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I absolutely hate touch screens, yet I bought this phone.Why?This is a question for Nokia: if other people hate touch screens like I do--and they do--why do you think they'd buy the N97 with its inferior resistive touch screen over the iPhone's superior capacitive screen?Here's the reason: FULL QWERTY KEYBOARD.So when you make a phone with a "full qwerty keyboard," and then you omit a dedicated row of numbers, it's not really a full qwerty keyboard now, is it? I come from a long line of QWERTY Nokia phones such as the 6820/6822, E70 and the Nokia E90 before this. The E90 has a full keyboard, complete with ctrl key so you can do seemingly simple things like copy (ctrl+c) and paste (ctrl+v). With my Nokia E90, typing was a breeze. You could even skip between words in sentences while typing text messages by holding ctrl and pressing left or right like you can in Windows (or even highlighting those words by pressing "shift").So imagine my disappointment when it took me a full minute of hunting through menus to forward a contact's phone number to someone via text message. Short of looking up the number, writing it down on a piece of paper, then typing it back, there's no other way to do this. What was a simple task on E90 and E70 (simply click options on the contact and it takes you to a sub-menu where you can copy the phone number into your clipboard), is an unwieldy chore on the N97. Here's how to copy a phone number to your clipboard: Contacts->Click on the contact->Options->Edit->Click on the phone number->Options->Editing Options->Copy->Start->Drag your finger across the number->Click Done. Absurd! And Lord knows how to paste it once you have it on your clipboard (you can only paste in apps that support the "Editing Options" submenu, so forget about pasting information in forms and menus on the phone for a quick lookup). I've scoured the Internet and there's simply no way to do this.Nokia has literally reduced functionality on this phone.Also, I can't stress enough how annoying it is to have to shift to type numbers, and to have to shift to type a comma. Are you kidding me? Commas are (or should be) the most used punctuation, up there with the period. Nokia's choice to make you shift to get a comma is dumbfounding.About the apps:-----------------Browser: the browser is frustratingly stupid. In older Nokia phones, you could simply type shortcuts while browsing 1 = enter URL, 2 = search, 3 = reload, 5 = switch between windows, etc. They removed this functionality from the browser. Why?! It's so annoying I could punch a vase. Why did you remove functionality that you had before, Nokia? Why? Nice one.-Facebook widget is okay; mostly sizzle, little steak. The presentation is nice, and it updates pertinent information, but you can only scroll through 20 or so entries in the live feed. There's no way to go trawling through a day or two of updates like you can by simply pointing your browser to the mobile version of Facebook.-Amazon app: throw it away. It's little more than a mobile front page that literally takes you to browsing on Amazon's mobile site.-AP News: does what it's supposed to. Video quality was good, news is what you'd expect from AP. Fairly functional app.-Guitar Rock Tour (like Guitar Hero): boring and unresponsive on the touch screen.. you have to tap too hard to register a click, so it slows the gameplay down and is exhausting to play.-AccuWeather: fairly accurate weather forecasts, though typing "weather [zip]" in Google seems to give more accurate results (AccuWeather seems to return results for the city you're in, but in a large coastal city like Los Angeles for example, a few miles can make a big difference).Usability:-----------There's a volume control button on the side that pivots up or down, and it only seems to work on calls. Since the buttons are there anyway, why not put them to use by allowing users to scroll up or down through menu items or web pages? Dragging around on the touch screen is frustratingly inaccurate and a chore.-There's a nice lock button on the side of the phone that seems fairly responsive (you can lock/unlock with a flick of your thumb). It did occasionally leave the screen black when I unlocked. I've updated to the latest firmware and haven't noticed the issue since, but it's disconcerting when it happens.-Exiting applications is TORTURE. In other Nokia phones, it's fairly easy to exit (just click the menu item, press up and it takes you to the bottom of the menu to exit). Or simply press the red "hang up" button and it will exit most apps. Not here. Pressing the red button does nothing (it only takes you to the home page). So before you know it, you have 20 different apps running in the background, all hogging up memory.-When you enter a sub-menu like the one for choosing symbols by pressing the "Sym" button on the keyboard, it's impossible to exit this menu. You have to choose a symbol, even if it's one you don't want, and then e

