big_don wrote:as a E71 owner i went to the store and thought about getting the N97 mini and btw i find nothing mini about it! The size is decent but it's not much smaller than the N97 (i would prefer it a bit thinner). I did not appreciate the news that they had dropped FM transmitter on the mini! that was one of the selling points for replacing my E71. Then i tried out the QWERTY keyboard and I must say NO WAY!!! The keyboard is god awful on the N97/N97 mini and not even close to my E71. The buttons are just too flat, too hard to press, there's too much wasted space, it should be 4 rows of keys and put the damn space button in the middle, who the hell puts the space button to the side??? Name one cell phone maker that does that!I had to say no thanks.
Put FM transmitter into the mini
add the E75 keyboard on it
increase internal memory to its big brother level
upgrade the god damn old looking S60 touch UI (there was a nice UI in San Francisco i saw the other day on youtube btw.)
and you may be heading in the right direction Nokia. Otherwise its an awfully designed phone and Nokia dropped the ball again in my book.
I hate to burst your bubble on this, but the FM transmitter is rather weak if you're airspace is congested and plan to use it in your car. I tried it on a trip this past weekend, and it was near ineffective, unless you place your phone near a metal frame, where the signal will eventually reach the FM antenna. I even tried placing the phone under the radio, but the wire leading there still didn't seem to receive the signal. I'd prefer an external transmitter at this point, so I think this feature won't be a big loss. But yes, the KB is pretty hard to use.
Just one question :P What theme is he using for the n97? Looks pretty cool 😮
Unregistered wrote:Then you're probably the WORST of all customers, as you will do absolutely nothing to help provide Nokia any useful feedback, and only wait until the device is already out of style, and tell Nokia that you're only willing to pay really little for functionality. And probably unrealistic/oblivious, because if you truly got it for 75% or any retail, either you bought it second hand, or got it at a firesale, which means you didn't really vote with your wallet. otherwise, getting it for cheap first hand usually means a subsidy, which translates to NOT REALLY ALL THAT CHEAP as you forgo opportunity cost. So for all the good ppl on this forum, thanks alot turd.
You didn't answer the question. What other device am I supposed to buy if Nokia make the best one for my needs? What other phone has all that functionality and yet doesn't need a shopping cart to carry it about?
As for no useful feedback, you make no sense at all. Refusing to pay their asking price is not useful feedback? It's not my job to design Nokia phones anyway. If some other manufacturer made one that suited me better (there isn't one at the moment) then I would buy theirs.
It's not up to me to pay full asking price to subsidise you or anyone else. That's just cloud cuckoo talk.
I don't do subsidy, I am not stupid enough to tie myself down to a contract (to pay through the nose to be stuck for 18 months). And I won't lower myself to name calling either (especially whilst claiming to represent everyone on the forum).
Unregistered wrote:I hate to burst your bubble on this, but the FM transmitter is rather weak if you're airspace is congested and plan to use it in your car. I tried it on a trip this past weekend, and it was near ineffective, unless you place your phone near a metal frame, where the signal will eventually reach the FM antenna. I even tried placing the phone under the radio, but the wire leading there still didn't seem to receive the signal. I'd prefer an external transmitter at this point, so I think this feature won't be a big loss. But yes, the KB is pretty hard to use.
I find the performance varies a great deal depending on the particular model of car you are in. Some cars seem to have better RF shielding and selectivity on the receiver.
Buy anyway, I would think the FM transmitter could improve in another generation.
Re-Registered wrote:I find the performance varies a great deal depending on the particular model of car you are in. Some cars seem to have better RF shielding and selectivity on the receiver. Buy anyway, I would think the FM transmitter could improve in another generation.
Agreed. Works perfectly fine in my i30 and not so well in my friend's Alfa Romeo 166.
O.k the build of both the N97s looks really good,but will Nokia stick to this type of materials instead of there cheap plastic they use,we are nowdays getting loads of phones with the querety keypads,but these spoil the phone making them to heavy an alot wider,hope we do get a Nokia phone using this type of body with the slide without the slide out keypads,as even the N900 will be heavy an bulky
Steve - when you come to the multimedia part of your review can I encourage you to look at the issue of how well the music player copes with a large music library. Because the answer is not very well. I have about 20gig in mass memory and it really struggles with it. Big lags when opening album lists and the like. It's not really good enough on a device which was sold on its 32gig internal capacity.
Unregistered wrote:- In the US, it's hard to convince ANYONE bla bla
- gps bla bla, In US we only use gps in cars bla bla
Yes it�s hard to convince Americans since they�re used to live their way of comfortable life, they use their cars to go anywhere, eat junk food, don�t give a damn about climate changes.. yes, the rest of the world knows about that..thank�s for repeating that info 😉.
Well, iPhone is a very userfriendly phone, but the batterylife sucks. If I want a device that is mobile I want it to have good batterylife.
According to the gps, "in us people only use it in cars". Well, in the rest of the world people might use it when they walk, look up restaurants (no we don�t need to use a car to go a restaurant), when exersicing. I use my phone when doing mountainbiking/running/kayaking and tracking my routes etc, the nokia sportstracker is very useful there.
If I want a device that can do everything, surfing, writing, taking good photos (no iphone can�t do that), using gps and still haven�t ran out of battery at the end of the day, I definitely go for Nokia (or maybe Sony Ericsson) 😉!
i just bought this phone ,,i love it,,my question is: why i can send pics and music files via blutooth,,but why can not send video clips via blutooth,?? (there is no send option)..is this normal ..or misfunction..thanks..