My new N97 arrived yesterday so I thought I would post on here telling people about it, in case people are unsure about whether or not to get it.
Good Points:
- The phone looks AWESOME, nice big touch screen, modern design etc.
- Good 5MP camera, the quality of the pictures actually seems better than the LG Viewty (phone I had before), although this is probably due to the N97 having a better quality screen to view the pictures.
- Ovi store will be really good... when I start using it (I have been to busy playing around with random features and texting to download anything from the Ovi store)
- The full qwerty keyboard is VERY easy to get used to, I started using the phone at about half 4 yesterday (Tuesday) and can already write a whole page text in about 15 seconds, its amazing how much quicker it is than texting on a normal phone keypad.
- Home screen widgets are great, you can have Facebook, local weather, iPlayer, Amazon, Email, AP News, Music Player, Hi5, favorite contacts etc and you can download new ones.
- One feature I thought was really cool is remote lock, basically you set a message and a passcode, when any number texts you that exact message your phone locks until the passcode is entered, this would be helpful if someone stole your phone.
- Touch screen is very responsive, the screen itself feels very high quality compared to other resistive touch screens.
- Nokia Maps is very good, I have never had a GPS phone be able to find my location because I live in a very rural place, but the N97 did, it found the exact house too which impressed me.
- The phone has WiFi which is good ifyou fancy going on the Ovi store to download stuff while your at home, because you wont have to pay for data charges
Bad Points:
- The vibrate mode isnt very strong at all, personally I like to leave it on the strongest vibrate mode with silent mode activated so that I can feel my phone go off, even if I am walking or something but the Nokia only has 1 vibrate option which is very weak. Also if the phones on charge it doesnt vibrate at all, which is very annoying if you have it on silent mode!
- The phone is very expensive, it took a lot of looking around to find one at a reasonable price, I got mine on an 18 month contract with Orange, 600 minutes and Unlimited texts for £35 a month and I had to pay £50 for the phone.
- Battery cover is really difficult to get off (I know thats petty but its worth saying)
- I have got to check into this more, but im quite sure that this phone could end up costing me a lot in data charges, if you have stuff like facebook / weather on your homepage then they automaticly update every so often, I am going to ring Orange and find out about this.
Thats all I can think of for now, if you want to know anything else reply to the thread and Il try to answer it.
