*OFFICIAL THREAD: Nokia N97

Hmmm...I'm currently listening to the new episode of AAS Insight and they point out that the N97 has kinetic scrolling in the web browser now. Great idea! Don't have to worry about the touchscreen not being able to differentiate between a click and a scroll now.
 
I wasn't aware that the Iphone can't do that. To me, that is a great feature. When I'm out jogging or in the gym, using my N97 and Moto S9 BT headset, if I don't like the track, I just reach up, tap forward on the headset and it moves to the next track. All with the phone in my armband and locked. If a call comes in, I tap the answer button on the headset, and talk. When finished, I hang up and it continues playing the track where it left off.
 
Well it is a coupon code but like Amazon usually will adjust your preorder price if the product you want had any change in price between the time you ordered and its actual ship date so you get the lowest price availble.
 
Well the difference is that when that menu displays its like another homescreen/app launcher because those apps are just one key press to open them just like they are on your active standby screen. Just need one press of the menu button to get there, which would be one finger swipe if the second homescreen allowed more apps. On a phone with dpad it requires extra scrolling to get to the app and launch it. Thats all i was getting at. Its more efficient with the touch so i never find all my apps more than one button press away because of touch. With dpad it takes multiple presses to get there.
 
ok so I've read the first 20 pages of this thread and googled for more info as well and still can't find what I am looking for. I see references of a Nokia N97 and Nokia N97 NAM. are their two different versions? Waht are the differences? Main reason I am asking is I need 3g 850 and so far I hear this phone does not cover it. If anyone can confirm this detail for me, I'd appreciate it. Thanks.


***EDIT***
I may have found my answer:

"If you mainly want to use the phone in the USA, you want the NAM version, not the one you get in Europe.

The main difference is what UMTS (3G) bands it supports. The International version supports 900/1900/2100 MHz, whereas the NAM (North American) version supports 850/1900/2100 MHz. AT&T Wireless uses 850 and 1900 MHz for their UMTS (3G) coverage, with a trend towards pushing more over on the 850 MHz band. Internationally, 2100 MHz is most common (also in Europe), whereas the 900 MHz has only very recently been added/introduced in some European countries.

Someone mentioned something about "tri-band" and "quad-band" -- those are entirely useless terms these days. They pertain to GSM (2G) frequencies; most, if not all smartphones these days are "quad-band" in this respect. (Again, the issue is that North American networks don't use the standard frequencies deployed internationally).

FWIW, none of these phones will give you 3G coverage with T-Mobile USA - they use an entirely different band, 1700 MHz. Also, they won't work with other U.S. carriers such as Verizon, Sprint, Nextel, US Cellular, Alltel, MetroPCS, etc - since these use different technologies altogether (CMDA, iDEN, etc). So, mainly, the N97 NAM is a phone that's optimized for AT&T.":


Correct?????????
 
How convenient. Seriously, must be nice to be close. I might end up going by there a little to often if ya get my drift. Be nice to not pay postage tho. Dang gf's still makin noise btw. LOL
 
In the 2 years since the iPhone, Nokia has made exactly 1 touchscreen device that was not intended to even compete with the iPhone so why do you keep comparing everything to it? I think you should get off the computer, head down to your nearest Apple store and pick up an iPhone. Then you can enlighten the fellas over in the Apple forum with your ********
 
we already know the black is showing up as in stock. its been discussed. they aren't trying to trick anyone. the black ones are shipping already. fall the **** back.
 
F*** man! Now it is very clear you are here to bash Nokia!
No I will always fully express my opinion to Nokia and Symbian Foundation if i think they are going to far in trying to make a profit.
Why don't you just take your f'n SSHD avatar and go to another thread.
Why the F are you here man? I'm getting sick of your impatient nitpicking. Get an f'n clue. Nokia is switching gears. They've dropped Japan and picked up USA. They've dropped S60 and are letting Symbian do the hardwork.

F'n wait and see what happens with the next form factors and Ovi store instead of making your "keyboard envy" apparent. Go french kiss your capacitive Samsung and get off of here.

I'm getting sick of seeing your OMG it doesn't match this Johnny come lately or that johnny come lately's phone specs!

Why don't you just open up the back of your Fry's computer and slober all over the hardware and bust a nut and get the f off of here.

Smartphones are a balance between form factor, Specs, UI and OS updates.

Why can't you just temper your comments a little more in a thread that you are very apparently anti-fan about.
 
This is Nokia's habit. Instead of saying "N97 shipping today" they issue a press release saying it will go on sale this month. It has indeed started shipping (watch the video of N97s being manufactured in the factory) and AAS confirmed it. They can't confirm when each country is going to get their stock to sell so they don't provide dates. They did this with the E75 and the 5800 XM NAM and I'm pretty sure most of their phones before that.
 
ALthough I really want this one bad, High end items in this market are dropping fast. especially with competition releases. its definetly going to drop fast from 1k
 
The wholesale price is 550-570. Amazon usually sells theirs below that price within coupoe of weeks, but the rest take 30-40 markup. So yes... It will be below 600
 
It has an accelerometer, you can use it in landscape while it's closed. I don't think you can use it in portrait mode while the slide is open however without something like RotateMe (like the N95)
 
I'm using a 5800 and just visited howardforums using it. Everything loaded well... no loading -> stop -> everything disappears -> and reload.

But I do remember having that problem with older S60 phones.

Why don't you give 5800 a try and sell it out on eBay if you don't like it. Or try to get a loaner from WOM World?

I agree, putting the weak CPU into "the" flagship device of 2009 is not the way to go. They can be stingy and cheap on the 20-30 low end devices released each year, but for an "Flagship" device you need to put in the best. (I was expecting the 600Mhz CPU if not better).

The company is doing bad. Nokia said they won't compete by reducing the price, well SAMSUNG cut down their pricing and they reported good profits. SAMSUNG is doing more and more of what tech geeks wants these days and the company's financial performance shows they're on the right direction.

I don't think Nokia's change of focus from spec to software is a bad decision, but like "sr" said putting that weak chip on the N97 does show how lost they are...

It's like McCain saying the economy is fine when he ran for election.. lol
 
Oh no doubt I could pick up any P&S camera and it would be better than my N95 but it's convenient to not have to carry my phone, my camera and an MP3 player when the N95 does all 3 in one package. Even though it is my P&S, I don't take many pictures with it unfortunately. When I know I'm headed out somewhere that I might want to take pictures I walk with my DSLR so I haven't given the camera a good trial run at all. :(

I hear all that you're saying tho
 
I just got an alert that a "Made in Finland" remark was made...

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