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Nokia N97 Mobile Cell Phone Reviews and Ratings
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Average Rating : 3.5 Total Reviews : 24 |
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Average Rating : 3.5 |
| Good The Nokia N97 features a touch screen, a full QWERTY keyboard, and 32GB of internal flash memory. The smartphone also offers 3G support, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and GPS and comes equipped with a 5-megapixel camera. BadThe N97's touch user interface isn't well integrated and can be inconsistent and confusing, especially compared with the competition. We would have preferred a capacitive touch screen instead of resistive. Bottom LineWhile the Nokia N97 is packed with features and offers the freedom of an unlocked phone, its clunky touch interface, sky-high price tag, and outdated operating system make it hard to recommend when there are better touch-screen smartphones on the market. © 2009 CBS Interactive Inc. All rights reserved. Used by permission. | |
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Title: I waited and so wanted to like the N97 Time: 2009-07-26 07:31:15.0 Reviewer Name: Velo Head Rating: 
Review Source: Amazon |
This would have been a 3 Star rating, but I subtracted one star for value.
I received from Nokia and have been using the N97 from the first day it was released. It is loaded with great features, and has about all the capability one could ask for. It has great call quality, both send and receive. The touch interface is nicer and faster to use than a non-touch screen device. Bluetooth works great. GPS, especially linked with the new Google Maps release is stellar. Still camera quality is super, video adequate, except for audio pickup. Nevertheless, I would never advise anyone to buy an N97. Here's why: Battery life is inadequate. Can't get through a day with average use. Keyboard is slow and difficult to use, poorly designed, poor tactile feedback, impossible to see small blue function labels on every key except in low light when the internal lights are illuminated. BIG DISAPPOINTMENT. I really hate the old style telephone keypad text entry, but it's actually faster and easier that the QWERTY hardware. Operating system is arcane, clunky, and NOT user friendly. It has some features that just plain defy logic. Phone lock switch sometimes works, sometimes not. Even after installing the firmware upgrade. There are many, many features, but few perform well. Really screwed up memory management. Very small C: drive (for operating system), that fills up over a few weeks. The only cure, and advocated by Nokia tech support is to reformat the phone. Then it works fine for a few weeks until you have to do it again. That means hours reinstalling and reconfiguring the phone each time. If you don't reformat, the phone will bog down completely, most apps won't run, and you will be tormented by Memory error messages. This flaw alone makes the phone unusable unless you have the time and enjoy constantly tinkering with the phone. I'm as geek or more as the next guy, but when I depend on the phone to work, it constantly lets me down. If have installed programs you have paid money for on the Ovi store, once you reformat, you can't download them and reinstall unless you PAY AGAIN.!! (This surprises Nokia reps every phone call, but there are incapable of resolving the problem. Finally after 2 weeks, I discovered the secret formula: get a refund, and then download again. (What's a few hours of voice mail/support purgatory every few weeks?) FM transmitter is poor. Unusable in an automobile. Numerous re-boots required each day to squash operating system and app bugs. Voice command function is poor. Not practical to use. Numerous bugs, especially via text input into the Facebook app. It gets stuck in the function key mode frequently, and you have to go back to the archiac touch screen interface. Symbian, and the overwhelming majority of apps available are Euro-centric. Nothing wrong with Europe; actually I would rather live there, but I don't. That means functionality for US users always seems "once removed", kind of like always dealing with a poor translation into English. If the Apple phone would multi-task, integrate with Exchange server better (multi-task again), and have user accessable battery, microSD and SIM card slot, I would put up with no keyboard. I can't stand the thought of using a stylus, but may be driven to an HTC WinMo device soon. The N97? Maybe for $100, but then you would still have to use it. In the meantime, I may have to fire up the E71x again sitting in my drawer. With all the hassles and bugs in the N97, and even after coming to appreciate how nice it is to have a touch interface, the device has to work; but the N97 doesn't work without a continual fight. The marketplace is screaming for a smartphone with the connectivity of the N97 (Quad band w/tri-band 3G, FM receive/transmit/ wi-fi, bluetooth, standard cable connections), great battery life, fast CPU, user accessible battery and micro SD slot, a decent operating system, great UI, no stylus required, excellent QWERTY hardware, quality video and still capture, flawless Exchange server interface, that can multi-task. Unlocked of course. The good news is that smartphones will get better; there is huge room for improvement. |
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Title: Good at its trades...but master at none... Time: 2009-07-26 07:31:15.0 Reviewer Name: Smasher AT Rating:
Review Source: Amazon |
The N97 is a good device but not great...It includes all these great features and while the device is not great in any one of those features, it does all the features well enough....kinda like how a swiss army knife behaves. If you are looking for an all-around device. This may be it.
