public, in the US at least, still wants a free phone when they renew their 2-year wireless contract. And apart from the iPhone, the new phones available with contract from the carriers just aren't all that great - or the best ones are limited to a certain carrier, requiring a pain-in-the-a$$ carrier switch.

If the N97 is great, I will pay $700 for it, but I really would like some knowledge of whether it's the best that Nokia is going to release for the year, or if there will be something better. But at least if I buy an unlocked expensive phone off-contract, it does have some resale value.
 
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