HD Video: The great Nokia N97 debate, should you buy one?
By Stefan Constantinescu on Monday, June 22nd, 2009 at 4:00 AM PST In Devices, Nokia
While the world is waiting for Engadget to post their Nokia (NYSE: NOK) N97 review, which they’ve been hinting in their podcasts to be a feature unlike any they’ve done before, and while the IntoMobile gang waits for Simon to get around to writing his review, my friends over at The Really Mobile Project got in front of the camera and debated one of the most controvertial handsets of 2009.
What am I carrying in my pocket? The Nokia E71, and I’m very excited about the Nokia E72. I’ve yet to see an Nseries since the Nokia N82 that I’ve wanted and even with the N82 I made a huge sacrifice with that terrible keypad, just so I could get the best camera phone on the market.
This is the worst debate ever. It sounds like they don’t know what they’re talking about. The iphone troll vs the nokia who doesn’t know how to debate.
The guy who is “against” this handset – he is a moron.
@Pjero @Simon – Yes, hello I’m that clueless moron. I’m going to assume you’re both just massive trolls but for any of Stefan’s other readers who aren’t the background is that we’ve had an N97 in our possession on and off since March and wrote the video on the basis of one prototype unit and two production units (one European, one UK).
We might be wrong, but we are well informed.
+1 to Ben. Just sold my N97 today and he mirrored almost all of my impressions after using it for a week. Unbelievable amount of bugs and crashes right out of the gate, more than I’ve ever seen on an S60 launch. The low RAM was also critical when running a few of the active widgets and other larger apps in the background like Gravity and GM Latitude. It just doesn’t have the torque or horsepower a flagship device should have for 2009.
That said, using those same internal specs on a 3rd Edition FP2 device like the N86 makes it much more passable as a new device instead of the old-tech mashup that is the N97.
I have been wondering if the N97 would have the Hardware grunt needed to do what it says it can – JonnyBrhua’s comments leave me in no doubt.
It’s a sad day when this happens to eagerly-awaited devices – you end up having to spend another 12 months waiting for its successor, which has the CPU, memory, and storage that the original should have had.
Color me disappointed.