with the new upgrade to the firmware most of the bugs are worked out and honestly i’d rather have this phone over the iphone with all the lovely limitations and security glitches.

resistive touch works just fine and is more sturdy than capacitive if you compared the specs and components for each

keyboard is actually real and not a soft pad that allows for more errors – i wonder how many people don’t buy an iphone since it has no keyboard at all

ui animations? gripe over that? fine i’d rather have a phone capable of mms and video with less security problems and a nicer cam. ui’s historically eat memory so any true power-user would turn that off anyway. and with a firmware upgrade they are just like the fondle vids!

and you say its expensive? and any other phones of this caliber are cheap?

but lets all get something striate. The N97 does suck as a modern day smart phone.

However resistive vs. capacitive is a weak argument. The phones touchcreen is fine. its very responsive.

The reasons this phone suck is its CPU speed, pathetic amount of RAM, lack of 3D acceleration, poorly engineered camera, poorly engineered GPS antenna, weak FM transmitter, the fact that Nokia stuck a bunch of 3rd party apps in the RAM that are not free & you cannot erase, certificates that need to be signed all the time, video playback is poor and ROM Images cannot be customized.

All this adds up to a device that gets bogged down easily,

is not user friendly, any shots taken with its flash are useless,

gaming is very unimpressive, video is pretty much restricted to one format & because its unhackable tweaking it for speed or customizing the OS are out of the question.

its way overpriced crap..

I HATE THIS PHONE! NOT A DAY GOES BY THAT I DON’T THINK ABOUT THROWING IT INTO A WALL. if you ever owned a Palm treo you will not like this.

Truth is I can go on for days about real things that are wrong with this phone & matter. But I want anybody considering this device to pay close attention to the fact that Nokia installs 3rd party applications directly on the C drive which is also the ram that are not free & cannot be erased. That’s the one that breaks this camels back. performance is bad enough as it is with its 433Mhz CPU (lowest clock speed in its class) but it suffers even more because of Nokia’s greed. I really hate Nokia & this device because of this and all who like it are stupid or just naive to how a modern day device should be.

I loath this thing. I never hated a device before But when you con me out of $1000.00, to be an Alfa tester. I tend to hate.

I will never buy so much as a pencil from Nokia again & I would suggest you follow my lead.

Things that don’t work for me:
- GPS: Tried everything. No I am not sitting in a dark room. I am not sitting in a room at all. I am standing in a clear ground with bright sunny conditions for over 20 minutes with A-GPS and a valid ISP access point. I must have spent 30$ just paying for data to test the crap GPS. Sent for repairs twice but still no GPS connection. Maps show my position 6KM from where I am. Horrible.

- FM Transmitter: Seriously what a joke. Never worked after trying everything from changing car antennas and a 2 dozen unused frequencies.

- Camera: Although not all that bad but compared to the N95 8GB, the camera is a joke. The dual LED position exposes a lot of brightness on the picture’s left hand side. I can live with it though. I use a Nikon D3000 for moments not a silly Nokia camera.

- Phone Memory: ~50MB and that should explain everything.

Bottom line.. the faith I had in a brand called Nokia has been lost. No more Nokia. For those who already bought an N97.. I sympathize with you and for those who are planning to, please consider something else. You’ve been warned.

/Xuggs

Besides all that, the things that really disappoint in the N97 are exactly the things that the phone should be “THE BEST AT THEM”. Thounsands of people belived in those promisses, didn´t we …???

It´s kind of hard to believe that its speakers are JOKE. Afterall, the N97 was released as a “BREAKTROUGH” in mobile media entertaining. I called NOKIA, and as you all know, those “preset” answers are more irritating than all my disappointing itself. “- You should take you phone to the nearest…”, baaahhh !
How come a phone, with this price, with all those promisses:
- does not come with a stylus
- does not come with AV cables (I´m using the ones that came with my 5800)
- does not come with a carrying case (my E71 and my E75 did)
- does not come with Internet Radio
- does not come with audio themes
- does not come with a decent syncronizing solution with other NOKIA models.
- does not come with a REAL n-gage plataform “FOR THE N97″. You cannot buy n-gage games because the phone won´t acccept it. Playing the trials (that´s only what you cand do), is frustranting, because the games “FOR THE N97″ are NOT optimized “FOR THE N97″. The tutorials tell you to press certain keys that do not do anything when you press them. You have to start pressing the whole keyborad to find the exact key for the command. DETAIL: The games are “SPECIFICALLY FOR THE N97″ !!!. It´s a joke, isn´t it ????
- does not come with a decent keyboard “OPTMIZED” for the country it was sold. It´s a “WORLD PHONE”,right ? So it is supposed to fit all the languages needs. But it really DOES NOT DO THE JOB.
I bought my first NOKIA phone back in ´94, of course I already had dozen of phones, of dozen manufactures. But always preferred NOKIA phones. Motorola, Samsung, LG, and so many others, but I always preffered the easy way to move through the menus in the NOKIA phones.
Could I be the only one ? Thanks to NOKIA itself, I never buy anything from NOKIA again. N900 ? No, thanks. The N97 was disappointing enough…

It sucks! That’s all I would say! Can’t believe Nokia created this crappy thingy! And of all, Ovi Store sucks too…U gotto pay for most of the downloads, not like Mosh!

Errr…now I’m in a big dilemma coz I dunno which phone to go for coz I’ve sold my n95 prior to buying n97! Arrrgh! So sad