Nokia finally bring their A game, maybe...

bear wrote:I was just looking at my first Nokia (7650) on GSM arena and its hard to believe just how much phones have improved since then. It only had 4MB of memory and a VGA camera but at the time it was top of the line.

That was my first Nokia, it was the first one to allow you to change the cover I think. Come quite a way in 10 years haven't they?

That looks pretty AMAZE.

The reaction to this phone has been odd to see on various gadget blogs with people rubbishing it for not being an iPhone, Blackberry Bold or whatever. Surely iPhone users should be happy to see this phone show up before the next iPhone as it sets a standard Apple will have to match.

bear wrote:The reaction to this phone has been odd to see on various gadget blogs with people rubbishing it for not being an iPhone, Blackberry Bold or whatever. Surely iPhone users should be happy to see this phone show up before the next iPhone as it sets a standard Apple will have to match.

Fanboys are a very insecure bunch it seems.

Anyways, I just watched the videos and I love it, it really is very slick for a prototype, even the way the screen pops up and slides back in one movement has been carefully thought out. I think it's going to be a great product.

Full specs posted here;
http://noknok.tv/2008/12/02/nokia-n97-s ... -hands-on/

Hmm, All About Symbian are claiming it has an FM transmitter built in as well but Noknok aren't listing that.

bear wrote:Hmm, All About Symbian are claiming it has an FM transmitter built in as well but Noknok aren't listing that.

No idea, I haven't seen anyone mention it, I thought that sort of thing was standard now, more or less.

Oooh, if I get the job I'm after, I'll have to get one of these.

IRON NAN wrote:

bear wrote:Hmm, All About Symbian are claiming it has an FM transmitter built in as well but Noknok aren't listing that.

No idea, I haven't seen anyone mention it, I thought that sort of thing was standard now, more or less.

Yea i think it would probably have one all the new n phones have it. I love it on my N85 although can be a bit hard to find a free frequency in london

Wiggy G32 wrote:

IRON NAN wrote:

bear wrote:Hmm, All About Symbian are claiming it has an FM transmitter built in as well but Noknok aren't listing that.

No idea, I haven't seen anyone mention it, I thought that sort of thing was standard now, more or less.

Yea i think it would probably have one all the new n phones have it. I love it on my N85 although can be a bit hard to find a free frequency in london

What exactly does it do? I thought it was just a built in radio?

IRON NAN wrote:

Wiggy G32 wrote:

IRON NAN wrote:

bear wrote:Hmm, All About Symbian are claiming it has an FM transmitter built in as well but Noknok aren't listing that.

No idea, I haven't seen anyone mention it, I thought that sort of thing was standard now, more or less.

Yea i think it would probably have one all the new n phones have it. I love it on my N85 although can be a bit hard to find a free frequency in london

What exactly does it do? I thought it was just a built in radio?

no its a Transmitter you can send your music to any fm radio on a free fequency

Wiggy G32 wrote:

IRON NAN wrote:

Wiggy G32 wrote:

IRON NAN wrote:

bear wrote:Hmm, All About Symbian are claiming it has an FM transmitter built in as well but Noknok aren't listing that.

No idea, I haven't seen anyone mention it, I thought that sort of thing was standard now, more or less.

Yea i think it would probably have one all the new n phones have it. I love it on my N85 although can be a bit hard to find a free frequency in london

What exactly does it do? I thought it was just a built in radio?

no its a Transmitter you can send your music to any fm radio on a free fequency

Oh, one of those. I bought one of those for my ipod and then never used it.

Yeah, but because this phone has GPS built in you could use the transmitter to give you directions while driving.

bear wrote:Yeah, but because this phone has GPS built in you could use the transmitter to give you directions while driving.

Couldn't you just use the speaker for the ringtones and music playback for that.

True, but if used the transmitter (or hooked up the audio out to your car stereo) you could listen to music from your phone in the car which would then be interruped for any important directions and the audio quality probably wouldn''t suffer as much as it would through the phones speakers.

The phone also supports N-Gage, does that mean we will soon be seeing touchscreen N-Gage games?

The full datasheet for this thing reads like a wet dream in numbers.
http://events.nokia.com/nokiaworld/asse ... %20N97.pdf