Nokia N97

Design - Very GoodIn terms of hardware, Nokia N97 is a perfect, polished phone. Thick clicks tablet with a firm snap open to reveal a full QWERTY keyboard. View screen is at an angle to the keys, like the HTC Touch Pro 2. In general, the phone has a solid structure, from 1 to snappiest slides we've ever used, and a good fit and finish, which makes the N97 recognizable as the top of the list Nseries. A person has only three buttons: Send, end and menu keys, although we believe that you can use one or two might be "back" in advance. Otherwise, we like clean, stylish looks like that does not depart from the standard ports or external control, like other touch screen phones, and not seek to look too minimalist for our taste.Nokia N97 improves very little on the border with the first major phone company tablet, Nokia 5800. Compared with the far superior model, as well as everything else with a touch screen (3G Apple iPhone, Palm, prior and HTC Touch Diamond 2 are obvious exampl es), the interface Nokia N97 seems amateurish and basic, as if Nokia made just You can add a touch Symbian S60 OS. There are no transition animations between screens and applications. Most applications use on-screen buttons and menus, when a simple gesture of command would be more convenient and intuitive. He just does not look impressive, and though we can forgive the less expensive, the music concentrated Nokia 5800, bearing in mind, Nokia N97 costs more than twice as much, we had hoped for more.To its credit, Nokia, touchscreen interface is often more useful than the aesthetic. Initial screen is a simple collection of panels widget, and although they never looked great, they offer many useful functions. Facebook Widget report incoming messages and partial renewal of the status of friends. The same will be by e-mail widget. There is a widget for managing music, weather widget, and so on. Nothing revolutionary, but Nokia allows you to customize the widgets and their locatio n and the phone offers a tempting link to download the screen widget, we hope that means more will be offered soon, as a developer support is growing.Calling - GoodAccordance with their tradition of solid, Nokia N97 has a number of strengths and good call quality. We tested the phone AT & T's 3G-network in the Greater Dallas, and we were very impressed with the sound quality during calls. Our callers reported a clear, bright sound of our voices, and we heard our end of the conversation easily. Phone constantly told the full 7 bars AT & T service during the test. Battery has been particularly impressive, given the competition. With its huge 1500 mAh battery, our review of the Nokia N97 unit was able to start 6 hours of talk time, while we used the AT & T's battery hogging HSDPA network. Nokia phones also do a good job of processing power, yet they are not used. Even aside for a while, N97 did a good job on his detention in standby mode.For contacts and addresses, you can use the included Nokia Ovi Suite for synchronizing contacts, but we prefer to use Nokia's free Mail for Software Exchange. Although it lacks some security, we appreciate the phone Windows Mobile, MfE synchronized our test unit to our corporate address book. We would, Nokia N97 will jump directly to the search for contacts, when we started typing a name on the home screen, but the contacts are still easy to manage, when we were synchronized with the server.Nokia N97, like most phones Nokia Weve tried, just can not get voice dialing rights. In 10 attempts, N97 guessed the correct name only once, and once again suggested that the correct name, as the third choice in the list. Otherwise, the speaker independent voice dialing a complete bust. Conference calling was easy, thanks to large, on-screen buttons on the screen dialing. Nevertheless, even with a few useful buttons, the phone offers very little control of information during a call. While other phones offer a touch-sensitive sp ots, adaptive menus during a call, Nokia N97 sticks to the bare basics, with some ugly monochrome button to download.Messages and keyboard - GoodAs the top of a telephone line in the arsenal of Nokia Nseries, and the first with a full keyboard QWERTY, it is surprising that Nokia is not included in the Nokia N97 with a great message on board. There is support for a very simple SMS and MMS client. There is no threaded text messages to help keep track of conversations, is a simple application of a frame with no frills. There are no instant messaging clients on board. Generally, we recommend that you download third-party applications for IM on Symbian phones, but Ovi Store, so that the new platform, contains no instant messaging, which will work with touch Nokia N97. There is an application Facebook, which works with the widget on the main phone screen. We wish there were more social networking messaging applications, especially on Twitter, and MySpace widgets for our main scree n, as well.The best messaging feature on the Nokia N97, for us it was Mail applications Exchange, but even that does not come close to the exchange of experiences on the phone Windows Mobile. We could not dig in our folders, view HTML e-mail or quickly manage and delete useless messages.Keyboard Nokia N97 and the beautifully wide, and it was easy enough to print. We believe that Nokia can do better, but between this and the same side of the slide Nokia E75, we prefer the keys on the Nokia N97. Even with 4-way keypad buttons are much larger, and every letter gets its own soft and elastic key. Space strange pushed aside, but we are accustomed to this arrangement surprisingly quickly. In any case, we would like more keys, with some labels and, possibly, dedicated line number. But the keyboard was the best part about messaging on Nokia N97.There is