It's still hard to believe that Nokia's already upstaging the N97 with the
N97 mini just two months after the big guy shipped, but here we are, staring at the FCC documentation. There's not much to go on here besides this label-location drawing, which is marked with a 1:1 scale -- allowing us to set our regular N97 down next to it and show you just how little Nokia achieved with all that development money. Check it after the break, along with another pic of the mini the inimitable Eldar Murtazin just posted to his blog.
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Read - FCC
Read - Eldar Murtazin's blog with additional pic of the mini
posted August 20th 2009 2:23PM
Maybe it's thinner, too
It's not. http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/04/nokia-n97-mini-is-seriously-just-a-smaller-cheaper-n97-it-seem/
Oh, I see.
yawn
Symbian is a sinking ship. True story.
Yeah, that's been said for years.
And been wrong. Still is.
You are repetitive as hell. Fact.
It was to crawdad689.
It seems like it should be a sinking ship if you read much tech journalism. But their crystal ball doesn't seem to match up with sales figures.
Personally, I've never liked Symbian products, and the only Nokia's I've ever owned were low end and cheap, basically free phones. I've rarely been tempted to pay for Nokia product (exceptions, N800, and very briefly, the N97 before realizing how little Symbian cared about maintaining software compatibility, even among s60 devices, and how short-sighted their OS UI has been). But a lot of people must like them because they're still #1 in a market with fierce competitors.
If you really believe in the "say it often enough and people will start believing it" game, maybe you should go into politics.
Fingers crossed I'll get to play with a Satio shortly.. I've been a symbian fan since the epoc32 days.. I have an N97 and it is truly a terrible phone.. every aspect has a fault.. from the camera cover causing scratches on the lens to the ring tone defaulting to the nokia tune randomly to the alarm clock going off 4 minutes late.. but I don't think symbian is dead quite yet. I'm really looking forward to comparing SE's flagship with Nokia's *smirk* flagship N97. Is Symbian^2 / S60-5th terrible or has Nokia just managed to screw up another promising platform (like S90 which I personally think was fab!). Fingers crossed the SE offering is good and may instill some of the confidence I've lost having used the N97 for a while.. On a related note, now Nokia is pressing ahead with a smaller N97, how much should I bet that the "fixes" for the N97 original stop flowing? Is it me or do they kind of give up on broken/buggy phones?
In this case, smaller just mean smaller. Not much smaller, though.
Will they package it with a proper stylus (perhaps one that fits inside the phone), or the same pointy eraser the old one had?
Is this a tend, companies make products than turn try to make buck of a smaller version. If it looks good, ok, but why not start of small in the first place or two versions.
In this case, the smaller version loses the slide out dpad. The mini is not just smaller, it's less functional.
I would like to take this opportunity to publicly apologise to Nilay Patel for my ignorant, foolish and stupid comment in yesterday's post on the N900. Please forgive me, Mr. Patel.
O M F G ! ! ! ! ! ! !
IT'S THE N97 NANO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Capacitive N97?
Company A (let's call them PONY) shrinks one of their products and Engagdet has nothing but praise for them.
Company B (let's call them MOKIA) shrinks one of their products and Engadget calls it a wasted development.
One company makes a home console, the other a mobile device. Guess which company received a negative write-up on its shrinking efforts?
People actually bought the Pony SayPlaystion and praised it, though, while the Mokia M97 is mildly derided by even the Mokia Cisdussions forums. Revising a successful product is more likely to be well-received than building a slim version of a device that had some irritating OS issues.
I'm saying this as a Mokia fan.
At least said "PONY" actually DID shrink down their product a significant percentage. Said "MOKIA" didn't.
Nokia = FAIL
Would have been my next phone - shame I went for the BB