*OFFICIAL THREAD: Nokia N97

I have recharged by battery about half a dozen times. I think having home screen content in online mode really eats up the battery. I turned it off yesterday and have had my phone going for 24 hours without eating a single bar of battery.
 
I unfortunately never got to use UIQ. I was really interested in the Motorola Z10 RIZR until I found out there would be no NAM 3G and by the time it actually got released, it was almost a year since it got released. We complain about Nokia but they ain't got nothing on Motorola LOL
 
Sure it is, but for the user who wants contacts, a shortcut bar, e-mail and calendar there is room for ONE more widget that's it. So what's the kind of exposure your widget will get?

Do I have to choose between seeing my e-mail notifications or calendar appointments in order to have a second widget of my choosing?

It isn't that hard to understand that they are not realizing the potential of this system by having only one screen.

Sure your point is valid in that a second screen can be easily implemented but when? Why would they launch this whole system and cripple it with room for 5 widgets? They want to have thousands of such widgets.

I know that Nokia won't change these things for at least 6 months to a year. In the meantime I won't be using your widget because I value my e-mail and my appointments more.

Why don't they think these things out in the beginning? That way people won't have to wait a year to actually realize the potential behind this whole new system of viewing real time data. A weather widget for one needs to be one-third of the space it currently takes, then I would have room for other widgets that people make.

What's the point of people easily making their own widgets if I don't have any room to put them? Do you have any explanation for that?

If they at least left the standard stuff for active standby then at least I could try out 5 widgets of my choosing and use them. As it stands only one widget might be used and it will be a fight to see which one that will be.

I think this basically explains itself.
 
Marc, you bring up some good points. I use NM and have used Ovi. There's nothing about these services that locks me to a Nokia device. NM is just a sync service that allows push email on my Gmail account. That service doesn't lock me to Nokia as I'm sure there are a number of sync services between Gmail and whatever device I plan to move to next. The same can be said for Ovi. Sure, my contacts, calendar and notes/to-do are all synced to the Ovi service but I also have everything synced to my phone. If I choose a non-Nokia device I simply perform a device Sync to Outlook and I'm good to go. Everything has Outlook compatibility so this can be my interim step to get my data to my new device.

Currently I am connected to an Exchange server so I don't really use Ovi anymore. MfE works well at keeping everything synced one the fly. If only they'd finally get subfolders working.
 
The specs on the N97 says it takes a BL-4L 1500 mAh battery.

Just searched http://www.mugenpowerbatteries.com/ web site and they have a BL-4L replacement that is 3600 mAh! It requires Mugen to make a separate replacement back to the phone and increases its thickness.

I have one of their extra power/extra thick batteries on my HP iPAQ 210 and it is great for movies on long trips.

Of course you wouldn't want to use it for everyday, just too thick, but for special occasions where really long battery life is required I sure hope that Mugen will make a replacement back for the N97 that will accept their BL-4L 3600 mAh battery!

Mugen's specs:
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HLI-E61iXL

Extended-size Hi-Capacity 3600mAh Battery for Nokia E61i Smartphone.

Li-ion 3.7V, 3600mAh

Colour: Silver-Grey with extra battery cover in Silver-colour

Battery Type : External Battery

Replacement for: BL-4L

(Made by Mugen Power)

PLEASE NOTE THIS BATTERY INCREASES THE THICKNESS OF THE DEVICE.
REPLACEMENT BATTERY COVER IS INCLUDED.
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Tested N97 in Nokia's flagship store and got a say it got high end feel on it that i wasn't sure it got. Really solid build, screen wasn't spongy at all like on 5800 and responded better. N97 was actually much smaller than i thought, but that tends to be the case after watching comparison pics from net.
Thing what i really wanted to test was net, but as there where people queuing to test the prototype i left it there.

Now i just need to find Omnia HD from somewhere and test that.
 
Where the hell did you get such an outrageous price from? The N97 is going to be 550 Euros before taxes and subsidies which is $700 USD. That's been the price since it was announced, that's been the price they quote anytime they talk about the phone. Why would Nokia price the phone in Pounds when they deal in Euros in Finland?
 
This is my biggest pet peeve about touch-only phones. Scrolling down a webpage is a gigantic pain in the ***, especially if the scrolling is jagged or laggy. How many times you have to move your thumb up and down.. :disappoin

I like that the iPhone autoscrolls to the top of a webpage(or anything in the OS) by tapping the top of the screen where the time is, but really, long webpages are terrible to view without some form of autoscroll that takes you to the bottom.


...that is, if the site doesn't crash before loading. :lol:
 
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