When I first learned of the n97's release, I was excited. I had been waiting for Nokia to release another ground-breaking phone, like the n95 of years ago. The n96 wasn't it, nor was the n85. Then the n97 came - with a touchscreen and QWERTY keyboard to boot! I was sold at once, but did all of my research anyway and found it to be full of innovative ideas and modern must-haves. I bought it nearly two weeks ago at a reasonable discount from NokiasUSA after Amazon ran out of stock and jacked up the price.**If you read the specs, you will find all of the high points, but here are some more:-I found the phone to be fast and responsive when given input. The keyboard is phenomenal - the key spacing and feel is just right and the offset space bar is not as big of a deal as it is often made out to be. The only thing I could ask for is a little click to acknowledge the button was pushed, though if the sound is on, the phone makes a small noise. The keyboard could have been even bigger yet if they dropped the D-Pad, which I rarely find myself using as it is a touchscreen (maybe make it a secondary feature for other keys?).-The GPS unit quickly finds a satellite signal (faster than most Tom-Toms) and accurately places you on a detailed map. The turn-by-turn voice directions work well, except they do not read the street name. Best of all, it doesn't make you agree to do-not-drive-as-you-use-this-device waivers every time the program launches.-The call quality is excellent.-No contract and not bogged down with un-deletable carrier apps and tacky logos that remind you who bought your soul.**The bad and the ugly:-My first thought when I handled it was, "a little chintzy, eh?" It does give off the impression for a little while, primarily because of the battery cover. They used a plastic, snap-on/ pry-off cover whose snaps are easily bent out of shape, but did not break and easily bent back. The rest of the construction, especially the hinge, seems to be very solid now that I have used it extensively.-The 5MP camera takes remarkable photos and videos, unless you want to use the flash, which is too close to the lens and whites out a third of the image. Thinking about this more, I decided Nokia has used a very similar camera since September of 2006 when the first n95 debuted and such a quirk is unacceptable in something that has been around the technology world for so long.-The battery life is terrible. With normal use, it will most likely get 24-36 hours.-Reception is bad. The internal antenna does not pickup signal where my Blackberry does and my Samsung smartphone (4 years ago) before it did, to include my apartment in Boston (not exactly East Reeve, Wisconsin).-The FM transmitter is hardly worth having. After trying numerous stations I know to be unused in my area, the reception in my newer Audi with rear-mounted antenna was terrible unless I held the phone out the sunroof. I assume if you have a hood mounted antenna, it would be a little better (does anyone know?). UPDATE (4 July) - In two different cars with front mounted antennas and my home stereo the FM transmitter has still proved worthless. You can hear the music, but it comes through with more static than its worth.-The resistive touchscreen is outdated and somewhat unresponsive. Resistive touchscreens are great if you wear gloves, and if they are huge, but that doesn't happen on a mobile phone. Resistive touchscreens use a grid-like system to figure out where they've been touched, as they have invisible lines that make a grid across the screen. When the selected area is touched, the corresponding up/down and left/right lines are pushed against sensors on the screen's edge and send the information to the processor. Capacitive screens measure minute differences in its electric field cause by the conductive human body and are generally much more accurate.-The inertia scrolling is not as one would expect, probably because of the aforementioned screen. It does not matter how fast the screen is flicked, the information displayed travels the same measly distance and stops rather quickly no matter what, if it works at all. Navigating web pages is probably the only reason I would use the provided D-Pad just because the scrolling with the touchscreen is so terrible. UPDATE (4 July) - The inertia scrolling is not as terrible as I first said, but does vary with applications and takes some getting used to.-The accelerometer, which detects the direction the phone is tilted, is often incorrect and the phone is very slow to change the screen's display between portrait and landscape.-Oftentimes, the phone must be unlocked 2 or 3 times to get the LCD's backlight to turn on. This may be a software or a hardware malfunction, I do not know.-The talk and end button are not raised but should be, especially because the phone does not acknowledge them having been pressed for a second after. Plus, real buttons are always preferred.**Then there's the software:

