Nokia N97 Slide Phone Touchscreen 3G mobile phone handset reviews and tariffs

+ It is a brilliant looking 'phone with some very nifty features - the keyboard is excellent.

- The O/S still needs refinement - there are various glitches with the software even after the July update.

+ Organiser
5MP camera
WAP facility
Accessing email
Music

- Initial problems synching up with personal PC for calendar and contacts.

+ Camera is excellent. Qwerty keyboard makes this phone very easy to use for texts and web browsing, battery life is much better than my old N95. 32gb memory is huge!

- Having had two N97's on two different networks, I have found the reception/signal (call quality) to be very poor, which makes this phone almost unusable in average/poor signal areas. Phone has now been replaced with the N97 mini, which appears to have solved the reception problems.

+ Qwerty keyboard.

- Cheap look and feel. Hardware problems such as GPS and low memory make things that were easy on older Nokias a bit of a challenge on this one.
Software is tested on the users these days so it goes wrong more than an iphone. Hopefully this will be rectified with more firmware.

+ Great looking, feature packed cool mobile

- None

+ It has a very good size screen and easy navigation makes light of the new features. The lock on the side of the phone secures peace of mind to avoid accidental dialling whilst phone is in your pocket etc The N97 has a seperate headphone jack so you can listen to music and charge up your phone at the same time. The qwerty keyboard is easy to use and fits your fingers perfectly without accidentally pressing other keys unintentionally. The web browser is very good and the widgets on the home screen allow connection to facebook and other sites with a simple quick touch on screen. A super phone. One novel idea with the N97 is the FM trasmitter, it allows you to whilst in your car say tune your N97 into an unused radio frequency allowing all your music stored on your N97 to play through the radio!!! a great idea and works exceptionally well.

- The battery life is not as good as you would expect and the ovi music store is still in its infancy and needs improvements.

+ Phone has many features

- lots of software bugs, unpredictable. freezes loads

+ Everything except software but with update much better

- software but things look on the up as they have introduced a update

+ It has a 5M camera

- Slow processing , not very user friendly , battery doesn't appear to charge correctly , touch screen us useless , overall I should have got the new 32Gig iPhone.

+ looks good thata it

- most of the widgets don't work

+ nice compact unit,as always nokia has best idiot proof ease of use,and the slide is sssssoooooo sexy

- not fantastic battery life

+ The handset looks good and has a good size memory.

- Locks itself out and is not always easy to unlock and the software is unreliable.

+ good and stylish,Web browsing is fantastic.

- Storing contacts is bad.can`t identify caller
No privacy to messages,videos and disabling someone using my phone.

+ Great web browsing
Camera good
lots of applications and features
keyboard cool

- Sound quality is not great
Can be a little tempermental and buggy

+ Coming from the Nokia E71, which I consider to be the best phone I have ever used, I bought the N97 with a bit of apprehension. This is especially after reading numerous user reviews and forum comments regarding bugs and so on with this phone. Luckily I haven't experienced such problems. Generally, I do find the N97 to be very good, especially for web surfing. Calls were very clear and loud. Despite what I've read elsewhere, signal reception is very good. The touchscreen takes a bit of getting used to and the keyboard while good, is not as tactile to use as the one on the E71. However, the option to use either the keyboard or the touchscreen for text input is most welcome. The camera is great, as one would expect from an N-series. The video quality too is quite superb for a phone. So overall, I would highly recommend this phone.

- The battery life I would consider as slightly disappointing. I use it for quite a bit of web surfing, texting and some calls and on average I would expect the battery to last one day. So a daily charge is required. My previous E71 would last about 3 days for the same type of use. Well I guess the big screen uses a lot of power. The only other downside, is the two year contract that I have to sign up to for this phone. However, that is the price I guess for the latest piece of gadgetry.

+ Nice design, looks good, qwerty keyboard is good to use, the display is really good and easy to navigate. very easy to use the basic funtions.

- slow at times, internet is a pain when moving from one access point to another can be a pain (although the internet is very quick), when the phone is locked it can be a pain to answer when a call is received. always asking my self... should i have gone with O2 and the iphone???

+ Great touch screen, fast texting, easy access to emails.

- Battery life and the web navigation does not always work properly.

+ Good set of features, easy to use if you're familiar with Nokia.

- Alarm fails to work on a regular basis. Slow when there is more than a couple of applications running. Home screen widgets very flaky.

+ listening to music

- some time to slow

+ has everything I need

- the phone is very clunky and often disconnects when someone phones especially overseas. I would also like a simple way (say a profile) to switch off internet whilst abroad

+ Its practically got everything I would want to communicate built into the phone.

- Battery life, very slow at times. It freezes and widgets rarely work right.

+ The possible features of the phone and what it possibly can do are good, however there is very little evidence of that being delivered.

- Poor software, too many glitches, can't answer a call when screen locked and then dumps calls when you open it, applications conflict with each other, some applications don't work, battery life is appalling.

+ I like it features and the design alot

- The battery cant last for hours which is a big worry to me

+ none

- always crashing

+ Great phone with many benefits and high quality....very stylish and lighter than anticipated.

- Battery life, but that is to be expected considering how many apps and features the phone has. Have personally had some problems connecting to Nokia Music on my laptop but Nokia are working quickly and to resolve.

