*OFFICIAL THREAD: Nokia N97

well if it came out in June, by sept or oct it will really drop at least a few hundred ..
i know i bought my 6600 slide for 400 when it just released, only to be sold for 250 a few weeks later

on a side note, my n96 is already showing its been used a long time. I wonder if it will even last that long til june for me, I might have to do a intermediate swap until June/july hits.
 
Update looks promising especially since that problem with facebook and other apps showing the homescreen on the softkeys was a bug and not something to do with the processor. Hopefully it gets speedier and there's a little more ram.
 
If it's not because of 5800 has only 3MP camera, I would had that to replace my N95. IMO, the benefit of N97 I've seen so far doesn't justfiy the price over the 5800.
 
Wrong.. My 5800 got to the point where it needed a hard reset. Once i reset it, I lost RoadSync (gravity was fine as it was on my SD Card). Now Nokia wants me to rebuy an app for the device I just bought 2 days ago..

I would have no problems rebuying it for a new device as I realize it would be a seperate license.
 
I don't mind this Freescale rehash at all. The OMAP processors, IMO, have not delivered the user experience that the Freescale processors have, regardless of the 3D accell or not. The performance of the E71 is a testament to that. There seems to be plenty of horsepower left in the E71 to do what's needed to keep the phone snappy. We'll wait to hear more from the people getting 5800's about the responsiveness of it.

I'm waiting on the OMAP 3430 as well. I love my N810 but it honestly could use some more clock cycles and I'm very interested in where the tables and next N-series devices go. Not sure why it's taking so long for the OMAP3420 stuff to hit, unless TI is charging just a bit too much for their chipsets.

To Roger's processor comments, it doesn't take a lot of processing power to updated a couple lines for a social networking applet so I wouldn't worry about that. You've been using the E71 for some time and I think you're fully aware of the responsiveness of the device so this processor should rock the N97 very well. Watching Nokia's demo video on the N97 they show the applets transition when moving from landscape to portrait and those transitions didn't seem to be in place on the pre-production units that were at the show from the videos I saw. It really makes me question whether they will actually be in the production version or not.
 
LCD's aren't capable of permanent burn in but you might be experiencing "Temporary Image Retention." Try playing videos or something or leave it off for a certain amount of time and it should go away.
 
Wirelessly posted (Nokia 97: Mozilla/5.0 (SymbianOS/9.4; Series60/5.0 NokiaN97-3/10.2.012; Profile/MIDP-2.1 Configuration/CLDC-1.1; en-us) AppleWebKit/525 (KHTML, like Gecko) WicKed/7.1.12344)

Imma have to check that site. It seems with the stock browser, i couldnt stay logged in through regular site so i must resort to the Wap for now. Its quicker anyways lol

What apps do most of you use and does Nokia Messaging display full html on the N97 because when I had my E71x, it didnt, unless im setting it up wrong
 
I don;t buy the statement that touchscreen=2 hands. On the 5800 (to give a relevant example), you can do all of the above with just one hand, and its just as efficient as with a non-touchscreen device.

If the UI were designed around touch-usability only, then it would only be better. Nokia is definitely trying to strike a balance, but as Palm showed with the Treo lineup versus the rest of their PDAs, split UI personalities only last for so long. You either start from one and dimish the other, or try for both and miss both.

The N97 will have the numeric keypad for portrait typing in addition to the slide out keyboard. That will be more than enough for most tasks (predictive text speed on my 5800 is very speedy IMU).
 
So I can go get an AT&T contract,sign up for a data plan, then cancel it later?
What if I cancel my AT&T contract, not just the data plan within 30 days, do I have to give the iPhone back??
If i cancel it after 30days and pay the ETF, I don't give the iPhone back right?
Thanks
 
The reason why I got the 5800 and the N97 is because I want the 5800 to be a "backup" phone for my Samsung Eternity and then I want the N97 to be my little laptop computer for when I'm not using the 5800 or the Eternity. I probably will not be using the N97 that much, but it's good to have it around just in case I need a bigger screen to surf the internet.
 
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