{"id":355057,"date":"2010-02-23T15:16:01","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T20:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"Gizmodo-5478434"},"modified":"2010-02-23T15:16:01","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T20:16:01","slug":"nokia-admits-that-the-n97-sucked-working-to-improve-their-phones-nokia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/355057","title":{"rendered":"Nokia Admits That The N97 Sucked, Working to Improve Their Phones [Nokia]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cache.gawkerassets.com\/assets\/images\/4\/2010\/02\/500x_091103-amusement-4.jpg\" class=\"left image500\" width=\"500\" \/>So the <a class=\"autolink\" title=\"Click here to read more posts tagged #nokian97\" href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/tag\/nokian97\/\">Nokia N97<\/a> was <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5308440\/nokia-n97-review-nokia-is-doomed\">a bit of a disaster<\/a>. Normally, companies pretend that all of their products are great, even when they aren&#8217;t. But one Nokia VP is willing to admit that the N97 was a steamer.<\/p>\n<p>Nokia&#8217;s VP of Markets Anssi Vanjoki recently said in an interview that the N97 was a &#8220;tremendous disappointment in terms of the experience quality for the consumers and something [they] did not anticipate.&#8221; How refreshingly candid!<\/p>\n<p>Of course, he&#8217;s using such candidness as an excuse to claim that they&#8217;ve learned their lesson and are working to make the N97 a real contender via firmware updates. I&#8217;m gonna go out on a limb and say that it might be a little late for firmware to save the N97, but if Nokia really is learning from its mistakes, bring on the next gen devices. If Microsoft can <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5471805\/windows-phone-7-series-everything-is-different-now\">retool its mobile division<\/a> after the <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5374876\/windows-mobile-65-review-theres-no-excuse-for-this\">abortion that was WinMo 6.5<\/a>, there&#8217;s no reason Nokia can&#8217;t do the same. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.allaboutsymbian.com\/news\/item\/11183_Video_Anssi_Vanjoki_on_the_N97.php\">All About Symbian<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2010\/02\/23\/nokia-vp-n97-taught-company-some-tough-lessons\/\">Engadget<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=8bdcbc4a8016fea58d909342692a5d7f&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=8bdcbc4a8016fea58d909342692a5d7f&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?eui=2226\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=gA__mV6M7AI:KRmMKkx6KxM:H0mrP-F8Qgo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?d=H0mrP-F8Qgo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=gA__mV6M7AI:KRmMKkx6KxM:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=gA__mV6M7AI:KRmMKkx6KxM:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?i=gA__mV6M7AI:KRmMKkx6KxM:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=gA__mV6M7AI:KRmMKkx6KxM:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?i=gA__mV6M7AI:KRmMKkx6KxM:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/gizmodo\/full\/~4\/gA__mV6M7AI\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So the Nokia N97 was a bit of a disaster. Normally, companies pretend that all of their products are great, even when they aren&#8217;t. But one Nokia VP is willing to admit that the N97 was a steamer. Nokia&#8217;s VP of Markets Anssi Vanjoki recently said in an interview that the N97 was a &#8220;tremendous [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5459,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-355057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5459"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}