Welcome to the first in a series of blogs about the N97.
I have been the proud owner of a Nokia N97 for over a month now, and in that time Nokia has rolled out a firmware update as well as updates to many of the included apps. But I have noticed, there are still many bugs, many irregularities, and many missing features.
That said, I have compiled a list of features missing but highly desired or needed, as well as fixes required.
They are as follows:
1) RAM- Allow some of the Mass Memory to be used as 'Virtual RAM', its the only software solution, optimising apps is not enough
2) C: Memory- Should be larger, 74MB is not enough, especially when there is 32GB available in the Mass Memory
3) Home Screen
- Allow muliple Home Screens, all customizable, flick screen lef or right to display
- Allow running apps to be displayed by flicking Home Screen in same manner, but flicking up or down
- Any widets/apps runnning that require an internet connection should have thier own editable connection settings
- Allow folders to be selected in the shortcuts widget, just like apps and bookmarks
- Bug when Mass Memory mode is used, widgets that were installed on the Mass Memory are removed from the Home Screen, and are not put back.
4) Application Manager
- Allow the easy removal of any application installed, including default apps and Nokia helper/setup apps
5) Music, Videos and Photos- Provide codec support for various video formats, in paricular divx
- Fix video and photos browsers to correctly display all content
- Photo Browser should not display videos
- Music player should have visulizaions
6) UI Theme Effects- Provide the effects displayed in the promotion advertisments, whenever touching the touch screen, a blot is displayed on screen at the point of touch and sound made at the same time
- Consolidate the tapping through menus. Either everything is single tap or everything is double tap
7) Keyboard
- The 'long press' for numbers
- An On-screen querty keyboard
Task Manager- Should display used/available RAM, phone memory and mass memory, as well as running apps
- Should notify of an app thats jus been placed into the background, so i can be either closed or hidden, as some apps 'disapeer' into the background, you forget or dont realise they are still running, and are using valuable RAM
9) Web Browser
- Better Flash support
- Needs simple 1 push back/forward buttons
- Needs simple 1 push close/exit button
- Needs cut and paste
- Needs right click to offer options such as save picture
- Buttons should be transparent
10) N-Gage
- Games need to take up the full screen
- Should be able to use touch screen to drag games around there enviroments, rather than using the D pad
11) Connection Manager- A simplified and automatic way of changing beween 3G and Wifi and back and forth again
14) Making Calls- The ability to make/hang up calls using the green/red buttons, rather than the current swipe method
15) Email- MFE should support HTML email
