Comments on: Engadget asks – How would you change the Nokia N97? http://mynokiablog.com/2009/08/15/engadget-asks-how-would-you-change-the-nokia-n97/ Random, informal Nokia blog for Nokia, Symbian, Maemo, MeeGo and Windows Phone news, reviews, rants, suggestions and applications. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:32:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jay http://mynokiablog.com/2009/08/15/engadget-asks-how-would-you-change-the-nokia-n97/comment-page-1/#comment-2153 Jay Sun, 16 Aug 2009 20:30:42 +0000 http://mynokiablog.com/?p=1716#comment-2153 Hey Ms Jen :) ............ Totally agree. Nokia have rested on their laurels and have become complacent for far too long. I can only fathom/hope that these phones, which haven't inspired confidence in Nokia's ability to react to the iPhone and other competition, are only interim solutions (keeping up Nokia Buzz/setting up new services) for something really good to come along and wow us all (12mp Optical zoom, with touch and Maemo Harmattan? :P). ............ The RX-51 does indeed look interesting. For the most part, it is what the N97 needed to be all along. I too can only hope that: - it lives up to the (rumoured) specifications, - on the imaging front, its DUAL LED is of the same calibre as the N86 (though why there's no Xenon again...phhft!?), - but most of all that maemo 5 gives us a User Experience that's on this side of the millennium. Hey Ms Jen :)
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Totally agree. Nokia have rested on their laurels and have become complacent for far too long. I can only fathom/hope that these phones, which haven’t inspired confidence in Nokia’s ability to react to the iPhone and other competition, are only interim solutions (keeping up Nokia Buzz/setting up new services) for something really good to come along and wow us all (12mp Optical zoom, with touch and Maemo Harmattan? :P ).
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The RX-51 does indeed look interesting. For the most part, it is what the N97 needed to be all along.
I too can only hope that:
- it lives up to the (rumoured) specifications,
- on the imaging front, its DUAL LED is of the same calibre as the N86 (though why there’s no Xenon again…phhft!?),
- but most of all that maemo 5 gives us a User Experience that’s on this side of the millennium.

]]> By: Ms. Jen http://mynokiablog.com/2009/08/15/engadget-asks-how-would-you-change-the-nokia-n97/comment-page-1/#comment-2152 Ms. Jen Sun, 16 Aug 2009 03:27:50 +0000 http://mynokiablog.com/?p=1716#comment-2152 Preach it, brother! All frustrations with the N97 aside, as a Nokia proponent I am very frustrated by the things named in GoldmanSachs' report: ' Nokia N97 It's not the way it was meant to be. Nokia grasped earlier than most the strategic importance of services to its long-term growth. But it moved too slowly, allowing itself to be leapfrogged by one new entrant in particular: Apple's iPhone and its compelling application store. Nokia has also taken too long to upgrade its main software platform, the Symbian Series 60, which is now deemed too bulky and complex by many users, in particular when it comes to the touch interface. "Our experience with the N97 has convinced us that Nokia needs to start almost from scratch to create an attractive user experience, rather than following the complex menu structure of Series 60," Goldman wrote. ' I am crossing my fingers that the move to expanding the Maemo line with the N900 having a sim chip will open up alternative touchscreen OS-es. I think in the face of recent competition Nokia has played it too conservative and needs to step out of its comfort zone. Preach it, brother! All frustrations with the N97 aside, as a Nokia proponent I am very frustrated by the things named in GoldmanSachs’ report:

‘ Nokia N97

It’s not the way it was meant to be. Nokia grasped earlier than most the strategic importance of services to its long-term growth. But it moved too slowly, allowing itself to be leapfrogged by one new entrant in particular: Apple’s iPhone and its compelling application store.

Nokia has also taken too long to upgrade its main software platform, the Symbian Series 60, which is now deemed too bulky and complex by many users, in particular when it comes to the touch interface.

“Our experience with the N97 has convinced us that Nokia needs to start almost from scratch to create an attractive user experience, rather than following the complex menu structure of Series 60,” Goldman wrote. ‘

I am crossing my fingers that the move to expanding the Maemo line with the N900 having a sim chip will open up alternative touchscreen OS-es.

I think in the face of recent competition Nokia has played it too conservative and needs to step out of its comfort zone.

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