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Giving up on Nokia and going with iPhone 4

I have finally had it with Nokia and will be ordering an iPhone 4 on June 15th. Now, I love the openness of Symbian and hate the closeness of Apple. However, this (apparently) means I’m supposed to live with poorly designed hardware and software in my N97: terrible keyboard, flash bleeding, sluggish OS, memory issues, …

May give Nokia (and Symbian) one more chance with N8

I went for Nokia’s current “flagship” phone the N97 last year. Initially, I was pretty unhappy with it, but after two major firmware updates, it’s finally usable. The two things I still hate about it, however, are the bleeding of the flash into the camera lens and the horribly back-lit keyboard. I had pretty much …

Nokia N97, a solid upgrade from the N95

I’ve been playing with my new Nokia N97 and am so happy I stayed with Nokia and didn’t venture off to iPhone or Palm Pre land, or even N900. It’s an awesome device. I LOVE THIS PHONE! I just upgraded to the v20 firmware. The phone came with v12. The only major visible improvement is …

And my new phone will be??? The Nokia N97!

Readers of my blog will remember that I had pre-ordered the Nokia N97 way back in May. However, due to a fckup by Nokia, I canceled the order and have been limping by with my N95-1. Since then a lot of new contenders have been released and I’ve had time to compare and analyze. In …

My new N97 should be here June 2nd!

When I pre-ordered my N97 a little over a week ago, the expected ship date was in July. However, according to this post, Nokia notified North American distributors that June 2 is the estimated shipping date of the N97. Moreover, according to the official Nokia blog: Pre-ordering will guarantee you are one of the first …

Pre-ordered a Nokia N97

Found a nice coupon that saved me $175 so I’m taking a chance and pre-ordering a N97. The two primary reasons for picking this over the iPhone and Palm Pre are 1) the 5MP camera; and , 2) the WiFi Hotspot ability via JoikuSpot app. I’ll live with the more clunky interface and resistive touch …

The Nokia N97 over the Palm Pre or iPhone

I had pretty much decided to go with the Palm Pre, but the more I read about the Nokia N97, I may just get that. Why? Tethering over WiFi Don’t have to switch to Sprint 5MP camera with good lens It won’t have the sexiness of the Pre, or the iPhone for that matter, but …