It's the phone that Nokia should've used to introduce the world to Symbian S60 5th edition, but is it the "hero"-type device that it was marketed as? Nokia's
N97 is undoubtedly expensive, debatably beautiful and thoroughly polarizing (as
two of our own found out). While it's impossible to say the handset was introduced to go head-to-head with Apple's iPhone (the whole "only sold off contract" thing kind of hampers that), there's little doubt that this phone was Espoo's most significant attempt yet to make a name for itself in the full-touchscreen smartphone market. If you handed over the handful of C-notes required to take this bad boy home, why not tell us exactly how you feel now that you're an owner? What would you like to see changed on Nokia's next attempt? What measures up? What falls short? You've got one shot (maybe two, depending on the mood of our comment system) -- don't screw it up.
posted August 15th 2009 2:02AM
get a palm pre....
Just no. The Pre is my current phone and I love it but no. This just sounds like every other choad that says everything can be solved by making it an iphone. Nokia's N series has its fans and supporters and I say good on them. They obviously chose it because they preferred it over WM, WebOS, iphone, Android, or whatever.
I dont own one so i am gonna post something to make me look like a complete r-tard.
@neo
u r such a goody goody. shut up.
haha choad, i havent heard that one in ages. well done neodorian i +1'd you for bringing back a hilarious word and using it very appropriately and hilariously
put some flames on the side. make it go real fast.
-=Swap the 434mhz arm11 processor with an OMAP3430 - 600 MHz processor (434mhz is in the low end feature phone nokia 5530, come on!! Give it a proper featureset if you wanna call it "flagship")
-=Double the ram, from the rather insufficient 128mb to 256mb. (VERY IMPORTANT)
-=Use stantum's resistive multitouch technology in the touchscreen (better user experience)
and we have a PURE WINNER.
How about taking some important features out and making it a bit smaller? Oh wait, thats the N97 Mini...
How'bout removing the Nokia logo, and replacing it with Vertu? That's where the obsolete-tech users are. Or make it more expensive, remove 75% of any updated features/hardwares, and slap on an Apple logo? That might attract some excessive and nonsensical buying.
@ragetek
Good man. It's those features alone that mean I'm not touching the N97. Dumb arse Nokia being tight fisted with their hardware upgrades.
@regetek
I can't imagine the price it would have with these features. Here in Croatia the N97 costs 5999 KN ($1.169,41) unlocked.
makeZ O O M I N Gand panning less laggy and highly responsive like the iPhone.
Copy iPhone like everyone is doing. :) If you can't beat them join them! :)
I am existing iPhone 3G user whose contract was up for renewal and decided to get the N97.
Long story short I owned the N97 for a total of 5 days returned it and never looked back.
Comes with music (sometimes)
On average 3 out of 10 songs downloaded I would receive a message telling me that the device wasn't the one I had registered earlier.
The N97
The phone hung a total of 10 times, twice while listening to music. Subsequently I went down to the Nokia care shop to get it fixed and a few hours later just after everything seemed fine and dandy, the phone literally died on me and decided to only revive itself 24hrs later still with a fully charged battery.
The next day i returned the phone with no regrets.
Nokia needs to get their act together. A flagship phone which has the slowest processor of the current generation of smartphones? What were they thinking?
The series 60 software seems dated and I found has kept giving problems since the original N95. came out. A capacitive touch screen would also be a welcomed edition.
In addition, the music quality of the phone simply cannot hold a candle to any of SE's walkman range of mobiles or the iPhone for that matter.
This phone is the jack of all trades but master of none. Too little too late.
1. The phone is buggy as all hell i've had it for a month and it crashes all the time. Please Please Please do some fing software updates this phone was not ready for release.
2. Fix the podcast player so when you pause the podcast and exit the program (but leave it running by pressing the red button) it doesn't lose your place.
3. The N78 has a 3.1mp camera and a single led flash and takes 100 times better pictures
make it like my iphone...
