If flash animations and S60 5th edition are your idea of a good time then you'll want to head on over to Nokia's new interactive N97 landing page. From there you can get as close as you'll ever get to Nokia's flagship slider with 3.5-inch, 640 x 360 pixel resistive touch-screen display prior to its expected June launch. So go ahead, take 'er for a spin and then hit the
newly live pre-order button after you're convinced that this is the smartphone for you. Sure, there's lots of potential June competition out there but take heart: the Android-powered Samsung i7500 lacks a QWERTY, there's no guarantee that a next-gen iPhone will launch in June, and the Palm Pre might be a big fat dud. There, feel better about your choice?
Update: Tipster Chris just let us know that the N97 shows a $699 phone-only price on the "
find products" tab over at Nokia USA. That's $6 cheaper than the
N96, strangely enough. See screen-grab after the break.
Update 2: Pre-order is go for the US.
[Via
mivadika, thanks Nikos K.]
posted May 4th 2009 5:40AM
Nah, not as exciting as it seemed a few months ago.
Maybe it's because of the kind-of lameness of the 5800.
32GB was exciting, but I realized I'm barely using half of the 2GB in my SE phone.
Personally there is no way I'm laying down money until I've read countless reviews; my N95 was great while it lasted but there is no way I will accept such a slow phone in the future. In my experience every Nokia starts of generally responsive, but become sluggish very quickly. FTR, I've only ever owned Nokia phones upto this point - I'm hoping Apple release an iPhone HD or similar.
Nokia sell 1M 5800 a month, so not so lame!
@Samboini, my wife's N95 runs very quickly. Perhaps you need to update the firmware :-)
agreed. the 5800 really killed any excitement i had for the N97. I was hoping it would have a better UI like the iPhone or SE Idou (which also runs Symbian!).
Ill hold onto my N85 a bit longer
This thing isn't exciting because it has:
- resistive touch screen
- run-of-the-mill ~400mhz ARM11. (on freakin' flagship phone released in summer 2009)
- 128MB RAM
Nope. The Omnia HD totally destroys the N97 in every way imaginable (apart from the keyboard, nice!) and it's gonna be out a month before it!
The Omnia HD is crap it doesnt even have a smartphone OS.
The ignorance is too much! Be gone, foul creature!
@ ArcticFox
Ouch... you may want to recheck that as the Omnia HD and the N97 both run S60 5th Edition.
Omnia HD beat nokia N97 in every way i can think of... including the keyboard , i prefer full screen touch keyboard like the omnia HD, the keyboard in N97 only add extra weight and size for me
Samsung omnia record and play HD videos N97 can only record/playback SD videos, and omnia support more video formats
Omnia 8MP Camera is an updated version of the current i8510 which is the best at the market Right now unlike n97 reusing old 5MP
Omnia Amoled Screen beat every other phone screen in the market by a mile
and so many other stuff where i cant list them there, Nokia phones quality doesn't last as much as samsung or SE
Get Omnia HD people or get N97 and Watch Nokia release updated version after 2 months like they always do and regret getting N97
Samsung is already went ahead of there self and everyone wlse with the omnia HD
Until you read the reviews on the i8910 Omnia HD and find out the audio "quality" is zilch. Samsung also has a history of non-support for their symbian devices. Samsung isn't doing much in getting developer support as well, making that nice GPU useless. Pass.
Let's see about that omnias battery life :D
Except for a little tiny micro detail : 32GB !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@AI: Yeah, I read about the audio quality. But the speaker phone is good. Moreover, Samsung phones have never sounded good, and if it sounds like the others I've used, or at least no worse, it's acceptable.
My biggest concern is Samsung's penchant for no support. Nokia is showing themselves to be very dedicated to services and support, and that's certainly worth money. I'm just not sure it's worth that much.
@btdt
Omnia HD has a 1500 milliamp battery.
