Nokia N97
The team at blog-n97.fr has posted an unboxing video and review of the Nokia N97. An extensive review has been translated from the video, which is in French.
Even with this pre-production unit, accelerometer orientation transition is fast–as is photo navigation, which also makes use of the accelerometer. Moving from one image to the next and back is just a simple flick of the finger to the right or left with a quick double-tap to zoom.
The review and video give a very thorough overview of the device. Of course, the video is much easier to follow if you understand French. Here are a few items of interest from the translated review:
The phone starts up quickly with a light and vibration.
You can move the widgets, remove and add.
The placement of widgets is quite intuitive and the system is reactive.
Preinstalled widgets:
- AccuWeather: Weather widgets
- Agenda: display rapid appointment and duties
- Amazon: access to amazon catalog
- AP News: Associated Press, recent news
- Bloomberg: latest news
- Contacts 1 and 2 Favorites: Quick access to contacts
- FM Transmitter: quick access to the FM transmitter
- Hi5: quick access to the application Hi5 and display the latest events
- Player audio: audio player on the HomeScreen
- Online sharing: quick online sharing
- Shortcut 1 and 2: shortcuts to some applications
- Slideshow: Reuters latest news with pictures (a slide show)
- Embed e-mail: configure e-mail, then displays the latest e-mails received
- Facebook: view the latest events and quick application to Facebook
There’s also a huge list of preinstalled applications, some of which are actual phone functions and others, third party applications. All of these are easy to move around and save the way that suits you best on the homepage.
More details about external appearance of the device, camera functionality, browser experience, music player configuration, Nokia Maps and other features along with a lot of great pictures, the N97 unboxing video (in French) and a list of positives and negatives drawn from the reviewer’s comments are available at N97GEEKS.com.
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I’m a blogger & gadget freek, so blogging about the N97, combined with actually owning one (soon – end of June), is an ideal combo. I also run a couple of businesses & teach Physics, so I guess that makes me a hypernerd.
Hoping to use my N97 as a key part of my business over the next year & will give updates on how I get on with it as I get to know it. Looking forward to using Qik.
Had my nokia n97 arrive this morning and feel great to be one of the first people to own one. have had a good play on it and have to say its one of the best phones ive come across its packed with features and so much to do on it the touch screen is excellent and much better than the blackberry storm and iphone screens my opinion on this is go and buy one you wontbe dissapointed my rating is 10/10
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
For a number of reasons (primarily, long term iPhone envy) I went with the new iPhone 3GS. I worked for a carrier since before the first iPhone was released and always felt a sense of loyalty to the company even though my job was not in sales or service (plus the employee phone pricing was… free), so I have been watching iPhone evolve the whole time. I was laid off from that job a few months back and, as my phone benefit came to an end, I decided it was high time to try iPhone. I’m more than a little impressed!
Luke, it sounds like you may have a defective device on your hands. My past experience with Nokia has always been very good, but every model will have a few units that are defective in some way. You should exchange that one. Please let us know how it turns out.