*OFFICIAL THREAD: Nokia N97

Where's GSM Arena's review of N97?

You can also measure that the other way. Do you know what proportional means? .2 inches from 2.6 to 2.8 is a bigger percentage than 3.5 to 3.7. Fact. Is one more significant than the other? Opinion.
 
Not a bad review. Price/value is a loser argument in this price category, especially without a carrier agreement anyway. New preauth from Brightpoint. Hopefully I'll get it tomorrow!
 
Yeah I just enabled it for a minute to see what terre08 was talking about but I disabled again, there are some users that abuses with their signature space (like in this situation).
 
Now that I'm back to primarily QWERTY, I haven't even thought about one day going back to T9. I don't even look at T9 phones. Yikes! I hope they keep making QWERTY phones LOL
 
While agree with you, just remember cynicism is still routed in hope - if at all little ;) . Anyone know the site address for the developers site for nokia phones?
 
Question to those who tested the phone, how loud is the ringer and speaker phone? My Sony Ericcson Xperia X1 had an aweful speaker/ringer. When in your pocket, it can hardly be heard. Just wondering if the n97 had any flaws in this catagory. I doubt it since its a Nokia and I never had one but just wanted to be sure.
 
Has Nokia concretely said that tne N97 will get a SF OS update? If not, I think you're the one who's going to be crawling away. Updates that add functionality are just not Nokia's thing... they'd much rather you buy a N97-2.
 
We're coming from two completely different directions, Roger. I went from my 4th N95 to the 5800XM and sold it months ago to avoid losing too much money on it. I've had 10 different Nokia's with 5mp cameras come through my household, so to use the 5800XM was nothing but a huge compromise, and not just because of the camera. The way I used my phones, it was all too easy for me to get it to lag and crash apps with my normal usage. Given that there's only a minor increase in CPU speed and less RAM available, I just don't think that's going to cut it.

I've been waiting for Nokia to finally put a good camera on a touch screen device, but now that I've seen what's available, I want more than what they've done so far. I want to buy my next device and be done for several years, and that CPU and RAM is already dated compared to everything else I could buy.

For these reasons, I still lean much heavily towards the i8910. They threw in enough RAM to keep up with my usage and a processor that can handle it all very quickly, they threw in a better camera than the same 10 5mp sensors I've been using for 2 years, they slapped the most largest, most gorgeous screen on it, and 1900 UMTS is just as adequate as having both bands in my area. I'm not happy about the difficulty in using Nokia's apps and services, I'm not thrilled about the audio problem when recording video, and I'm certainly hesitant about using an all-touch device again, but those cons are seriously outweighed by the pros. And given the scale of device I'm looking for now based on where the market is going, the N97 just doesn't add up for a device I'll be able to keep for several years. If I was still swapping out phones every couple months when times were good, I'd be just as excited as the rest of you, but I don't have $700 to throw around and take a loss in trading it up if it disappoints.

Edit: And that's all assuming I decide to buy anything this year at all. I might just grab myself another N95 and hold tight til next season. The i8910 has already received 3 or 4 firmware updates and I think part of me is waiting for the audio problem to be fixed in another update before I buy it. If it never comes, I may never buy it.
 
Well if you're gonna go there, it's worth mentioning that the N97 is the only S60 device that supports that particular Facebook app (which by the looks of it, ***** all over all of the other Facebook apps)
 
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