*OFFICIAL THREAD: Nokia N97

Much agreed.

I was excited for the N97 initially, but I am wondering if the touch will be enough for me to leave the ESeries. I still think the E90 is the best phone out the there, but it is bested by the E71 by size and NAM 3G compaitbility.

What bothers me about any touch interface besides the iPhone is that none of them seem to be made for efficient navigation. Whether it's the Treo 750, Touch Pro, Blackberry Storm or Nokia 5800 XpressMusic there appears to only be a touch overlay on top of an OS that may not be meant for touch at all.

Another concern now for the touch interface of S60 are the reviews of the 5800 that speak of the inconsistencies of the touch commands in regards to single and double tap commands.
 
Blaxx loves this phone & so let's not beat him up on why he does ;)

Take a look a the top contributers of this thread.. I have a feeling that all of these folks will buy this phone :D

Blaxx 348
jontymisra 152
sr1329 136
IsaacDFP 111
Gorgonesh 91
 
You mean, up to 64gb of memory! Nokia and people worldwide seem to forgot SanDisk is coming soon with its MicroSD 32 GB! (And what is another 100$ when you just spent 1000$...)
 
I'm not sure if it was alrady told (and a thread search returned nothing) but you can try N97 in Nokia Remote Device if you reserve and have patience, and they even have the latest firmware installed.

Here is the link http://apu.ndhub.net/ and you only need to be registered in Nokia Forum.
 
I pretty much use it as primary because the E66 needs a reformat and that's like a 3 hour deal (format, settings, themes, reinstall applications etc.). It isn't worth that ordeal to use the E66 again. This OS 3.0 is pretty decent.

So you think we'll get an unlock solution soon? That would be nice.

I don't know if beta 5 is jailbreakable yet so I am running it stock. I did jailbreak beta 2 though.
 
Click the desired user name, select 'View Public Profile', on the right hand side below the offenders avatar, you can select "Add XYZ to Your Ignore List".

TADA.
 
Based on the SDK it seems like contact search is similar to the 5800. You press contacts and as you touch the search bar it will bring up letters for the contacts you have in the phone. As you type it removes the letters that don't match any contacts. It should be quite quick though the E71 still beats it from a time perspective.

Typing on the open keyboard does nothing. However if you hit a number key it will open the dialer automatically and enter the numbers into the dialer. I'm not sure how the SDK compares to the latest code on the device.
 
The power of supply & demand. Cbreze, excellently stated and well executed!

Bravo! More of us should have the same mindset. Nokia with the E71 scored a true universal winner in a quality device that continues to shine in its performance and intended use. E55 coming on board soon enough with the E75, N86, and N97 its possible Nokia may be on a winning streak. But we MUST purchase any new devices the first 1-2mths of its shipping debut else the price stays in the clouds.
 
I think that from 2.6" to 2.8" you gain ~7.6% in size but from 3.5" to 3.7" you gain ~5.7% so as you increase screen size the same 0.2" will mean less noticeable difference.
 
I think apple is starting to face the similar problems that nokia is having...

They can't make too much of a change to the new iphone 3gs because then all the folks that have the iphone 3g or original iphone will be left behind.

So apple is doing incremental changes to the hardware to slowly phase out the older iphones.

Still going to get the N97, apple's conference did not change my mind on the N97.

Still thinking about the i8910 - that one is the beast of all phones in hardware.
 
We don't know if this is a design flaw or a build quality issue. Obviously as people said the keyboard was good on prototypes it may be pointing to the latter.
 
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