Nokia N97

Hi,
i would’nt call the N96 a buisiness flagship. I think thats more the E71 or E90 part. But the N97 will be an interesting thing to look out for.

That price is before taxes as well.

I’ve given up on waiting Gigabyte M528 which is taking forever to actually be sold and bought Nokia N810 tablet recently. Moved all my mobile Internet and audio playback tasks from my E60 phone to it and surprisingly for me N810 is very good for video.

Now I can choose next phone much more freely when my current one dies (it’s in pretty bad shape after two years of heavy use).

Lately I think high-level techie phones are trying to achieve too much functions at once. Device can’t do everything and have reasonable dimensions and battery life at the same time.

It will come with a 1500mAh battery, so there should be enough juice to hold up to nokias claim…

@dip

N810 has 1500mAh battery - it provides about 5 hours of use (without GPS and WiFi). Big screens eat charge at very high speed.

Rarst yeah I saw that review on your site. Was not that the one without phone capabilities?

@Martin

Yep, it doesn’t have phone module. Which allows it to be way better at mobile Internet than any phone I had seen - bigger screen, better software, more processing power.

It’s not an ultimate answer but I like balance of function and price.

btw my post was for group writing and on freshly bought device, I will do thorough review after month or so of continued usage.

You list many features of this phone but honestly tell me which features are you planning to use?
To me, not a single phone in the market currently does its job well.
Lets take one by one,
camera, no matter how many pixel sensor you put, the pictures are worst than point and shoot so I would rather use P&S than using camera phone, why pay for the feature that I don’t plan to use?
The place where I live, data plans are extremely expensive, like €2 per mb. I can’t afford to use such expensive plan so I won’t use internet either.
Music phone, so far I am yet to see any phone that has a good music navigation. Sony Ericsson’s Walkman series is wonderful when it comes to sound but not good for navigation purpose that drives me nuts.
Use of non-proprietary ports.
Better contact managers, Nokia communicator had good contact manager but don’t know about the latest ones.
Better screens.
Water-proof
Shock-proof
Reasonable cost.
This is what I expect out of a good phone, may be you would like to list the features you are interested in.

It amazes me that people will pay as much for a tiny little cell phone as they would for a 47″ flat panel TV! There is a tremendous amount of margin in the phones at that price. I guess it is the price of living on the cutting edge…

@Lt. Dan

Some people spend with their phone way more time than with their TV… If they even own TV at all.

Excellent Nokia N97 -

best of the best

Nokia is rocking

Looks like quite an interesting phone.

I’ve currently got an N82 - it’s like an N95 but in a candy bar style. It’s got a great 5MP camera, I have used it on holiday a number of times and is great, the only lacking feature is zoom.

I guess the problem with all these cool phones being released all the time is that, well, I am sure we all have a perfectly good phone now, do we really need to upgrade if our current phone does its job pretty well at the moment?

Rupert I only purchase a new phone every two years when my contract runs out. I usually get a nice new phone for cheap if I renew it.

The N97 looks as if its going to be the latest attempt at knocking the iPhone off of its high perch. I have to say i do have quite a bit of faith in it as well due to its many applications and huge memory, also its ability to play flash videos. You can already sign up for N97 release information here…

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Rarst how responsive is your tablet?

@Martin

Browsing regular pages is not very fast - I am using relatively slow EDGE connection and modern Internet can easily be 1Mb per page on some sites. Mobile-optimised pages on other hand are perfect.

I am usually running native browser (single window), native email client, Pidgin and Mauku (twitter client) at the same time. It has no performance issues with such setup.

Im looking forward to the Nokia N97, using the compass to tag location of pics sounds brilliant.

The compass is brilliant indeed, but so is the entire phone. I’m just gonna get the unlocked version these guys are releasing http://www.puremobile.com/Nokia/Nokia-N97-White-GSM-Phone/ The white one looks so much hotter!

I’m just not sure, does N97 have live mobile TV?