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

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Score: 7.8/10

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+ This mobile phone scores high on features. - It has no outstanding negative points. “This is my first smartphone and touchscreen phone. i had weighed up the iphone vs…” Stewart, Southampton View all 1049 real customer reviews

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1049 verified purchasers have reviewed this product.
76% of people recommend it.

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All purchasers (1033)
Battery life6.7
Design8.4
Ease of use7.6
Features8.5
Value for money (at time of purchase)7.7
Overall rating7.8
Basic text and chat user (135)
Business or web user (114)
Music and entertainment lover (97)
Style and looks come first (61)
Other (626)
 

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Score 8.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser , “Style and looks come first”

+ It's a stylish, nice looking and fairly easy to get to grips with

- The battery runs out pretty quickly because of all the applications running at once...

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124 of 170 people found this review helpful

purchased 07 Jun 2009

Score 9.0/10

Sinead, Watford , “Style and looks come first”

+ I absoultely love the look of the phone and the easy of ease. The features, camera and web browsing are all really good.

- The battery life. I have to charge my phone everyday and I wish the phone came with a memory card.

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108 of 141 people found this review helpful

purchased 08 Jun 2009

Score 10.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser , “Style and looks come first”

+ It looks fantastic, the screen colours are vibrant, it has huge internal memory and it is very easy to use. It has everything you need on one compact phone. I personally believe it is brilliant and stylish. I can't find no major foughts with it. The battery life is good but always could be better, I don't use the kepad keys on the qwerty keyboard as they are quite small so I use the touch screen, but every person is different I suppose. The camera is also decent. It isn't as heavy as you would think it would be either. It is good for someone who basis most of there life on the run socialising with there phone, because it has everything on the phone that you would need to connect to if you were out and about, i.e weather, email, internet etc.
Overall very neat and stylish, brilliantly finished and the software is amazing.

- None really, battery life could be better I suppose, and I find the lock key at the side of the phone very finicky to use, apart from that thats all really.

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12 of 18 people found this review helpful

purchased 10 Jul 2009

Score 8.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser , “Style and looks come first”

+ keyboard is very good. screen size. style.

- screen scratches easily. connection not always strong. television picture quality not that good. tips/warnings appear more than once.

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10 of 17 people found this review helpful

purchased 29 Jun 2009

Score 9.0/10

NIKKI, GLASGOW , “Style and looks come first”

+ There are so many good points about this phone. You can personalise almost everything with such ease and the touch screen is very responsive. The slide out qwerty keyboard is surprisingy easy to use, however if you're just looking to fire away a quick text then a touch screen keyboard is also available in a simple click. Web browsing is fantastic as is the various applications available from the nokia ovi store.

- Cant say there are any! Little bit chunky but this is to be expected due to the keyboard and large screen.

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9 of 15 people found this review helpful

purchased 10 Jul 2009

Score 3.0/10

Ramon, Manchester , “Style and looks come first”

+ Lots of memory

- Software is terrible, crashes all the time - I have had 2 N97's and both were terrible.

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9 of 15 people found this review helpful

purchased 15 Jul 2009

Score 10.0/10

Lisa, Ballymena , “Style and looks come first”

+ its easy to use. i love the slide out keyboard. the big screen is a bonus too, the bigger the better :)

- i had a problem with my first handset when using the touch screen but i got it replaced and all seems fine now.

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6 of 9 people found this review helpful

purchased 05 Aug 2009

Score 7.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser , “Style and looks come first”

+ keypad

- sound quality and screen not good as expected

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11 of 20 people found this review helpful

purchased 20 Jun 2009

Score 10.0/10

Neil, Castleford , “Style and looks come first”

+ looks good, easy to use, good quality qwerty keypad

- facebook application is a bit rubbish

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19 of 38 people found this review helpful

purchased 16 Jun 2009

Score 10.0/10

Richard, Neath , “Style and looks come first”

+ Pretty much everything is good about this phone, excellent selection of applications, very good video and audio quality, decent camera, very nice to look at! although battery life isn't great, does charge up very quickly! massive internal memory space!

