Ideas & Opinions
N97. Will it change me?
By Mike on 12 December 2008
LONDON, UK – When you anticipate a device, you often envisage how you will use it, and believe that it’s new features will adjust the way you will behave. Take the N97. I see it being the real breakthrough device for me to begin seriously using email on the move. Something I imagined i’d do when I first got my N95 a couple of years ago. But it didn’t happen.
I remember waiting for the N95. Waiting for it and imagining how I’d use it and exploit its technical skill-set to improve my mobile existence – email, video calling, listening to music, the list goes on. Sure, I’ve moved onto the N95 8GB more recently, but fundamentally the bones of the device remain the same, and indeed it has improved my mobile existence, but nothing like how imagined it would. Will this happen with the N97 when I finally get one? Will it defy expectation, change my mobile behavior, or simply reinforce it?
Today I rely on my N95 8GB for things that I never consciously associated with it in the anticipation process of owning one – I never saw myself religiously checking the BBC news headlines every morning at the breakfast or relying on it as a tool for to video journaling key moments in my life, like my daughter’s first crawl two months ago and my three-year-old boy driving a boat on a lake in Austria, or finding the nearest coffee shop with GPS and Maps. Point is, my mobile behavior has altered as a result, and in what I see as a positive, valuable and essential way.
With that in mind I’m excited to see how the N97 will change things, and how it could change me.
Do you envisage such scenarios of use when you anticipate owning a new device? Are your expectations normally met, or do you share a similar experience to mine?
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December 12th, 2008 at 10:28 pm
I suspect it’ll change my bank balance.
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December 12th, 2008 at 11:43 pm
If it really does have all of those ‘presence’ features on the main screen, then I think that will be a big usage change.
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December 14th, 2008 at 1:07 am
I know that it will change my expectations towards non-mobile computing; but I’m not sure how much. The N95 has done a lot to *meet* my dreams, I’m not sure that the N97 will meet my dreams, or even exceed them – but then again, that sensor framework, widget-driven homescreen, and an already familiar platform might be more of a dream-defining experience than what I can currently detail.
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December 14th, 2008 at 2:38 pm
I think it is the real breakthrough device!
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December 14th, 2008 at 7:04 pm
This is a great question, as to whether what you think will change is what actually changes. I am currently contemplating purchase of the e66, as I think it will allow me to move everything to mobile and drop the desktop. However, it lacks the full qwerty keyboard, so perhaps I am not too realistic to think that I can drive e-mail from a 10-key pad. The beauty of the n97 is that you have the keyboard to make the e-mail happen and you have everything else. I’d like to see an e-series equivalent!
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December 14th, 2008 at 9:56 pm
Before you think about in what will it change your consumer behavior, have you already asked if you really need it?
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December 15th, 2008 at 4:22 am
I guess it will, as most of us mentioned, the N95 was really expected, and we thought we could use the mobile as more as a computer but in the end was not like that, N95 is a great mobile but still has lack of things, it seems that N97 can fulfill the expectations, cause the larger widescreen and the QWERTY keyboard, i think is a good rival for G1,renoir,omnia, im just hopping that the price will be not so expensive jeje.
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December 16th, 2008 at 12:26 am
Does any one know when this is going to hit the US. I Hate!!! the IPhone and this phone looks like the real deal.
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December 23rd, 2008 at 4:27 pm
some question about N97:
1- can I sync. with outlook?
2- can I get and save my emails in my mobile or I have to see on the web pages only? what about attaches?
3- does it support office? can I make or edit office files?
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December 25th, 2008 at 11:58 pm
Para cuantas lineas esta disenado? puedo usar dos lineas a la vez?
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January 3rd, 2009 at 1:00 am
some question about N97:
1- can I sync. with outlook?
2- can I get and save my emails in my mobile or I have to see on the web pages only? what about attaches?
3- does it support office? can I make or edit office files?
Those are easy questions? The answer to each of them is yes. They are features supported today on the NSeries. None of them are going away with the N97.
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January 3rd, 2009 at 5:34 am
Very interesting if it will appear on the Russian market, ‘coz there are defenitely not enough keys on the keyboard for the russian layout
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January 6th, 2009 at 4:18 pm
Does anyone know if it has threaded text?
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January 8th, 2009 at 10:16 pm
Everything new is changing our lives…
one step at a time…
When i bought the n82 i started taking more pictures, because the camera is perfect…day or night…
Searching every time i was bored, wifi to chat on msn or surf on the net… download mails… things i would never do with my old 8800..
when i saw people in tents and waiting outside apple store for the iphone i was laughing.. now with a 3.5 screen and so much capabilities i think i will be waiting for the N97 like them too…
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January 9th, 2009 at 4:40 pm
Something similar happened to me when I made the jump to the N82. I was using it for everything, and I mean everything, for a couple of weeks. Then I basically couldn’t seriously rely on it for email or office related stuff and ended up using it just for the GPS/maps and the amazing camera. Will the N97 change the way I do things? I don’t think so, however I think it will be a great mobile device that I will finally use instead of my laptop every time I am on the go. I actually think I won’t mind if I don’t take my laptop with me everywhere anymore.
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January 14th, 2009 at 9:25 pm
It ain’t going to do a damn thing if Nokia decide to put a rubbish slow processor in it like they did with the Nokia N96.
I’ll stick with my N95 8GB or some Google Android based handsets coming out in 2009
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January 25th, 2009 at 2:04 am
Brilliant phone / mobile computer. Does anyone know if it will come with a radio transmitter?
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January 26th, 2009 at 12:40 pm
it’s a great phone.
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January 26th, 2009 at 8:34 pm
I remember when I got my N73. I never would have believed I would even take pictures or lisen to music that much. Now taking pictures is part of my everyday life. I can’t wait to see the N97 and I believe I will get one even if it is expensive.
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October 11th, 2009 at 7:51 pm
Hi, Could you please help me, I have a Nokia n97 but I am Mac user. I was find sync software but it isn´t ready.
Do you send me a solution please.
thanks
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