Nokia N97

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I love all the features and also being able to use the dual sims at the same time i.e. receiving calls not like some where you have to decide what sim to use for incoming calls etc offers ease of use practicality and a great joy with having radio and digital tv built in as standard BUY ONE better than Iphone and N95

The Nokia N97 looks like a cross between a lot of different phones from the iPhone to the Google G1 Phone to the AT&T Tilt (HTC TyTN II). Up front, the Nokia N97's 3.5 inch screen dominates the whole front of the phone except for the little button on the bottom left side corner which serves as the shortcut key to the N series multimedia applications. The call and end buttons are touch sensitive like ROKR E8. On the top of the Nokia N97 is the 3.5mm headphone jack and the power button. The Nokia N97 is just a tad bit larger and thicker than the iPhone and when you slide out the QWERTY keypad, you're reminded of the HTC TyTN II with it's angled screen. The Nokia N97 feels solid enough to hold though it just feels a bit too large especially if you have small hands.
I like the Nokia N97 better than their Nokia 5800 XpressMusic and I hope that they'll be able to incorporate the user interface of the N97 on the 5800 XpressMusic though I highly doubt that since the Nokia N97 is aimed at the high end market while the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic borders on the midrange to high-end phone segment.

After a full week using my new Nokia N97, I can officially say that it’s quite a great phone. Mind you, it’s still far from perfect, but the experience in itself was more rewarding than when I got the iPhone. It has all the features that you can think of and none of the awful limitations of the iPhone.

The Battery life, compared to the iPhone is great.

The phone suffers a bit due to the underpowered CPU and/or poor graphics rendering. The user interface animations are sluggish and the graphics in the games are poorly anti-aliased. This is a feature that should be addressed in a future version of this phone. This however doesn’t make the phone slow or unresponsive, it’s just the animations that are not so good to look at. It probably needs a RAM increase as well.

The device operating system feels a bit unfinished. some of the features appear like no customisation has been done to port the Symbian Operating System to a touch interface, I don’t see the need of a scroll bar when you can very easily implement kinetic scrolling into the interface.

There is a MAJOR lack of widgets, the keyboard is awesome but Email reading is not stellar. It’s not capable to read HTML email. most probably there might be an HTML capable email client for Symbian available, however I didn’t find one yet.

PC Synch is incredibly great using the OVI manager. It automatically synchronises the phone contacts, messages, music and photos automaticallly when you connect the device. very handy indeed and very nice interface.

Maps 3.0 is a great application, expecially if you live in large countries. It has a great interface, and it also has information for travellers and also map overlays to pontpoint several touristic places, accomodation, services, transportation etc… but the maps for some smaller countries like Malta, it’s extremely bad. It’s not even close to the iPhone version. You can still download google maps though

Camera, its absolutely awesome, its one of the best I’ve seen on a mobile phone. The level of detail is great and colours are nice and vivid. Not as vivid on night shots though where the colours looked a bit dull.

Web browser on the phone is good, and it supports flash.

Customisability is a feature that is completely absent from the iPhone. By downloading themes from loads of sites on the web, you can customise the appearance of the phone. The themes are able to change the appearance of the wallpapers, operating system icons, animations and more. there are tons of themes available. You can even customise the Nokia n97 to look like an iPhone.

Screen is absolutely gorgeous, the quality is great and the colours are also very bright and vivid. This doesnt disappoint.

Firmware updating is handled much better than the iPhone’s updating since it keeps all your settings, applications and files so you dont actually have to re-install all the software you have made on the device everytime you update it. This is absolutely great! – you are still advised to back up your data in case something goes wrong.

It's an excelent phone.
It comes with everything, I love the stylus (It comes with it).
It has many options to write and have fun. Keyboard really easy to use, soft buttons (not like the blackberry which is quite hard...at least for me).
You can draw the letters (that takes time but its fun), predictable option, no emoticons of course...but who cares!
Map incorporated (pretty good), it comes without games so i had to download them.
Sensitive touch (which is great cause you dont have to press strong to dial something.
It is wide but thin. Buy a cover to protect it. Made out of plastic, heavier than the blackberry bold (cause it has more things incorporated)
Carls seiss lense, you have 2 options to take pictures (2 lenses) the first one to take a pic to yourselve without calculating if you are in the middle or not and the other is the normal camera.
It has effects to retouch the pic like, brightening, cropping, put drawings, text and personalise how you want it.
I've just bought it and it works really good. It is pretty fast wich is perfect (anyway, that's what everybody wants!).
I recommend it.
Oh! and it has a text aloud as well (reads your text messages), so when i don't wanna read, he tells me everything hahaha!
I hope this review could help a little.
Nokia is a good label, good quality. It is a warrior. Every phone I had was Nokia and they were really good. They fell down a lot and still working till now. You know, Nokia is Nokia.

