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Nokia N97
$693.00
Released June, 2009
The Pros:32GB of internal storage. QWERTY keyboard. MicroSD expansion slot.
The Cons:Very expensive. Frequently hangs/reboots... Pitiful amount of internal RAM.
The Nokia N97 is a touchscreen phone which slides open to reveal a small QWERTY keyboard. The screen can be angled, allowing the consumer to use the phone as a mini-computer to browse the web or write e-mails.
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The battery is capable of 1.5 days of audio playback or 4.5 hours of video, making it good for a movie every so often but not a device to rely on for long flight. It has A-GPS and 32GB of onboard memory along with a microSD expansion slot. The touchscreen is 3.5 inch and has a 16:9 aspect ration, 640 x 360 pixel. The price tag attached to the Nokia N97 package is not cheap, so this phone is not the best for those who need to watch their budget.
Features
- 3.5", 640 x 360 pixel touchscreen
- QWERTY keyboard
- WiFi
- Bluetooth
- HSDPA
- A-GPS
- 3.5 mm headjack
- 32GB onboard memory
- microSD expansion
- 1.5 days of continuous audio playback
- 4.5 hours of video
- 5 megapixel camera
User Reviews (23)
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attractive UI - well designed widgets and browser
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good firmware support as a flagship phone - latest 2.0 firmware improves stability, performance, battery life, and touch scrolling
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Finally, Nokia provides a phone which charges via USB !!!
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frequently hangs/reboots...
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Pitiful amount of internal RAM
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no open source or lossless music format support
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only 3 rows of characters on the keyboard - space button is not in its proper place
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Buggy applications, e.g. keylock crashes forcing a hard-reset.
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User a Symbian operating system which was never spesifically designed for touch-screen.
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Weak processor clocked at around 414 MHz
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Uses an older-style "resistive" pressure-sensitive touch-screen which is inaccurate when touched compared with modern capacitative touch-screens. Device requires a stylus for accurate screen control.
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Comments (3)
salimfadhley:
#nokia_n97 Seriously this phone is a peice of crap. From day one it proved to be untrustworthy and difficult to use. We got to review both the early alpha hardware and the final version: Both were appaling.
I'm a longtime Nokia user, you might even call me a fan-boy but this one device was evidence enough to prove that the S60 platform is nearing the end of it's working life, at least in the smartphone market.
Luckily I didnt have to pay for this. When my moth of using it was up I was actually quite delighted to return it to Nokia.
Oct 9, 09
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