Things to love and hate about the Nokia N97

Here’s my list:

Love - Love the widgets, great to have a dynamic view of what’s going on. Esp. with the new Gravity widget. - Coming from the iPhone loving background processes - Being able to use Fring/VOIP over cell network - Loudness, it’s so much better

Hate - Hate that the Facebook app is buggy, half the time I have to close it because the keyboard starts typing symbols like &*^$ instead of letters. -Sling Player does not work. Really bummed about this, and my message I received back from Sling gives me little hope that it will ever be updated or released. -Syncing with my mac has been a royal pain. -Please, please Nokia make it so that I can schedule Sync sessions, going through 3 layers of menus to do it is not a quick task. - Ovi stor, come one Nokia this is a no-brainer. Fix it. - Weird backlight issue when locking/unlocking.

I am having a wierd issue with syncing right now. I can’t sync in media transfer mode unless I first hook it up to windows in PC Suite mode. After that it syncs fine. Very strange.

Got mine yesterday and here’s my quick first impression:

LOVE — *The usability of the home screen. After three years with other Nseries devices and their clunky Active Standby screens, I am very pleased to be able to tap on widgets, clock, profiles and even the upper right hand corner to control so many useful phone features. *How snappy the OS feels, even with low memory available and many apps running. Seems like memory management is much better than older Nseries devices. *Build quality. SOLID as an Eseries, no creaks, no wobbles. Love it love it love it.

HATE – *Having to double-tap on so many items on screens. I am still getting used to it, I guess, but it is still annoying not really knowing if I have to double-tap or single-tap on something. *Scrolling. I wish I could just grab a screen, anywhere, and flick it with my finger instead of having to grab the scroll bar. *Not getting more cool themes or the “barrel”-to-micro USB adapter which I guess is thrown into the EU version.

Shoddy journalism! Agreeing with Ricky on #1 without doing independent research. Yes, the N97 has 128mb RAM, but Ricky ignores the 256 MB of NAND. Nokia does implement EFD’s (emulated flash drives) in NAND that have IPX(in place execution). I have seen, on my 97, a huge amount of paging with free mem going from 45 mb to 13 mb REGARDLESS if I’m running: 0 apps (clean boot), 5 apps, or 10 apps. (apps include Maps 3, profimail, camera, buddy cloud, Tweets60, browser, youtube, music player, FM transmitter, podcasting). I would suggest that it is improbable to get to 10 MB free and keep it there- UNLESS you are loading and running apps that violate memory managemnt rules. I have noticed that many apps that run on other FP1 & FP2 devices will throw up the “this application is not compatible with this phone” warning messages when you try and load them on the N97.

To date I have had only 2 crashes/restarts- fewer then my E-71, N-85, 5800 in the same period – and that was because I loaded apps that were flagged as incompatible. Once removed I have not had any problems. Assuming that all Symbian apps will run flawlessly/not cause performance issues on a new piece of hardware is a major assumption, that I feel is flawed.

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Helllo everybody, I agree with all the comments posted above but not all experiences are same.

Well the nokia N97 is a very beautiful phone, it looks great and the side slide mechanism is just awesome.

I bought the phone because i am a texter and i use facebook and nimbuz a lot so i needed a qwerty phone, so i bought the N97, but i would say the alphanumeric keypad is not that good, first because the buttons arent good enough, they are flat and they dont give the feeling of a button when you press them.you really have to struggle to use it unless you keep long nails like i do. so out of 10 i would say [4/10].

Secondly, the OS is the biggest issue, it is not that fast and it crashed too often. People say it is a multitasking phone but when you play a music in the background and send messages at the same time you cant lower the volume. And by mistake if you switch to different apps that are already running the phone crashes. Moreover, nokia has released so many symbian phones and the nokia n97 is like a flagship phone, so we as users were expecting a better performing device. But unfortunately being a nokia user and fan sometimes it makes me feel ashamed to tell my GF that i lost connection because my phone froze or was displaying all type of colors all of a sudden as if going into a coma while i am on the bus.

I also makes me think, they must have tested the phone before they release it, but what those bloody idiots engineers and software engineers have tested, because it comes with so many bugs out of the box.[3/10]

Thirdly, the interface is interesting, there is nothing so special with the home screen even with the personalisation of the screen as the OS is not quick like the iphone, and its better not to have too many shortcuts on the screen as there is more chance for it to crash. And sometimes it says not enough memory to do such and such things close some apps. The way the apps open and close should have been quick and spot on but sometimes having apps run on the background it is kind like 50/50 chance it crashes everything.

The thing i dont like about the presentation of the interface are the big buttons that just waste a lot of display space, they could have been smaller. And moreover the way the interface presents the buttons to be pressed it is not close to the finger and not consistent on all prompts. [3/10]

fourthly, the music interface is the worst i have ever seen. if you are playing a song and all of a sudden you go to another application and come back, you will have to go through all songs again, then options then now playing then you get the songs. So why so many options again and again. [0/10 am afraid]

fifthly some people are talking about how nice the phone is and some others are trying to look for means to make it run faster.

This phone has 32 gb of storage space but only 128 mb of ram. haha joking. Its as if you are surrounded with sea water but dont have water to drink. why the **** is the phone’s ram filled up to over 80 percent of its memory when there is nothing running in the background? And even when nothing is installed or saved on its memory it is still full. Haha amazing. [5/10]

6th – And about software, the phone is supposed to be a phone that can read pdf files but that ******* adobe reader stops working after 15 days or so. [2/10]

7th – We all know about OVI store the worst **** ever on this planet that does not do justice to our phones because it is fillled with **** apps like a smell detector app hihi. [-1/1 000 000]

“it is a smartphone, sophisticated….bla bla bla” but there are no good apps to make it run a shame. when friends ask you and when they show you there iphone with better interface, loadddddddddddsss of apps and faster running and more comprehensive you become a loser.

The phone has a fantastic design but the rest does not do justice at all. [4/10]

thank you