Comments on: Nokia N97 Review: Nokia Is Doomed

By: Dyan

Dyan — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 08:00:02 +0000

I bought the N97 three weeks ago and have had nothing but trouble. Sure it looks so cool and the things it can do also cool but in the end it’s a piece of unreliable junk. For 3 weeks the screen has been freezing on me every now and then until the other day just froze and no matter how many times I turned the phone off and back on over a few hours, it just would not work. Ended up taking it back and it will be replaced. I regret it.

By: troppo

troppo — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 06:43:44 +0000

get a life! N97 best i’ve had or seen. user not teckie. the phone is a great phone. as MP3 and MP4 is great and with quality ear phones is great on long flights. camera excels in difficult situations. surfing is easy and even for the visually chellenged such as me. keyboard works for me intuitively and made switch sooo much quicker than to touch screens. perhaps your sponsor is clouding your thinking???? quick office is a life (and back) saver. given up lugging my 3lb “notebook”.
just waiting for skype to release an up to date version.
btw. bought the n97 unlocked in US for AUD700. beat that!

By: merci

merci — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 07:35:42 +0000

dont take too much offence for this but this is the most bias thing i ever read and after readng this im glad i dont go to this site for reviews on phones.you should have done a review on the pre or something since you seem to like it soo much. so not the way to do a review.

By: Frank

Frank — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 02:10:52 +0000

Hey matt

have you done a review of the iphone 3gs, i would really like to read your comments on it

By: sol

sol — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:36:29 +0000

man, i got one and if i could use it for more than an hour before it turns itself off it would be great. its been taken to the nokia store and i got a new one, which now works.
i think they made a bad choice in pitting a war against the iphone and co. but this phone is made for the technophiles out there, addicted to specs.
the iphone is made for the homogeneous fluro hip douchebags of today wanting to look cool, all with the same phone.

Nokia should have waited another 3 months until the OS is stable.
ill agree that the interface is clonky, but as far as power is concerned, that’s heaps for the power symbian apps draw. memory could have been upped to 256 but its still enough to open maps, send sms and browse the internet all at once. the repository of apps out their for symbian is staggering.

i chose this over a iphone for many reasons. better camera,
ability to run more than one app.
free apps (internet, cracked),
physical keyboard.
the many turn by turn apps with downloadable maps (australia doesnt get that much download per month).

Ive used every iphone (not the 3GS) since the first and still find the soft keyboard a pain. i would like to walk and send an sms without walking into traffic. Ive also had the iphone crash on me a few times a week while running apps.
the time for each app to load had been twice as slow as symbian apps, and the responsiveness of almost all apps has been slow.
Ive been totally less than impressed with mutlitouch other than pinch zoom, flick scrolling is really annoying, watching blurry text scroll past too fast and having to slowly go back up is a nightmare.
the most that a touch screen does is allow you to touch the button instead of having too move a cursor with arrow keys, not the gimmick uses that they sell you in the tech demos.
maybe resistive screens aren’t as good as a capacitive ones but it doesn’t need to be with a qwerty keyboard, i also like using things other than my hand to touch the screen like the pen im holding or a fork while eating!

all the suplied apps with the N97 are shit, who the fuck needs to to tell people how big their shit is on facebook and then send the video via qik, cause that whats most of the post are anyway.
im sorry if i don’t get the idea of social networking, but i find that needing to tell people needless shit about your life 24 hours a day a little sad.
i don’t need to watch youtube while im away from a computer on a small screen with shitty speakers (all Phones).

its all getting way too complicated. on your phone, email is for work and long conversations, sms is for organizing things quickly, no twitter. the web is for banking, getting timetables and settling arguments via wikipedia.
GPS is for finding places and geotagging, maybe augmented reality, and an ipod is for music cause there is no way my collection is fitting on my phone even with 48Gs of space.

sorry if this got out of hand, i do think that nokia’s days are numbered with all the flash interfaces out there, but to me they are too flash and glossy (Im not a Code loving guy, i love OS X for its interface and i love XP for utorrent. but i want my phone to be matte in its interface, black with vibrant blue highlights. its all about usability in sunlight. and the only company i know making a phone that’s still a phone is Nokia. look at their flagship product the N97, at heart its still a phone and i love it for that.

By: Freddie

Freddie — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 03:41:57 +0000

“Nokia at their best have the power to do some awesome stuff…”

lol so does Sony..

By: snicholmeister

snicholmeister — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 01:48:12 +0000

Geez that’s a bit depressing. And to think, I was worried I’d jumped the gun buying a 3GS over a next-gen Nokia.

I genuinely hope they start addressing these issues – Nokia at their best have the power to do some awesome stuff imo.