http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/04/nokia-n97-hands-on-part-ii-the-reckoning/ Engadget Mobile Comments for Nokia N97 hands-on part II: the reckoning http://mobile.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://mobile.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2009 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/04/nokia-n97-hands-on-part-ii-the-reckoning/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/04/nokia-n97-hands-on-part-ii-the-reckoning/Dec 4th 2008 6:04PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/04/nokia-n97-hands-on-part-ii-the-reckoning/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/04/nokia-n97-hands-on-part-ii-the-reckoning/Dec 4th 2008 6:23PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/04/nokia-n97-hands-on-part-ii-the-reckoning/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/04/nokia-n97-hands-on-part-ii-the-reckoning/
This is the weakest point of nokia/symbian , and they should really take a look at that mess if they wanna make it back into the elite of smartphone makers, specially now that with the Omnia Samsung has managed the seemingly impossible task of making windows mobile usable and actually fun to use on a touch screen without slowing it to a crowl like HTC did with their touch flo rubbish.

If Nokia will fix this bug maybe I could even consider the option of check out if they really managed to make a smartphone as good or maybe even (gasp) better than my pimped up Samsung Omnia , which now (after having played a bit with HTC touch HD) I'm sure , is by far the best and smartest smartphone the marked has to offer at the moment.
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People in that "japanese [sic] or something" group make up about half of the world's population.]]>Dec 5th 2008 4:38AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/04/nokia-n97-hands-on-part-ii-the-reckoning/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/04/nokia-n97-hands-on-part-ii-the-reckoning/Dec 4th 2008 6:49PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/04/nokia-n97-hands-on-part-ii-the-reckoning/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/04/nokia-n97-hands-on-part-ii-the-reckoning/

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Sorry engadget folks but whatever how i love this website and read it all days, these reviews seems all biased in one way 'the iPhone is the way and competitors HAS TO clone it then improve this clone' which is completly wrong.

I have an N95 and i could never be happy with an iphone. No hate in this, but i'd have too much impressions of a regression.

Because aside the shine effect and web navigation, my N95-8GB is simply a better tool regarding my needs :
- a good phone (both are good on that)
- a good mp3 player i can control from my pockets without having to look at it (N95 +1)
- an USB stick (N95 +1)
- a good camera and often a usable videocamera (N95 +1)
- a decent webbrowser with one hand control (to check facebook, to google, buy and follow stuff on ebay, etc.) (iPhone +1)
- enough power to do all this during one full day. (N95 +1)

How do you use the iPhone when you're a girl with long nails ?
How do people type messages with it in asia ?
Here you can find some answers to understand Nokia's resistive choice.

I don't really see the point here of this capacitive vs resistive discussion. Of course capacitive screens are responsive, but resistive are too... The feeling is different, but i wouldn't say one is better than the other. Just different. And i even prefer resistive because you have more the 'press the button' usual feeling, but that's personnal. Capacitive are good... when you have a feedback, which the iPhone lacks.

I manage 300 technician's WiMo ruggerized PDAs, with resistive touch screen and there's no troubles at all regarding user experiences. The thing WORKS GREAT, and it's a good TOOL they really like. They use fingers, pens, even screwdriver on the screen for those who like the 'pen' feeling of a stylus. That's what all IT products should be : good tools answering our needs. Of course i had to create from scratch a custom homepage and specific softwares made for 'fat fingers' (big buttons, i can put some screenshots is one's interested), designed three years ago, but looking at the kind of users i have there there is really no complains regarding a good resistive screen...

Back to S60 now.
Of course it needs to look more shiny (which looks to be the case on the N97 by the way) than it is on my N95 :
- it's not sexy,
- it lacks transition animations to let the user think his device is incredibly responsive and hide the switching times between screens (hint hint on which device i'm talking about here ^^)

Aside this, you can fully customize menus the way you want them, move icons where you want them to be, add shortcuts everywhere, and i don't know another system with this huge flexibility.

Another strong point (shared with WiMo) over the Iphone : you have all you need on the main screen : details of your current planning and tasks. On the iPhone you are always 'one click away' of these information. Which is too much. I want to look at my phone screen and know what i need to know without having to interact with it.