Very quick internet connection.
Smexy 5m pixel camera, takes great pics and videos, much better than iphone camera.
Plenty of room on the 32gb memory for endless apps to dl on the Ovi site, one downfall is that the iphone apps seem to be alot better.
Qwerty keyboard is a bit fiddley at first but after some practice the keyboard is very useful.
Took me a few hours to work out how to put music from my Pc to the N97, Ovi Suite can be kinda confusing, i Tunes feels easier to use.
If I had to give a mark out of ten it would surely be 8.8 at least.

i bought this phone because my old nokia was getting old and the i saw the new new n97 as this buyer was selling so a bought it for a good price one thing a dislike is the color i would rather go for a white one as it stands out more

Good phone, with excellent storage, little bit different touch screen lik iphone, multitouch is missing, bit much plastic on the back cover, but everithing vorking perfectly, so i am satisfied, with this phone..

Great phone everyone should have one! With every firmware update it just gets better and better, better than i phone more memory and full keypad too!

it was very good one thanks for that. In the market it will cost around 300 pounds. and i got it onlt for very cheap. its made in finland also...

How good Nokia N97 really is? I’ve got my hands for a few hours on Nokia’s best phone today: the N97, a QWERTY slider with a tilt touchscreen display. The format factor is not new (remember HTC Tytn II), but that’s not the most important thing.

From the specifications wise, it looks promising. What about performance in daily use?

I'm not quite sure what to make of this phone, to be honest. At first glance this is the exact phone Nokia should be making: a large-screened, high resolution touchscreen device with a megalarge slide-out keyboard and endless storage — it’s a fanboy wishlist in so many ways. But the execution on the screen (resistive), keyboard (meh) and software (dated) are all considerable hurdles.

What counts it what it does and how it does it, so here’s my list of pros and cons of using the Nokia N97 for around two hours:

Pros

* construction seems solid, with no problems around the tilt/slide mechanism
* system is very fast, with approximately the same lag you’ll get from non touchscreen Symbian S60 v3 revices
* the QWERTY keyboard has adequate feedback, but there’s room for improvement
* the home screen widgets, the only improvement in interface from Nokia 5800 XpressMusic are really nice

Cons

* the space bar key is located in the right side of the keyboard: that’s annoying for me
* Nokia didn’t include a software licence for QuickOffice (not nice considering the very high price tag of the Nokia N97)
* some options in menus need a single tap, others a double tap, that’s why you find yourself pretty often waiting for the system to respond and the system is actually waiting for your input
* it’s big, too big for my taste and also is pretty heavy
* screen doesn’t look good in bright light and colors seem fuzzy

That’s it for now.

The nokia is versatile and has a good memory space more also nice carl zeisss lens with good auto focus.

I recommend it for pple looking for good memory space, and loves pictures else, the Phone is got Baterry probs as all Nokia prob because of the applications running.... thus its advice to get spare battery.

great phone easy to use great quality. you get a great package deal too. good aps on the phone with lots help built in. great compact phone does what it says on the the tele

I like the phone and it is working perfectly as it was described and couple with the free bluetooth. Nice seller to do business with. Keep it up.

love this phone because of it feature, like internet, cameral , messaging aspect of it. the flipping feature, all in one is prety nice to me.i have been using it for the past three day now is sweet to use even it will guaid you to the neccesary feature if you made mistake.i will recomend it to any one in need of itthe best of nokia phone is N97, 32 GB.THANKS.

Nokia has done it again. I liked the phone because it is so user friendly n compared to IPHONE, this is easily offordable. Its crashing feature is a bit pain. but its awesome

I bought this mobile phone, first reason is I want to save some money. Definitely a new one would cost me 488 pounds. I choose a second hand, someone may think there will be some problem with a second hand product. I trust the seller, in his words he just opened and checked. When I got it, I found the phone was in an excellent condition. So I gave the seller a high commend. I think ebay is really a good market for saving money. If you are not satisfied with the item, which may be not in good condition as the seller said, you can return it. So don't be afraid. I f you want to save money and save time, just buy it on ebay.

