Nokia had a partner booth at LeWeb8, next to Steek’s. Their fanciest handsets were on display, including the iPhone killers, the 5800 and N97.
Now, I use an iPhone, I find it OK, but its “in-spite” shortcomings are quite frustrating. I thought I could live with less multi-touch and a bulkier package, in exchange for half-decent support for any of the standard mobile features: keyboard, camera, bluetooth, battery life, memory card, data modem, etc.
Nokia’s stuff is great in all these areas. However, the result is less than stellar. It’s bulky as brick, the keyboard is too flat, the UI is slow and clunky. It’s barely usable. It’s going to be pretty expensive, too. If Scoble’s right about this being Nokia’s touchiest week, this really means Nokia’s out of the smartphone game.
I had hopes for a Nokia, RIM and HTC or Google comeback after the iPhone raised the bar, but each of them had underwhelming responses.
Stupid iPhone.
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Um Dude, the N97 is going to really be “the phone to beat” in 2009. If iPhone doesn’t clean up it’s act and stop releasing “updates” that break more than they fix, and actually have a “working” 3G network, whether it’s Apple or AT&T who cares it’s still a problem, they are going to loose MAJOR market share. Also, there are some stellar things about the N97; big one 5 megapixel camera, with DVD recording capability and a “USER FACING” camera! Need I say more? OK, number one drawback… price; prob going to be around 800 USD sometime in 2009! UGH! I’m saving already though!
Posted 13 Dec 2008 at 21:31 ¶Ronald, that’s exactly what I thought and hoped for when I’ve heard of the N97. As I said, I WANT the iPhone to be out-run.
However, Nokia’s brick is just not there yet. I’m as disappointed as the next guy looking for an iPhone alternative.
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