*OFFICIAL THREAD: Nokia N97

Mobile Internet Device. There could be all kinds of reasons why they didn't use the OMAP3 processor in the N97, one reason might be they didn't want the new flagship device that the new farm is being built on to be the first device running a new chipset that they possibly don't have much experience with. Why is everyone so concerned with newer, more powerful devices than the N97 being announced and released? It was inevitable, Moore's Law people! The moment something is announced, it's outdated.

Besides, I can speak for a good majority of the people here, we don't keep our phones much longer than 6 months anyway LOL
 
I am struggling when to order the N97 thru Amazon, I kind of paid almost full price when I bought N95-3 and -4 as soon as they came out. It seems that Amazon drops the price about 6 months after launching a new product.

May be I should wait some to see if they are going to drop the price a little bit.
 
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you want that kind of a home screen?

Get yourself a Nokia Internet Tablet..
 
Just a few things I noticed in the French video that I've never seen before in a n97 hands on video:

- The UI for moving around icons in the menu view. I don't know if this functionality exists the same way in the 5800, but this is the first time I've seen it in action in a n97 video
- The accelerometer seems to work nicely. I haven't seen this as fine tuned as it is in this video. The animation ultimately turns the screen blank and then the new view appears. In previous videos I've seen, users had to open the keyboard in order to flip the orientation.
- Nice to see they've adapted the same calendar view as present in the e71 (and the new e-Series devices)
- The different input methods including touch T9/number-pad, hand-writing recognition
- Nokia Messaging on the n97. Again, I don't know if this is the same as the 5800.
- Camera looks good. I've never owned a n-series device. Only e-series, so this is impressive for me personally.
- Scrolling in menus seems to have improved compared to some older videos where many users were pretty much owned when trying to scroll on the device.
- The user struggled tremendously when trying to utilize the zoom bar in the Gallery. 5800 have the same function/problem?
- Demonstrated video capture on the phone. The UI is pretty decent for this function. A red light appears on the back of the camera when you're "recording" a video
- Kinetic scrolling seems to work well in the browser.
- The reviewer was unable to watch a Youtube video from the browser. No flash support.
- Music Player! I haven't seen this to date. Was nice seeing it. Reviewer tested out the speakers. Sounded good and loud.
- Saw a trailer for Star Trek on the device. Hard to tell how good the quality was.
- Played a guitar-hero like game. Wasn't sure if it was n-gage or not but the game looked kind of weak in comparison to games I've played on the iPhone.


Overall, this is an excellent video to watch for anyone seriously interested in buying this phone. It's long and a little DIY (I believe the reviewer is holding the camera he's recording with, lol). It is however the most in-depth video I have seen. Hoping some English ones will pop up this week =P.
 
If it's true, they just killed every other phone in their S60 line-up, including the N96, N95, N85, E90, E71 and the 5800 XpressMusic. And I guess Nseries and Eseries sales are gonna be pretty bad for the Holiday season.
(Just packing my E90 to send it back to amazon.com. Thanks God I'm still within the return period or I'd be a$$ mad)
 
Yes I have Garmin XT for the phone. The landscape view is still a little off but portrait works perfect. I used the same from the 5800. Search this thread for Garmin and you'll find some info on it.
 
Anyone who's watched that will how clearly a toy the 5800 is. This is S60v5 not what's on the 5800. This is real UI innovation, too bad it is coming out so damn late.
 
Do people crack/hack their symbian phones here?

I've been hacking every nokia phones since I started using s60; and I think that's best thing about symbian.

I installed n-gage, nokia email and other goodies on my 4-5 year old N92 by hacking the device.

I just can't wait to get my hands on the N97 and install Windows on it. People were able to install Window on the N95 but it was slow as hell. It'll be interesting to see how Windows/Linux run on the N97 with full qwertty and D-pad.
 
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