[davidtanhk]

Hi rdcinhou

You are correct. Kinetic scrolling is in email browser. But no kinetic scrolling for the user interface software  in Nokia, such as contact list, messenger, etc.

I am in v12, and read about v20 with kinetic scrolling for user interface.

Does v20 have the kinetic scroll in the user interface software ?

[davidtanhk]

Hi ahmmetwally

I am still using v12 in my N97. The auto-rotate feature is ON.

In my phone some contacts have pic and special ringing tones while majority are using default ringing tone.

Upon receiving calls, these pictures appear together with the specified ringing tone.

I do not have issues with customised pictures nor customised ringing tones.

Strange that some phones are having these issues. Bring it back to Nokia Service Centre.

[davetrevaskus]

Yes, v20 has kinetic scrolling throughout. Makes the user experience a lot better and less fiddly.

Also, don't know if it's just me, but v20 seems to be a bit quicker and more responsive all over.

[thechosenone]

I have just looked at the Vodafone UK website and noticed that they have dropped the N97 and kept the N97 mini.I find this very worrying as I received mine on the 2nd of July just after it was released by Vodafone.  They only supplied the N97 for a little over 4 months it's obvious that there is a major problem with this phone. I believe that the huge number of extremely bad reviews that it amassed may have had something to do with it, and in answer to your question yes owning an N97 is an embarrassment

[rdcinhou]

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davetrevaskus wrote:

Yes, v20 has kinetic scrolling throughout. Makes the user experience a lot better and less fiddly.

Also, don't know if it's just me, but v20 seems to be a bit quicker and more responsive all over.

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No...v20 does NOT have kinetic scrolling through-out.

It DOES have it in the MENU (scrolling icons) and anywhere there is a "LIST" (such as contacts, contact editing fields, Help entries). 

It DOES NOT have it in EMAIL reading (unless you open an HTML email in the Browser) or in the actual Help narrative text or applications which use text window displays.

[jtak]

I have the N97 for two days now. Very enthousiastic about it!!

About that kinetic scolling: actually I almost thought I did something wrong, but no...! I was wandering why I don't get kinetic scrolling in (for instance) emails. Would be rather handy.

Rather neat by the way, this way of scrolling. Would be very nice if it would be available through-out (or at least optional...)

btw I do have version 2.0.

Message Edited by jtak on 22-Nov-2009 10:35 PM

[dchewitt]

I'm afraid to say the N97 IS an embarrassment!

I got it the first day of release, and along with many other had no end of trouble with it. V2.0 made it almost ok but although I wanted to love it I have given up on it and gone over to the dark side to the iphone - Got to say, it is such a pleasure to touch the screen an get an instant response.

It is  a temporary move - I have kept my n97 and if any future upgrades improve it enough I will move back to it. 

In reality I think it is beyond help and the next N series will be the one to look out for - Maemo with a capacacitve screen (with hopefully by then, plenty of applications)

For now though, and I never thought I would say it, the best "all round" smartphone on the market is the iphone.

Come on Nokia - Pull your socks up - Combine the X6 with the N900 - you will regain your crown!!

[froschy]

@ dchewitt - I agree with you v20 has made the phone almost OK but the sluggish performance of both the touch screen and the phone make me wish that I had got an iPhone. I have got an iPod Touch and I imagine the iPhone has the same instant response to touch that is lacking from the N97.

I'm not so naive to think that the iPhone is without problems but the argument of the geeks that you can't tinker with the iPhone like you can with a Symbian phone is just silly. I'd happily have a phone that I could just connect to my computer (a Mac by the way) and sync my PIM data, music, videos, photos and device apps. Could I do that with my N97? No: I had to transfer my contacts via usb key to my desktop PC and then sync them; I couldn't sync my calendar until after the v20 firmware; music, videos and photos were a little better with NMT (but not perfect); and I doubt that Nokia will ever develop a sync for purchased/free apps (PC or Mac).

On top of all that, I have had to do three firmware updates in 4 months where I have had the best results by uninstalling all of the apps, formatting the mass memory, and hard resetting before the update. Then to complete this wonderful experience another hard reset, setting up of the phone, syncing my contacts, reloading my multimedia, reloading the map data, and re-installing all of the apps which was not made any easier by the fact that until recently you were unable to re-download purchased apps but rather had to send an email to Ovi Store Support. My wife jokes that I have spent more time researching fixes and tinkering with the phone then actually using it. Sadly this is almost true.

After all of this effort the phone is sometimes still sluggish and unresponsive and it will occasionally just reboot.

IMHO Nokia will never regain market share in the smartphone segment if they keep on pumping out phones that require this much effort just to get to an average user experience.

Message Edited by froschy on 25-Nov-2009 09:00 AM