Comments on: Nokia N97 review

By: Vee

Vee — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 06:47:20 +0000

Quite a disappointement after all this wait. Got the phone and it kept freezing or crashing several times despite the update of the software. Discovered that office: word, powerpoint and excel had to be purchased. What a con considering the price of the phone!

By: babsoti

babsoti — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 11:30:50 +0000

Is it true that the quick office integrated in the phone is a trial version and will not work after a few works unless you subscribe if you wnat to continue using it. If YES is this applicable to all regions.

Is it also true that the video playback doesn\’t support AVI files.

By: Luke Jones

Luke Jones — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:27:55 +0000

Having been a Nokia fan for some time I was keen to get my hands on the new N97.

I recieved it last Friday and eagerly opened up the box, inserted my SIM and the battery and turned it on. What an anti climax! The touch screen is not responsive at all, it seems to work when it wants to not when you want it to. The S60 operating system is so old and slow, it is painful to use. Soldiering on and desperate to find something I liked and could boast about to my iPhone toteing colleagues I set up the email application. Again, a dissapointment. Why on earth, have Nokia not provided HTML support for emails, yes there is an icon you can click which brings up a poorley formatted HTML version of the email.

Nokia appear to have blown thier budget on the design, the phones one good point. The slide out keyboard is a dream to use, it’s such a shame they didn’t invest more time and money on designing a better operating system.

Anyone who has used an iPhone, Palm Pre or Blackberry will sneer at the N97 in contempt. Nokia have insulted thier client base by releasing such a poor phone and will lose thousands of hardened Nokia fans to other mobile phone makers. I for one have already returned mine in exchange for a Blackberry.

Shame on you Nokia!

By: Amanda

Amanda — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:06:02 +0000

hi i have just ordered the nokia n97 from vodafone its arriving tomorrow they argued with us that the offers for it was just for new costomers we asked if new costomers were more important then existing costomors they said no the next question had to be then why are these offers aimed only at new costomers they said nothing hmmm after 20 mins on the phone they agreed that we could have all the offers available we also said we would take our costom elsewere

By: Mikey Bee

Mikey Bee — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:00:04 +0000

@Chizoba N97 comes with just the same array of tools as E Series but also adds stuff like N-Gage

N97 comes with Lotus Notes support: http://www.nokia.co.uk/find-products/all-phones/nokia-n97/specifications#software-app – what do other people think?

By: chizoba

chizoba — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:47:12 +0000

I was told in a Nokia store that if I want a phone that has blackberry access to business mails like lotus note that i should go for E-series, especially E75.
I was also informed that N-series is a multi media phone and not biz phones. I am kind of confused now

By: Kev

Kev — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 21:18:46 +0000

What is it like using the MS Office apps (especially Excel) on the N97? Is ther much delay inlaunching th epp…? Also, if I am surfing or using some other app and want to make a call or send a txt is there much delay waiting for the phone or message app to launch? I used to have Dopod 838 (WM 5.0)and found the delay in waiting for the phone features to load rediculous.Kev.

By: Bretters

Bretters — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 14:54:10 +0000

Also I have a bad feeling that these tariffs will only be available to new customers and us upgraders will not be offered these deals… We shall see..

By: Bretters

Bretters — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 14:46:18 +0000

Only 2 plans though
both 24 months
Free phone for £40/month with unlimited texts/data and 1200 minutes talk
£150 for phone for £35/month with unlimited texts/data and 900 minutes talk

24 Months!!! Difficult to see how I won’t be dying to get on to the next smartphone offering before that is up!

By: Bretters

Bretters — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 14:43:20 +0000

That’s the UK vodafone site by the way…