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

+ Excellent Storage Capacity, Starts up fairly quick. A-GPS is fantastic, Iplayer is great, Youtube works great, Nokia have sorted out the old contact problem with text messages where Surname is shown first, Touchscreen is very good. S60v5 Themes are enjoyable, Email is good. Rotate-me on the screen is also useful, Qwerty keyboard is very good once you get used to it.

- First Firmware isnt the best with Facebook widget, Trying to find things in the menu can be annoying. Ovi Store is not the best at present. Not a big fan of the Music Widget, cant find the keys to use to navigate through a tune. This has to be done via touchscreen. Camera could be improved slightly I beleive. Icons could be added to represent faces. Nokia still uses the :) approach

+ battery is good its light and does almost everything u want

- software is a pain cant play youtube or any other videos on the device only the ones you make yourself

+ looks good

- Reviewer left no comment

+ I LOVE THIS PHONE!!! The Nokia N97 is an amazing gadget! I had a PDA that I used for about eight months, but the phone seemed more of an afterthought. With this phone, I have the best set up ever! A QWERTY keyboard, 32gb HD, touchscreen, email, music player, 5mp camera....I just love it! Sooooo much better than the Blackberry Bold I was going to opt for! It's even got streaming Sky Sports, now I have no more annoying railway journeys! I am very pleased with the N97, well done Nokia.

- The bad point of the Nokia N97 at the moment is that the software seems a little buggy. It stalls after a whikle if I haven't turned it off in a day or so, which in my view it shouldn't! I also find the keyboard buttons a tiny bit too small as i keep catching certain buttons at the wrong time and at first it isn't that easy to navigate around the menus. Even though this phone has a few bad points, I would still rate highly it to anyone.

+ quality of the picture
listerning to music

- battery life
take long to send emails

+ Beautiful looking phone that's different to other phones on the market.
Battery life is initially quite poor but a weeks worth of full charge / discharge cycles gets me two days battery life (Usage = Approx 3 hours of music a day and 1 hour of internet browsing)
Nokia Maps is cool! You can also download google maps for this phone Sound quality is very good (I don't use the supplied earbuds though). Sony walkman phones have the best sound quality in my opinion but the features of this phone more than make up for the shortfall. 5MP camera with Carl Zeiss optics is very good. I'd even say this could compete with the 8MP camera phones now available

- Software is a bit clunky, especially if you have a lot of apps open. FIrmware update has made the responsiveness a bit better but hopefully future software updates will make the software as smooth as an iphone.

+ Great phone packed with useful applications, very updatable and easy to use. The huge 32GB onboard memory is a great advantage which meant i can store all my media in 1 handy terminal. Video playback is watchable and works great with the optional nokia speaker.

- When installing my personal photos, they dont appear in chronological order. I like to view my photos in date order they were taken and as far as i can tell, i cannot do this with photos ive taken on another device.

+ great ease of use very handy with the qwerty keypad great looking phone lots of features

- battery life isnt great. would recommend a car charger

+ looks nice

- Reviewer left no comment

+ ease of use, moblie tv, camera good, qwerty key board

- size quite bulky, pictures & vidios never easy to find once stored they seem to turn up in different files all the time

+ Everything that I need in 1 device

- could be a bit quicker in response

+ fantastic phone, everything I want in a phone

- none, could not find anything wrong best phone I have evere had

+ Firstly a very important feature for me is the FM TRANSMITTER, built in, which allows you to play your songs through any radio on the go. but it has interferance when your charging at the same time. iplayer. films fantastic, photos browsing excellent. memory capactiy brilliant :).

- charge time slow compared to n95, doesnt always auto select access point but will be sorted on a update i am sure. not as loud as a n95 for music. but as a whole all these things are not a problem :). fantastic phone.

+ Excellent storage, quality photo and video screen,

- Not enough options to oganisse and copy from other sources, installation of new software i.e. mp4 converter would be an excellent as it does not plays other format videos.

