Nokia N97 Designer Answers Questions

January 21st, 2009 • Mark Guim • Filed Under •

Axel Meyer, Head of Design at Nokia Nseries, answers some questions about the Nokia N97. He talks about the keyboard design and achievements. You can tell from his voice in the video that Axel is really proud of his work on the N97. Take a look.

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Just from the hardware perspective, I’m already excited about the Nokia N97. Don’t know much about the phone yet? Take a look at Mobile Review’s review of the Nokia N97.

I think many of my friends with iPhones and Blackberries here in the U.S. will be curious about this device. The 550 Euros pricetag might scare most of them though.

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  • Frank
    This is a big PR exercise..N97 is too late to the market, could have been a good phone 2 years ago but not now, compared to the Palm Pré and Apple iPhone it simply looks outdated. The interface is clumsy, is not fluid, still relies on the old Symbian OS.Nokia should drop Symbian and concentrate on the development of Android based phones.
  • Xander
    @Frank,

    Just because the UI looks bad, compared to Palm&Apple, doesn't mean Symbina is bad.

    Quite the opposite: while Apple's OS is running at the peak of what can be achieved with it, Symbian can do way more than Apple's OS.

    You'll probably see better user interfaces coming on Symbian any day soon...

    The features on the Nokia N97 are far and far more advanced than the iPhone and Palm Pre. When it comes to that, the current iPhone is quite outdated (cam, GPS software that needs internet to have load maps, no full bluetooth, no Fm receiver, no compas, only 3208480 pixels screen, can only play iTunes files, no Flash plugin, no MMS, no 2nd camera for videocalling and the list can go on and on and on)...

    The Palm is a bit more advanced in its features, but also way, way, behind the Nokia.

    This N97 could never have been made 2 years ago! It has the most extreme features of all phones out there by far.

    But I agree on the very bad designed UI. Something that will probably improve drastically any day soon.

    Android hasn't impressed me at all yet, eventhough I do think it will be something promising for the future. Yet Symbina will remain the biggest. It has the biggest phone manufacter behind it, it's the strongest system with the most capabilities for expanding in the future. And next to that Finanacially, Nokia is extremely strong at the moment too....

    Maybe you're from the USA, a country where Nokia has had little interest in releasing phones for. Then you might not know the strength that Nokia has worldwide.

    Nokia knows quite well what they are doing: dedicating phones at specific people, instead of trying the "one-phone-fits-as-many-people-as-possible" approach.

    You can expect more fance touch interfaces, with high show-off value any day soon, in 2009. The N97 is more for people that want extreme, computer-like features, instead of great looks and smooth interfaces.

    Xander
  • jona
    i cant wait Axel :)

    A genius man
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