*OFFICIAL THREAD: Nokia N97

No, the N97 will be available late May in limited quantities while June will be available everywhere.

The lack of website hinting that Nokia is probably still hiding something.
 
You should quote the whole article and keep it in context. Particularly the part about the web browsing , screen, and build quality. His gripe about the 5800'esque scrolling in the UI is legitimate, but it's also quite subjective. Not everyone wants their phone to behave like the iPhone. Is it better to have the option to flick/kinetic scroll everywhere and not just the browser? Probably. Is it a deal breaker for most of the people who would otherwise get the N97?
 
I think most people get the most impression from the UI menu
I have to say N95 or Symbian's UI is not fast and some might even say it's slow. But in running applications and games, that's where the power of N95 is.

People now like criticize on how fast a phone can change from portrait to landscape, any eye candy like different animations and transistions between menu, rather than the actual functions and powers of the phone.

Most friend say iPhone is fast, but that's because the very smooth menu system, but for running application, it's no match to N95.
 
Implemented properly, there would be a pretty big penalty for the first widget, (about 300k to load the rendering/js engine), but each widget after that would take next to nothing unless the developer was an idiot and jammed it full of high res graphics constantly loaded into memory.

Edited to add: One of my friends seems to find it impossible to not respond to a text message, no matter what the situation that they find themselves in. It wasn't so bad before they got an iPhone, because the dumbphone's screen wasn't so large and bright. Now it's incredibly distracting at a concert, at the movies, at dinner, whereever. It's getting to the point where I'd almost rather not invite them out because they just can't avoid being rude with the ****ing phone.

That's not to say I'll never look at my phone during a movie, dinner, or whatever, but it's an isolated incident, not constantly. And if someone calls me, I either don't take the call or I get up and go outside. Sometimes I really hate technology. It's turned people into *******s.
 
I was able to cancel my pre-order by calling Brightpoint directly: 888-888-9562. So all of you that ordered already go ahead and lock in the $175 in savings by reordering . . .
 
The mobileworld was one, but even Eldar's pics where he compared the N97 to the 5800 seemed to leave the N97 lacking. Of course I will wait for other reviews and to see the phone in person. Just seemed like it wasn't as sharp.
 
With additional time lost by which point their other project(s) could be out anyway. These wheels have been in motion for quite awhile.

And only if you refuse to acknowledge Nokia's strategic direction is in services. Even if they fail, that's still the decision that the powers that be decided.

Most, if not all of us willing to buy at this point don't give a fig whether they succeed or fail at that since they succeeded in offering a combination that we DO want. Your argument is tangental, if not entirely irrelevent, to what those attracted to the N97 want it to do.



We'll see. You can scroll through pages of crap apps on the average iPhone and there are 'very few faster, smoother apps' that are worth two *****. N97 has already taken a huge step forward with the big social networking widgets and the likes of Bloomberg and AP News. Combined with the best aspects from their own Active Standby while moving them forward is a hopefully sign that 3rd party development will catch up. The whole lesson of the iPhone is it's app distribution method... it's not particularly innovative by itself in concept, as 3rd party apps have been available since the early 2000s on a number of smartphone platforms that have come and gone. What the Apple App Store has done is that it can be successful and worthwhile for 3rd party developers to move out of the elite ueber-nerd/ultra-chic business classes and make stuff the everyman can use in their smartphone. THAT is what Nokia is hoping to do with Ovi. Regardless of whether Nokia succeeds or fails with Ovi, we will still have the old way... with a few less fart apps hopefully.
 
I will only say this because its almost on topic...

..this is exactly what the Calendar app should be doing on S60v5 now (the functionality of linked content and widgets); and all the more this is what the N97 should have been doing out the box with default apps.

FYI: seems like this is the Nokia software design direction, I'm expecting a significantly different UI for Symbian Foundation devices (SFv2 adn v3) given something like this now.

N97 in early June.... uhmmm, if the NAM variant, then I will have some decisions to make.
 
Highly doubt they could work the system like that. They'll come out fulfilling orders as they were placed. That'd be pretty messed up if they made all the people who got it for $500 wait an extra month :lol:
 
it is never a fair comparison anyway, they show the ui of the iphone and the browser, they never get into the multitasking, and the true power of the devices, or the full blown out features of both. :buddies:
 
I am anticipating that n97 will eventually shipped on June 2nd and from that moment my iPhone will be sitting in the drawer collecting dust until it, once again, proven to be another flop from Nokia.

With that being said, if all goes well I will definitely miss few of 3rd party apps that I am currently using on my iPhone...

- Shutterfly
- Polarize
- OpenTable
- WSJ
- NY Times
- EZ Loan Calc (for now)
- Y! Music (or any other online radio)
- Any tip calculator

What about you guys?
 
Nope, but it could still release to Amazon and the other retailers (and Nokia USA will hopefully have a better handle from the last lesson - regardless certain of us won't bail if our glitch pricing is honored anyway).

As far as 3G issues, can only hope. But you're not trying to pee on the parade, right? :) Just the same as we'll hope your audio issues and touchwiz issues don't creep up.
 
Doesn't work for me :(
you know when you long press the menu key, shows you the running applications? I realised you can't close AccuWeather... I'd long-press it, then select exit, select Yes to confirm the quit, but it's stays there. Weird...

Also realised, when i remove the widget and re-add it, it asks me if I allow it to access my device and allow it to connect online, maybe it doesn't remember the "yes" which could explain why it stays stuck on Loading?

Anyways, my cheat code is removing your location, then removing the widget, readding it, and readding your location... It's longer than your Game Genie code, but still managed to work for me, it'll be my Game Shark code, lol.
 
I don't care about light leaks, my E71 has a bunch of them but the way I see it, I'd rather have light leaks between a couple keys or between the keyboard and the screen than no backlight at all. But I have handled an N95-1 that had as much play from side to side as it did sliding up and down LOL. I'm not knocking the build quality, I'm just trying to make sure nobody thinks Nokias are completely indestructible like they used to be.
 
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