*OFFICIAL THREAD: Nokia N97

I pray that the touchscreen will be as good as the one on the Eternity. If it's the same as the one on the 5800, I'll sigh and suck it up. That's all Nokia users know how to do these days anyway...
 
Most of the stuff that motivates a jailbreak we don't need to hack for. Unless you want to sign your own stuff and do things you shouldn't be, but otherwise basic functionality isn't gimped by Nokia.
 
Because of the cost of manufacturing, licensing and passing FCC testing for bands that are used in roughly 13 countries - countries with a LOT less potential buyers per capita than in Europes 26-30 countries with triple the amount of potential buyers per capita. Plain and simple.



Carl! Been a long time since I've seen you in these parts. Hows it going with the Bold?! Are you looking towards the new Atomic on the Bold replacement late this year or early next?!! I'm VERY interested in such a technology ... ONLY if ...
1) the speed of navigation can be adjusted like current trackball,
2) there is a direct button press to select,
3) Browsing web or popup selections allow automatic link jump-to-highlight, so I don't have to place a USELESS cursor onto the link. Cursor in Browser is USELESS if I cannot directly copy & paste.
4) MOST importantly, the ability to swipe+hold in 1 direction to speed scroll: in Browser, MemoPad, Calendar timeline, etc.

btw, this N97 is every bit the E-Series that the E71 was that you were very curious about. Yet again an RS/600 for 3270/50 emulation is paramount for you still, I believe.



Same reason that you CANNOT pull a cpu out of a laptop and simply drop another in. Chipset compatibility, ZIF negated in MOST mobo-designs, and well profits.

Right now the ONLY reason why HP likes the AMD Athlon64 mobile chips is because they ALL fit in Socket-A slots. So a pull-replace situation is VERY cost effective and due to making so many laptops that use AMD chips its still remains profitable, considering the memory controller is on the chip. Right now Intel has YET to put memory controller on a Mobile C2D chip. Only power consumption 51w vs 71w on the AMD Athlon64 mobiles & internal bus speeds the end user has to watch for in HP laptops.

This doesn't quite work out the same for mobile computers/smartphones in this day. Everything is soldered and rightfully so because these smartphones are shaken more often during lifecycle ownership than laptops are. Still I appload your idea.
 
:O !!!

How on earth do you guys use your phones? One year of my N95-3 with normal use, and no problems with the chrome whatsoever for me, nor the rest of the finish. Frequent pressing, too.
 
It just proves how the biggest N97 fanboys are Nokia noobs. You're right, most of them are former SE fans who didn't know where to go and ended up here. The utter cluelessness they have is so apparent when they talk about RAM upgrade and FW hack.

Do they think this is WinMO? Those things happen on WinMo devices. The former rarely, the latter commonly. On S60 I haven't heard of any successful RAM upgrade and people were talking about it quite often for the N95-1. They were for the N80 and N90 which had pathetic 15-20MB free RAM after start up. I've known certain WinMo PDAs (not phones) from the 2002-2004 era that got upgrades by soldering stacks of RAM chips and then making some change somewhere so the device would recognize the extra RAM.

As for FW hacks: We would if we could. Obviously. Some decent human being by now in about 3 years would have FW hacked up a threaded SMS client that replaces the standard one. Or someone would have fixed the call log already in 4 years.

Face the truth it is obvious even to a dolt that even Nokia takes years to fix their own FW, so who's the superhero who's going to come in and mod the FW beyond Nokia's capabilities?

Use some common sense in the fan hype. Funny how it is mostly people with no S60 background that are the biggest cheerleaders. Someone will come next and talk about a projector mod or something or photon ray mod. This isn't science fiction over here. It's a mid-end (that's something SE fans must be used to ;) ) device that is a step from a dumbphone if you don't use a PIM.
 
It's a joke because of my political and social views. I am a lot more liberal than the people I work with or the people who generally live in our area. I belonged to another online group for a while that called ourselves "Liberal Atheist Hippies" and I kind of took liberal_hippie as my nickname after that. :)
 
I didn't really like the E71 QWERTY since the keys were so small and I often miskeyed things, but this slide out QWERTY is perfect. This device seems to have usability very well thought out with landscape mode being primary for everything but calling people.
 
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