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By: Andre

Andre — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 22:39:01 +0000

nokia today announced the secret: ARM 11 434 MHz single core. I was sure to buy a n97 but with todays announcement they lost me and many many others see the active discussion on: http://www.symbian-freak.com/forum/viewtopic.ph…

By: Andre

Andre — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 17:39:01 +0000

By: Andre

Andre — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 15:39:01 +0000

By: Frank

Frank — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 11:25:24 +0000

Nokia is full of BS, not even a month later after this interview:

http://www.electronista.com/articles/09/04/17/n…

I think a market leader should innovate and not just follow and emulate its smallest competitors.

By: Mark Guim

Mark Guim — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 19:02:03 +0000

He's also the PM for the N86. Not sure what other Nseries phones he is working on because those are the only 2 upcoming Nseries phones publicly announced so far.

By: Viipottaja

Viipottaja — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:51:32 +0000

This person is A product manager for THE N97. NOT THE product manager for ALL N Series.

Seriously people, do you really expect a lowly product manager (every single phone model has one, so there are literally dozens of them in Nokia and you obviously cannot expect them to reply to questions that are not specific to the device they are working on. Business simply does not work that way.

The most specific answer she (?) did provide was on the widgets, transitions, Ovi Store etc. which are speficic features of the product she manages. I was actually surprised she replied that 3D hardware acceleration at all. If I was her I would have said that something that is not disclosed.

By: Zylam

Zylam — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 00:13:22 +0000

should we add the Xenon vs LED flash...

"studies and research have shown that people never understood why we use LED over Xenon and we're not smart enough to spend a couple more and add Xenon even though the difference in them is tremendous"

but i will take the guys side on slider, i never had probs with the slider on N95 8GB and i used it normally, same with N85... why do people complain so much.. yea it losen's up quite abit but not its exactly life treatening

on graphics card, their idio*ts .. implement a graphics card when hardly anyone uses it.. but when people actually realize its worth something.. they get rid of it???

What about N-gage. yea its crazy to believe you would ever need a graphics card for 3d games...

HAHAHA you should have just asked about the N-gage and no graphics card in every question..

later homies, keep chillin

By: Zylam Marex

Zylam Marex — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 00:10:45 +0000

By: Vee

Vee — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 00:07:24 +0000

seriously, what can we expect right, that first time phone maker told nobody about there specs or design, there stores didn't even train on it till day of. So we've got what info they want us to know well have to wait

By: Jade Bryan Jardinico

Jade Bryan Jardinico — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 04:11:07 +0000

I read this just few hours ago and its amazing to see and talk with great people from nokiA!..

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Sat, 28 Mar 2009 02:39:41 +0000

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By: Mark Guim

Mark Guim — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 01:50:59 +0000

We didn't talk about processors… we talked about features, applications, widgets, and devices. The main device I paid attention to was the Nokia N97. It was still proto. Some areas were pretty responsive, while others weren't. I really like it so far.

By: Mark Guim

Mark Guim — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 22:39:16 +0000

Honestly, I didn't want to ask that question because I already knew what the answer would be. I don't care about processor, arm, cpu, blahblah, etc. What's important to me is if it'll be responsive when I actually use it.

By: David

David — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 18:13:00 +0000

I don’t understand the idea behind removal of 3D graphics accelerator from all the latest Nokia N series phones.
My N82 is much better than the newer N series models as it has got a better hardware with 3D graphics accelerator & camera than any of the current N series model.

By: Chris Walters

Chris Walters — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 16:47:54 +0000

Yes, pretending there aren't build quality issues is poor form on Nokia's part. I was more than a little disappointed to see such a political, dodgy answer from Nokia on this question in particular.

By: Chris Walters

Chris Walters — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 16:45:01 +0000

I have to agree, I hate the responses they gave you. You asked very pertinent, clear questions, and they gave you indirect, dodgy, overly cautious answers. It's clear they're only pretending to engage with you or your readers, when in reality they're holding you at arm's length and providing boilerplate press release fluff.

