Video: Nokia N97 is lightning fast!
Exaggerations aside, this latest video of the Nokia N97 – it looks really fast. It’s not in English but you don’t really need to hear what’s being said to appreciate the speed of the N97 here.
Note the video is in HD, but since the camera cannot focus up close, it’s blurry throughout the video.
Watch between 00:46 – 00:47, the transition between landscape to portrait was near seamless. Same again when going from portrait to landscape (QWERTY open) at 00:56 – 00:57. The only thing that bugs me now is the actual animation during the transition. Don’t get me wrong, I want animated transitions, it’s just the one used seems a little out of place. But that’s just my personal preference, and it’s not bad at all – I’m just being pedantic now.
Although it shouldn’t be a big issue that the N97 transitions are now relatively fast (watch again between 01:01 and 01:02), a few of posts back, the transitions weren’t this smooth and it was a cause for concern that it was taking such a long time. This was after the revelations of the “wimpy” processor which a lot feared would hamper the N97′s performance.
It’s conceivable that either something was sorted out since then , or that these N97 being demonstrated don’t all have the same build (firmware wise at least) as some are appearing faster than others. Hopefully that has nothing to do with the amount of content the phone has or background processes running at the time (there’s no point if the N97 is only fast when it’s doing nothing).
Carphonewarehouse says Mid-June for the N97! It cannot come any sooner. (As well as exams being over and summer holidays beginning – Nokia N97 – yeah!)
Great find, Jay – good to see you blogging again, as well. We’ll be linking from S-G shortly.
I’m not seeing the fast.
Don’t fool yourself into thinking that a menu transition can determine the speed of a device. It doesn’t even look like he has anything open except his active application. I’d love to see a video of the UI staying fast and fluid with a dozen applications open in the background, or to see how fast the camera opens when you flip the lens cover.
Thanks Ricky
@ Jonny – I agree. Orientation transitions cannot exclusively determine the speed of the device. Slow transition may not equal a slow phone nor fast transitions may equal a fast phone, but for now, it’s one of a few possible indicators granted lack of public testing on the device.
That’s why I’m clutching a lot of straws in hope that the responsiveness we’re seeing here (not just in the transitions, opening of the messaging application) can translate effectively into the over all speed of the device.
Until extreme testing of the N97′s speed under:
a. Extreme multitasking with several applications open
b. Much of the 32GB memory used, with several applications installed
c. a. and b. combined
we cannot conclusively accept any statement in regards to speed. For now, as with most untested devices, much will be just left for speculation. (As a fan of that device, that speculation may have several pinches of bias :p.)
[...] hands on videos from when it made its debut, another couple have popped up, a hands on, one showing how fast the device is, along with some samples shot from a device [...]
[...] for instance, this video demo, which I found on my friend Jay’s MyNokiaBlog today. As Jay points out, at :46, the transition from portrait to landscape is nearly [...]
I am owner of two nokia N95 and N95 8gb.
In my view only 0.7% of nokia N95 or N95 8gb owners know about 3d chip and other hardware details.
For rest it’s just a loved device.
Relax people,
nokia doesn’t make devices for programmers and engineers.
N97 is made for common people and hardware specs are pretty cool i guess.
It will generate good profit.
Hey, you are wrong wrong wrong & wrong.
Have you seen this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6zkJYF1w6A
Yes would you believe Ngage has some members because it’s a game platform and the Arm 11 does not even cut it against the N95 classic for games so the N97 & N96 should drop the N because it is giving the impression it is a N-gage device.
I think most people are waking up to the fact the out now Apple 3g/wifi tans the ass of the N97 with snazzy 3D and when iphone3 hits the water with qwerty a camera you can use then N97 will be dead if Google’s droid don’t kill it first oops or the LG and Samsung are going to finish it off also.
PS no IR = no TV remote – (Nokia your ass is in trouble)
Most N-gage are tech people / why else would you go through the pain and cost to have it.
I have one line to say here Mr Nokia: I have been a Nokia fan then I went to MS phones then the N95 made me come back – I am a die hard Nokia fan but now I feel like the dying bit is coming true there are better options now because of some stupid cost cutters in Nokia your users are jumping to better options N95 rocked N96 was a pig on skates and the N97 (5MP cam / Arm11 + no 3D) is just an insult to your company fans
You will see as we walk to better devices and your bottom line shrinks (sad
Do you really think that everyone’s getting upset over the processor because of the difference in numbers?
Having used all variants of the N95, the N85, and the N96, I can tell you from a user perspective that 3D acceleration and processor speed matters. Aside from overall operation, gaming and the gallery take the biggest hits on performance in the newest line of Nseries devices that made me really want to use an N95 again. The N96 was such a noticeable failure across the board because it was slow due to a slow processor, end of story. Even my girlfriend went from an N95-3 to an N85 and noticed the difference in speed in just normal everyday usage.
If that alone isn’t enough to understand the impact of Nokia cutting costs on essential parts, imagine new applications designed to run on next gen processors that will either run poorly or not at all on ARM11 architecture. People will be spending $700 on a device they want to keep for 2 years, but the N97′s processor is 2 years outdated before it even makes it to the shelves!
