*OFFICIAL THREAD: Nokia N97

The funny part of all of this is, Nokia is going to LOSE sales by prolonging and leaving customers in the dark.. I'm already contemplating canceling my pre-order and just going with a competitive product.. There are too many options to just keep people holding on, for really, an average device...

I wish Nokia would just put a date on their pre-order site and be done with it.. Even if it's August 1st, at least people know when to expect their handsets..
 
I'm not a credit card expert, but there's two steps at least, my wife worked for a processor for a while.

1. Auth
2. Charge

The auth is an initial check to verify the charge will go through in the future. On credit cards this may count towards your line of credit for couple of days. Not all auths are converted to charges, or for the same amount. Example:

You go to the gas station. You put your credit card in. Your card is auth'ed for $50 or $75. If you only put in $24.56 of gas then later that day the charge will be made for $24.56. Same thing at restaurants, etc.

You can't charge the credit card until the order ships. So when you press "buy" on a web page your card is authorized for the amount listed. When it ships it's then charged. Now remember auths expire. So before an order would ship, in the prep stage you would expect them to get a new auth before starting to box up your phone since it'e been weeks since they verified you could actually pay for it. NokiaUSA/Brightpoint are running auths every couple of weeks to verify the money you promised to pay them is still available.

I assume this is going to trigger the fraud departments since it looks like some is running a canceled order. For example, you make the order then cancel it. Then some unscrupulous employee could use your card info to buy themselves a phone. Of course, this isn't what's going on.

Amex seems to be very sensitive to this, which is interesting.
 
I know, I surmised as much - just being ":silly:" ;) . A lot of the success of the DS came from those puzzle games and the attributed benefits, and there is research of course that indicates that keeping the brain active helps reduce the possibility of Alzheimer's.
 
im really excited by the n97 but ask yourself this question. If the omnia hd had a slide out qwerty keyboard would you guys even be remotely as excited about the n97 like you are now? The n97 will be technologically outdated before its global release so why does it garner all this praise? Im just curious. Full disclosure im a n95 user.
 
most places will be expected to use both 850 and 1900...

the 850 allows for better penetration....

any chance of a 1700/2100 version coming out...

my contract is up this year, I am so considering jumping to AT&T....
 
Not really. You will be using the right thumb to do the space bar and seems like Nokia got this right!. Just imagine how you hold this phone and if the specae bar is in the middlew, you have to really "stretch" your thumb. Anybody who used a Tilt will know what I am talking about.
 
It doesn't look like it. The guy was bragging about how the secondary screen is blank.

I mean a simple change like that would be great so we would have standard active standby plus a page of widgets.

I wonder why they would design it this way other than out of sheer laziness.
 
I havent watched soo many multilingual videos for a phone ever. I've even started reading the comments to better understand what the people are talking abt.

Things N97's made me do.
 
The bold and the javelin are from two completely different product lines though, the javelin is just a refresh of the curve while the bold is the current head of the lineup. I think it's always been like that hasn't it? The curve was a more mainstream device while the 8800 series were the big boys.

sr won't be coming back here by the way

and about the fanboys, while I could easily name names here, I don't consider someone who likes the OS or someone who likes what this phone does to be a fanboy. There's more to it than just that and it's easy to tell from their posts who is who :)
 
Did you see how hard everyone who demos that phone hits the screen? They don't want to take chances by hitting it lightly because it is a known fact that it doesn't respond sometimes. That resistive screen is ****. NYC taxicabs and ATMs have been using capacitive for years now.

They can't really move to capacitive with that interface since there still are parts where a stylus is needed to effectively manipulate it. You can pray and try with your finger but to be effective you need the stylus.
 
Hey Blaxx, I had the same thinking as you, black 4ever, lol, I would never get a white phone but... hmmm... after comparing some of these new phones, the black one does appear more glossy... so fingerprint don't seem to show on the white version...

Hmmm... this is a very significan turn of events... now i have to debate myself
 
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