*OFFICIAL THREAD: Nokia N97

If I was using Gmail I'd never complain, but the issue is, everyone BUT Nokia is supporting exchange. It's unacceptable in 2009.

I'm 100% sure the client on the E72 will be phenomenal with exchange support (E75 was), but the small screen ruined it. Only if someone can find a way to port the E-series email client on to N-series and life would be swell.
 
of course.. Because were freelance beta testers for Nokia.. :D

Seriously.. This is unacceptable.. On the N96 when your RAM reach 5MB left it won't even let you open an application. It will ask you to close some programs.
 
Yeah, start getting a feel for out of memory errors now. ;) I have to keep in mind this is an early SDK though so I take it in stride.

I indifferent about the addition of the option to choose net/org/com at the end of a web address because it only shows up when you type a ".". It would be nice to have the option to add .net/.org/.com while typing the URL. It seems that by then I might as well type the rest out.

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Still fun to play with even if it can be a little sluggish and crude. Would love to compare the browser functions on the N97 with the 5800XM.
 
Noooooooooooo! Let's keep it quiet! Do you wanna see another 1000 posts asking "Is it June yet?"

I wonder if a mod could delete the last couple of pages so he won't see it.
 
I was wondering what the hell happened to you! LOL. That's fantastic man. Congratulations! Now you can start asking your wife "Is it February yet?"

As for your questions, the steps that oddsocks gave you to copy the numbers from the SIM card won't work because that's the S60 3rd Edition way, it's weird on the N97 and there are so many unnecessary steps but here goes.

Contacts -> Options -> Settings -> Contacts to display -> Uncheck Phone memory, check SIM memory.

Now you should be back in your Contact list and see all your SIM contacts

Options -> Mark/Unmark -> Mark All -> Options -> Copy -> Phone memory

And you're done.

As for Windows Live Messenger, I downloaded the 5th Edition version but it doesn't connect when you try to sign in so I've just been using Slick IM and Nimbuzz
 
this phone is pure phone-love


* 3.5 screen, I thought 2.8 was big on the n96
* FULL web browswer rendering with its fast CPU
* upto 48 Gs of memory

one thing I wish was better was that this is going to be a
heavy and bulky phone:

here are its dims compared to the n96:
n97: n96
117.2 mm Length 103
55.3 mm Width 55
15.9 mm Height 18
150 gram 125
96:
 
N-Gage is on here with a new logo:
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The 3 buttons on the right side are shortcuts to games you download. I can't get it to load into any games so I have no idea how they show up on the phone but you can see the virtual softkeys:
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I'm guessing it fits it to the screen of the N97.

Also it automatically switches to landscape regardless of what orientation the phone was in, so you're required to use the d-pad and buttons.
 
Nokia is fighting a different battle than the one you want. They've said in quite a few youtube videos and to Eldar and to a couple others IIRC that they're specifically avoiding a hardware escalation and focusing on a services model. Maybe they're wrong... I'm only peripherally interested in benefitting from that effort, so it doesn't matter to me. Or Nokia will about face and introduce an N97 revision or N98 or something that reengages their competition on the hardware side once with suitably amplified specs when they've got the services nailed down (or they give up on it). I certainly don't expect them to stay with this hardware FOREVER. Is it good enough for me now with it's combo. You bet. I do doubt I am actually unique, though, thus the interest and traffic this thread sees.

I can appreciate iPhone for about one thing and that's popularizing it's form factor with the big screen (even if it lacked in other critical areas). If G1 and N97 can foster some similar focus on combined touch and QWERTY while hopefully someone wants to toss in a good camera, wifi, 3G, etc more power to them. Doesn't particularly matter to me what logo is on the front... or even the engine/OS under the hood provided it's succumbed to a minimal of corporate carrier interference.
 
About the color confusion, everybody is right and nobody's color blind...

The initial proto-types were brownish(looks almost black) & white.

The more recent proto-types are black and white.

The black and white colors should be the final version as nokia reps only speaks of the black and white ones now. Who know maybe they'll bring the brown one black later.

I've noticed Nokia have taken a lot of effort to refine the black version. The shading of the black color body and metal frame were impove and looked much better each time i seen it in person. So I think they will most likely release the black one first. There's also much wider audience who still likes their electronics black. The white one will most likely follow in a month or 2.

My hopes are to have both available during release so I can compare them side by side to see which color version is best..

I had a hard time deciding between the white and grey E71; both are so charming in their own.
 
Yeah I agree. As soon as I can get a decent price, I'm ready to order as well, I'm thinking of ordering it off of Nokia or Amazon just so I can play with the keyboard before first, then return it and wait for a good deal.
 
Inconsistency is from Apple desktop/laptop to the phone, not from iPhone app to iPhone app.





Yet lower rez. 3.5" 16:9 versus 3.5" 4:3. Which is your TV and which is your comp monitor. My only beef with N97 is that I wish they had done 16:10, instead. Screen size is fine for it's superior rez.



48 is much better than 32 and 64 will be much better than 32. Don't have any issues with partitions, but then I'm used to them from my macbook pro and windows machines. :shrug:



All the places I listed have no real signing issues, though if we go to more unmentionable sites, we can deal with the hacking/signing of s60 3rd apps.
My point was that Ovi isn't our only legit basket. You do have the app store to slice through the crap. And you also plenty of otheriwse legit apps for arbitrary reasons from Apple and/or their AT&T overlords.



If I'm not having any trouble, doubling that 0 would still leave me with 0 problems. :hehehe:



Yes, it's just fluff, since I usually folders for it them or grab the scroll bar (or use the dpad). I've always been more of a page up/page down guy than a scroller, though.



lol the giant majority of iPhone as not used as a business tool. Blackberry is chewing up Jobs' old liver on that account. It's a toy, where it shines. I work in an Internet company... as a tool, the N97 is far more effective in every way. If I'm out on call without my laptop handy, I can leave my putty shell open while I'm working on the web server, switch over to the browser and check the code... then I can also take a call or a picture and not have to deal with any of the lag associated with a "push" restart to any of those apps. Speedy or not, the iPhone has far more onerous lag associated with those tasks.

Unforunately neither phone supports openvpn yet. :(

I would just caution to not fall for Apple's marketing machine and mistake "efficiency" for a fancy transition graphic. :embaresse
 
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