[This is an updated review; some of the issues that existed when the N97 was first released have since been addressed. Also, I have moved some of the more elaborate details of the original text into a new review ("A Guide") that I created for the white version.]Nokia E- and N-series phones have for some years now had, by far, more capabilities than anything else out there - but they have not always been the sexiest or had the widest mass appeal. Plus, although Nokia sell more smartphones than anyone else worldwide, they have not targeted or marketed the US market very heavily (thanks in part to our combination of non-standard wireless technologies and frequencies, consumers' focus on style over substance, and Nokia's unwillingness to cater to the fairly heavy-handed branding and crippling of functionality demanded by US network providers).Much of that is changing with the N97. As you can see it definitely has the visual appeal. Also, its main enhancements over the most recent N-series phones (such as the N95, N96 and N85) are user interface centric:>> 640x360 WVGA LCD>> Touch screen>> QWERTY keypad>> Faster CPU (ARM11 at 420 MHz vs. 332/369 MHz in the N95/N85, and two ARM9 cores at 265 MHz in the N96)>> Configurable widgets for the home screenThere are a couple of other improvements as well:>> 32GB of built-in storage, ?SDHC card slot for up to 32GB more (Nokia always advertise only the tested configuration, 16GB)>> Additional sensors: Magnometer (electronic compass), ProximitySo, yes, Nokia have finally bit the dust and moved onto the post-iPhone touch screen bandwagon. But whereas Apple borrowed quite a few UI elements from the Motorola Ming, and other manufacturers in turn tried to copy the iPhone look and feel, Nokia has taken a decidely different approach: They have taken most of their new design elements from their own Internet Tablets line (e.g. exchangable home screen widgets, keypad layout, etc). They have also done so while keeping the underlying OS from their previous smartphones, Symbian/S60.I don't care much for this direction. To this day, I would take the E90 any day over the N97, had it been released with support for North American 3G (UMTS) bands. The E90 does not have a touch screen, but does have a numeric keypad on the outside in addition to the QWERTY inside the shell -- this allows you to "type" with one hand using the native T9 predictive input, and mostly keep your eyes elsewhere while dri... eh... walking.As it is, Nokia ended up with touch screen phones (starting with the 5800 XpressMusic) kicking and screaming - it kindof shows. The user interaction paradigm is a little odd at times -- probably mostly due to the S60 legacy. [Lipstick/pig joke deliberately omitted here]. For instance:>> You need to double-tap on icons (once to select, once to open)>> They still retain "soft keys" on the side to access menus an the like (though now they are located on the display itself, and occupying quite a bit of space). The home (previously "standby") screen has three soft keys; the left and middle are always "Options" and a a dial pad, while the right one is configurable ("Contacts") by default.There are some other usability issues with this phone as well:>> Copy & Paste functionality is a bit more cumbersome. There are no keypad shortcuts; with the keypad open, cut/copy/paste are only available via the menus! Moreover, not all text input screens have such a menu available - in which case you need to close they keypad in order to bring up a virtual numeric keypad with a context menu at the top of the screen. Or, if you use an external Bluetooth keyboard, you can press Ctrl-X/C/V.>> The keypad layout is a little unusual at first. The navigation keys are on the left (which some gamers like, but I don't). The space bar is in an odd location on the right. Mixed alpha/numeric input is cumbersome because the digits 0-9 are "shifted" via a key on the right side of the keyboard, while the standard shift key is on the left. Plus, in some dialogs you get a helpful numeric keypad on your screen, but it defaults to text input (2=abc, 3=def, etc) rather than give you quicker access to digits! (Why, Nokia? You already have the keyboard? What are you thinking?). That said, the tactile feedback is good, not too "firm" or "clicky", but with a good feedback.>> There is a nice E-mail status widget for the home screen, but you can only have one of these. If you have multiple e-mail accounts (e.g. for work/home), you can only monitor one of them. The same goes for some of the other widgets too.>> Direct media controls are gone (the N95/N96/N85 had a dual slider design giving ready access to play/pause/previous/next). There is a home screen widget available, but it is hardly as convenient (e.g. if you are using an application, typing a mail, etc).Some other limitations that I found so far when compared to their previous N-series phones:>> The amount of available RAM (dynamic memory) available

I have been using this phone for the last month, I use this phone for my corporate email, and occasionally for web browsing. I rarely game on this phone, and don't expect to game on it. This is a great business phone over the iPhone and E63/E71.Pros- Keyboard: Great for email and SMS, but keys might be too small for people with big hands, I have a medium size hand and occasionally still makes typo- Battery Life: A lot better compared to my iPhone 3G, on average expect 2 days before needing to charge, on par with E63/E71- Camera: Good pictures, not great but definitely workable. Video are great, I take them occasionally, and then upload them back to my computer, and they are great (not HD, but color is accurate and video is smooth).- Ovi Store: Good selection of apps, much less choices compared to Apple's App Store, but a good start. My only complain is that the apps are expensive compare to Apple, even though they are the same program by same developers.- Ovi Suite: Great program to sync all your note/contact/calendar/photos/sms/programs, it even allows you to do backup/restore from the phone, great if you need to reset and format the phone. Syncing has been flawless!!- Nokia Map: Works great, same as iPhone, but voice navigation will cost you extra. My complain is that it is slower online to load maps than iPhone's Google Map. Remember to download Maps for your area to the phone through Ovi Suite, so you don't need the constant internet connection to load the map.Cons- Memory Implementation: My biggest complain, Nokia decided to split the 32GB of memory into 2 parts (System-74MB, and Mass Memory-31GB), this just doesn't make sense to me. As some program forces you to install on the system memory, you can run out of memory literally within days or weeks. After it is full, some of your program which require the memory simply won't run unless you clean it up, which Nokia doesn't provide a good tool to do.- Tilt Sensor: Poorly implemented during calling/hanging up, I had to tilt and tilt the phone around and around to answer call and hanging up. I just decided to disable the auto sensing feature all together. Nokia should allow the user to further customize the tilt function so you can choose which program you don't want the tilt to work.- Games: This phone is not meant for gaming. Games are horrible on this phone, there are few choices in the store, and pressure sensitive screen aren't as good as the touch sensitive screen on the iPhone.- Hang & Freeze: Right out of the box, my phone hanged on more than 10 separate occasion during end calls, and closing application during its 1st week. Honestly the firmware and my carrier aren't working together, after a master reset, and reinstall all the application myself, things were much improved, only 1-2 hang & freeze when I try to run multiple application at the same time and syncing at the same time.Tips- Master Reset: My carrier decided to install lots of program into my system memory, leaving me a poor 5MB, I literally ran out of memory first day using the phone for emails. I recommend you do a master reset to remove all the application, and install the ones you really need and install them to Mass Memory if possible. My phone is working flawless now, 4 email accounts, 30 apps installed, and still 10MB left on the system memory.- Version 2: Upgrade your phone firmware to version 2, should be an improvement.

