Gigantic Nokia N97 Review! Live Pics, Sample Pics and Screenshots!
Here’s another Nokia N97 review, this time by mobile.mail.ru. The full review is very detailed, with plenty of live pictures, sample photos and screenshots. So if you’ve got some time and want to know how the N97 is getting along, it’s a really good read. Here’s the original Russian version; the google translator version and the Yahoo Babel Fish version. Babel fish fully translates the page (Google stops at half for some reason), so non Russian Speakers may want to choose that.
A few keypoints:
- Screen is brighter than the 5800
- Physical QWERTY Keyboard not as good as the E75 or E71 but when you get used to it the N97′s physical keyboard an outstanding means of text entry.
- There is no onscreen QWERTY keyboard.
- Keyboard does not have disgusting orange “I’m from the 80s” backlighting that earlier test models had. It’s a more neutral but pleasant white.
- Impressive battery life, 36 hours audio playback, 5 hours of video, but it is eaten up a bit by the active homescreen and thus generally has less stamina than the 5800.
- 80MB ram free after start up
- Speed lower than the 5800 at this point? For current operations speed is ok but unconverted videos will not play.
- Operating speed of the web browser is very good.
- Built in FM transmitter a pleasant feature -you can transmit signal to a compatible audio system
- Better sound quality than the Nokia 5800, 30% louder, clearer, and more natural.
- Camera module identical to N85, be sure to check out the image samples at the bottom of the review.
Lastly, something new I had not yet seen in other reviews:
The Stylus:
I’ve never seen this on the N97 before. It’s attached to a strap 
like the plectrum is on the 5800. Samsung has a similar solution with their styluses, although theirs looks more like a pen where as this looks like a pen-drive. I can see myself loosing this. It’s made of metal, so that’s a nice touch; even more is the fact that we probably won’t need it, and the reviewer agrees. I’d rather have a wrist strap myself.
mobile.mail.ru via Daily Mobile
Category: 5th Edition, Nokia, Nseries, Reviews, S60, Symbian
[...] As you can see from Lester’s picture below, the main keys are white and secondary functions are in blue. That’s more or less what I had hoped to see ever since Eldar’s first N97 review several months back. This may possibly be the final colour scheme as the white backlit keys on the black N97 Has also been spotted in another recent N97 review. [...]
[...] the key features that the reviewer likes are that the screen is brighter than the 5800 device, the operating speed is very good and the battery life is impressive. However, the [...]
[...] – Mobile.Mail.Ru [...]
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Would anybody say no if the phone has the superb feature of good editing and classy pics…:D
Would love to see how this device compares to the iphone. I have been and iphone user since day one and most recently began to use Nokia products such as the E71 and E75. The build quality and OS of the Nokia seem to be much better in my limited experience.
[...] Sample Photos, Sample Pictures We’ve seen sample pictures from the N97 before, e.g. here and here. But we haven’t really seen it perform under less than optimum conditions, i.e. poor [...]
this phone looks awsome. better than the iphone – does it have an accelerometer
can i be your market in nigeria?if yes get back to me soon
80 ram free after startup? r u sure? in reallity its near 40
this “flagship” model was screwed by poor engineering and its components. 128 ram is fairly enough for multitasking witout lag. satnav antenna is poor, fm transmitter is poor, and this nonresponsive multitapping and timeless lagging…
is this sounds like flagship device in reallity?