The Nokia N97 is the flagship Nseries device and thus should be targeted to the power user who wants to capture photos and video, share this media with others, browse the web, interact with social networks, create and edit documents on the go, and much more. There are Nseries devices that excel in media capture, such as the Nokia N86 8 megapixel phone and Nokia N82.
The hardware design and construction of the Nokia N97 is some of the best ever seen on a smartphone. The hinge is slick and yet rock solid, the display is crisp and bright, the camera is well protected and the back cover design lets you have the N97 resting on a table to watch movies. I am quite good at text entry on the N97 and IMHO, the hardware keyboard presence is better than not having one present.
The display is resistive, but Nokia did a great job with it and I am not missing a stylus at all. Displays like this (and like the one found on the HTC Touch Pro2) may even be better than a full capacitive display because it gives you the ability to access text fields in a browser and scroll and edit within those fields. I also found the display to surprisngly perform quite well in direct sunlight.
The homescreen features a widget interface, with shortcuts to the browser, Nokia Maps and music player on the left side of the screen, and Accuweather, Facebook and hi5 widgets preloaded on the right side.
The kick slide that allows you to access the Qwerty keyboard is a little violent - we trapped our fingers in it more than once. However, its one of the best devices we've seen for writing emails or large chunks of text resting on a desk because it doesn't rock forwards and backwards like many other devices with a sliding Qwerty keyboard. Conversely, the keys on the Qwerty keyboard are a little spongy, making emails and long chunks of text a little trickier than we'd like.
In the menu, you'll find a shortcut to Nokia's Ovi store to download music and applications. It's not as easy to use at the Apple App Store, and the interface isn't as pleasant to use as BlackBerry App World, but it's a step in the right direction for a world of mobile applications. What is spectacular is that the Nokia N97 features a whopping 32GB internal memory for loading images, videos and music on, with a microSD card slot that supports memory cards up to 16GB on top. That's bigger than the iPhone!
Once you've got your tunes loaded up on the N97, there's an FM transmitter to stream your music to a stereo. If you're bored of the tunes on your mobile, you can also listen to music through the visual FM radio.
For imaging, there's a 5-megapixel camera, although we haven't yet had the opportunity to try it out fully yet - that'll be coming up very soon in the review. Video is another impressive feature on paper - VGA at 30fps, but we'll see what it's like when we put it to the test.
But Some key Eseries software is missing, such as the full Quickoffice suite, Nokia Messaging/Email client, Mail For Exchange, and home screen notifications. The camera is quite good, but not as good as the N82 (check out the All About Symbian camera comparison). It should be able to play games well too, but N-Gage is only loaded on selected N97 devices and will not even install on the NAM version.
The out-of-the box experience with email is incredibly inept on the N97 and if you walk through the setup wizard you will end up with your email working in the old (DOS look and feel) messaging client. To use the new Nokia Email client the N97 owner needs to visit the email.nokia.com website and have the text message link sent to their phone for proper installation and provisioning. The E75 sets the bar for email on a S60 device and the N97 fails here. For $700, this is not what you would expect from a smartphone in 2009
AT last it is a multiple accessed phone with every features and a phone that fails to live up to the expectation.
This Phone is not available in the market now. For more info search in the google.
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The hardware design and construction of the Nokia N97 is some of the best ever seen on a smartphone. The hinge is slick and yet rock solid, the display is crisp and bright, the camera is well protected and the back cover design lets you have the N97 resting on a table to watch movies. I am quite good at text entry on the N97 and IMHO, the hardware keyboard presence is better than not having one present.
The display is resistive, but Nokia did a great job with it and I am not missing a stylus at all. Displays like this (and like the one found on the HTC Touch Pro2) may even be better than a full capacitive display because it gives you the ability to access text fields in a browser and scroll and edit within those fields. I also found the display to surprisngly perform quite well in direct sunlight.
The homescreen features a widget interface, with shortcuts to the browser, Nokia Maps and music player on the left side of the screen, and Accuweather, Facebook and hi5 widgets preloaded on the right side.
The kick slide that allows you to access the Qwerty keyboard is a little violent - we trapped our fingers in it more than once. However, its one of the best devices we've seen for writing emails or large chunks of text resting on a desk because it doesn't rock forwards and backwards like many other devices with a sliding Qwerty keyboard. Conversely, the keys on the Qwerty keyboard are a little spongy, making emails and long chunks of text a little trickier than we'd like.
In the menu, you'll find a shortcut to Nokia's Ovi store to download music and applications. It's not as easy to use at the Apple App Store, and the interface isn't as pleasant to use as BlackBerry App World, but it's a step in the right direction for a world of mobile applications. What is spectacular is that the Nokia N97 features a whopping 32GB internal memory for loading images, videos and music on, with a microSD card slot that supports memory cards up to 16GB on top. That's bigger than the iPhone!
Once you've got your tunes loaded up on the N97, there's an FM transmitter to stream your music to a stereo. If you're bored of the tunes on your mobile, you can also listen to music through the visual FM radio.
For imaging, there's a 5-megapixel camera, although we haven't yet had the opportunity to try it out fully yet - that'll be coming up very soon in the review. Video is another impressive feature on paper - VGA at 30fps, but we'll see what it's like when we put it to the test.
But Some key Eseries software is missing, such as the full Quickoffice suite, Nokia Messaging/Email client, Mail For Exchange, and home screen notifications. The camera is quite good, but not as good as the N82 (check out the All About Symbian camera comparison). It should be able to play games well too, but N-Gage is only loaded on selected N97 devices and will not even install on the NAM version.
The out-of-the box experience with email is incredibly inept on the N97 and if you walk through the setup wizard you will end up with your email working in the old (DOS look and feel) messaging client. To use the new Nokia Email client the N97 owner needs to visit the email.nokia.com website and have the text message link sent to their phone for proper installation and provisioning. The E75 sets the bar for email on a S60 device and the N97 fails here. For $700, this is not what you would expect from a smartphone in 2009
AT last it is a multiple accessed phone with every features and a phone that fails to live up to the expectation.
This Phone is not available in the market now. For more info search in the google.
Ad: Buy one get two free. click here: - http://www.savemoneyindia.com/category/pen-drives-memory-cards/