Hi, Johnny, if you hate the N97 so much why don’t you stop trolling every website that writes anything about it and instead wait for a production model to come out to decide whether the processor actually has a significant impact in making it function slower. You keep assuming that it’s going to be this slow p.o.s. based on the processor speed, but until reviews come out you should stop preaching your opinion as if it were fact. Your estimation that the phone will not function properly is just an OPINION. You don’t know what they’ve done software-wise to get the phone to run smooth, and won’t know until it comes out.
FACT: Nokia has stated that the processor has been optimized to run the phone just fine as well as the RAM, and until the phone comes out I’m going to give them the benefit of the doubt.
I would think it more sensitive of me to share my distaste for Nokia’s poor decision making rather than let everyone waste another $700 on a device that’s going to disappoint, don’t you?
If you did read all of my posts from other sites (which it looks like you at least tried), you’d have seen that I also thought the processor is going to be “enough” for most people, though never once did I claim that my opinion as fact. The only FACT in this matter is that Nokia’s using a slower processor than the rest of the new devices due out this summer. To add to your fact, Nokia also stated that FP2 was efficient enough to run the N96 with a 262mhz ARM9 processor and a 950mAh battery, but we all know how that turned out. It is a fact that Nokia has SAID these things, and it’s also a FACT that in a lot of cases, they have just simply been wrong.
The FACT is that a 600mhz Cortex A8 with 3D graphics acceleration and 256mb of RAM (with 160mb available to the user will ALWAYS perform better and more efficiently (due to dynamic power management) than a 434mhz single ARM11 CPU with NO hardware acceleration and 128mb of RAM (and also no support for any advanced power management), regardless of what Nokia has done with the software to run such a processor. Last time I checked, we’re still talking about plain-jane Symbian 9.4, S60 5th Edition, just with a different home screen. There’s no Feature Pack to make it operate any differently than the 5800XM.
I will continue to use my right to express my opinion on any blog site I wish and you will certainly see an apology from me if I turn out to be wrong. If I’m right, however, and it underperforms just like the N96 did, please don’t complain to anyone that you wasted $700 because you have been plenty warned in advance.
hey, I noticed you can pick up an N97 in North America via the online store for $454. Use code CARTP409N at the checkout. This is on a preorder mind you. I think Nokia is getting ready for a lukewarm reception and in the united states for the first time in a long time the phone market is getting crowded with good phones. I currently have a nokia 5800 and I will say, it’s a decent enough phone, but it feels cheap and the software, even updated, is flaky. It just doesn’t have the solid and well thought out feel of the iphone (I can’t believe I’m one of those people that mentions iphone’s in posts now…). I really was holding out hope that the n97 would be awesome but look at the facts.
1) It isn’t a powerhouse, not to say it’s slow, but it isn’t noticeably faster than any other phone available or soon available on the market.
2) It still has very immature touch user interface, even though Symbian is a decent mobile OS it just isn’t well optimized for touch yet.
3) Many 3rd edition applications don’t work on the 5th edition software, so actually the library is much smaller than enthusiasts would have you believe.
4) Screen resolution isn’t terribly high considering screen size. Was hoping for something like 800×480.
5) Camera not really any better than previous models, in fact it’s somewhat worse.
6) STILL resistive touch screen, I will not accept any arguement about this, resistive is worse, it’s not debatable in the Western World. Japanese/Mandarin/Korean might have an argument but I doubt it.
So basically they’re releasing it and slashing the price in markets where there is competitition. That’s not to say the phone is terrible, I certainly wouldn’t make fun of someone buying an N97, but I feel like unless you absolutely depend on S60 (doubtful in the US market), there are better phones soon to be had.
I think n97 will not have impact like n95 even 6630!Is to big and have a little ram(in specs read 128 ram but only 60-45 mb like n96).The king still n95 8gb.Or n96 who have TV chip.
Why do they not have IR man
thats the only thing its missing, why do nokia have to do this..
how am i going to control all the TVS and VCRS
Dear Mates,
i have bought a New Nokia N97 but i am not satisfied with its performance it really functions badly and its really slow while operating with different programes, i really want to change it as quickly as i can before this i had E71 which was lighting fast, compare to this N97 has zero marks for me….
I own a N97, i must admit, its a terrible flagship product, had it for three weeks, its already been sent in once because of system crashes and corrupting, and i wanna send it in again, its only been a week since i got it back, i updated to firmware 2.0, if anything its worse off, qwerty is all muddled up, freezes while typing on the touch key pad, freezes through programs, constantly restarts, cant wait to get rid of this piece of dung, this fone is terrible. I think i’ll go back to my N95, so much better!
i have had my N97 since june it has got to GO! its very slow, lens cover scatched the lens. What were nokia thinking when they released this phone.
i wanted to like this phone. the sat nav was usable if not great. the resistive screen is crap to say the least. Sadly the nokia x6 is also getting bad reports.this is the last high end nokia i will buy. i would buy a basic nokia but have given up on nokia’s high end phones the n96 was also junk. i now have the HTC desire which makes my old n97 seem very out dated.unless nokia do something special i think there maket share in smartphones drop and drop. The nokia n900 still uses a resistive screen !
nokia future is easy to predict your going too lose market share in smartphones.
What app is he using for the transitions?