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N97 poll update – your favourite features so far
By Mike on 13 April 2009
GLOBAL – Last week we started a poll asking you to pick your favourite feature of the upcoming Nokia N97. There’s been a great response so far, so thank you, with over 400 votes already racked up – we’ll be keeping this poll open for a few months (at least until after the device has been on sale for a while), so if you haven’t voted yet, click here to visit our N97 poll page and get your opinion counted.
Read on to find out which features you and your fellow Conversations readers are currently most excited about. Get the full lowdown after the break.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, the majority of you (31%) are most excited about all of the N97’s features combined (’All of the above’), suggesting that Nokia’s upcoming flagship device is appealing because its a sum of its parts. Is that fair to say?
Currently in second place with 25% of the vote, and the most voted-for individual feature of the N97, is the ‘3.5 inch touchscreen with custom widgets’. Taking the third slot with 20% is the ‘QWERTY keyboard with smart swing hinge’. What’s interesting here is that both of these are interface and usability features – a touchscreen and a keyboard. This suggests that the methods in which we are able to interact with our devices (or at least the Nokia N97), remain as important or more so than what a device is capable of doing, no? What do you think?
If you haven’t voted, click here to visit the Nokia N97 poll.
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April 13th, 2009 at 11:29 am
The combination of QWERTY keyboard and Wide screen Touch is the main reason why I’m rooting for this device as my next upgrade. Touched alone on a phone just simply don’t work anymore for me having been to a touchscreen phone, Nokia 5800. I’m missing the physical keyboards big time which as of the moment equates more with my love for touched that’s why I’m losing grip on 5800. This phone will satisfy both needs and I can’t wait to own one. 43 days more to Go!!
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April 13th, 2009 at 2:43 pm
Let me start by saying that I’m really looking foward to the launch of the N97, when it finally arrives
. Coming back to the article I find it amazing that Nokia aren’t getting more than 400 votes in over a week. They need to get more people looking at this, there should more like 4,000 or even 40,000.
Satpal
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April 13th, 2009 at 10:58 pm
Have they finally set a date? I’m from the Netherlands, so I guess we’ll get it later than other countries. I heard a few selected countries in Europe and Asia woud go first.
So when is it coming out and which are the selected countries?
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charlie Reply:
April 16th, 2009 at 5:38 am
@Mike, I keep hearing June. That’s all. Not sure on country time table, though.
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April 14th, 2009 at 12:12 pm
Hi Mike, thanks for the Poll. I’ve just blogged about it on n97 geeks.
For me, it’s the whole package, really makes it an attractive phone. Though I guess the stand out feature has to be the 32GB onboard memory!
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April 18th, 2009 at 7:07 pm
It’s really great device but there’s one thing I can’t understand. I was always looking for best performing device which fits my needs, but as for today two main features for me are music capabilities and qwerty (God this swing hinge is beautiful). As an real audiophile I need a phone that will easily replace my mp3player and take what’s the best from my not-the-worst-one headphones. There was n91 that was just amazing in this department and I waited till 5800 which matched it. Now when I heard that there will be something like n97 that ,taking what’s the best from 5800, will improve the experience of all-round phone with qwerty, bigger screen, better camera, built-in memory etc. I thought – this is it, this is what I want. But now I hear that n97 will have the same music-dedicated chip as 5800, but slightly downgraded because it’s not music-centric phone and that the policy of company to differentiate portfolio (!?!?!?!?) WTF???? If I want to listen to good music I have to choose worse phone with less features?!?! So what’s the point of all-round if I’ll have to carry phone and player or two phones with me????
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April 19th, 2009 at 2:01 am
I think Nokia N97 has a real lot to offer in terms of specifications. It has got something remarkable to offer in almost every front, from big screen to hardware QWERTY keyboard, a gigantic internal storage, touchscreen interface, vivid display quality, very good camera features, TV-out, flash player support, GPS, pocket office, music and video player, 3G, good web browser, etc. If only you could add some optical zoom and xenon flash and effective video light that would yield in grand images and videos capable of causing envy to most of the digicam/camcorder makers and even owners and–needless to mention–good touchscreen interface and usability and–let me mention–support for broadest range of video formats and if you could give this one at a far less price, you would easily force their competitors into submission and their customers into enticement that would be almost impossible to repel. A mini computer (and computers need to be fast, let me add), a quality digicam/camcorder, a phone rich in features, multimedia wizardry galore and great user-friendliness all packed in one with the comfort of pocketability and portability, what else one would need (at least for the time being)! Support for double SIM cards (GSM/CDMA) or even three (GSM/GSM/CDMA) would be welcome, yes! Not really a Nokia fan out of some bad experience with a couple of phones, I have my fingers crossed for this one, though. Guys at Nokia, come on, allure me and a lot others to buy this one and be the king of the world! Delay the launch; no problem! But make this one the ultimate!
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April 20th, 2009 at 9:11 pm
But it does not make any references to the use of other sensors included in the phone like the accelerometer or the video conferencing cam. Both of them can be used to really design new ways of interacting with the phone.
1. The video conferencing camera: Like what Nintendo will do with the new DSi.
2. Accelerometer: Not just used for changing from vertical to landscape mode. It is also useful to answer calls, etc.
3. GPS: Giving specific responses according to the place where we are.
I think that a clever use of those 3 sensors together with the touch screen can really change the way we interact with the mobile phone.
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April 22nd, 2009 at 9:41 pm
I want to know why on earth 5110 can have music quality equal to best standalone players and the best and most expensive flagship device cannot??? (I really like this phone, but this is such an drawback that it covers everything what’s good in it – what’s the use of 48gb if it won’t play music well on my shure’s, though it could and that’s the worst part)
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April 23rd, 2009 at 9:28 pm
I think this will be really great when it arrives, however when you ask in the shops, they say you can never rely on Nokia to deliver on time and that the are always 6 months to year later than the original date. It’s not even the ‘available soon’ section of the Nokia website.
The danger is that other phone suppliers (Apple) will come with an upgrade first then is will not be so great because everbody else has caught up or that people are not prepared to wait for something that might or might not arrive this year.
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April 24th, 2009 at 2:43 pm
Na minha opinião o que não poderia faltar no N97 é um pacote do office com editor de texto em word e flash xenon e editor de videos como o studio movie que o LG secret ou Renoir tem.
Fora isso acho que é melhor celular ja lançado no mercado
um abraço
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April 27th, 2009 at 10:30 pm
From the videos I have seen, the N97’s user interface is pretty fast, which is good and is a main usability feature I think. In many cases, phones are advertized only based their nice visual effects (I call it marketing user interface). Although nice to show off with, such a user interface will get more annoying (and less used) over time.
One question that still comes to mind is whether the 5MP camera will be better than my current Kodak 3MP digital camera. If so, I can say goodbye to that one (less devices to carry). Also still a bit worried about the absence of the xenon flash. It is known that LED technology has improved a lot so perhaps the dual led flash would be comparable in the end.
All in all, it is very good that the iphone finally pushed Nokia to release touch screen phones (they were against touch screens in the past). Also good that they are putting so much work on Symbian. Together with the huge number of applications on it, that makes Symbian the platform of choice.
Also, it is a good move by Nokia to put so much functionality on the phone by default (e.g. Nokia maps), which makes the N97 a really convincing phone. And, because of the active community on Symbian I can be sure that before we know it, mature applications will exist to run Android applications on Symbian S60 (some demonstrations have already been given).
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