Nokia N97 Unlocked Phone with Touchscreen, 3G, 5 MP Camera, A-GPS, 32 GB, MicroSD Slot, and Integrated Ovi Applications–U.S. Version with Warranty
by admin on Mar.14, 2010, under Nokia
- This unlocked cell phone is compatible with GSM carriers like AT&T and T-Mobile. Not all carrier features may be supported. It will not work with CDMA carriers like Verizon Wireless, Alltel and Sprint.
- Unlocked quad-band GSM cell phone compatible with 850/900/1800/1900 frequencies
- Flip-out full QWERTY keyboard; A-GPS and Nokia Maps; Wi-Fi networking; Bluetooth stereo music; 32 GB internal memory; expandable via MicroSD
- Up to 9.5 hours of GSM talk time (6 hours on 3G, up to 430 hours (17.9 days) of standby time
- What’s in the Box: Nokia N97, Nokia Battery (BP-4L), travel charger (AC-10U), connectivity cable (CA-101), wired headset (AD-54, HS-45), charger adapter (CA-146), cleaning cloth
Product Description
The Nokia N97 mobile phone provides excellent user experience for internet and entertainment by combining QWERTY keyboard with resistive touch screen. Integrated A-GPS. 5 mega pixel camera. Video.A-GPS is a network dependant feature that requires a data plan. Additional charges may apply Personalize your homescreen arrow Have all of your content and connections at your fingertips on the beautiful personalizable home screen. Manage and access your internet directly f… More >>
March 14th, 2010 on 9:45 am
I have owned Nokia phones my whole life. This phone is nothing more than a N95 with a touch screen and poor integration. There are many bugs in the code right now.
It has a chance to become a great phone, but wait till the first software update to see how much time & effort Nokia is going to put into it, right now you are best to hold off.
UPDATE: I returned the phone back to Nokia, Too many software inconsistencies, some screens you double touch (click) others you only touch once. Some screens you have to use a scroll bar, others you just drag your finger to scroll down. I don’t want to have to learn which screen do what and change my habits depending on the application/menu I’m on. Nokia should have taken the time to make all their apps and menus work the same. I would understand that 3rd party applications might be different but not the installed applications on the phone.
This phone really needs to be in your hands for a day or two to figure out the frustrations with it. Don’t get me started on the poor use of memory and how if you are not a Nokia user from a long time ago, you install your apps on the default drive only to figured out the default drive is not where all the memory is. Or if you get tons of text messages it fills up the C: drive and you-the owner- have to change system settings to tell TXT MSG’ing to not use the default drive.
Search the web for N97 to read and see the YouTube videos of why not to buy this dumb phone – um I mean smart phone.
Rating: 2 / 5
March 14th, 2010 on 10:38 am
I already own the N95 and purchased the N97 as a touch screen, qwerty keyboard replacement. It falls short. The manual keyboard is great but not available in all situations. The touch interface requires more touching than I thought necessary. Accessibility to programs and applications is not as smooth as with the N95. The GPS mimics the N95 but constantly resets the phone after 5-9 minutes of use. The address data does not transfer from the address book to the GPS address search completely (State and Country do not always transfer), which is a carry over problem from the N95. Night mode for the GPS is about 5 screen touches further than it should be, and it is needed because the screen is so bright at night that my eyes had to adjust when looking to the road from the screen. The lock switch does not always unlock the phone, and almost everytime I take the phone out of the universal pouch I purchased (a custom pouch is not available), the secondary camera is activated. After I installed the 7/1/09 firmware update, the thumbnails for the favorite contacts didn’t show. All in all, I’ve been trying to return the phone back to Nokia for 2 weeks. I’m waiting for a call from them with an RA number that authorizes the return. Can they be that busy handling returns???
