*OFFICIAL THREAD: Nokia N97

One end of the cable is a microusb connector, the other end is a full usb connector. This means it can be plugged into any usb port including those for wall chargers and cars.

I'm out for tonight its time to have some fun :) hope your phones ship tomorrow!
 
Yes my statements seem contradictory but let me explain.

I like a seemless service for synchronizing my phones Contacts, Calendar, Notes, and Tasks - I'm still awaiting bookmarks too. For these functions I don't mind running on 1 services provider; as it means only 1 sync to do and less issues of compatibility or fluidity in function - I won't forget to sync Calendar after my contacts are sync'd before I sell my phone or upgrade.

Google is just too much overload for me - and they thrive on advertising - which I cannot stand even at the top of my Gmail. Gmail is great for free public & personal email - but as I've said I don't wish to use it because email contacts will sync on my phone that I don't need or wish to have happen and REALLY mess up my contact list. I've already spent countless days going through it contact by contact, number by number, email by email - just for me to do all again over a spread of months during free time for 20mins here, an hour there etc etc.

Having a free service that supports multiple platforms means jack of all trades - master of none or LACKING of a few. My contact preference is the reason I'm ignoring Google sync, for now.

Nokia's Ovi provides something that has been missing for so many years in just about EVERY feature phone to date.
 
I agree with many of the negative sentiments emerging in this thread. Again, if it weren't for the $454 glitch I would have canceled my order about fifty or one hundred pages ago. S60 hasn't improved much at all and the N97 will likely be another mediocre device. Nokia has been making serious blunders and oversights regarding to the care of their customers. Shame on them.

Many people deplore Apple's policy of incremental updates with each revision of their hardware. Is this any better? Once the next Nokia device comes out or next feature pack for S60v5, there's no denying the N97 owners will be left in the dust en masse.

Nokia, with their uninspired hardware decisions as well as their steadfast devotion to the stagnating S60 platform, have done this to themselves: they have made it so easy to move to and be not only content with other platforms, but also to never want to come back to Symbian again (as with me). I would sooner move back to Windows Mobile than to S60 again.

And how the hell did they mess this one up? Oh, right. They focused more on that stupid click that happens when you open up the slide than the performance of the keyboard itself.
 
Short answer: software upgrades on Symbian phones are technically possible, but there needs to be a business model that makes them commercially feasible.

Longer answer:

The software in a Symbian-powered phone contains many additional items, beyond what's in a given release of the Symbian platform. See here for an explanation. Some of these additional items will have internal dependencies on the Symbian version number. If someone upgrades the Symbian platform version, the overall mix won't function properly, unless the additional items are upgraded too. Then there will need to be some testing, etc. So that's additional work for someone to do. Who's going to do that work?

Could third party developers take advantage of the open source nature of the Symbian platform to do this work? It depends. Just because the underlying platform is open source, it doesn't mean all the other items in the phone are open source too. (In fact, at the moment, many of these other items aren't open source.)

So it comes down to a business model decision. Are phone manufacturers (such as Nokia) going to move to an operating model in which they create and distribute the updates themselves - or in which they make it easy for third parties to do this work?

Personally I see this trend as inevitable. Users will gravitate towards the manufacturers that (directly or indirectly) support software upgrades. That's part of what's implied by re-naming "mobile phones" as "multimedia computers".

Even longer answer:

See here.

// David Wood, Symbian Foundation
 
half the price coz its subsidized...

anyways, nokia did took a nasty beating at MWC today!

the SE is really nice, but i am still focus on this N97, well except if SE Idou will come out soon...
 
Nevertheless, that horse has been beat to death and we'll need to see real production units in real hands to know if there's any functional benefit to their processor.

N95-4 was also a bigger change in screen size proportionally even if it was the same size delta measured in tenths of an inch. Battery life also needs to be vetted out with more real world experience by real world users with production units on both side before we know the truth. Just taking the manufacturer claims, N97 will have 30 min less of talktime while having 2 more hours of standby.



As if that would make a difference... look at all the iPhone talk here. :silly:
 
Since the widgets are 'live' and connected to the internet constantly. I hope the phone can last an entire day otherwise the widgets are kind of 'useless' (you want to use them but you have to choose between having a dead phone for voice calls at 6pm).

It would be beautiful if you could just have an edge connection (3G for everything else) open for just for widgets to try and save battery.
 
This phone gives me about 5% of the excitement I had when the N95 was announced. Underwhelming on all fronts for a modern phone, the complete opposite of the N95 which ****ed the competition hard in every aspect.

I prefer one handed use above all aspects of a phone. Did you see the picture of the phone in that person's hand? My thumb will have to come out of its socket to reach the top of that screen to touch the clock or top right hand side connectivity area. Some people prefer two handed use and handling their phone a lot. I just want to pull it out of my pocket and with one hand get the data I need and put it back. When will they every make a phone designed for that? Would it have killed them to put a D-pad or scroll wheel on the side?
 
No it's gonna be $1000 at the very least because Nokia USA isn't going to have it at launch. Other retailers are going to gouge us for everything we got.
 
Oh yeah another question-I saw this mentioned in another thread about the 5800 but I dont remember which:

Can you copy text from a webpage with the default browser? For example, text in meebo or the text in a news article? Someone said you couldn't, only web addresses...
 
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