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Just by looking at the price of Nokia N97, I am sure you know what to anticipate. The latest offspring of Nokia N-series is a what-you-would-see-in-the-hand-of-James-Bond device powered by Symbian S60 OS. Heavily loaded with latest features, Nokia N97 makes sure what you pay is what you get.
The package is loaded as well, beside the phone, you get a battery, a stereo headset, a travel charger, a data cable, an audio controller, an external stylus, a pouch, a, cleaning cloth, a user’s guide and three-month subscription of Nokia Maps.
If you are fans of widescreen phones, you are destined to love N97. The 3.5-inch touchscreen is dominating the front of the phone, leaving only the call, end call and menu buttons lying on the edge. The phone feels hefty. (It seems that the touchscreen phone with QWERTY keyboard nowadays cannot avoid heftiness, just look at HTC Touch Pro 2). It may not please those who are looking for a slim and light phone.
I love the home screen which accommodates widgets that you can customize to fit your taste. The accelerator is responsive. When you slide open the phone, the screen changes to horizontal view without any hitch.
The D-pad is relocated to accompany the keypad. The d-pad is made rubberish material which makes it not as intuitive and thumb-friendly.
The keys are satisfactorily spaced which allows accurate typing with big thumbs like mine
The tilted screen is smooth for sliding but the hinge feels kind of wearable and flimsy. Let’s finger cross it is only my paranoia.
On the hinge you will see a list showing off the highlights of the phone, quoted, “32GB/AF 5MP Carl Zeiss/ nHD3.5”/ A-GPS/ Bluetooth 2.0/ WLAN/ 3G HSDPA/ USB2.0/ FM RDS”.
On the other side, you will find the USB 2.0 socket for recharging and data transfer.
The external stylus looks like a USB flash drive. It is unconventional but unnecessarily “big”.
The back looks sophisticated with a sanded surface that makes it less slippery.
The camera is a Carl Zeiss endorsed 5 megapixeller with auto focus, Dual LED flash, 4x Digital Zoom and tones of adjustments that you can explore.
The phone comes with a 32GB in-built memory and an expandable 16GB by MicroSD
The nylon pouch looks cheap period.
This is the grid view of the menu. Makes sure you check out the application, there’s a whole world in there.
Every phone now has gotta have Facebook application. I mean, it is Facebook for everyone sake!!!!
All in all, Nokia N97 is superb function-wise. The operation is sinfully smooth, the connection is guiltily fast. It delivers just like the Nokia brand promises. However, the design and build is not at Nokia’s best
[ This Message was edited by: Plemix.com on 2009-06-11 05:12 ]
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Posted: 2009-06-10 06:50:50
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Congrats to you mate nice phone with a nice review
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Posted: 2009-06-10 08:58:26
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Well done buddy, I didn't realise these were available yet..
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Posted: 2009-06-10 10:12:23
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Plemix is the company planning to ofer shipping of phones in Romania ?
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Posted: 2009-06-10 10:39:26
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It's been in Qatar for around 10 days now.
I haven't played with any yet, but I don't know what to expect to be honest.
I wish it was thinner. How fast is it though in terms of responsiveness?
I love my iPhone because it's quite smooth but it's starting to get slow.
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Posted: 2009-06-10 10:41:37
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Great review Plemix,wow its a beaut.
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Posted: 2009-06-10 18:17:40
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As per many reviews, the keypad sucks.
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Posted: 2009-06-10 18:27:10
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Somthing tells me this is a hype phone. Like the 5800 which sounds great but is slow and un-responsive?
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Posted: 2009-06-10 19:11:22
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To the O.P. Thanks for a nice review. Indeed, I expecting all the SE fanboys to do what they have to do
A nice s60 device, no doubt. Now let's hope, SE's S60 top dog will be even better. (and YES, I really mean it). The only thing I am missing is WiMAX. Nokia will announce shortly a 'full house' Wimax cell. - It won't be s60 though (linux- based). The first s60 wimax should come early 2010 - till then my n95-8gig will have to do.
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Posted: 2009-06-12 19:35:12
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Just watched "The phones show" review The reviewer complained about the keyboard claiming it`s too small and theres not much ram after boot up.
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Posted: 2009-06-12 19:39:48
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