http://gizmodo.com/5308440/nokia-n97...okia-is-doomed


Your thoughts?

I haven't touched one yet so I can't comment, but the quality of the sample photos doesn't exactly inspire confidence for the rover :-(

Lol, I stopped reading as soon as he started complaining about the resistive touchscreen

I am a long time s60 user so I have a built in bias against the anti N97 reviews. I currently am using a 5800XM which runs S60 5th edition and an iPod touch, I also of course have an N810. The best user experience is the iPod touch but it feels *soooo* limited in scope. You are required to do everything in a little box an elegant box but its still a box.

The 5800 allows me to do a lot of things but the fact that I can do so much does introduce a certain amount of confusion. Symbian with a few steps could equal the iPhone/ipod touch interface. Those steps include taking away all the choice and multitasking that users have come to expect from symbian. These reviewers are so blinded by the apple bling that actual utility takes the backseat.

Maemo is really my true love, I simply cannot wait until Nokia delivers a phone experience using maemo, the Rx-51 can't come soon enough.

Take away multi-tasking ??? Nooooooooooo ...
Forget these crapy reviews from Engadget and Gizmodo - they don't know anything else apart from swooning over every iPhone iteration.

Please let not Symbian emulate Apple to the extent of taking away powerful features. I can understand reducing clutter and menu choices, but that doesnt mean you have to hobble the OS.

I figured this would be the response from this site; however to start out with a fact of how Nokia is indeed the biggest cellphone seller in the world yet they're losing momentum starts the process where people that actually like Nokia products will have a very bad reaction.

Nobody likes to hear bad news. Let alone, likes to have a product that they might like talked bad about. The CPU has been bemoaned on this site in the past - Nokia had to optimize the OS to make it faster due to the CPU speed. OS optimization isn't a bad thing, but to do it because you used a slower CPU... c'mon. That's a bad thing. In fact...

Instead of seeing a tirade of what's wrong with Nokia, see it as a way that Nokia can make things right. And not about how the iPhone got things right... but more that Nokia should have been more right... they've been in the game far too long and on top nonetheless.

They (Nokia) should do better. Period. I know I'll get slagged off/flamed for taking this approach, so be it.

Speaking as one who owns the N800, N810, 5800XM, and has the N97 currently to review...

...the N97 is one polished piece of hardware. The software while fine needs some work. Nokia could have done better... maybe. But i don't know that they wanted to after looking at the current market and what they are doing with Maemo.

To sites like Giz, they see things more through the eyes of iPhone and Android. Android should scare most folks here, since its doing what Symbian does, but with more polish and less legacy. That being said, its a reviewer's impression. Take it for a grain of salt, not the words of Christ.

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EDIT/ADD: The experience of the 5800XM does not equal that of the N97. Its not night and day, but definitley dawn and dusk.

I thought this was interesting:
I find it strange that the author doesn't even mention Maemo. Not even a blip on his radar. I keep thinking that Nokia's gonna blindside the industry...

we have lots of devices to test mobile web at work, and the N97 was a recent addition.

it has a lovely feel to it, very high quality, the screen is beautiful, can be operated with a stylus or finger. I didn't get too long to play as yet, I'll try to get a pic of it next to n800. the user interface at first glance comes across as a totally different from S60 on my Nokia E65 until you dig into menus!

they've worked hard to keep the size down so the keyboard doesn't have number row, I'm not sure whether I'd want to live with that.

This ex-Nokian agrees 100%