*OFFICIAL THREAD: Nokia N97

It went up probably within 12 hrs ago, I stalk that site everyday. I also talk to a service rep about pre-ordering it directly at the Flagship Store to save shipping and they say the store don't do that.

Also, when asked about the expect arrival date it's "usually 3-4 weeks from now."

You should pre-order, they won't charge your credit card until it's shipped and shipping is only $10 3-day or $15 express overnight.

I think the folks that had bad experience with the pre-order from Nokia are folks that are on the end of the pre-order list. Nokia pre-orders have a priority list, the guys that ordered 1st gets it 1st.

Oh they're also give special previlieges to folks that pre-ordered:

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At the time it was too expensive to be brought into a full production run; and possibly hungry on battery though I'm not sure. I don't care that the Palm Pre uses it ... also recall last year with Qualcomm, Nokia, and Broadcom in a patent warfare dispute T.I. could charge whatever they wanted until Freescale had a viable applications cpu without the video acceleration chipset. Considering Pre will be using it as an applications cpu mostly with video playback and the DSP for audio ... makes you kinda wonder just how task heavy those WebOS thread calls are ??!!
 
ok, i'll probably install everything on the mass memory aswell.

i took a look at my friend's n95 and was playing around with it and noticed that there was 4 different drives/ partitions and he said it came like tat. wut's the use of having so many..
 
So the pre-order is a go, then?

Weird thing I noticed, it probably means the same thing, but...

On the confirmation page, it said the N97 is on pre-order, but on the confirmation e-mail and when I check the status on nokiausa.com, it says "backordered."

BTW, the $454 that someone else got, that doesn't include tax and shipping, right? 'cuz mine came up to $508 with tax and the overnight shipping option.
 
I recognize that for those who need it, there is utility in it. However, I find that we are talking about such a small segment of the population who would find utility in it on very rare occurences.

I mean seriously, how often is you boss asking to look at your phone ? Or how often are you letting strangers play with your phone, so much that you don't want to see that "Cathy sent poked you back" ?

You are right in the sense that shouldn't be mutually exclusive, but sadly they are. It would have been great if they allowed swipe left for a privacy screen and swipe right for a secondary screen. It would have been great it, if there was some option on the privacy screen to add widgets for those that wanted to, but everything they've said has to been to the contrary.

As for your second point ....



..... Half the widgets I am talking about, are for static content and aren't doing any polling (e-mail, calendar, shortcuts, tasks).

Secondly, for a lot of these widgets, it isn't like they are going to be polling at 1 minute intervals. Do you really need to poll weather more than every hour ? What about news ? Every 15 minutes IMO. I can see facebook and the Bloomberg widget requiring really frequent polling.

However, this is being labeled as the ultimate internet device - they should have taken battery life into account. I mean HTC devices don't seem to suffer from checking the weather, checking stocks, PUSH updating your favourite webpages, running an exchange account, having MSN messenger on all day, and having several imap/pop inboxes checked at intervals (this is from my personal experience).

I mean, come on this is supposed to be "the ultimate internet device" not the "ultimate internet device BUT you can only have 1 or 2 dynamic widgets because we didn't think this through or we are concerned about battery life while our competitors have figured it out."

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And just because I've been harsh on this device A LOT today, I'll add something I happened to like while playing with the emulator.

The native mail client now allows you to collapse/expand your e-mails by day/week/etc. This is a good step.
 
I know, dude, we talked about it before ;). But is my assessment correct? Other than the underdeveloped software, those three items will ultimately cripple this device forever?
 
I appreciate your concern for this topic not being derailed from its original subject material, but rest assured each matter of S60 that I detail does concern the N97's future (which I believe is as essential to the unit as the first impression it establishes and the very hardware itself).
 
I understand your point and agree with you, but my example fits perfectly.

I don't know if there will be an improved N97 or a future N98-N99 but I'm sure that whatever comes later will have 256 RAM or more, Cortex A8 or A9 and very likely capacitive screen, but I don't want to wait 1 year (or more) using my N82 until that day comes and currently I don't like the other options cause for some reasons I don't like Samsung OmniaHD and although I like my iPhone 3G I still can't use it exclusively, there's always something missing with it.

It's a matter of getting what fits you best and not simply getting a phone because was launched or it's the next flagship.
 
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