Advertisements The Nokia N97 and the HTC Touch Pro2 are two similar looking devices with very similar array of features. I was very impressed with the spec sheet of the Touch Pro2, and back in April felt that it’s what the N97 should have been, at least in terms of being having a better QWERTY […]
Opening the “SW update” app on your Nokia N97……you’ll notice the following for update: Maps 3.1 C: Phone memory update N-Gage Application 1.30 Nokia Messaging 10.0 Ovi Contacts 1.20 In the middle of installing the updates myself. I tried to install N-Gage but couldn’t at first as I had insufficient memory (About 8MB) Â “Not […]
In this video, the Nokia designers explain how the homescreen, as we have seen on the Nokia N97, has come about. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C35s7ZLm1go] Initially, I wasn’t sold on the subject when I heard about the homescreen – I thought it was like Nokia’s “active standby” just slightly beefed up. Having used it for over a couple […]
Digital zoom – probably the first thing you ever hear when you first start using any sort of digital camera is NOT to use it. Take the photo/video and crop it when you get the file to your computer. Now this is still true for photos. The only thing the digital zoom is good at […]
The Nokia N97 looks absolutely stunning in the first 30 seconds of this video. It’s a new advert to showcase some of the major features of the N97. Homescreen Facebook Full Web Browsing Ovi Store Navigation with Ovi Maps Camera capabilities with Carl Zeiss Optics Uploading to Ovi Store Enjoying Video and TV Email Buying […]
The Nokia N97 has a compass mainly for rotating your maps to align with the roads/surroundings as you turn your phone. It doesn’t rotate instantly towards north like a real compass – and so, needs a bit of calibration, which according to the manual, the method is to swing your phone in an 8-shape like […]
This application is a must have for anyone who travels frequently (or at all) on a train. Whenever I needed to travel by train, I used to go to www.thetrainline.com. You can access it from your S60 browser directly or you can choose the mobile version, m.thetrainline.com, which is more economic on the data and […]
The Nokia N97, if you take the time to get accustomed to it, has a pretty decent physical QWERTY keyboard. However, there are times that I need to use the onscreen alphanumeric keypad, like when I’ve only got one free hand or if I simply just want to text with the phone closed. The latter […]
YesteRday was my friends’ graduation. I knew that if I wanted some decent photos of the evening, I’d need to bring a proper camera (with real xenon flash) as dual LED has never cut it on previous occasions in really low light with the Nokia N97. Whilst not a dedicated point and shoot, I brought […]
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