S60 Meetup and A Glance Look at The Nokia N97

First of all, Let me greet everyone a Happy New Year!! I hope you guys had a great 2008 and a prosperous New Year Celebration!!

Second of all I would like to apologize for my lack of post/contribution as I have become busy with work and family. But in time to time Mobile World Innovation is still my passion.

Last night was another Successful S60 Meet Up as it was a memorable one and a good start for the year 2009.



Like always let me give thanks to William Sisti for always organizing this meetup on a every month basis and making it possible!! Keep it up Will.. Were gonna let this group get bigger and bigger and soon were going to call it S60 Geeks of NY, lolz just kidding..

Anyways... Let me tell you guys why this meetup was very exciting and memorable..

Chanse Arrington from Nokia joined us on our meetup and brought a wonderful demo device for us to check out..

The Nokia N97 (First Side slide QWERTY Touch screen Nseries phone)

My thoughts on the device a little later.. Let me first serve you guys with the photos I took with a bonus video.

ENJOY!!

Nokia N97 Photos (taken by the E71)












Nokia N97 Video (taken by the E71)



The Nokia N97 has the same OS version as the Nokia 5800 Xpress Music called Symbian S60 5th Edition.

As for this phone I can only talk about its Physical Aspect as its firmware version is still on Demo Mode/Proto.

*As for this phone it really feels good in hand, not that big and not that small. (Kind of look like an over sized N85)
*The phone is not that thick either.
*The slide is perfectly awesome when slid up. It really has a nice feel when you slide it up.
*This demo phone is also built like a tank no creaks.
*The screen also is pretty good but nowhere good as the N85. Also the screen is a fingerprint magnet.
*Also at 1st look I thought the call and end button were keypad with tactile feedback. I was wrong as they are both touch sensitive like the screen.
*The QWERTY keypad has a very good feel of tactile feedback as well, and a very good spacing.
*Missing some useful keys like the period (.) You have to go to characters to enter it. (hope they fix that.)

So far so good its a pretty good feel device excluding OS experience.. So I can't really say that its a good buy yet until the OS stability is tested. I hope Nokia won't let us down on that part.

Well I hope you guys enjoyed my Nokia N97 Experience..

Let me know your thoughts and what you think, and don't hesitate to ask questions.. I will be happy to help.

gwapz signing off...

PROCLIP CAR MOUNTING SOLUTION ( A MUST HAVE)

I just received my PROCLIP CAR MOUNT, and let me say its amazing. I mean it changes the way i use my device in my vehicle.

The proclip carmounting solution is awesome because it is customed made for your vehicle and your device, you get to choose a vehicle holder
and you also get to choose a device holder.

What i love about the proclip car mount is that the device fits extremely well in it, it tilts, swivels has the proper openings, even comes with a carcharger if you decided to pic that particular holder.

Here are a few choices you get to pick from.
The proclip car solution comes with detailed instructions and is very easy to do, and to me personally it is well worth it, its very solidly built, and feel very well constructed it is a little pricey, but it is well worth the money in my opinion.

I highly recommend it for any type of device that you may use in your car.
I want to Thank Johan from Proclip usa for allowing me to Trial the ProClip car solution.

Below are some pics.

E71 SOLID, SLEEK, SOPHISTICATED

I received a nokia e71 nam version from WOM WORLD for a trial, so here is my review.

DESIGN AND BUILD QUALITY

One word SOLID, this device is built like a tank, yet Nokia designed it to be sleek and sophisticated. I find it nice in the hand has a nice soft to the touch keyboard and just an overall solid design, no complaints at all and did i mention extremely thin.


SCREEN

The screen on the nokia e71 isn't going to wow you, its 320x 240 typical nokia screen and it is kinda small, but it fits the package of the device. It is great in direct sunlight and its very easy to see everything, higher resolution and larger screen would have been nice, but then again we will have to compromise on the size, I think sometimes we want a 6" screen on a 3" device, never happy.
Overall i think the screen fits the device.



SOFTWARE AND PERFORMANCE

The e71 i received is very stable, and i must say fast, themes are kinda boring looking, but you can always install different themes to enhance the look.
The eseries has a few nice additons i wish the nseries had.
1- email notification on home screen
2- switch mode can go from business mode to media mode so to speak.
3- keys bring up contacts affiliated with the letter or #.
4- 1 touch buttons on device for contacts, calender messaging



over all some nice enhancements that the nseries can benefit from.

MUSIC, VIDEO, CAMERA

If music, video and camera are what you are looking for then the e71 is not the device for you, camera to me is very subpar, video playback and recording not as good as nseries, and music is decent but lack of 3.5 mm jack just kills it for me.



FINAL THOUGHTS AND CONCLUSION

I think the e71 is a great device, speed , build quality, size , feel, and qwerty, that being said its not the device for me, im an nseries guy. I want the camera, video, tv out, 3.5mm and so on and so forth.
For those that want a nice compact device, with great build quality, speedy ui and full qwerty, that can handle all there office matters on the go the e71 i recommend.