Hello and thank you for reading this review.I am a phone app developer and have had some 'face time' with the Nokia N97. I'll let you know some of the more in depth details so you can decide if this is the right phone for you or not. There are many positive features about this phone, but a few potential pitfalls for power users as well. Average users will probably never notice any of the pitfalls, but probably will never use some of the best features of this phone either to justify the cost.This is the new Nokia flagship phone and it packs almost every feature anyone could ever want. It has a DVD quality camcorder with sample videos found here:http://www.vimeo.com/4352001Notice how well the mic picks up the creeks of the boats in Monte Carlo, and how rich the colors look. That is due to the Carl Zeiss lens Nokia has put in. The quality is also great and can be sent directly to the TV via the TV out cable, but I would recommend making a DVD from the memory card as the quality of the cable isn't as good as the DVD quality this phone provides. Video starts up quickly, which is an improvement from the previous versions.The pictures taken by this phone are of very good quality. Many consumers are fooled by 'megapixels' (mp). Well folks, after 5mp or so, mp doesn't mean much. All it does is make your picture size better, it does NOT increase the QUALITY. I assume most of us aren't pro graphic artists that need huge pictures to zoom in on the most minute detail, and if you are, then you probably don't need this review :PThe lens and picture quality of this phone is superb, but not as good as the Samsung 8 sadly. It is by far tho, one of the best mobile phone cameras around. You can notice some problems in darker areas and they went with a dual LED flash instead of the Xeon gas flash. The Xeon gas flash would have provided much better lighting in low light situations, however as a phone enthusiast I feel it's good enough.View sample images from thesymbianblog.com:http://vaibhavsharma.wordpress.com/files/2009/05/nokia-n97-camera-photo-sample-01.jpgandhttp://vaibhavsharma.wordpress.com/files/2009/05/nokia-n97-camera-photo-sample-03.jpgJudge for yourself.This phone is a TRUE smart phone OS which means you can download apps for it such as VPN software to connect to your office network and apps such as PUTTY or RDP clients to remote control real computers at the house/office. With 3G speeds the potential is limitless.Now for the bad. Nokia decided to use the old ARM II CPU found in the N85, 95, etc. phones but increased the clockspeed (mhz) slightly. We were looking forward to the new TI cpu which would have provided much better speeds, at the cost of battery life. They also stuck with 128mb ram with about 80mb available after boot up. I don't know about you but after I load up all of my apps and get cranking, I eat that up. I was able to notice some slow down in the pre-build when I:-opened up several websites w/ flash content-ran the music player-opened up 'widget' applications-tried basic functionalityMost users will probably never do that. If you are a power user, then you probably already know about the Samsung Omnia HD which boasts of similer features, but also the new faster CPU and dedicated GFX chip which means you can play Ipod type 3d games with ease. The final point is with the potentially underpowered CPU, you will not be able to play the super high resolution videos the Samsung can play.Finally this phone has the slower 3G speeds which don't reach 7mbps, will you need 7mbps? Probably not. I think for 99% of users, the current 3G speeds offered by this phone are fine.I tried out the phone and pre-ordered, I can't wait to get it. I can't wait to develop some 'widget' applications for it and really see the power of this phone with the newer more stable build.Thank you for reading this, feel free to respond, yell, scream, or ask any questions!

