*OFFICIAL THREAD: Nokia N97

See my previous post regarding the specs/price argument.

Uhh, just do a YouTube search for "i8910" and call me next week when you get done watching all of them. I'd venture to bet there's actually more user reviews out than the N97, though I could be wrong.
 
This N97 caused a scene in McDonalds just now. Bunch of young kids (probably 16 or 17) saw me pull it out while I was waiting for my order and proceeded to ask me 34387974 questions about it. LOL. I tried to be polite while getting the hell outta there ASAP. I told em to sign up for HowardForums to get more info tho. Sorry if we get a n00b flood tomorrow.
 
Uncharted 2 and The Last Guardian are making me consider selling my xbox 360 for a ps3...along with the new castlevania. this is OT though :p

I agree there's a LOT coming out this summer alone.
 
Sorry, I don't think that most Asian characters can be drawn with a fingertip on such a small surface. I guess we will just have to see. It doesn't seem to have been that successful on the iPhone yet. Try writing your name with a pen, then doing the same with your finger, and see if you can make them both legible.
 
So how are people generally liking it so far? There's been some negative talk, but after a few days, just trying to get people's feeling as to if they think this is a good update from Nokia.
 
It's been done to death. Search the thread.

Hoping the phone ships soon, but skeptical. If it were shipping tomorrow, you'd think there would have been SOME sort of leak about it.
 
Ok, I agree, but what of the remaining 10%? lol. I mean, once again, going back to the 2k-6k$ Vertu phones, it is certainly not everybody that is buying those phone, yet, they still manage to stay very well alive with the very few customers they have. And you said it yourself, we never know if their new phone will be their best phone, cuz corporations only have profit in mind, and not innovation. Like another thing that pisses me off, the fact that they always reuse the same hardware until they have COMPLETLY drained it before actually switching to a new CPU...

I have a question for you, if you knew that the N97 would be the BEST phone Nokia has to offer until 2010-2011 (so we're talking about being set for at least 2 years), would you be ready to drop 1000$ for it? And don't be thinking I'm rich, lol, but for a near-perfect phone (cuz perfection doesn't exist, lol), i'd be more than happy to spend 1k$ for peace of mind and satisfaction. And also, it is a unlocked, so you can always be able to resale afterwards (when we'll start hearing about N100s)
 
OK, I'm going to respond to your points out of order, so as to avoid typing an essay:

History - I am able to tap the pages. I went to Papa Johns website, click the security thing twice (their fault not Nokia's), click Online Specials. Put in my zip. There are no Papa Johns in my area, which doesn't make me sad because I don't like it. :) Then I click Back and select the previous page, it takes me there (it happens to be the same Search page, since it dumped me there when it coudln't find any stores). Click Back again, answer the security question 3 more times,, and it shows me. This only proves that PJ's website (like their pizza) sucks.

Zooming, width, etc - I am vision impaired so my fonts are cranked. This also affects height of the text areas, such that selecting them is easier. I do scroll side to side, because I can empathize with web authors trying to make their damn page work with every device out there. FWIW I have never had trouble dragging that Zoom around. I don't think it's supposed to automatically fit the 'text column' because guess what? The web is no longer text-only anymore. It's better to preserve the layout of the page than to fit to the text column. Maybe you would be happier disabling images, I don't know.

Lag closing apps -- It's a little laggy (takes maybe 1 second to close the web). Not too big a deal really, there are a lot of seconds in the day. I don't usually bother closing the web, just background it with the red key.
 
The keyboard is a rubber or plastic pad exterior covering over the phone's circuit board. I remember seeing the Nokia factory production video showing the assembly worker taking out what looked like a flexible rubber keypad and slapping in on to the N97. If you look at the video you will see what I mean. Maybe the contacts between the rubber pad and the circuit board are not touching properly causing the keyboard to not be that responsive. Can anybody else chime in on this?
 
Not to be a troll, but I don't see how people could be excited about this phone if you dont plan on using it for web browsing on the go.

It seems like its all about that. I know you could use wifi, but Im not willing to drop that amount of cash on a phone like this if I couldnt make use of the Cheap 10.00 a month 3g data on a family plan for At&t.

I know everyone has their own uses, and it looks splendid, but is there talk of a US 3g model?
 
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