*OFFICIAL THREAD: Nokia N97

I know! I know! Like they did with the N95! This time I had promised myself to wait but that price was too hard to resist. Like a chunk of cheese in the mousetrap.
 
Sure they did. Why put in an expensive part when you can put in a cheap part and charge the same amount for the device? Makes perfect sense to me.

The N95, aside from Nokia's uber-popular pre-2003 monochrome phones, was by far and away their most successful device and have only tried to mimic its success since. Nothing has been as successful, and not because of less-than-groundbreaking improvements, but because they actually backslid on the following years flagship!
 
Dude, you need to look at this from a global perspective...Nokia is a household name around the world. We in the US think the continents float around us, but you have to look at the marketshare globally. Apple's strength is only in the US...and that's mostly because we Americans are sold by flash and not by substance.
 
I haven't even signed up for Ovi yet. Used a bunch of the free apps linked a few pages back and a couple freebies from AAS. Are the freebies without certs all safe?
 
I'm not a camera expert but the quality of those pictures taken in that review were far from great, so I'm not going to deduct any points from the N97 screen based on that review.

However, the pictures in Eldar's review initially had me worried until I saw the pictures at the end where the N97 was at the bottom (with device X on the top) and the N97 screen looked better. All the previous images had the N97 at the top and device X at the bottom and the N97 screen looked washed out.
 
I agree that we haven't seen it all and I'm sure more will continuously show up. I'm just trying to replicate what I have on the screen of my E-series now. I need mail and calendar items. I will need a shortcut bar and one shortcut bar almost cuts in half what I have now. Then there's contact search, perhaps hitting one button to get to contacts and then searching won't be that bad. Add Facebook and Weather and I'm full. A second widget screen with a swipe would really add so much to this phone. Think E71 switch application but so much more.
 
To anybody who has some experience with the N95-4. Have you noticed any significant difference between the 3G speeds on the N97? My N97 seems to be at least 3 times faster than my N95-4. I feel like I'm using WiFi all the time.
 
I'm a completly new user to Nokia and SmartPhone worlds alike. But this phone has an amazing design like no other. And Nokia hasn't made a poor decision, might have been one of their smartest, just think business-wise, it's all about trying to extract every single penny necessary... of course, for the rest of the world, we pay the price... literally, lol.
 
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