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    Image of ANoel ANoel
    12/02/08

    In reply to Nokia N97: Hands On The First High-End N-Series Touch Phone
    Nokia Ducks
    Nokia makes damn fine rubber boots is all I can say!



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    Image of DjCytosol DjCytosol
    12/02/08

    In reply to Nokia N97: Hands On The First High-End N-Series Touch Phone
    Am I the only one disappointed by this phone? Resistive touchscreen? ew
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    Image of ZLevee ZLevee
    12/02/08

    @DjCytosol: somebody else said that apparently this works better with a stylus, needed for asian character writing.
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    Image of davesmall davesmall
    12/02/08

    In reply to Nokia N97: Hands On The First High-End N-Series Touch Phone
    Competitors like Nokia, Microsoft Windows Mobile, and RIM are rapidly losing smart phone market share to Apple's iPhone. They've been pressured by their cell phone network customers to get an iPhone 'knock-off' into the market and to do it quickly.


    But inferior products, rushed to market, like the Blackberry Storm and the Nokia N97 will do little but provide unfavorable comparisons. iPhone has built-in WiFi. iPhone has the amazing App Store with thousands of third party applications available for download now (many are free). iPhone has a real computer operating system at it's heart. iPhone provides a great users experience. iPhone wins hands-down.

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    12/02/08

    @davesmall: Inferior? does your iphone have a 5MP camera with LED flash and Carl Zeiss lens? expandable memory? A full keyboard in addition to the touchscreen? All of the features of your iphone (even downloadable apps) are available in this thing, plus additional ones. Show me something the iphone has that this lacks.
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    Image of dallasmay2 dallasmay2
    12/02/08

    In reply to Nokia N97: Hands On The First High-End N-Series Touch Phone
    This is a bad idea for Nokia. Honestly, if I were them I would just duck low, and stick with low grade feature phones for a while. Nokia does not have the fanboy following that Apple does, is not going to give the freedom for Apps that Google will, and doesn't have the business lock in that Blackberry has. Nokia is fighting three HUGE players here.


    I guess that Sprint could sign them up and make this their #1 phone, but I doubt that Nokia is even that smart.

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    Image of fusiongt fusiongt
    12/02/08

    @dallasmay2: Well, mabe in the US but doesn't Nokia pretty much rule Europe? They know what the market is like in the US and that's why they don't put too much effort with most of their phones (ie: no US 3g support for lots of phones, even good ones like the N82). Even the N95-3 took a year to come in the US after it was released in Europe. Chances are this N97 may or may not come to the US with 3g support.
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    Image of ZLevee ZLevee
    12/02/08

    @fusiongt: I've seen a bunch of Nokia's with 3G at AT&T. Most Nokias, even the simplest ones, also have FM radios (in addition to MP3 players), which is something not many other manufactureres put in.
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    12/02/08

    In reply to Nokia N97: Hands On The First High-End N-Series Touch Phone
    No thanks.


    My M810 experience has left me not so into Nokia.

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    12/02/08

    @strider_mt2k: Excuse me, N810.
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    12/02/08

    In reply to Nokia N97: Hands On The First High-End N-Series Touch Phone
    A gorgeous phone to be sure, but I have a few hesitations. First, the thickness of any slider phone is always what ends up killing it for me. I want the keyboard, but I don't want it to be thicker than an inch. Second, the screen is a little disappointing. I would hope for more of the Nokia N800 style screen with a res of 800 wide. Third; Symbian OS? Why not make the full leap into Maemo Linux? Sure Symbian already has a lot of apps and it's familiar to a lot of folks, but it's getting a little long in the tooth. Fourth, no WiFi or WiMax? Shocking. Hopefully that'll change in the final build. Finally, and this is a gripe about all cell phones not just this particular Nokia; do these things really need to retail for $500 or $600? After all the cost breakdowns I've seen, phones are no more expensive to manufacture than PDAs, and the price should be more like $200-$400. I understand that putting a high list price allows mfrs to lock in a favorable, exclusive subsidized price but I thought Nokia was going the opposite direction and offering more phones directly to consumers. That should translate into reasonable list prices, but apparently not.
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