- Wi-fi can be very touchy, phone uses orange internet over wi-fi sometimes which can get very annoying, email function not as good as on a lot of other phones, blackberry storm for example! battery life isn't great!

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purchased 21 Sep 2009

Score 9.0/10

Stephen , Edinburgh , “Style and looks come first”

+ Get everything you need while on the run.

- It can sometimes stick when low on battery power

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3 of 6 people found this review helpful

purchased 13 Jul 2009

Score 7.0/10

chung, glasgow , “Style and looks come first”

+ easy to use. touch screen and keypad are wonderful

- sometimes it is quite slow

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6 of 12 people found this review helpful

purchased 07 Jul 2009

Score 8.0/10

tony, ilford , “Style and looks come first”

+ small compact

- battery life

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10 of 20 people found this review helpful

purchased 08 Jul 2009

Score 7.0/10

brian, aspatria , “Style and looks come first”

+ everything

- rather on the large side

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3 of 6 people found this review helpful

purchased 26 Jul 2009

Score 8.0/10

Andrea, Hamilton , “Style and looks come first”

+ Amount of features available

- Confusing to set-up email, weather, etc

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3 of 6 people found this review helpful

purchased 25 Jul 2009

Score 10.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser , “Style and looks come first”

+ Its easy to use. very user friendly n the best i hv ever had in history

- Size is a bit big for me as i like somthg that jus abt fits into the palm of my hand

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purchased 28 Jul 2009

Score 8.0/10

Ian, Watford , “Style and looks come first”

+ no box, nice package, nice little inclusions, worked straight out of box, unlocked from the start

- requires updates regularly, phones not as stable as it could be

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3 of 6 people found this review helpful

purchased 14 Sep 2009

Score 10.0/10

Sheryl, Alston , “Style and looks come first”

+ Stylish, quality.

- Having to use the qwerty keypad for quick texts.

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purchased 06 Sep 2009

Score 9.0/10

robert, bedford , “Style and looks come first”

+ best phone i have ever had love it

- no bad points i love it

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purchased 12 Sep 2009

Score 8.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser , “Style and looks come first”

+ Ease of use, stylish design although a bit bulky

- ACCUWEATHER, app doesnt work

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purchased 07 Oct 2009

Score 7.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser , “Style and looks come first”

+ Looks great, small enough and great features. Camera is great too!!

- Cant think of any!!

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purchased 23 Oct 2009

Score 10.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser , “Style and looks come first”

+ Looks and works great

- Not easy to hold, slips out of my hand

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purchased 30 Sep 2009

Score 10.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser , “Style and looks come first”

+ huge memory, great value for money and easy to use!!

- unfortunately like all phones battery doesnt last long

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purchased 25 Oct 2009

Score 4.0/10

alec, penicuik , “Style and looks come first”

+ Big screen for web and email, has some great applications

- Software is terrible, constant problems,

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8 of 17 people found this review helpful

purchased 07 Jul 2009

Score 5.0/10

Kerry, London , “Style and looks come first”

+ qwerty keyboard good size

- poor ease of use

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3 of 7 people found this review helpful

purchased 24 Jul 2009

Score 10.0/10

katie, wigan , “Style and looks come first”

+ Reviewer left no comment

- the memory is to small

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0 of 1 people found this review helpful

purchased 25 Sep 2009

Anonymous verified purchaser , “Style and looks come first”

+ The widescreen when playing videos and the voice recognition

- The bulky size and weight

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3 of 8 people found this review helpful

purchased 09 Sep 2009

Score 9.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser , “Style and looks come first”

+ looks fantastic! features are good but would like more applications.

- doesnt sync with OVI (havnt got it working properly in the month of having it), works very well as mass storage and with nokia photo / nokia music.

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9 of 20 people found this review helpful

purchased 29 Jun 2009

Score 8.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser , “Style and looks come first”

+ grate social networking phone brilliant camera grate to use

- bad battery life

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7 of 16 people found this review helpful

purchased 09 Jul 2009

Score 5.0/10

josh, london , “Style and looks come first”

+ overall its ok aside some problems

- screen goes blank sometimes,network service on and off,camera not good enough

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3 of 8 people found this review helpful

purchased 07 Sep 2009

Score 8.0/10

Abu, London , “Style and looks come first”

+ Impressive phone, packed with lots of features, stylish look.