My wife has owned this phone for Since August 2009 and she is still amazingly frustrated with this phone.I wanted to gift my wife a touch phone something like a Iphone. But 30 Dollar per month data plan was too much hence I decided to go for the N97. Nokia got a great reputation for simpler phones but I think developing a touch phone is asking too much from them.I paid around 450 on Dell for this phone and this is probably the only purchase which I still regret. I would not discuss the technical aspects as me and my wife both are not that tech savy. However the negatives are as below:1. Very poor receptions. I don't know why the phone keeps dropping the calls where as mine which is an old Ericsson works perfectly fine. I know AT&T has got some issues here in bay area but still I know my phone works perfect but my wife keeps running from corner to corner to make sure that she completes her call in one go.2. Touch screen is useless. It hangs so frequently that I think they sold us a beta version.3. Battery life is so poor that it even does not require a comment.4. Web-surfing is nightmare. She use it only when we are on road and need to find something. It takes a lot of time but atleast we are able to get something. But it has nowhere a near experience like iphone. I checked some phones of my friends and now owns an IPAD and I find that user experience and interface is amazing in Iphone.5. Not a single great application.I was surprised to find so many positive update on this phone. I think folks sitting in Nokia are manipulating this. I would recommend only one thing...never pay for a touch phone to Nokia...they are selling just the crap.

First, let me say that I've been a user of S60 devices for years now. I even had that awful 3650 with its goofball round keypad. Off the top of my head, I've had and used 3650, 6620, 6682, 9500, 9300, E61, E70, E50, E51, E61i, E65, E71, N73, N82, N95 and the ill-fated N97. I even had a 5800XM for half a day, but returned it when I found that the 3G capabilities were hopelessly borked. Fortunately for those users it got fixed, but I never did jump back in on the 5800XM.Back to the N97 though. Crazy version number jumps aside (I read something about 4 being considered an unlucky number in some Asian cultures, so they skipped from S60v3 to v5), I was jazzed about the N97. Under the hood, the Symbian underpinnings that I've grown to know & love over the years, with a slick new touch interface. I even went to the launch party in NYC. That commercial with LL Cool J had me humming "Mama Said Knock You Out" so much in my head that I went and bought the song from iTunes.Then I got the phone, retiring my N82. Cue the sad music. First problem - no iSync support. At all. No worries, been there before. I hacked together an N95 plugin back in the day, so how hard should it be? Bzzz.. No go. My method of sync on the device was using Mail for Exchange with Google Sync to sync up contacts & calendar events. It worked mostly, but was a bit of a pain to set it all up. To get the data to the phone, it's My Mac -> Google -> Phone. Of course, that's 2 different 2-way syncs, so there's always potential to have change collisions at the Google part of the equation.Next up - battery life. Wow. It's not iPhone-bad, but it's pretty bad. I will take my hat off to the boys from Espoo on one point here - Micro-usb charging. It's about time, kids. Seriously. Keep that up.The CPU and available memory felt a bit anemic. Not as much CPU as I'd thought would be the case - out of memory was a common message I saw. Definitely slower than I'd have liked, so I must also say the CPU is definitely not up to snuff.The screen. Oh the screen. It's certainly beautiful to look at, no disputing that. I thought the colors were vibrant and looked great. I was concerned that a touchscreen would mean it would be hard to see anything from finger marks, but not so here. My chief problem with the device, which ultimately led me to return it was the screen. The resistive touchscreen employed on the N97 just wasn't sensitive enough. I found myself doing 3 or 4 touches when one should have sufficed.The camera. 5 MP, dual LED flash. It took very nice pics, but why not use a single xenon flash? The flash on the N82 is the best I've ever seen on a phone.I really really tried so hard to like this phone, but between the screen that didn't really seem to work correctly and the < 1 day battery life, I couldn't in good conscience keep it.

This may not be the fastest and sexiest phone, but this thing can do just about everything. To my knowledge, there is no phone on the market even a year later than can match this phone in terms of features. True, it may be kind of slow and clunky at times, but find me another phone that can support up to 64GB of storage, has an FM radio transmitter and receiver, supports tethering by bluetooth or can turn into a wifi 3G access point without having to hack the OS, or has a full blown sat-nav with offline map storage of the entire world. It runs a full-blown flash browser in Skyfire, allowing me to stream Sirius radio without having to upgrade to a "premium" account like is necessary to use the Blackberry App on my work phone. New google maps supports voice searches and gets free traffic updates. Download files with a free bittorrent client. Play old Nintendo games on it ith an emulator. It may not have as many available apps as iPhone OS or Android, but there are a ton of really useful ones - really too many to list.This is definitely a power users phone, so people who just want something to "work" without having to do any tweaking, etc, are probably better off with an android or iPhone. Or, if you really like playing video games, this is probably not the phone for you either. A capacitive touch screen would have been nicer than a resistive one like this has, but at least you can use it with gloves or a sylus, if that's your thing. Since version 2.0 was released, this phone has really gotten a whole lot better - many of the worst reviews you'll read were probably written about N97's on V1.2.If you get this phone and you're anything like me, you'll constantly be on the lookout for a newer, slicker phone that can do everything this can but faster and more gracefully, but I haven't found one yet that can match this thing in terms of sheer utility. Great phone.