1700 MHz for Tmobile 3G
This. Everything else is pretty solid.
sounds about right
Maybe A better stylus? From my observation they could have made a much more aesthetically pleasing one that actually stowed in the device itself. This would increase ease of use and convenience.
release of an N97HD version would be really cool for me. 1280x720 screen, hdmi, and definitely a better camera(8~12 megapixel). its form actors a bit too curvy, so that can be bettered making it more edge to edge nd cool!
Go to Japan-you just described a high-ish to middle end phone (minus the 1280x720 screen, they have to work with a piddling 800x480 or something like that).
you couldn't even appreciate the extra detal of 1280x720 on a 3.5 inch screen.
put it on a provider up here in the north, so those of us who live in igloos can actually see one the damn things
HA! I knew he was an eskimo..
Canadian, but close enough
put android on it.
Or dual boot with Android (with separate ROM)
replace the operating system with um... anything else?!
Sounds like a comment in a 'How would you change [generic netbook goes here]?' entry.
I dont think anything is necessarily wrong with it but it wouldnt hurt if it had a little bit more ram :/ but besides that the phone is great :) multitasking works great( with some problems at times but nothing big really) and i havent really had any problems :D
Definitely, more ram should have been included, and since we are making wishes here, more cpu power to decode divx and xvid files without having to convert them
True, a friend of me has a N97 and a phone that almost is a netbook should have more ram, the same amoumt as the N95 8GB but with S60v5 instead of v3 on it is just to little. Another thing which puzzles me is the d-pad, it's quite useless with the touch interface and takes up space that should have accomodated a larger keyboard. One other thing which bothers me with the N97 is it's thickness, it's up quite thick. Ok, enough complaints, time for some praise: since a week I have got the i8910 (had to keep up with my friend hehe). First of, the N97 has got a resistive screen which is often critisised, and indeed working with the touch interface is more fluent with the i8910. However the N97 screen does provide much needed precision in the web browser. On the other hand the excellent on screen typing the i8910 offers wouldn't be possible (writing this post in that way :-) ), but the N97 has a keyboars to do this off-course... All in all I would't change the N97 to a capacitive screen if I were Nokia. Secondly the interface Nokia provides for the homescreen is better than touchwizz which Samsung provides in my opinion.
Capacitive touch screen.
No idea, never seen one.
If it compares to other N series phones, make it thinner, like half at least.
It's one of the worst build quality of all N-Series.
It's like Nokia forgot about that part.
I dont think anything is necessarily wrong with it but it wouldnt hurt if it had a little bit more ram :/ but besides that the phone is great :) multitasking works great( with some problems at times but nothing big really) and i havent really had any problems :D
how did i post the comment twice and 6 minutes apart???? i didnt double click or even refresh the page wats up with that??
Don't worry 80% of posts will be "Highest Ranked" in a few minutes. :D
Use a faster possessor, 400 mhz is not fast enough. Seriously the E72 has a faster possessor, WTF Nokia.
Just give us Tegra/Snapdragon/OMAP3, and we'll be on our way!
that and a faster processor :)
improve the accuracy and responsiveness of the screen - maybe capacitive?
improve the OS - hundreds of bugs, hideously designed unfortunately for a dpad over touch.
reduce the complexity of certain buried menu functions
fix the ovi store - charged multiple times for a ferrari game that was so poor it left me crying.
oled screen
new web browser
battery life was pretty decent, but i thin kthat was mostly because i hated using the phone for anything.
Just replace the OS, that's all.
a transporter that can beam you to any location, in any country, via dialing a phone number.
I'm enjoying the Symbian hate here, keep it up guys!
I am still reeling for the conservatism hate earlier...
The N97 is less expensive than the iPhone.
What the fuck, Engadget? I thought a major techblog would comprehend this.
Can it cut and paste?
Yes, for the last, let's see, six years?