*OFFICIAL THREAD: Nokia N97

"Xvid/Divx playback. Please let us know, and be critical.

Steve: The Nokia S60 devices don't do DivX/XviD at all, it seems. "

watttt? I thoughts smartphone were supposed to be able to install codecs... are you serious... This actually freaking makes me doubt buying the N97 for the first time ever... You're saying we'll get 48GB of storage, but we need to convert every single video we add in???? Godd@mn, I wanted this thing to play all my .avi and .mpeg

Please tell me you can buy a license or a codec somewhere... pleaseeeeee, with the price I'll pay for this phone, I really don't mind shredding out another couple of bucks
 
After listening to the podcast it makes total sense about antenna design. I totally brain farted not remembering the 3G frequencies don't match the GSM frequencies. An antenna that supports quad band GSM is really a two element antenna that supports two bands. One element is designed to support from 824MHz to 960MHz while the second element supports 1710MHz to 1990MHz. These elements are tuned with enough bandwidth so that the first element works with 850MHz and 900MHz bands while the second element works for both 1800MHz and 1900MHz bands. The trick is tuning the antenna for maximum power transfer at the frequencies you want to work and not having one element detune the other. There's a tricky balance so that each element compliments the other. Trying to add a third frequency band, say, the 2100MHz band for European 3G takes some pretty advanced antenna design, modeling and testing. Thinking about it you'd likely have to give up some of the bandwidth on one or both of the other elements so maybe you cover only 824MHz to 896MHz to cover the 850MHz band and have to give up the 900MHz band.

On top of that there's issue of filtering. Cellular phones and base stations use duplex filters to keep the TX and RX frequencies from interfering with each other which have a high amount rejection. There's only about 20MHz between the TX and RX frequencies so the filtering is pretty complex in just a quad band phone, let alone adding 2100MHz to the mix. Given the complexity that goes into covering the rest of the world with GSM and UMTS it's safe to say that it's really no wonder we don't see 1700MHz phones for T-mobile.

Anyone totally confused? ;)
 
I am almost 100% certain that the built in applications and OS, with an exception of widgets, won?t be any difference than what we already know. I am hoping that bigger screen, built in keyboard, more memory, widget (facebook app), better camera?? and other load of craps will make me forget about stuff that I don?t like about Nokia S60.


I am sure all of us didn?t jump on the whole pre-order thing for its superior touch screen. We buy it because it has a built in keyboard (just in case touch screen sucks).
 
i was looking at the product description on amazon and it gave this list

What's in the Box: Nokia N97, Nokia Battery (BP-4L), travel charger (AC-10U), connectivity cable (CA-101), wired headset (AD-54, HS-45), charger adapter (CA-146), cleaning cloth

does that mean it doesn't come with the tv-out cable. i thought that comes standard with nokia phones. anyone know?
 
i am still getting the n97.

1. media net is cheaper in the long run.

2. if i wanted iphone, i couldn't get it because i'm not upgrade eligible til 2010. if i were to pay the full price, i would definitely get the n97 anyway.

3. physical keyboard. we'll leave the opinions of said keyboard out of it for now.
 
When the 5800 is playing the same game available on the N95, it's not a stupid comparison at all. We can measure their performance based on their hardware. Adding an 'N' to the phones model number doesn't miraculously make games run faster.

Even in their own class, the newer S60v3 devices perform slower than the N95, with theme effects off for good measure.
 
This is the straight up revamp of the S60 UI that what the future should have. Instant one touch access to any kind of data you may care about.

Sure I have heard comments about how "social networking" oriented it is, but I could a hoot about social networking myself. The beauty is that you can have weather or an extra 4 contacts or 4 more icons, or when people start making crazy widgets something like flight timings or stock values or engadget posts or USPS new stamp releases or whatever the heck you are interested in. That's better than I have on my home computer. That new home screen makes the device IMHO.

You can custom tailor that screen to carry information about anything and change it easily any time your interests change. This is the dynamic home screen that no other device has.
 
Some of you that have so much faith in Nokia IMHO are setting yourself up for a big shock as personally i just don't believe the performance on the N97 is going to be anything special and that's being kind. I also don't think the Widgets are going to prove to be the killer application so many of you seem to think they will be either.

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Exactly what I think.
 
Yeah I did not like the time it needs to switch from one task to another. It was for that reason a slower phone to use in practice. But the interface on it masked a lot of its issues.

It was stupid that I would get an SMS in the middle of doing something and it completely screws you train of thought if you want to read it. You have to exit out of it and then reopen the app you were using. They don't even need true multitasking to fix that. They could just add a button that says "return to what I was doing" and that problem would be solved.

But still, to date nothing can have you open the contacts and with one finger jump instantly to the letter you need. There is no other device that lets you scroll to find things as effectively as the iPod/iPhone. It really beats having to touch a text box and then type it in and then close that keyboard and then hit call or enter or whatever. That is how it is on the 5800. It takes a lot of taps and is very slow.

The real issue is that 128MB RAM is not enough for that OS/UI. 256MB will enable multitasking for the next model.

Both companies can do a lot to improve their products, but one thing for sure is that they've taken different routes but will converge at roughly the same point in June. 3.0 will have everything that was missing right down to on phone video editing. These are they guys that made Final Cut Pro. Whatever video editing they put on it will be excellent. In fact whatever features that do make it onto the iPhone 3.0 will likely be best in class. That's just how they do it. They bring their features in a polished form (that might need one or two updates though). I hate to bring it up again but they do not get features half-*** like Nokia conversations etc. For that reason alone, I wouldn't be so quick to count the iPhone out just yet.

Just trying to keep it in perspective.
 
lol I prefer:

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Sure. On the other side of the coin, if you use gmail on an iPhone, it's not all that different from an N97. Not all of business is using exchange. My particular company is Apple/Unix/LAMP and doesn't touch Microsoft product. Our sendmail/procmail based mail servers support exchange and interact with it, but its not something we choose to support or use ourselves. Certainly many businesses like some Microsoft product (Exchange being probably the most popular), but many business won't touch it for various reasons (chiefly expense and their byzantine licensing structure).
 
I thought the N98 was supposed to have the 12MP camera with the 3x optical zoom yet be 11mm thin? At least that's what it is according to SN Traders LOL
 
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