The Nokia N97 is a great phone. However, there are two things that need to be made clear about it:1) It did not start off as a great phone.2) It is not for everyone.I got my N97 in July of 2009 after pre-ordering it from [...]. I have had several S60 Nokia phones in the past that I have absolutely loved (6682, N95, N82, E71) and thought that the N97 would be the ideal phone to marry business and multimedia features as well as touch technology with a full QWERTY keyboard. However, the phone was very buggy and frustrating to use initially. Truth be told, Nokia should have never released the phone with the firmware that it initially did. I would try using the N97, inevitably get too frustrated to continue and just go back to my E71. My plan was to sell it online and wait for something better I liked to come along but I never got around to it. And I'm glad for that. In December 2009, I decided to give the phone another shot so I did a hard reset, installed the most recent firmware...and finally discovered the phone that I had been expecting all along. Great hardware, very good software and the versatility to be able to please a wide range of users. However......this phone is not for everyone. Before its release, Nokia tried to hype it as being an answer to the iPhone. It is certainly not that. The iPhone follows the Apple philosophy of being a product that can be mastered relatively easily. That is a major dividing point between the two devices. I absolutely would not recommend the N97 to someone who is unfamiliar with S60. It would simply be too frustrating for that person to try and learn a new OS, especially since it was never designed to be used with touch. However, for anyone who is familiar with Symbian/S60 and wants a phone that is essentially the mobile version of a Swiss army knife, I would absolutely encourage you to check out the N97. If you were someone who was turned off by the initial bad reviews, just know that they have pretty much all been solved and the phone is now what it was meant to be.

First of all thanks for reading this review and hope it helps.My story with this phone is that I purchased it right after it came out into the market, from the start had to do a firmware update, and unfortunatly the phone keeps on presenting problems. I am at firmware 2.0 and it just seems that this firmware just made the phone worse the before. For starts, the phone presents constant lock ups and memory loss requiring hard reset (having to take out the batrery and memory card for the unit to start up). Lock ups are most noticeable when the phone memory (ram) is low, even though no widgets or programs running the phone eats up ram by itself, and you receive a phone call. Right after hanging up the phone locks ups and have to go throught the whole process of reseting the phone. Options for the different screens are hard to acces since have to go through several menues to get to them. The camera lens is very prone to scratches, taking night pictures is basically unusable due to the flash being reflected from the scratches of the lens. Key pad feedback is basically not there, keys have no real sence of travel. The phone is under powered, there is a very noticeable lag between screen selection of a program and actualy opening of the program, screen rotation is slow to the point were you have to shake the phone to make it realise that you wish to go to portrait mode or back to landscape. Overall I personally do not recomend the phone, specially for the price of the unit. There are a lot of other phones that even though, might have less functionality, work a lot better and are less frustrating to use then this unit. Support from Nokia is lacking, not very helpfull when you finally are able to contact them.Overall a very disapointing experience, leaves you feeling as if your were ripped of for paying a premium price for a substandard so called phone.

I really like my N97 with it's background app capabilities to totally trumps the iPhone. Not to mention basic things like flash on the camera. The camera takes pretty good pictures and video for a phone and the new free voice navigation on Ovi maps is nice. There's a problem, though - it seems to have a problem with being turned off and on - randomly it will just not turn on until you've either reset it to factory conditions or go through many iterations of trying to get it to turn on (using the different methods suggested in several different forums - definitely not a problem isolated to my own phone.)The Ovi store has a lot of catching up to do with iPhone store, too - but there are a decent number of fun apps (many free). But you can also run many free Symbian apps and Java apps on it and transfer of data is a breeze (it just looks like a drive to the computer).Some people don't like the resistive touch screen - but I find it just as easy to use as the capacitive on the iPhone. I just use my fingernails to tap and it works flawlessly.I'm doing comparisons to the iPhone because my husband has one through work and he hates it...