Rating: 2 / 5
March 14th, 2010 on 1:10 pm
I never thought I would hate a piece of technology, but the N97 phone changed everything. The N97 was a big disappointment from the very first moment of handling it. The battery cover refused to go on. After thirty minutes of failing and sore fingers, I started reading the manual. For god’s sake, I shouldn’t need to read the manual to put on a battery cover! The manual was of no help and I began to be violent with it until it was forced on. It has been downhill from there.
The N97 is of an exceptional poor design; It looks common from the outside, and is garbage on the inside. Let me review each main function separately:
1. Voice: The phone is awkward to hold and speak. The addition of a keyboard really makes it heavy and fat.
2. Contacts: This is the WORST aspect of this phone. The phone RANDOMLY chooses when to display an incoming caller Id! All you get is a phone number, and good luck trying to remember which phone number belonged to whom in your contacts. I have had this phone for 5 months now and I still do not know how to fix this major issue. At first, I thought I needed to transfer all the SIM card contacts to the phone’s memory contacts, but this did not work.
3. Keyboard: The keyboard is not practical. You have to use shift keys for numbers and symbols. A shift key for a period or a colon. A shift key for a smiley face. A terrible Idea.
4. Web: The web browser is slower than death, and unresponsive. At one point I almost cracked the screen while surfing from all the frustration. Once you access a web page it is another task to scroll down or sideways.
5. GPS: if you are in a pickle or driving and need some quick help finding your way, then don’t even consider the N97 as an option. The GPS does not lock onto a signal quickly, it takes the phone a minimum of 15 min to find a signal, and one time it took me 45 min!
6. Applications: No good apps. There are applications for facebook, twitter and myspace. However, they are not enjoyable to use. If you have your N97 while among a group of iphone users you will be ashamed to show it off. You look at all those apple users play and laugh about the cool apps they have on their phone, while I am still wondering who is calling me, because this phone can’t display the name from the contacts.
7. Camera: the photos are ok, not great thought. The flash is a big waste of power, it gives those being pictured a sickly jaundiced look.
I urge all who see this to NOT buy this phone, and to tell all their loved ones not to as well. I on the other hand am cursed with this abomination, this travesty of dysform and dysfunciton, until I can afford another phone.
Rating: 1 / 5
March 14th, 2010 on 1:32 pm
I was ready to click on this cellphone to buy it but then I read a review about some people who have TMOBILE are having problems with 3G connections, so I called up the company. They told me that even though TMOBILE have 3G, it only supports certain phones, and Nokia N series is not one of them. I am not too familiar with the “frequency” and Symbian, but TMOBILE does not support the Symbian software and Nokia N97 uses 1700mhz and 3G, which AGAIN TMOBILE DOES NOT SUPPORT. You can still use it, but it will be slower.
If you actually look on the product description there is a box with WILL THIS PHONE WORK WITH MY SERVICE, under TMOBILE it only says 1900 and not 3G.
Kinda sucks, I really fell in love with this phone (thats why I still give it a 4 star) when I tried it at the Nokia store, now I might have to think about switching my carrier…
Rating: 4 / 5
March 14th, 2010 on 2:54 pm
I desperately wanted this phone to be a good competitor to the iPhone, but I must say I was sorely disappointed. Here are some of the issues I face
a) The phone Freezes often requiring the battery to be removed to reset. This for me is a non starter as the widgets and software on the phone should not impede the phones basic functionality but rather enhance it.
b) Applications are just not as numerous and ones that exist (Except Bloomberg) are of inferior quality vs similar iPhone/iTouch apps.
c) GPS functionality is poor an took a number of software updates to get it to even work
d) Phone seems to strangely run out of memory even though a lot is available, it does not seem to be able to load balance memory between partitions.
e) Lastly, poor battery life. I cannot squeeze out a full day on while in a 3G network
All in all it is a poor imitation of the iPhone and if one wants a device that just works and does not have to wait while nokia gets its act together get an iPhone or an Palm Pre. This phone is a lemon.
Rating: 1 / 5