Video review of Gravity for Nokia N97

Posted on June 14, 2009
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It’s been just a few days after Ovi store was opened, but there are already some early leaders. One of the clear leaders by revenue is currently Gravity by Mobileways – a touch optimized twitter client for S60 5.0 phones such as Nokia N97. Unfortunately the developer’s site and Ovi store description don’t tell much about the workflow. So here is the video review of Gravity. For those who don’t have time, here is the main conclusion: Gravity is a decent twitter client in style of Twhirl + keyword searches, but without any TweetDeck-like user grouping.

I will probably make a screenshotted demo later. So if you don’t have time for watching the video, subscribe to this blog RSS feed or follow me on twitter, screenshots will come.

KiTwitts for Nokia N97 review

Posted on June 12, 2009
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Screenshot0016Screenshot0017KitTwitts is small free twitter-related application that was just yesterday released for Nokia N97. I say twitter-related, because it is focused on a very narrow task. It allows you to search twitter for a particular keyword or phrase, displays result in a nice “flashy” way and can open the twitter page of a tweet author. I don’t think anybody would use it as the primary or even secondary twitter client, but it may help you spend some minutes in airport looking at what happens on yet another Apple event you want to follow. You can download KitTwitts here.

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Nokia N97 costs $699 in US

Posted on June 9, 2009
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image Starting from today you can buy the Nokia’s flagship multimedia computer in New York and Chicago. Unlocked on is $699.. the price makes some iPhone lovers surprised.

 

Photo courtesy of electronista.com

Nokia N97 review catalog

Posted on June 9, 2009
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Want to read several thorough reviews of this very nice smartphone, but don’t have time to Google and Google around? There are surprisingly not that many reviews of N97 and most of those are very short. So I gathered a small list of the ones you may like to actually read. Sorted from most useful to least useful.

  1. A comprehensive review from CNET
  2. NokNok’s review
  3. Boygenous’es “hand’s on”. Note the link to photo gallery at the bottom
  4. Short review from N97 Fan blog
  5. Short review from the mobiler

Bonus: list of “unboxing N97“ posts

  1. N97 fanatics
  2. Unboxing at engadget
  3. Couple of unboxing videos posted at the Symbian blog. (one of these videos is displayed on the top of the page)

Nokia N97 Demo video

Posted on June 3, 2009
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This fantastic smartphone features the easily customizable homescreen with widgets for everything online: from weather to facebook updates.

Nokia N97 starts shipping now!

Posted on June 2, 2009
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to 75 countries as InformationWeek reports!

Nokia N97 in a nutshell

Posted on June 1, 2009
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image Nokia was always known for its smartphones everywhere except US. There are many models that are masterpieces featuring the latest and greatest. Once in a while, however, Nokia releases particularly unique products destined to be iconic and adored combination of the top technologies available on the market. Some time ago N95 attracted wide attention due to its five megapixel camera, large amount of memory, Wi-Fi, GPS, etc.

image Nokia N97 is a new player in the best smartphones league. From time to time is is named the first serious Nokia attempt to compete with iPhone. While Nokia devices may be not as simple as the ones made by the fruit company, the killer set of features makes N97 a decent competitor for the demanding users.

Here are some goodies that you can find inside N97. Some of them made Scobl to call N97 the ultimate facebook device.

 

 

  • Homescreen customizable with widget. Yes, facebook and weather updates are included.
  • Full QWERTY keyboard hidden under an excellent side slider.
  • New release of Nokia maps that provides turn-by-turn navigation, city guides and uses the built-in compass very well. No more guessing about the street direction!
  • 5 megapixel camera and 32 GB of build-in storage + ability to add a memory card.
  • Fast internet with Wi-Fi at home and HSDPA speed (very fast 3G basically) outside.
  • Good browser with the Flash and YouTube support.
  • All that usable with both keyboard and a touch screen (no multi-touch yet).
  • Ovi store that is just like iPhone’s app store for Nokia.
  • Etc, etc, etc.

 

The last but not least is that Nokia N97 with its loads of memory, touch screen and generous Ovi store makes an excellent platform for 3rd party developers. I would be surprised if very soon we won’t be seeing a wave of new applications unleashing all the potential of this device.