Flashback video: the Nokia N97 tried to kill the iPhone, sped up Nokia's demise instead

28 August 2021
Nokia being as huge as it was meant that it was a slow death - but all the signs were there that Nokia's time at the top is over.

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  • 30 Aug 2021

Had N97 when the phone appears in the market. First i have loved the phone, which was with touch display, big screen, good camera and so on, but after couple of months of use i realized that the phone is slow, buggy, the resistive screen was so outdated, the camera was average, there was so little apks to download, the build in keyboard was difficult to use. But it still was a Nokia flagship. Then the android phones and Iphones were getting more and more capable and superior than Nokia phones and that was the end of Nokia`s era. My next model was a Galaxy S2 and it was huge upgrade after the N97.

    Bending history, 30 Aug 2021To be fair. Nokia N97 was better than iPhone 3G of the sam... more"To be fair.
    Nokia N97 was better than iPhone 3G of the same year - 2008. "

    Better how? N97 was huge brick, iPhone 3G was very compact smartphone. iPhone 3G was really smooth and intuitive to use and looked very modern, N97 was slow and super laggy and looked very outdated. Maybe N97 was more advanced in ways people never found out because the user experience sucked so much.

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      • Anonymous
      • U@3
      • 30 Aug 2021

      2008 when other leading brands Sony, Samsung, LG, Htc, Motorola moved to android OS & Nokia decided to acquire outdated symbian OS & started to loose the market during crucial period 2008-2011 concentrating keypad mobile.. Microsoft realized that & installed their executive Stephen elop as Nokia CEO to push windows OS.. Anyways Nokia lost the smartphone race before they start doing Lumia windows phones..

        blue.sun, 29 Aug 2021If companies see potential in Sailfish, why there is no pho... morehttps://nokiamob.net/2021/04/22/jolla-bringing-sailfish-os-to-sony-xperia-10-ii/

        There are plenty of Sony phones capable of running Sailfish. I have one.

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          • Anonymous
          • xq5
          • 30 Aug 2021

          Buy a decent Samsung phone and enjoy. Minimum specs - 7 series Snapdragon processor - 6GB Ram - 128GB UFS storage - Good camera with 4K video recording - 4000 MAH battery - Full HD 90HZ display...

            Windows Phone was and still is the best looking mobile operating system so far. The interface was smooth and organized and rarely did it lag or stutter, unlike android of then. The lack of popular apps is what caused it's failure and they could have fixed that with android apps compatibility. Perhaps that could have saved it

              Anonymous, 29 Aug 2021There it is again, the geek conspiracy theory that Elop kil... moreLot of Bias here lol,
              1. Nokia was never North America major player, even when Symbian was at peak and superior to other os, American Used Black berry and homegrown solutions, using America as standard to measure N9 doesn't make sense.

              2. N9 was as competitive as 2011 flagship both software and Hardware. It was first phone to introduce polycarbonate material unibody, had 64 GB storage compare to 16/32GB competitor used, probably best ppi at that time, 1gb ram etc.

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                • Vader
                • p}n
                • 30 Aug 2021

                If Nokia stuck with the N9 instead of forcing Lumia they could still be in the game.

                  It wasn't apple who killed nokia. It was Nokia themselves who killed Nokia.
                  Nokia was a name back then my god .
                  Buying Nokia for people like me was same as buying q tesla today.
                  I really wish Apple dies someday cuz they're already following Nokia's footsteps; it's only they don't have any superior competitors. We need 3rd OS in the game!!

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                    • TSR
                    • 30 Aug 2021

                    To be fair.
                    Nokia N97 was better than iPhone 3G of the same year - 2008.

                    But, iPhone 3G was just the beginning.
                    It's Lumia who try to compete with the later iPhone, not Symbian.

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                      • Anonymous
                      • Kx7
                      • 30 Aug 2021

                      Anonymous, 30 Aug 2021Stop with this silly "marketing" nonsense. The fi... moreNokia is already dead when they made deals with Microsoft, and butchered it down even further with questionable OS support.

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                        • Anonymous
                        • XTs
                        • 30 Aug 2021

                        kek, 29 Aug 2021I am always amazed how far marketing campaigns can go into ... moreof course iPhone 3Gs was better. How do you even compare resistive touchscreen with capacitive touchscreen that has multi touch?

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                          • Anonymous
                          • 0cJ
                          • 30 Aug 2021

                          kek, 29 Aug 2021I am always amazed how far marketing campaigns can go into ... moreStop with this silly "marketing" nonsense. The first iPhone user experience was like nothing else I had had before.

                          I never liked Nokias (although I had been keeping an eye on the cutesy MeeGo), and I had been using mostly Windows, running on top-end HTC handsets. The iPhone changed my idea of a phone. And many other people's idea of a phone.

                          It was sleek, much sleeker than Android back then, or anything else. It was a joy to use, even with its limitations. I didn't want to go back, and neither did most consumers.

                          In the end, the market spoke and iOS and Android won, while Symbian and Windows lost, and MeeGo was never a player.

                          Marketing is not magic and it can't same a non-competitive product, as Nokia and Windows Mobile showed. Or do you think they didn't know how to market and didn't try?

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                            • mp7
                            • 30 Aug 2021

                            The stylus operated Motorola and Sony Ericsson Symbian phones were awesome.

                              [deleted post]Windows Phone was literally better than android in terms of optimization. The low-end windows phone ran smoother than flagship androids. The lack of apps killed it tho

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                                • Anonymous
                                • IJK
                                • 30 Aug 2021

                                JES, 30 Aug 20213GS was quicker than any Symbian phone produced. The iPhone... more3gs was nothing. Learn facts.

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                                  • Anonymous
                                  • IJK
                                  • 30 Aug 2021

                                  Anonymous, 29 Aug 2021...right, N97 is very slow, hardware used is not capable ru... moreThats bogus.

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                                    • pLy
                                    • 30 Aug 2021

                                    Ah yes, the N series...the good/bad old days. I hated my N97 mini, with its half baked symbian touch operating system, but absolutely loved my N900 running maemo (and latterly meego) but alas, Nokia couldn't get its act together, Stephen Elop had no idea what he was doing, and it all fell apart.

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                                      • niB
                                      • 30 Aug 2021

                                      kek, 29 Aug 2021I am always amazed how far marketing campaigns can go into ... more3GS was quicker than any Symbian phone produced. The iPhone 4 antenna issue was over hyped. Mostly it worked just fine and there was a software issue that miscalculated the actual signal strength and made the signal look worse than it was in the UI, which was quickly fixed.

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                                        • 3td
                                        • 30 Aug 2021

                                        Anonymous, 29 Aug 2021There it is again, the geek conspiracy theory that Elop kil... moreWoha, and you know better then everybody, right? Calling other ignorant conspirators must make you feel better about yourself. But that's about it, the rest in your knowlege about meeGo equals zero. As of Nokia history and legacy, i can safely say, it goes under the zero.

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