*OFFICIAL THREAD: Nokia N97

LOL...think I'm going to get the 8900 on Contract to hold me over. Only reason I was thinking about the E75 was for the better camera and new email messaging system. I still need to see a pic of the email system in the N97 and if it will be the same as the E-series.
 
Do you really believe that the new 5800 which might be released in the fall of 2009 will be comparable/better than the N97? If so, then in what ways would it be better than the N97? I would think that the lower end updated 5800 would lack a lot of things that the N97 will have. What do you think?
 
Me too! I was hoping Nokia would release the fabled E90 NAM, but now I think this N97 is even better than that would have been. I'd love a NAM, but this version of the N97 just announced is kinda 1/2 NAM, and unless they also announce a true NAM N97 that promises to ship within 2 or 3 weeks of this one, I'm just getting the first one available.
 
Why are we entertaining this notion? Anyone with sense would realize it can't be done otherwise it would have been done already. I was going to say something about his comment "that doesn't matter to a country that has 1.2 billion people and is making copy phones and hacking the s**t out of everything they can get their hands on and mass manufacturing everything from keychains to computers".

Because y'know. Every single person in China is working on some kind of counterfeit device right at this moment and if you give any random Chinese person a phone, they'll be able to upgrade the RAM, CPU, add a touchscreen and make it shoot ****in lasers.
 
I played with one for about 10 minutes at Nokia flagship on friday, I must say the screen is gorgeous and huge. The homescreen widgets look pretty good, I tried the Facebook app and that was well integrated with the phone features. The qwerty is very comfortable and the keys have nice travel. The only issue I have is that it is a little thick. If it were just a little slimmer it would be a massive win, as it is its a very desirable S60 device.
 
Using mtp/pc suite mode on my E75, I just right clicked the playlist and selected send to->MTP device.

Only the songs that didn't need conversion showed up in my playlist on the phone, though..
 
this phone is absolutely rediculous
i have a final tomorrow but i stayed up half the night waiting for the release and then reading every thing i could on it.

i will definitely be an early buyer of this phone. if att jumped on this they would have an amazing seller.
 
Just watched that 7 min video on symbian-guru. Nice video, a lot of marketing hype but still interesting.

Tilt hinges are the new dual sliders. I'm calling it right now. :buddies:
 
Sorry, I didn't mean that capacitive simply won't work but I remember reading something about WinMo 6.5 saying it doesn't support capacitive screens. I guess that's the official stance of Microsoft but don't tell the hackers that they can't do something huh?
 
Not entirely true. The benefit of Symbian Foundation will be that licensing will be SO much cheaper. The only factor for adding support for different firmware will be the willingness of the company to dedicate software resources to the project. It will be hard for a company to do this if they have other projects that need to be supported and new products that need to be developed. That said, if other companies are offering upgrades as part of their support then Nokia would have to follow suit to stay competitive.

Apple has a limited set of hardware to develop for so they've really made this much easier from the beginning by only offering one mobile platform at a time AND making them very similar, iPhone 3.0 not withstanding as the hardware hasn't been determined yet.

But really, does everyone here expect a device to be supported indefinitely? The N95 is two years old and I STILL hear (read) people complaining that they aren't getting firmware support and no new features. The box came with a certain set of features and software abilities. Anything that they add while performing software updates is gravy given the cost of software talent and the cost of the development process. Porting a whole new FP is above and beyond Nokia's requirements.
 
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