- Touch screen is not as responsive and easy to use as othe competitor's one. Stylus should have space to fit in with phone, its so annoying that its always hanging. Bit wider screen would've been nice.

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7 of 18 people found this review helpful

purchased 07 Jul 2009

Score 5.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser , “Style and looks come first”

+ looks good and good quality camera for a phone.

- freezes, not all apps work and too slow downloading web pages

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6 of 16 people found this review helpful

purchased 13 Jul 2009

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Summary of Nokia N97 Reviews from Across the Web

The Nokia N97, has a 3.5″ touchscreen, 5MP camera (with Carl Zeiss Tessar lens) and flash, a huge 32GB of storage with an extra 16GB via the Micro SD slot, GPS with built-in compass and WiFi. And if you get fed up of having to keep charging up your phone, the N97 has 400 hours of standby time! Along with 37 hours of music and 4.5 hours of video playback. There's also a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, fully customisable home screen, Symbian S60 software, N-Gage games and all the syncing you expect from Nokia. Look out for the Nokia N97 in March.

Expert reviews for Nokia N97

PC Advisor expert review - by Ginny Mies

On paper, the Nokia N97 looks as if it could rival the other big phones of this summer.

This Nokia N97 review continued on PC Advisor

reviewed 25 Jun 2009

Product Features

3G Yes
Touchscreen Yes
Type Slide Phone
Band Quad
EDGE Yes
WiFi Yes
Camera Resolution in MegaPixels 5
Screen Resolution (pixels) 360x640
Bluetooth Yes
XHTML Browser Yes
WAP Yes
FM Tuner Yes
SatNav Yes
MP3 ATRAC Playback Yes
Operating System Symbian
Memory Card Slot Yes
Weight (g) 150
Talk Time (hours) 6.5
Standby Time (hours) 430
USB Port Yes
Video Recorder Yes
Instant Messaging Yes
Built-in Camera Yes
Dimensions (mm) 55.3x117.2x15.9
Java Yes
Games Yes
HTML Browser Yes
Phone book capacity (names) Practically unlimited
Colour Multi
Networks O2
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Manufacturer's Description

ProfileSystem
WCDMA 900/1900/2100 (HSDPA),EGSM 850/900/1800/1900 MHz

User Interface
S60 5th EditionDimensions:117.2 × 55.3 × 15.9 mm*mm (L x W x H) *18.25 mm at camera area

Weight
Approx. 150 gDisplay:3.5 inch TFT with up to 16 million colorsnHD16:9 widescreen (640×360 pixels)

Battery
Nokia Battery BP-4L, 1500 mAhMedia

Memory
Up to 48GB (32 GB on-board memory,plus 16GB expansion via microSDmemory card slot)

Video playback
MPEG-4 / SP and MPEG-4 AVC/H.264,up to 30 fps, up to VGA resolution RealVideoup to QCIF @ 30 fps Windows Media (WMV9) up to CIF @ 30 fpsFlash Lite 3.0 / Flash Video in internet browser

Music playback
MP3, AAC, eAAC, eAAC+, WMAMain

CameraLens
Carl ZeissTessar™

Image capture
Up to 5 megapixels (2584 × 1938) JPEG/EXIF (16.7 million/24-bit color)

Video capture
MPEG-4 VGA (640 × 480) at up to 30 fps

Aperture
F2.8Focal length:5.4 mm

Flash
Dual LED camera flash and video light

Operating TimesTalk time
Up to 320 min (3G), 400 min (GSM)

Standby time
Up to 400 hrs (3G), 430 hrs (GSM)

Video playback
Up to 4,5 hours (offline mode)

Music playback
Up to 37 hours (offline mode)Connectivity & Data Services

•WLAN IEEE 802.11b/g with UPnP support
•Micro-USB connector, Hi-Speed USB 2.0
•3.5mm stereo headphone plug and TV-out support (PAL/NTSC)
•Bluetooth wireless technology 2.0 with A2DP stereo audio, enhanced data rates (EDR)
•GPS receiver with support for assisted GPS (A-GPS)


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