At least in specs! The Omnia HD should be very fast with the ARM Cortex-A8
Omnia HD
3.7", 360x640, *capacitive AMOLED* touchscreen
45nm OMAP3430 with ARM Cortex-A8 @ 600mhz, PowerVR SGX 530 GPU + 430MHz C64x DSP
8MP camera, 720P video recording
N97
3.5", 360x640 *resistive TFT* touchscreen
run-of-the-mill 434mhz ARM11 (unknown manufacturer, unknown graphics)
5MP camera, VGA recording
OMG it's the batman phone from the batman movie. X RAY VISION
Nah it's the 5800 in the batman movie
"Only God should have that power..."
Must sell my N82 ASAP and get this beauty.
I am so looking forward to the N97 - gonna be my next phone if I can afford it
Samsung are the best devices on the paper : sexy, high technical specifications, it's hard to resist ! Omnia HD, i7500, you both seems very lovable...
Then you buy one...
Then you have :
- lot of missing functionnalities
- lot of bugs/conception problems
- no (or so rare...) ROM updates to fix things up and add more stuff !!
- horrible ergonomic problems (like the crapy homemade *TouchWiz* interface, will this shit be on the i7500 too? Do Sammy guys having constant suicidal tendencies ?)
I won't buy one.
The N97 may have a lower def screen, i know Nokia will take care of it and make free new ROM versions during at least one year (and probably more as they did with the N95). It have STANDARD jacks & USB & bluetooth - to share files, not like the iPhone... -, a great camera (i don't care of a 8mpx, the only real strengh of the Omnia HD are the video and the screen), and IT WILL WORK. I laugh when i see all i can do with my 2 years old N95-8GB that iPhone users can't, things that i NEED in my all day life. All i miss is a decent touchscreen to browse the internet (even if the N95 is THAT bad for that, and Java/Flash are supported which was really helpful sometimes) and an application store. Thye N97 will bring all this, i just can't wait :-D
No, you're just a foolish Nokia fanboy. Did you even read your comment? It's filled with a bunch of lies and self-deceptions. Have fun with your poorly built Nseries, fool!
I suppose my only comment to make about that is, the i7500 runs Android. Any Android update should be sent out to all its phones... So I don't really see the issue there. Samsung are just building the phone itself, which is a pretty good combo if you ask me.
Unfortunately, the i7500 won't have Touchwiz. I was really hoping that they'd write a Touchwiz homescreen for Android because it really is an excellent interface for a handheld, but it looks like they're just sticking with the stock Android options.
@pit:
This is true for the N97 as well if the 5800 XpressMusic is any indication (which it should be since they are running the same operating systems); better specs than the iPhone, but crappy S60 software shoe-horned into a touchscreen phone. Not a very good user experience at all.
I might get low ranked for saying this, but I'm loving my 5800, before it I owned a Touch Diamond, which as much as i tried to love, ended forgotten in a drawer and substituted by an e71 which I loved with all my heart ´till it got stolen and ended up with the 5800. To be completely fair, I expected more eye candy for a touch phone and the ability to customize the interface a little more, but all and all, its a very nice first try, the keyboard is surprisingly good and the browser is great, sound and screen quality are amazing and I haven't noticed any lag. It has crashed only once while I was browsing a really huge post with lots of pics. It seems like the N97 takes care of all of the 5800 shortcomings, so I'll definitely will be getting one when the price drops.
I'm almost the same as Hugoliva, only I sold my Touch Diamond a Month after getting it, I disliked it so much.
As for the 5800, it will likely get some nice updates to bring it up to N97 level, like homescreen widgets etc. It's still a great phone as-is though. I don't see why everyone has a problem with it.
I currently have an N95 and I have to say after 17 months, I hate the thing. S60 is slow and clunky, the phone itself has horrible button placement and i often find myself pressing that stupid second menu button rather than the soft right key or the C key. I don't even have large fingers either.
My next phone has to be that Samsung i7500. I can live without QWERTY, but I cannot live without a decent mobile OS this time.