+ Large memory

- Screen glass is skrached very easy even if you keep the phone in your poket.The processor is very slow and freezes very often.I would never recomend this phone even to my worst enemy.

+ Great keyboard, compact.

- Way contacts are presented, AccuWeather (which came with it) doesn't work at all.

+ Overall a fantastic phone! had read so many negative reviews about the phone that at one point was going to sell it. However sale did not go as to plan and had to end up using it. After using the phone it has become another part of me (MJ 1988) The phone has all the features that I required including fantastic web browsing, email, video calling, an office package and much much more. The phone also boasts a 5 mega pixel camera with a Carl Zeis lens, far better than the htc, blackberry and i phone rubbish. The picture quality considering this is a smart phone, is fabulous. The phone also has QWERTY slide out keypad as well as a touch screen keypad which is also very convienient. I could go on for ever praising this phone however am very short of time. Final Thought - A fantastic phone that has been very highly under - estimated.

- The phones software needs to be regulerly updated in order to maintain efficiency. The software update however can be done directly from the phone and does not require the phone to be taken into a Nokia service centre. The battery life may have some scope for improvement. If you are going to use the phone via hands free n the car make sure that you do have a car charger !

+ touchscreen, menu interface, sound quality.

- installed application not working, fiddly keyboard and pad, awkward to answer incoming call quickly.

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- Slooooow and loads of unnecessary software comes installed on the phone.

+ Everything/ feature is there at your fingertips

- Most of it crashes or wont work, its more like a prototype than a retail product

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- Answering phone when in standby. Going into standby at inconvenient times.

+ very easy to get the hang of. A good alternative to the larger iphone and blackberry models.
wi-fi enabled

- sometimes hangs after a voice call, requiring a reboot
some of the apps are a little buggy, facebook and iplayer in particular dont seem to recognise when the wi-fi connection is active.

+ its alright,not easy to use

- Can't answer calls,phone won't unlock.....useless!

+ loved the technology- had considered iphone.
loved design and even virtual keyboard much better than iphone

- has very soft body- not resilient
already have a small crack on screen
have had to open and remove battery as it has occ. locked out

+ FM Transmitter so you can play music over your car stereo
Expandable memory even though it already comes with 32gb
Slide out QWERTY keyboard, much better than on screen touch ones

- Battery life (1 day if you use it alot) but as it has removable batteries you can take extra ones with you so it is not too bad
Touch screen in not as intuitive as it could be but still perfectly usable
Initial phone memory can get full a little too fast

+ compact, good build quality

- wouldnt allow me to load a tom tom programme onto a memory card

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- No one can hear you properly Mics not in best position

+ not really found anything this phone can`t do yet
i have speed tested the web at 3.6m/s
can be used as a wifi hotspot for other wifi devices to use

- camera should have been at least a 8meg as nokia has used this 5meg one since the n95

+ Camera

- Touch screen freezing, poor signal recovery, lost calls, not good for web or phone. Not good at anything.

+ Maps are really good 90% of the time

- Cannot find My Location approx 1 3/4 miles out

+ nice looking phone

- software problems

+ The phone is lightweight, compact, attractive and has a large screen, making viewing videos and pictues easy on the eyes. The extra applications -- facebook, amazon atc -- mean that you can do many of the everyday internet things without having to have a laptop or pc, and the notes application is extremely useful!

- The clock and a couple of other bits are at the top of the screen, and you can't move it somewhere else, which can ruin the view of wallpapers. Navigating can be a bit of a pain until you're used to the controls, though on the whole once you've got them sussed it's pretty easy. The speakers are a little tinny sounding, but since the phone isn't actually a music phone like the 5800, you can forgive it!

+ everything works straight away - no complex setup required. Even for MS Exchange email.
Screen auto-contrast brightness works like a dream. I have yet to find a time or place where visibility on the screen is reduced to an unusable stage.
The camera is pretty good for a phone camera. Fast response, good colour balance, quick-loading.

- battery life, whilst lasting about one day with heavy use, could be a bit better.
the amount of available software in the OVI library is not exactly astounding.
The digital compass is appallingly bad - at least using the software I tried.

+ good looking phone with a tonne of features, web browsing is simple to do and also the camera is quite good, massive memory helps because i have a load of music on the phone now.

- only had the phone a few weeks and already the screen has scratched.

+ the 32gb's

- touch screen is useless

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- no video feeds NO BBCiplayer contacts won't sync with windows

+ easy to use. Large screen for multimedia use.

- touch screen sometimes non resposive.

+ no complaint at all. i love it to the bits

- no bad points

+ Great phone, easy to get the hang of, good size screen and memory

- Battery life poor, just makes a working day, and my Nokia power pack charger will not charge it up

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- very complicated

+ Supports a wide number of communications protocols

- Software still has many bugs

+ qwerty keyboard

- Sometimes it crashes

+ internet very fast, very easy to use, not expensive

- batery life

+ ease of use a lot of great features crammed into one phone, as well as support from nokia/vodafone

- being able to hear people talking down the ear piece is very very poor

+ The browsing ability of the phone is is good and satnav got thrown in as well.

- it can be difficult to find features

+ Services and applications

- Touch screen not great.

+ promised a lot

- but delievered very luttle

+ The best phone in the world now

- sometimes screen goes off all on a sudden