And it's damn so stable. Nuff said.

I'm not saying here the iPhone is a bad product at all : it's definitly a new direction regarding user friendly interfaces, and this phone hype helped a lot to turn the mass market trend to touch screen phones.

BUT : it's not the messiah. It has flaws. As S60 of course, and others. All Apple choices aren't 'the one and only solution' as this article may enlight.

Back on the N97 now.

This is the first phone that makes me think 'Wow ! This one may be my next phone !'. On the paper it would be no regression compared to the N95, only improvements. And great ones regarding the home screen widget abilities, web-browsing, the keyboard, the storage capacity. As i don't see any drawbacks i really start to want to. But i'll wait in-hands testing of course. Oh, and i dig this black version !!

I hope my french-glish isn't too hard to read guys, sorry for this!
To all the geeks out there, enjoy your day.]]>Dec 5th 2008 6:13AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/04/nokia-n97-hands-on-part-ii-the-reckoning/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/04/nokia-n97-hands-on-part-ii-the-reckoning/
Cheers]]>Jan 9th 2009 1:51AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/04/nokia-n97-hands-on-part-ii-the-reckoning/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/04/nokia-n97-hands-on-part-ii-the-reckoning/http://tnkgrl.wordpress.com/2008/12/05/exclusive-nokia-n97-hands-on/]]>Dec 5th 2008 6:34AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/04/nokia-n97-hands-on-part-ii-the-reckoning/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/04/nokia-n97-hands-on-part-ii-the-reckoning/Dec 8th 2008 6:25AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/04/nokia-n97-hands-on-part-ii-the-reckoning/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/04/nokia-n97-hands-on-part-ii-the-reckoning/
BUT if the iPhone was such an obvious and superior product, no one would buy S60 devices. Nokia would not have sold 15+ million N95s etc. So Engadget must accept that different people have different needs and the iPhone with its poor batter life and poor 3G signal does not appeal to everyone.]]>Dec 5th 2008 7:36AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/04/nokia-n97-hands-on-part-ii-the-reckoning/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/04/nokia-n97-hands-on-part-ii-the-reckoning/
The n97 is a smartphone with a decent interface and includes all the iphone doesn't have.

and before someone yells "app store"... the app store is just a gimmick to take your money and offer apps that do the same thing as a web page.]]>Dec 5th 2008 10:57AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/04/nokia-n97-hands-on-part-ii-the-reckoning/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/04/nokia-n97-hands-on-part-ii-the-reckoning/
One HUGE thing, how often is the OS updated for the Nokia's phones? Updates for the iPhone come once every couple of months. What other phone does that? I plug mine into my computer and it updates. You have to seek out updates for your phone.

The App store, iPod, Capacitive touch screen and larger amount of developers is the reason the iPhone will sell more. Even if it's not better (because that's opinion). You are right, missing Flash, multi-tasking and those other FEATURES is a big deal. But does it matter if the phone is extremely difficult to access those features. What I always tell my friends when they use my iPhone: Do Less. It's intuitively designed.

You are wrong in what you say for one reason.
You're comparing apples and oranges.
Nokia is aimed towards business and iPhone is aimed towards a younger audience.]]>Dec 12th 2008 4:00AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/04/nokia-n97-hands-on-part-ii-the-reckoning/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/04/nokia-n97-hands-on-part-ii-the-reckoning/Dec 5th 2008 11:38AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/04/nokia-n97-hands-on-part-ii-the-reckoning/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/04/nokia-n97-hands-on-part-ii-the-reckoning/Dec 5th 2008 2:07PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/04/nokia-n97-hands-on-part-ii-the-reckoning/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/04/nokia-n97-hands-on-part-ii-the-reckoning/Dec 8th 2008 4:48AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/04/nokia-n97-hands-on-part-ii-the-reckoning/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/04/nokia-n97-hands-on-part-ii-the-reckoning/Dec 8th 2008 3:09PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/04/nokia-n97-hands-on-part-ii-the-reckoning/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/04/nokia-n97-hands-on-part-ii-the-reckoning/http://my-symbian.com/

Little wonder, with about half of the world's smartphones running on it. WinMo is a distant second at around 15%.

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