I felt the same way a couple of weeks ago when you asked a Nokia rep some good questions and received the same awful type of responses. The only companies who do that sort of thing are companies who take a hostile view of their customers--companies who think their customers are dangerous and need to be properly managed.

Just answer the questions, Nokia! Do you really think doing that will send your stock diving? If you do, then don't pretend to answer them at all and just stay silent. Don't insult the early adopters who follow news about your company so closely.

/rant

By: clay

clay — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 13:19:49 +0000

Gosh, I hope that paid for your gas money. They could have mailed that one in. Pat responses that in no way answered your questions. You should have pressed them. Pure fluff.

By: ming387

ming387 — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 13:05:26 +0000

This is not an informative interview at all, more to just be polite to the curious Nokia fans.

You mentioned unannounced features... Are you talkng about the processor? You don't have to say what it is, but it would be great if you can point us to it. =)

I think the processor will be extremely powerful since the N97 is designed to be multi-tasking all the time. The widget homescreen is set to constantly process live information from the internet/wlan, gps and cell network. Most of the current Nokia processors are not up to the task that the N97 is designed to do.

By: Edward Umana

Edward Umana — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 10:48:21 +0000

Thank you Mark for the questions!

I am not sure anyway if resistive is better than capacitive, the answer, although logical, is not good enough to decide which one is better. I guess it is a 50/50 thing.

By: Frank

Frank — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 09:25:10 +0000

- The N97 transitions will look nothing like the CGI we have seen in videos, lack of hardware accelleration is part of the problem. As you can read his answer to that question was "the transision in the CGI are INDICATIVE of the final product"..I would say expect no transitions at all or near all.

- The argument about Resistive-capacitive screen makes me laugh, so why have Apple and Google/HTC invested in capacitive? The right answer should be, "we made a wrong judgement where touch panels were going, and we wrote S60 around resistive". I haven't seen somebody asking for handwriting recognition since the PDA times.

Symbian is going nowhere, and they know that, they pubicly stated that the only community behind symbian is the one they pay for. They need to adopt Android or come out with something different like Palm webOS or Apple mobileOSX.

By: Andre

Andre — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 08:59:18 +0000

Thanks a lot for passing along the questions. Unfortunately he did not answer many of them.

If a customer has a problem with the build quality the least he wants to hear is that Nokia is very proud of the great build quality (!?!)

Also I agree with jebac if Nokia does not speak about processor and clock speed then it means it will be nothing revolutionary unfortunately ;(

By: tony

tony — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 06:23:33 +0000

That is the worst interview ever. this person should be a politician. They managed to completely avoid nearly every question. Very disappointing, I'm off to buy an iphone.

By: Al Pavangkanan

Al Pavangkanan — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 05:19:44 +0000

Those answers are the same as if from a White House Press Secretary, dodgy.

By: Micky

Micky — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 03:22:38 +0000

http://www.forum.nokia.com/devices/N97

Exactly, in the above link, there is no mention of CPU. There are alot of confusion on which ARM CPU the N97 will get. Im hoping its over 600

By: jebac

jebac — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 03:19:34 +0000

the link for the hardware specs doesn't give out clock speed or cores. Why are they so adamant in not telling the speeds? is it a low clock speed?

also, how can a flagship not have 3D acceleration???

By: Adrien Flammen

Adrien Flammen — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 02:35:25 +0000

I think that most of the answers were evasive, like the quality and specs. Dunno, but Nokia is losing it's charm. I feel myself tending to buy an iPhone, Palm or other brand S60 phone to replace my N95 8GB if Nokia keep going on this direction. I can remember years back when N series was the meccha of cellphones, and now N97 is just “cool… looks good”
They really need to change to get back on the lead, or nokia will follow palm's fate in the handheld market.