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gripusa

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Wednesday 1 July 2009, 2:20 PM

The Nokia i wanted


i had E90 and IPhone before getting the new black Nokia N97. Even before the touch came into Nokia and since i had my hands on IPhone, I always wishing to do the regular and basic things in my E90 with touch and where touch needed Nokia provided it in N97.

The strange thing is that its very snappy and in contrast with people i loved the resistive screen touch as compared to iphone and other's capacitive touch.

I like the widgets and i am able to configure well in few minutes and puff they are up and running. nice touch here and there and u got everything in ur hands.

The operating system is quite responsive too (as i had a demo with Nokia N96 few months ago and i returned the item due to its sluggishness).

Its featured packed and thats always been nokia's best feature and i also compared the internet speed with E90 with N97 and its amazing (i wont compare IPhone as it was 2G and it never came close to E90 esp if you use voip like me).

However there are still improvements needed in its browser which is not par with other counterparts (i have not yet tested Opera on it).

Similarly i had problems managing the scroll bar quite often in standard interfaces where it becomes slims. So i think Phone is solid and even keyboard (for which i have heard quite negative feedback,even my brother liked it who is not into much keyboard based phones).

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Overview

Nokia N97

Editors rating
Rating: 7.0
Verdict

Although the Nokia N97 is packed with features, its clunky touch interface, sky-high price tag and outdated operating system make it hard to recommend when there are better touch-screen smartphones on the market.

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£ 499

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