Nokia N97 and iPhone: The inevitable comparison

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July 1, 2009

Sold since Tuesday, the Finnish mobile phone giant, the N97 in Switzerland. The test for the latest Nokia flagship shows: For some functions, it is even better than the iPhone.

Nokia uses a lot of hope in the N97, then it is nothing less than its spearhead in the battle for the top position on the world of smartphones. The Finns are now 41 per cent in this lucrative category of devices. The main competitors are in accordance with market researchers behind: RIM (BlackBerry) holds 20 percent, Apple 11 percent and 5 percent HTC, the rest is divided among several other vendors. However appealed especially RIM (+6 percent) and Apple (+5 percent) massively, even at the expense of Nokia, the approximately 4 percentage points compared to 2008 have lost.

Nokia was quick to understand that cell phones into a kind of portable PC would develop, and this road with the E-and N-series is consistently pursued. Their equipment, however, are rarely so staggeringly radical as the BlackBerry or the you-know-what-have-phone failed.

Touchscreen with vibration feedback

The most striking on the N97 is its flip-side of the keyboard, complemented with a click button. The text runs so smoothly, as is the menu control. Overall, the software interface, with its complex, sometimes windows-like menus but not on the amount of time. In addition, the interface reacts not always quick enough, it acts as temporary syrup. The N97 is no device that can be someone in the hand, and the person has five minutes without the help of all the important tricks found.

Companion to the keyboard, a touch screen with vibration feedback. This is the user more assurance in the right place to have clicked, but the feedback is often delayed, making it of its usefulness can not flourish. The screen can also be no two-finger gestures to process and respond only to a relatively high pressure. As you have seen better, not only for you-already-know-whom.

Here is the N97 better than the Apple mobile phone

The comparison with that device may be tiring, but at the moment no manufacturer around. So here’s some of the functions for which the N97 has the edge: The camera has 5 mega pixels with better resolution, it has an FM transmitter-receiver for the car together, also dominated Voice over IP, and without third party software as Navi fürs Auto used. And for many, just the fact that it is not you-know-what-have-phone is a big advantage.

Vulnerability Surfing

As an equivalent, the integration of services such as Flikr, Youtube and Facebook are. Nokia requires, among other things, with a completely new Home Screen heavily on the “personal Internet to go.” While surfing the Web, however, Nokia is clearly behind the competition, it will include the fonts on sites with you-know-better already clearly readable. Also, the Ovi-Store, where applications and music to buy, you may not (yet) to keep pace.

The N97 will still find its fans. In a world without RIM and without Apple would be probably one of the best smartphones, which it currently exists. Whether it is enough for Nokia to do it from the growing competition to sell more back, is questionable.

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