On paper, it has everything that you would expect from a $600 phone (its available for $529 now), but its only when one starts using it that all the software shortcomings come to light.5 MP Photo Camera - great quality photos, but flash leaves a clear white mark on photos when used at night. I keep it turned off unless absolutely needed.Video camera - video quality is better than when i take video on my Sony 8.1mp digicam32GB internal memory - limitless space, but some apps dont install on this memory, instead defaulting to the phone memory(which is already very small). So whats the point of so much space, when it cant be used for proper management.Email software - doesnt support HTML; cant set unique notification tones for different email account, so when a new mail arrives and a person has 5 email acc setup, they will have to browse through all 5 Inboxes to see which one has the new emailBrowser - satisfactory;Battery - satisfactory; lasts more than a day with average usage.Google Apps/Facebook/Youtube - not satisfactory at all; facebook crashes all the time(I have finally uninstalled it), GMail app doesnt notify of new mails like it does on Blackberry; Google Maps has great interface, but I loose connection all the time when I am out of my wifi range.Multi-tasking - good feature and works well as long as all phone memory is not used up!Am waiting to download the v2.0 firmware upgrade that is being so much talked about. Hopefully it will fix the software issues.

well the first thing, i'm write this post from my very cool N97.Ok, say that go to the important thig.1. The phone ship in the date estimated. Great!2. I'm live in Chile and this phone work great in my country. Very nice!3. The keyboard it's espectacular. Very comfortable!4. The feel&look it's really cool.5. Absolutty all my contacts i have sync from my gmail account. This is really great, because all thing that i have in my cell phone sync to my gmail and the same in the other way.6. The camera it's ok. Is not a espectacular, but cam on, it's a cell phone.In the other hand. The Symbian OS it's ok, but i think with Android or Maemo this phone Rocks! -is not only a phone, actually in my first day i use a variety of functionallaty but i don't recive any call and i don't call anyone XD.I installed putty for my SSH connections and other thing that a think it's the posibillity of download multimedia files and management.In the past few days i download a zip file which containt a lot of mp3 files. The cell phone download them and when i open the zip file, the browser offer my extract the content in any path of i want. I extract in the music collection and after i updated the collection. The new files was added to the collection. That it is a really cool thing.

I think that the Nokia N97 is a great phone. I would be the first to say that it has some issues that should be solved by future firmware updates.(kinetic scrolling throughout, ram issues) I'm by no means a power user. This phone accomplishes everything I need it to do and also gives me options to do some fun stuff as well. I'm a Nokia phone guy. I grabbed the N97 and was up in running in no time. The os is very familar. Some would say that this old and boring. I say that this is a major selling point. I don't want to learn everything over again just because I'm getting a new phone. It's great being able to listen music, check my email, and chat with my wife. I love the camera. This is a major selling point to me because most phones have crappy cameras. The Fm transmitter is also a plus to me. I've used that feature more than I can count. The touch screen is very usable. I wish they would have included a virtual qwerty keyboard. I use the virtual T9 keyboard often and I must say that it is great. The physical keyboard takes alittle getting used to but within days I was typing without much effort. In closing I would say that this phone is great. If you are looking for an Iphone killer this isn't in the same boat as the Iphone. If you are on the fence on buying this phone go ahead you will not be diappointed.

I was looking to switch from my Blackberry to another Smart phone that I thought could handle my daily requirements (I'm what you would call a power user). I paid almost $600.00 for the phone and consequently had high expectations. I had the phone for one day and realized at the end of the day this definitely wasn't the phone for me. The software was very unstable and if you haven't used the Symbian Interface before, it is not as intuitive as other smart phones. I'm not exagerrating when I say the phone for whatever reason froze up while being used at least 3 times an hour. I would have to remove the battery and put it back in to get the phone working again and this was the ultimate deal breaker. The fact that I couldn't browse the internet or perform basic functions on such an expensive smartphone convinced me to return the phone the very same day. Amazon.com offered spectacular customer service and I was immediately given a refund. Hope other buyers have a better experience than I did but for me, I'm back to my Blackberry Bold 9000 and waiting for the Blackberry Bold 9700 to go on sale at Amazon.com...

I went through 2 of these defective phones before I got the 3rd here. Even this one was buggy and would consistently drop calls, freeze up for an inordinate amount of time when responding to a simple txt. I am an IT professional and didn't have much installed on the phone and always installed the latest firmware. I have had Nokia phones all my life and my 1st smart phone was the N95 8GB. After my experience with Nokia's latest smartphone and worthless OVI store I am officially done with Nokia unless they get their act together. I just got a Nexus One and it is blazing fast and opens anything by the time you have your finger off the screen. Nexus One BEST PHONE EVER! Don't waste your time with this POS!