software available on-screen keyboard, if you do not want to open the phone, but we would suggest avoiding them at all costs. The wo rst of them was a split grid keys arranged in alphabetical order, not QWERTY fashion, which was divided between two pages of letters. This was easily the least useful on-screen keyboard we've ever used on any phone.Multimedia - GoodFor multimedia playback, Nokia N97 packs a serious hardware, but can not quite manage the interface and applications to address all of these powers. The phone comes with a whopping 32 GB of internal memory and a capacious as any phone on the market, but you can also top it with a card N97 16GB MicroSDHC, resulting in a total of 48 GB. The phone uses a standard 3.5 mm headphone jack, so that we could use our own headphones. Or, the phone also comes with an FM transmitter on board, as well as stereo Bluetooth for wireless multiple kinds of music. Music transfers are made through MicroUSB for USB 2.0. We love the richness of standardized parameters, as well as the opportunity to charge the phone while transferring songs via MicroUSB.The music player itself is not impressive, mostly the same old player we've seen on the Symbian phones for years, is now palpable. There was not cool CoverFlow or scroll through album art is not interesting visual effects and gestures. The player did a good job basic music playback, with large buttons and simple display. Nevertheless, we would like it look more modern. We evaluated the widget on the home screen, but lacked the precise control over our library and playback. There are several equalizer effects and stereo for better sound, but we also brought on board the phone speakers. Other recent phone Nseries, in particular, Nokia N85, could sing louder and better sound.Video player application and basic barebones more than music, but as a music player, he got the job. The player was able to handle our videos, if they are properly formatted, and it is unfortunately exclude or DivX codecs H.264 video. Basic MP4 files play without problems, and the phone did a good job to reduce the size of the larger 640 x 480 pixel VGA video size is shorter than the height of 360 pixels on the screen in Nokia N97. Nevertheless, we are disappointed that Nokia has removed some of the most popular codecs for this phone, as his large, clear screen could make the video power.Web browsing - GoodNokia Nseries devices are always impressed by his ability to view web pages as well as the Nokia N97 does a great job, but the transition to touch did not add new features, and some of our favorites is now missing. Mini-map is not, replaced by a simple increase in the slide, which adds a few extra steps to view Web pages long. T-Mobile G1 uses a tangible sort of mini-map, and we wish Nokia would have gone this route. Browser pages rendered very nicely. Our own page looked perfect on the phone. However, as CNN and the New York Times refused to offer their full desktop version of our Nokia N97 review unit, and there was no way to change the way the browser describes itself (table against mobil e phones) in the settings. While the page is loading quickly whether we used the 3G HSDPA network, or your own home Wi-Fi umbrella, we still want your browser has been more responsive. Shaking the pages, or simply double-clicking to enlarge the text is always produced a slight delay, and we want these gestures just spring into action.Nokia N97 comes packed with Flash Lite 3.0, which means that the phone can play videos directly from YouTube page online. In fact, although the phone seems to come out with a special attachment YouTube, this is only a link to YouTube page for mobile devices. Viewing the desktop version of YouTube on Nokia N97-browser, we can play videos in the Web page itself, and the Nokia N97 did a better job handling Flash content than any other mobile phone we've seen. Pages are slowed down to stop while the video was playing, but video playback is fully watchable, if not smooth.Camera - GoodAfter so impressed with the camera on the Nokia N85, we descended t o a 5-megapixel shooter on the Nokia N97. Photos still looked very good on this phone. Colors are generally accurate and bright, and we were able to achieve some interesting depth of field effect of the lens with autofocus. In low light treatment was very poor, while a dual LED flash did very little to help the situation. Even in the best outdoor lighting, paintings, which have not been close look at the dirty full crops, like oil, but not detailed shot. With more low-light detail completely disappears, white balance, jumps ship and noise problems to assume.

Record video on our performance Nokia N97 review unit was not bad. You can record videos in VGA or full resolution, or it may cut the vertical bits to 640 by 360 pixels per line resolution screen. In any case, the videos were a little block and fuzzy-looking, but far superior Dreck available on most cameraphones. Nokia N97, as all phones Nokia Nseries, but also has some useful boot options. We had no trouble uploading our photos on our site Flickr, although we wish the phone can handle the queue, instead we have to wait through each load to transfer to another.GPS navigation - GoodFor navigation GPS, Nokia N97 uses Nokia Maps. This is a nice app mapping, and it works well for turn-by-turn directions, but he obviously is not ready to touch in the N97. First of all, peace on the opening screen, maps of the spins in the wrong direction when you touch it. In general, the cards were not very responsive to touch input. Roads headers also cut the phone, so we usually do not know if we were to take the highway heading east or west, if we are following the actual route of driving, and do not read signs.

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