A couple things to consider before buying the device: 1. The touchscreen uses resistive technology and not capacitive technology (like the iPhone). As far as resistive touchscreens go, the touchscreen is as responsive as a resistive touchscreen can get. The key is to use the tip of your finger for best response and not the bottom flesh of your finger (resistive toucscreen responds to pressure and not static electricity like capacitive). 2. I also recommend going to [...] to have the nokia messaging client installed. It is far better than the built-in default client. 3. Right now because the product is quite new, there are a few bugs. Nokia is excellent at product and software support, and just like most of their phones, the stability and performance of the N97 will be very good after a couple of firmware updates. You just have to patiently wait for that to happen (this is the price of buying a product as an early adapter). 4. The keyboard is okay. It's not the best keyboard out there and there isn't a lot of tactile feedback. However, its still a lot better than having only a virtual keyboard on touchschreens like the iphone. After a couple of days, I was typing quite fast on it. |
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Title: Oh N97, I tried so hard to like you, but you did me wrong. Time: 2009-07-26 07:31:15.0 Reviewer Name: Jason Rating:
Review Source: Amazon |
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. |
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Title: Buy It totally worth it! Time: 2009-07-26 07:31:15.0 Reviewer Name: Manuel Lara Castillo Rating:
Review Source: Amazon |
I just bought my cellphone, at the beggining i was very scared because i use to be a blackberry user all my life because my work, so i bought this phone here at amazon, and its great! YES is a brand new PHONE! so it have a lots of BUGS but almost at lot of the have been fixed, thats why i gave 4 stars! but the phone its amazing i used to have the blackberry storm, bu believe me this one its GREAT the things that i dont like are the backcover its plastic made, the MSN LIVE is not working at all,the video support (only MP4) and they are not to much app right now, but im sure that we will have a lot of apps early in this future. but believe me i love this phone and everybody looks at my phone! it looks great in your hand! AND THE INTERNET SURFING IS JUST AMAZING!!!! im in mexico and im having a 1.3 MB of 3g speed! is not too bad! i gues that in USA will be faster! but i dont need to much speed.
the bugs im having till now are: *CANT UPLOAD ALL MY PICTURES to FACEBOOK (this is a facebook ISSUE) *When you have low battety theirs a very low frecuency sound (on the next update nokia said that it will be fixed) * I cant put to wallpapers at the same time (this is not a bug, you just cant, but i hate that i want a landscape wallpapper an a portrait wallpaper) *All othe issues have been already fixed (locks, reboots, lights) The batery life on my n97 its like 24 hours but please believe on this im almost 15 hrs on my phone internet, because i use it alot on my work, and i have this program that i recibe my emails just the moment it was sent, just like the blackberry so its 22 hours on the net! when im not surfing too much on the net it can hold up to 3 days! Sorry about my english, but im typping really fast, and i dont have a great grammar! but what im trying to tell you is that,if you are not specting a laptop and you are realistic about the things a smartphone can do. this cell phone is GREAT dont hezitate on buying it! it looks great and very like executive! LOL greetings! |
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Title: If you like simple, avoid this phone Time: 2009-07-30 04:21:23.0 Reviewer Name: C. T. Lynn Rating:
Review Source: Amazon |
After a year of bliss with my iPhone, I decided to see what the competition had been working on to try and catch up. On paper this phone seems pretty good but the list of dissappointments is a mile long.
The overall feel is delicate and cheap. The flip up screen is poorly angled (too steep). The menu lists are excessively long and not the least bit intuitive. This phone can do a lot of things most people will NEVER use and none of them are easy. And to access all those fancy features, you need to navigate this Ovi website and software which I found hopelessly complicated and not really that powerful. The user manual is nice and brief but does not cover everything you need to get the phone online and using the music, voicemail (not mentioned anywhere!), text messaging, maps etc. It says all this should be done from the Ovi web site but after hours of trying I only managed to get my email linked up and get some music on the phone. There is no 'airplane mode" that I could find. Big minus for me. Even switching the ringer/sound off requires 2-3 steps. The touch screen is really primitive compared to the iphone and while the iphone screen can be too touchy sometimes, this one is just slow and unrefined for a $600 phone. I used my ATT SIM card and got phone service without any problems however. And the 16GB SD card worked without issue. The size and weight of this phone are good but for a couple ounces I will trade back to Apple. This phone IS NOT a replacement for an iPhone. If you love Apple's ease of use, common sense functions and overall high quality of finish, do not by the Nokia. They are not even in the same league. |
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Title: the hardware is good but software is terrible Time: 2009-07-30 04:21:23.0 Reviewer Name: G. Bassett Rating:
Review Source: Amazon |
If you are a power user, don't buy this phone.