This is a very clever and easy to use phone with more style than the very common iphone. The nokia brand has gone from strength since the early launch of the N95, which l still use as its just as powerful and easy to use..no matter what the critics say, touchscreen is here with us but you cannot do away with the power of keyboard as demonstrated clearly by the nokia N97 and yes it boasts of having the two technologies!

if your looking for an unlocked version go for a vodaphone one as any sim works and you also get free speakers which i'm told you don't get with the others, the phone is difficult to use at first, but then becomes straight forward, a well presented phone, which has a weight to it, combined with its build quality means it won't get broken so easily.
software is quite difficult to get at the moment but with new web page's springing up it shouldn't be a problem for long

Nokia N97 seems to have pretty much all that one can desire; of course it has no coffee maker or hair dryer, but if you need constantly an access to world wide web, a memo, a map, a media player, a good camera and if you also need a mobile phone, this device can be all them. I was looking for a mini laptop (netbook), but since N97 has similar features and it fits well into my purse, I chose the phone instead of the small laptop.

What is really good with N97, is that you can customize it by yourself pretty well. You can download useful widgets, themes, sounds, games etc. directly from Nokia's Ovi store to your phone. Some of the widgets are free, some are not.

The phone has also a touch screen, which seems to be a trend with all new cell phones at the moment. This is my first touch screen device, so I can't really combine it with anything. However, the screen seems to respond even to quite gentle touches. The bigger your fingers are the harder it is to use the phone, I think. Then you'll have to use the little stylus that comes with the phone.

The problem with big fingers can also occur in another way. Nokia N97 has a QWERTY keyboard. It can be slided out under the screen for typing. Although the keys have a nice matte surface, it can be difficult to hit the right key because they're very close to each other and very small. I had a similar problem with my old phone, Nokia E70. Also that comes with a QWERTY keyboard.

For a Scandinavian N97 gives one other problem; we use a lot of letters like ä and ö, but although Nokia is a Scandinavian brand this cell phone has no individual keys for these letters. If your phone has a Scandinavian language pack installed, you can find these letters hidden under other keys. It's a bit tricky.

The language pack isn't an easy case. For example, if you speak Greek, Japanese and English, you can't just go and upload these language packs to your phone by yourself. If you have bought your N97 from UK, it probably has only English installed. To change this, you'll need to go to the Nokia custom service and ask them to upload a more suitable language pack to your phone. I had to do this with my N97. It had French and English language packs, but in the operation I lost the French pack while I got a Scandinavian language pack instead. In my case this doesn't really matter, but for somebody else... Plus, this operation is not free. I had to pay about 30 euros for it.

Although N97 has very good features, it's too early to call the phone excellent. I haven't used mine for long yet but it has crashed several times already. This has usually happened with the phone's web browser or camera.

N97 is also hungry for energy. While I had to charge my old E70 once in three days, N97 needs to be charged once in a day. It helps if I turn off N97's fancy effects and set also its weather, e-mail and news widgets offline. BTW, if you keep these widgets online and don't pay for the data transfer just a monthly fee, you will soon get a huge phone bill. With N97 you must have a pay monthly contract with your operator for the internet use, since this phone is made for web surfing.

At the moment Nokia N97 is a good moblie phone despite its little faults. I presume it gets just better when the next firmwire update is available.

Nokia has announced the Nokia N97 today and already people are wondering if it has the feature set to become an iPhone, Blackberry and Google Phone killer all rolled into one.

With a 5 megapixel camera, HSDPA and qwerty keyboard it beats the iPhone in terms of features hands down. For mainstream users who want a decent camera and Blackberry/Google Phone style keyboards this is a dream device.

Nokia expects the handset with a large touch screen, retailing for 550 euros ($693) before taxes and subsidies and due to reach market in the first half of 2009 will bolster its N-Series smartphone offering.

ere’s a run-down of the specs: tri-band HSDPA 3G support; 802.11b/g Wi-Fi; aGPS and stand alone GPS; 3.5-inch touch resistive touch screen that measures 640 x 360 pixels in a 16:9 widescreen format; 32GB of built-in memory, with support for another 16GB with the addition of a microSD card; 5 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics, LED flash and video capture at 30 frames per second; on-board accelerometer and compass; and support for Flash Lite 3.0 and Flash Video in the browser. Not bad. Not bad at all.

As for the hardware, the preview units we saw were literally built by hand and the product managers couldn’t stress enough that they are many generations away from being final. That said, the hardware was very good. The hinge that slides the top half of the phone open was solid and had no side-to-side play. The keyboard was spacious and comfortable to type on. The buttons all felt good, and the materials were quality all around.

very good thank you very much is a nice item and very easy to use i think is a very good idea to buy it

THIS IS A EXCELLENT PHONE, WAS UNLOCKED TO ANY NETWORK, EXCELLENT CAMERA, AND EASY TO USE. DON'T REALLY DISLIKE ANYTHING ABOUT IT.