Nokia N97: Frustrations

There are some things touchscreens won't provide. And that is the ease of use provided by shortcuts. Apps such as Opera Mini and the GMail app have been designed to make accessing the internet and email unbelievably easy. With numpad shortcuts most functions whether it be saving a bookmark or archiving email, they can be done within a moments thought. If I want to archive my mail my fingers automatically move to those shortcuts. On the N97 i would still be correcting my aim with the stylus at the puny buttons on the GMail app.

I still haven't found out the forward shortcut of Opera Mini for the N97.. Occasionally I get stuck at the search page because of this. Not to mention the odd cases of Opera suddenly going kaput when i flick my fingers to scroll through.

Another thing that i came across is the absence of the paste feature from the keyboard view.. Grrr.

Current state of mind: Frustrated!

Nokia N97 is gonna kill itself, if the iPhone doesn't do it first

Everyone says the Nokia N97 will kill the iPhone, i say that is impossible !
B'cuz, The N97 will kill itself first !!

- Nostradamus style Prediction by Dilin Anand

Lots of reasons for my above prediction besides the fact that i saw the omen. The omen came in the form of info that the N97 carries a Single CPU, 434 MHz ARM11 when the N95 I have has Dual 332 MHz Texas Instruments OMAP 2420. A weak brain on such a powerful phone makes it have more brawn than brain. And this is besides the fact that:

• The n97 is way costlier than the iPhone.
• The iPhone is way sexier than the N97.
• The plethora of mechanical parts on the N97 makes it highly damage prone.
  

A tilt slider and qwerty keyboard is enough headache - why they couldn't even manage a good dual slider on the N95 !

Well, till is not multi touch, and till its the same Symbain S60, it's not killing the iPhone. [basically, till they get a capacitive touch screen, they can't come close to iPhone's experience]

iPhone users are a different bunch of people, iPhone is cool! and N97 doesn't seem to be that cool even in the demo videos.

Even if they had a faster processor, it'd just do what it does a bit quicker. That doesn't help it to take on the iphone's 'style'.

Functionally speaking? No good phone needs to kill the iPhone.

- as said by SLK at team-bhp forums

Face it; the N97 is going down !!!! Aaargh !! =>> Or will it ?? <<=