For comparison, i had a blackberry 8800 that I wanted to replace. Bottom line up front: Don't buy it. I'd rather take a risk on the HTC Touch Pro 2 if you can wait for it on your carrier/afford it unlocked. Or wait longer and see what android phones come out. Rather than bore you with discussion of why I originally chose the n97, lets just get into my experiences: Major Issues: 1. It no longer receives text messages except when sending. (This is within a month of buying) 2. The exchange email sync locks up regularly and normally has to be manually sync'd when it is working. Also, notes doesn't sync at all for me. 3. Even if you install everything to the phones 32GB memory, the phones small internal memory still fills up causing the phone to basically lock up. 4. I find myself rebooting the phone regularly to get it to work. 5. The web browser becomes unresponsive while loading pages (so if 1 picture on the page isn't loading, you can't browse the rest of the page. I find myself regularly waiting for pages to load rather than reading what is already loaded.) Also, even when loaded pages don't scroll around very well. 6. The software availability is much less than I expected. Maybe I'm just bad with google, but it seems like most the programs I want are from the US. And US developers seem to develop in this order: 1. iphone 2. blackberry 3. windows mobile. They just don't develop for s60. For some reason I can never fine the European equivalent of the programs I want. Also, very few programs seem to have been updated from s60v3 to s60v5 so even if someone HAS done the software, it doesn't necessarily work on this phone. That includes most of nokia's own software. 7. Battery life is not enough to make it through an entire day if you're using it regularly throughout the day. It'll make it if you leave it in your pocket while you're at work, but if you leave it on your desk, (say because work blocks all the websites you want to visit), you better plan to have it plugged in the whole time. 8. The call log stopped recording so I can't see who called me any more. 9. I have to leave it on vibrate so it doesn't ring at work yet can rarely actually feel it ring. I don't know if it's not vibrating or just so week I can't tell but I miss 100% of the calls I get when I'm not looking directly at it. 10. The phone app does not interact well with any other app so you'll likely screw up a call if you're in an app when you get it. Alternately I regularly have trouble actually hanging up. I don't think the red button on the bezel works the same as the "end call" soft button. 11. It takes at least 3 clicks to do basically anything whether it's run a program, view a contact or pick who to send a text message to. nothing is well laid out. Minor issues: 1. All the configuration options are buried, obscured or unavailable. It's a hunt to try and configure anything. 2. The Facebook app requires 2 clicks just to tell it 'yes you can connect to the internet' every time you open it. (This is pretty consistent. Everything wants your personal interaction to tell it how to connect to the internet. This is easy: if available, use wifi, if not use cellular. With AT&T there are another 2 or 3 options I don't even understand.) 3. The Facebook app stopped loading pictures. 4. It doesn't come with a password keeper and all the options are mediocre on this phone. (There are 3 or 4 options but none I consider acceptable. I could do an entire post on whats wrong with the different password keeper options.) 5. Ovi Store doesn't let you re-download programs. It knows you've bought them but it won't let you reload them. 6. The podcast program doesn't automatically download your podcasts in the background and it doesn't save your spot in them. (However, I found out if you play the podcasts through the music player it will save your spot as long as you don't play anything else in between.) 7. The screen does not redraw well 8. The music player is mediocre at best. It seems I have to dig down to the song just to play anything. I'd like to hit 'play' and have some random song play. This is an acceptable player for maybe 2 or 3 years ago. Today people expect a reasonably thought out interface. 9. The rss reader is built into the web browser and has to be dug down to. Why can't I just hit an RSS app and have my RSS's, updated, at my fingertips? 10. Ok, I know below I throw a bone to the keyboard, but it's quirky. I regularly hit the 'right' key on the d-pad when trying to type which sends my cursor to the front of the text, (where I then type half a sentence before realizing it). Also, I regularly confuse the 3 'alt' keys, (which you'll use regularly). This slows me down and causes me to retype a lot. Also, I'll get an 'alt' key locked in place and type a whole sentence in numbers and symbols. 11. Just can't find a reasonable game for it. I just want a simple RPG to keep me busy when I don't have a cellular connection but can't find one that will install. 12. The cut and paste are very poorly implemented. That said, it's not a completely terrible phone 1. In general, all the hardware is good. They've got a decent platfrom, their just abusing it with terrible software. 2. I get a TON of use out of the 32gb of memory. It's just like having a 32GB memory stick with you as long as you've got the cable. 3. I like podcasts on my phone. If the software was a bit better it'd be perfect. I let them download in the background and then play them in my car whenever I drive, (and all things considered and morning addition aren't on). 4. At least it can kinda sync. It brought over my exchange contacts and calendar. That is pretty nice though I'm not sure it's actually sync'ing changes backwards. 5. I like the integration between the GPS, the Nokia 'locations' program, google maps, etc. There's even a program to GPS tag your photos. 6. The camera takes great photos and reasonable video. Qik is cool for streaming/sharing video online. 7. The keyboard isn't bad inherently. The keys are definitely ok to type on. 8. Size and feel of the phone are pretty good. The flip up is great. 9. The widgets are nice though I don't use the facebook (I had it up for a bit but I never really cared about anything it was showing me) or the weather (the weather has a solid background which is an ugly contrast to most other widgets that are semi-transparent) widgets. 10. It makes a great modem for a laptop, whether as a wifi access point or as a tethered modem. That said, I wish the hardware supported WPA because, being at DEFCON this week, WEP is just asking someone to crack it. Hope this helps others avoid a very expensive mistake. I'll probably try and sell it on ebay and go back to my 8800 while I wait for AT&T to get the HTC Touch Pro 2. I just hope it's not crippled in some way. |
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Title: Dissapointed Time: 2009-07-30 04:21:24.0 Reviewer Name: Mark Rating:
Review Source: Amazon |
I would never imagined that a $600 N97 would have a touchscreen keyboard like the old phones, with 3 letters per button. You need to touch up to 3 times a button to get certain letters. I returned it inmediatly.
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