Nevertheless the N97 sort of scrapes by, for now. Its fast and responsive, the worst bugs will are certain to be fixed, and the most violently ugly parts of the user experience will be quietly thrown overboard. That leaves an OK iPlayer, an OK music ...
Nokia's been at the forefront of mobile phone innovation for years. Or at least it was before the iPhone sauntered in. It's taken a while, but the Finnish phone company's now thrown in its own iPhone equivalent - the all-powerful N97. First up...
Not too much here, to be honest. If we're being really picky, the secondary function key is hidden away on the right-hand side of the phone. Surely a more natural fit would have been to position it on the left-hand side? Hmm? Also, while this does com...
Touchscreens are all well and good, (and the N97's is good) but this handset makes QEWRTY keyboards fashionable again. A superb multimedia phone from the Finnish phone giant with but a few minor imperfections. Here's one in the pips for you, Apple...
Full of features, more storage than you can shake a stick at, excellent media playback functionality
Clunky and outdated Symbian operating system, slightly odd QWERTY keyboard
Fantastic piece of hardware, but a missed opportunity to make a great touchscreen variant of SymbianKey specs3.5mm jack, 3G, 5 megapixels, Bluetooth, FM radio, GPRS, GSM, HSDPA, Li-ion battery, microSD, MP3 player, Touchscreen...
Well laid-out Qwerty keyboard; access to Ovi Store; customisable homescreen; widgets with live updates; angled screen; epic 32GB of memory with room for 16GB more
Bland user interface not the easiest to use; unimpressive-looking display; resistive touchscreen; still some bugs; no multitouch; poor battery life
The Nokia N97 is another feature-packed N-series powerhouse that somewhat neglects design and usability considerations. With a great Qwerty keyboard but a disappointing resistive touchscreen, we're ultimately underwhelmed by the whole package ...
Perfect slide-out QWERTY, Great camera, Decent touchscreen
Sometimes sluggish when browsing the web and awkward when navigating around the interface
N97 is still littered with imperfections and, although the key specs remain present, a lot of the features feel scaled down and not as accessible or user friendly as in the specialist handsets.
Its an Nseries device we are talking about and we cant complain about looks. Hows that for a nice start? Now seriously, the Nseries are back on track and we dont mean that as a mere comparison to the misfiring N96. All-in-one is the game and the N9...