N95 runs an older version of S60. The N97 is using a MUCH updated version. Should be somewhat nicer. But I know what you mean about the N95
i think this might be the first time in years that i don't get a nokia flagship. for me the competition is just way better, at the moment i'm very tempted by the Omnia HD and since my contract isn't up for renewal til september i might wait around for the Sony Ericsson Idou, and i never thought i'd say this, but i may even consider an iphone providing there is new hardware released. the iphone OS 3.0 seems to remove alot of the limitations that have put me off since the start.
I could swear my HTC just shook a little!
I'm going to do the sensible thing; Walk into a phone shop when the N97, Omnia HD and i7500 are all out and tell 'em I want to check out all 3. I'll most likely be able to make a much better judgment on them all then rather than just trawling through pages of "Well, I didn't like this phone they made before" or "They didn't do this before" or "The is going to be so good (even though I've not seen one for reals yet, but trust me, I know!)"
And the Pre, obviously!
I'm loving the new widget interface.
The Pre-order link is broken....OH GOD somebody fix it!
I read comments, some times I smile and/or change opinion about some device or subject.
But it is the first time - in my opinion - that 3-4 devices are so close to start a nuclear disaster...
I guess that every new phone (this 4 iPhone, Pre, i7500 and N97, ++) will divide the market in 2,3...n pieces.
Now I can really say that Smart OS Devices can start "the fight".
But, only when a smart device will have: smart+OS, large LCD (>13'), flexible LCD (or bendable OLED), more than 800 MHz, >4-8G, CPS, Radio, touchscreen, Compass, Accelerometer, and 4-5 hours of battery life in full use then I can say YES... I will buy one, if I have the money.
Until then... all "smart devices" looks the same to my only smart eye...
@Elvis
A 13 feet LCD on your smart phone? I hope that 2 suitcases of batteries come free with that. :D
Hahahahahahaha......Palm Prē is the way to go, as far as I'm concern, my next phone will be the Prē, and you must be so stupid for writing this: "and the Palm Pre might be a big fat dud". How dumb do you need to be to say things like this? And no, I'm not a Palm fanboy, if that, than I would be an Apple fanboy.
From what i have read from the comments i don't think any of you even have the samsung Omnia HD or the nokia n97. Just chill for the phones to come out then GET the one you are supporting now, come back here and fight or argue for your phone. AT the moment every single person that is shitting on either phones are TROLLS.
@ dolapo10
TROLL
I skip this steaming pile of crap. Nokia should have designed a finger optimized UI from scratch instead of piggy backing a touch layer and some crap widgets on the 9 year old UI fossil S60, creating a useless mess. Scrollbars? Multilevel Option menu? Gimme a break.
I am sure I read somewhere that Nokia was redesigning the interface. You have to realise Nokia is in a very good position, they already own Symbian, which despite having a poor interface has a very well designed core, Nokia also own QT which is an amazing toolkit, so I think we should expect a new QT based interface in the future.
The chances of the N97 being better than the Pre are pretty much zero.
N97 is way better than pre.
@john
. . . because you said so?
Advantages of the N97:
-bigger screen (3.5" compared to 3.1")
-higher screen resolution (640x360 compared to 480x320)
-better cam (5MPx with auto focus and dual LED flash compared to 3MPx, no AF, single LED flash)
-more internal memory (32GB compared to 8GB)
-memory extension possible (no memory card slot on the Pre)
-good video recording (compared to no video recording at all)
-more flexible software development possible (Symbian allows pretty much complete access to hardware capabilities, webOS only allows some access and is limited to slow interpreted Javascript)
-proper game support possible (and pretty good with N-Gage)
-Flash support in the browser
-bigger app selection
-probably available a bit sooner
when it is born, it's already dead...
i love the look of the phone but s60 just kills it for me aster watching the videos of the 5800 i was really dissapointed
I think this phone will suck, mostly because of S60 which is not made for touch at all (very evident in the 5800 XpressMusic). I will be very happy if I am wrong, though.