Information Week
"It's the most exciting product to come from Nokia in some time. Product managers were calling it the 'Facebook Phone' because it's aimed at mobile social networkers and multimedia mavens. If you want a device that does nearly everything, this is it."
Cnet
"We really like its design -- the screen is large and sharp, and it rotates depending on which way you hold it up. But the N79's keypad left us a little less impressed as it's too flat for our liking and squashed together, making texting fiddly at times."
PC World
"Storage-wise, the N97 does very well. The phone comes with 32GB of on-board memory - that is twice the amount of memory the most expensive iPhone brings. As an extra, the capacity can be extended with microSD cards of up to 16GB, ranking up to a potential 48GB of storage on the N97."
ZDNet
"Nokia's N97 has some sweet specs – it supports up to 48GB of storage, has a 5-megapixel camera, music support and DVD quality video capture. The rub: The N97 isn't what you'd call affordable. It has an estimated retail price of EURO550 before taxes and subsidies...The N97 may be the coolest gadget on the planet, but there's no way I'm paying that much for it. Overall, the N97 may be the future netbook or laptop/smartphone hybrid, but it sure isn't priced like one."
InfoSync
"The Nokia N97 seems to have a lot of promise, but that's all it is right now. Nokia seems focused on the phone's location-based services, which is a wise move, but seems to be ignoring the larger picture. Nokia Maps does offer some welcome functionality improvements, but nothing we haven't seen before in other mobile navigation software".
The Register
"What I found most impressive is that users simply looking for a no-nonsense, practical tool will find the N97 is worth a second look...There's a drawback -- [the widgets are] cluttered and each widget doesn't really present very much useful information. It's the CNN approach to information overload - just overload the user with even more."
What say?
I like the curved slider of N97...better than SE Xperia!!
ReplyDeletethese experts' comments make sense esp the fact dat der is a lot of promise but it is yet to see whether it will deliver..i;d probably wait for a few ppl around me to use it and den grab my own
ReplyDeletegoin by the looks of it yes it is a mean machine....
ReplyDeleteall in all it seems to be one helluva premium experience......cool stuff
ReplyDeleteThis phone has everything one can ask for...like Samsung Omnia where "Omnia" means 'everything' in Latin!!
ReplyDeleteCool collection of reviews dude !!
ReplyDeleteI think you are showing just one side of the picture !! Maybe you should try putting all the negative reviews as well so that theres greater clarity !!
ReplyDeletewat excites me the most is the promise of the best multimedia capabilities including the DVD quality recording and playback and its seamless integration with Ovi.com service.
ReplyDeleteIt is a great phone yaar. It is bound to have good reviews. :)
ReplyDeleteWell, I have to agree with what Cool Sid said. And thanks Sagar. And Kartik, if you read carefully, I have put the most critical of reviews and not all of them are positive :)
ReplyDeleteBlackberry Storm's onscreen keyboard gives a response or feedback similar to physical keyboard. A clickable screen!...lets see hw dis actually works fr N97
ReplyDeletei wonder whether this phone will be as sucessful in d business segment as it will surely be in d lifestyle segment...
ReplyDeleteI think continuous software updates would be the key to make the fone feel new...i am not too keen abt hardware updates though...
ReplyDeleteAli, I guess N97 does just that. I think there was a post on haptic feedback in this blog about this, one of my favourite posts here!
ReplyDeleteI know some of us guyz ignored some Nokia secret codes but this could be a helpful one...
ReplyDeleteThis Nokia Secret codes works even on the latest 5800 XpressMusic and N97
I owned Nokia 5800 XpressMusic and it works as I tried all the codes.
Enjoy!
Hey, good stuff blogger! Nice compilation of reviews! And thanks Malc...
ReplyDeleteAmbira, the phone has the latest hardware anyway, which will take quite some time to fade away. Very rightly said, the applications will need a regular update to keep the excitement high!
ReplyDeleteI have a slightly different view than 'The Register'.. I think that the more the widgets, and the more cluttered they are, the more options a person has. And for the ones who need spick and span desktops can keep em that way
ReplyDeleteFacebook phone!? Thats interesting...is it really that compatible with social networking websites?
ReplyDeleteWell I guess they also have a widget for facebook called 'mini facebook'! That'd be interesting!
ReplyDeletegreat reviews guys! This seems like a one stop shop for all info on N97!
ReplyDeletegreat reviews guys! This seems like a one stop shop for all info on N97!
ReplyDeleteHow about orkut? Is it only compatible with facebook?
ReplyDeleteWell you can make your own widget about Orkut and submit it on website, as Nokia is running a widget competition, and guess what, the winner gets an N97 and more. Check the next post out!
ReplyDeleteAnd it is definitely compatible with other social community websites also!
the phone is good as it gets...though a little pricey...but nothing short of a pocket sized laptop !
ReplyDeleteThe N97 is definitely a feature-rich phone...althoug i think its a bit over-the-top with its pricing and that could hamper its success, in india anyway..
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