I ordered this phone from Amazon assuming that I am getting the right phone as I am used to Palm lines of phone with both Qwerty and touch screen phones and I wanted an unlocked one with the same function. There were issues with Nokia. They shipped with a wrong battery type which even after full 4-5 hours of charging, would discharge the moment I disconnected from the charger and did an ON/OFF. I called Nokia USA customer service 2-3 times and they didnt even bother to call me back even after a week.Then the address book search is not very user friendly as the search on firstname or last name is not bringing out the correct match. In all, those who need a real qwerty kb and touch screen phone, this may not be the right choice - Atleast it wasnt for me. I decided to return the phone to Amazon for a full refund.

Nokia N97 Unlocked Phone, Touchscreen, 3G, 5 MP Camera, A-GPS, 32 GB, MicroSD Slot, and Integrated Ovi Applications--U.S. Version with Warranty (Black)Bought this phone for my daughter and she absolutely love it. She's having the time of her life with the many features it comes with especially the Qwerty board for her continuous texting with her friends. She also loves the way it slides out and stays up like a screen which makes it much easier to see what she's typing while texting. It's a great, great phone overall. I've always been a fan of Nokia phones, thought them to be very user friendly and easier to comprehend no matter how technological they become. Thanks Nokia for once again shining as always.

Because it was a top N Series and most expensive cellphone at Nokia during a couple months, I expected more to this investment. A lot of bugs - some solving with 2.0 Firmware, some not - like bad first Facebook app (now, better). The problem with landing page (the page of gadgets) continues I think because this stout cellphone needs a Intel processador - may be - like Duo Core for Nokia :). I really believe if this could possible, this Nokia N97 might be better than seems...The camera looks like ok, but always when I take a picture with flash, the weard fog appears in the corner below, left side...Istead of I like the qwerty keyboard it's ok and the apps available could be better in Ovi portal.

I read a lot of reviews before buying. I have been with the phone for one week and I am really happy. It is true that in the beginning I had to do a lot of hard reset and I thought all the bad things were true but then I updated the firmware. That is my first recommendation. After that, it improves a lot.

I waited for this phone for a long time. I was planning to buy iphone but i have been a loyal Nokia customer for last 6 years so I waited for this phone and got it from Nokia flagship store even before it was even available from amazon.The touch interface is horrible. Sometimes when there is an incoming call, I have to press accept button 3-4 times before it is recognized.The GPS is even worse. I have owned this phone for quite some time now and it has never captured satelites when I need it to (in total it has been able to capture satellite twice but both these times I just switched GPS on for fun). my friends Iphone has never failed him even a single time.battery is average. I am moderate user and for me it lasts 48 hours.Now some positives (thats why it earned 2 stars):plenty of storage. Music quality is awesome. camera is great.Bottomline: This would have been a great phone had it come 3 years back or had it been available for $350 but for $699 (though todays price is $529) definately not worth it.

Like a Nseries real fan, my last purchase was the N96. I was willing the N97 to have a serious gadget, computer and entertainment all in one device. Now i am happy that i made a good decision. The only thing i am facing right now is that there are little apps designed to the 5th edition Symbian OS. I have to recommend the quickoffice great application which gave me the oportunity to transfer my adobe and quickoffice licenses to this edition. The other problem is the battery, i thought nokia was going to fix the duration but it's better to purchase more batteries or i recommend better the new and updated cradle from boxwave. Nokia N97 Desktop Cradle (With Spare Battery Charger) The qwerty keyboard is so great that when you combine the autocomplete option you obtain great productiviy. I'm so happy with the design, but i'm so concerned that the Symbian OS isn't so develop like others, but the multitasking feature is what ended taking my final decision. I chose the black version and now i'm so happy to obtain great features with ovi sync and professional email program of ProfiMail, Try it you're gonna love it!!

If you are thinking about using the N97's built-in WiFi for net access through a corporate or university network, you might want to check if your company or university uses EAP-TTLS/PAP for WiFi authentication/security. If they do, there's a good chance this and other Nokia phones won't work with it. Despite three years of protests on Nokia's corporate website and online petitions, Nokia has failed to add support for this common security to their smartphones. Google EAP-TTLS PAP for more info.

I sent three of these things back due to defects.I have been the proud owner of an e71, N95, N95 8gb and not so proud owner four N97s.The phone has giving me nothing but problems from memory loss to software bugs(that have mostly been cured by the resent firmware updates).I really like Nokia but this phone is just not worth the headache for example my current n97 is in repair with Nokia due to screen issues, the endless problems have been overwhelming, i am back to using my e71 and that phone just works the N97 doesn't.I have pre orded an n900, i am hoping that with the new operating system things get better and the n900 turns out to be the device i was originally looking for. If this is not the case i will have to move my smart phone allegiance elsewhere.