+ excellent screen, great design, good sound quality, good internet browsing features such as being able to have multiple windows and applications running at once unlike the iphone

- the ovi application store is severely lacking lacking in comparison to the iphone apps

+ Everything AMAZING PHONE!

- NONE

+ great design, superb keyboard, excellent web browsing, great camera, huge storage

- some setup can be quite fiddly- ie internet, firmware update delayed(nokia or vodafone to blame?)

+ hd size and tv out

- sofware freezeing reqiring soft reset

+ it was great for useing net

- it had a not enough softwere

+ nice keyboard, ease of use, good touchscreen, screen quality when playing tv progs through bbc i player v.good, just a good phone overall

- camera not as good as the N95 8GB which was my old phone but acceptable, can't get use to answering the bloody thing (no idea wot i'm doin wrong)

+ FM Transmitter....didnt know it was built in when brought it, was a right resultwhen played all tunes in car like the IPOD.

- once the memory is full runs farely low between pages but with 32GB u can afford to delete stuff. Not a totally bad thing though

+ great to be able to access the web on the go

- Battery life very poor

+ it has plentiful of features,for example you can transmit music from the phone to your radio! (very cool idea). love the GPS feature which at somepoint i will use when i'm lost somewhere in a unknown location and can simply follow the walk -GPS navigation. the amount of storage is amazing and i think its much better than iphone which is what i was going to go for but chose the N97,especially after realizing that i can fit another 16GB of memory. totaling around 46GB of space. the camera on the phone is amazing and its almost my main digital camera. it feels like a camera and the buttons are in the places they need to be (weather you have the phone flipped up or the screen closed).

- i find that charging the phone is not bad, but battery life doesnt seem to last very long. for a phone like this one i think there should have been more juice capacity there. no big deal tho. the software can be a little glitchy but overall it is an amazing phone.

+ Looks good and in theory has it all !

- pretty much everything ! Nothing works smoothly and its one problem after another ! The internet is so slow and unreliable even when conected to wifi ! Music player is ok but dont bother with nokia music its tricky to move to to your player ! In general its full of little glitches that when combined drive u mad . Stay clear !

+ Model the look of the phone

- Can't get weather system working

+ looks very nice, design, features, as a phone its really nice,

- battery life, and easily gets dirty. sometimes the turning the phone to landscape mode becomes a bit dodgy.

+ It is easy to use and has lots of great featues.

- The software needed to be more modernised it can be quite slow at times and I haven't been able to open a video through my web browser or iplayer despite having content ban lifted.

+ Keyboard is ace and easy to use. The touch screen is very responsive. The battery life is good as long as you remember to turn apps, when not in use, to offline mode. Many times I've been caught out by leaving the Facebook widget on :P even with that online the N97 manages to go a full day which compared to some touch screens is ace.

- The Ovi store has a few decent apps to offer, even though it's early days I was hoping for a lot more. Even though not really a phone fault, which ever genius at Nokia that designed the case for the N97 forgot to put a hole in it for the headphone jack, kind of annoying! The phone's only froze on me when it's been due an update, otherwise it's a decent lil runner :)

+ Reviewer left no comment

- software bugs

+ screens a good size, its easy 2 use. the key pads good..

- the screenlock slider button isnt a very good idea as u tend 2 catch it wen i put it in ur pocket..
cant use half the Features bcoz i dont hav 3g in my area.

+ Clear screen with very good touch screen. Easily set up and easy to configure your own settings.

- Very slow to respond sometimes. Has an echo when answering calls.

+ you can fit alot of pictures on the phone and the quality s fantastc,its lght and compact and looks great

- not n my favorate colour (pink) not very easy to transfer music from the pc but you can download from the internet on the phone

+ The slide out keyboard and customisable widgets on front page, looks good and feels good.

- tends to crash due to software problems, key lock on side plays up a bit, needs more free software through nokia ovi website, back of phone feels a bit cheaply made.

+ all good

- i'd av to think hard

+ it does everything

- operating system is a bit slow