*OFFICIAL THREAD: Nokia N97

The current iPhone is also 2 years old and is moving up in specs to deliver better performance. N97 is coming out the gate as a 2009 flagship yet has the power level of the N95; not to say that's a bad thing but as I owned one and have toyed with some newer N-series phones, the entire phone would benefit from a performance boost. I'm pretty sure enough 5800 owners can testify that running a heavy webpage and the music player along with other applications at the same time causes one, many, or everything to crash at times. Considering processor and ram are the same as the 5800, I'm afraid that can happen here and that's not what I expect from a device in this year.

I'm watching omnia threads mainly to see how much better the processor helps the OS and it seems like it actually does provide a boost to everything. My N95 never went from applications as fast as I've seen in some youtube videos and the transitions and animations are great as well.

Don't get me wrong I don't think the new iPhone is going to be amazing like some people here are claiming, it'll just be a modest upgrade. Let's wait and see before jumping to which phone is better, because right now this new iphone technically doesn't exist.


I just call things as I see them. I don't have anything against nokia and I want them to succeed but I am not sure whether my money should go to this phone or not. They won't change their ways unless they feel they have to, or else we get more old hardware being placed in shiny containers.

One more thing-can someone link me or post in here exactly what nokia said about an upgrade for this later on and where it came from? I can't seem to find it.
 
Don't buy from Rose, look at his recent negative feedbacks.You will never get any 12 months warranty and 85$ gifts as he always states in his listings. His response to emails is pretty quick. I've sent numerous emails to Rose, mostly complaining.
 
Given that we have yet to see whether the Ovi Store will be a success and Samsung has made their own desktop software for firmware updates available recently, only your last point is valid. We'll have to see how frequent we see updates for either device as US users.
 
Just called and talked to a rep. They said that it was a glitch in the system last night and today, but they are going to honor the price. After taxes and shipping, I got mine for $494.20 (Des Moines, IA).

He said that they were not going to cancel the order and if you got in on the deal, you got an awesome deal.
 
Well, I think that's people choice, if someone don't like any of the colors why buying it?. A lot of companies release products variations after some time and I don't see people saying that they're "bad people" because of that, Sony has launched more colors for their PSP during this years and I don't see forums full of people complaining about that.
 
Was anyone allowed to video the n97 interface at this event? Would like to see the speed with my own eyes as the last real videos of the live device show significant lag in the UI
 
Interesting points...

..the 5800 has a double tap to zoom and triple tap to zoom out (not always effective and I found it by accident), so they could be getting the message. There's no min-map mode on that zoom out though, so its kinda weird; and there are some tap-issues with things like tabs and such, so the N97 could very well be the *fix* to all of these items.

On the Internet Tablet, there's this really great app called Mauku (does Jaiku and Twitter microblogging) that has these gestures that IMO would be great if mapped on a system level to S60v5. Besides a sensible framework for other apps to work from, those gestures allow for some pretty complex actions and the ability to utilize a simulated multi-touch for apps like Gallery and Web were you could want more than just opening a page or shifting a view.
 
But are they abandoning 1900? I'm pretty sure all they're new markets are using 850 more and more whereas the markets that are already set up with 1900 won't be changing. Coverage would only get better in those areas where they're strengthening 3G with 850, but I see no difference between an 850/1900 device and a 1900 device only in Atlanta. YMMV.
 
i text a lot with my girl so i gotta text lol and i know what ur saying but i dont have a backup texting phone this is the only phone i got left i wanna re buy the e71 but the n97 seems close but i wanna c how close
 
Gone are the days when hardware will simply sell itself, people are more concerned with the services their smartphone will offer them. When the N95 was announced, the technological gap between it and anything else on the market was so huge. Now it's harder to make such phenomenal jumps so quickly. I think the fact that the N97 has 32GB of built in flash memory and still has a MicroSD slot is a big deal. Along with a much mature Ovi Suite (I hope)
 
There could be a multitude of reasons. There could have been defects or reliability issues which made it less than ready for primetime (the fact that it may be present on a different device does not change this).
There could have been usability issues, support issues, all sorts of things. It may have just been that some defect was found late in the development cycle and there would have not been enough time to do any extensive testing on the fixed implementation to allow them to ship it with a reasonable amount of confidence that no major known issues will be shipped on it. And contrary to what the vast majority of people think, nothing ships defect-free. It is literally impossible to exhaustively test any sort of complex system. Hell, it is possible that they had a fix for some defect but the amount it would take to fix would make the allocated development budget slip.

Pulling already-developed features before shipping some product happens all the time in all fields. We just don't know the reason :buddies:

Disclaimer: I work in the software industry (unrelated to mobile devices).
 
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