…….. And the things I hate about it.
1. Form factor – I congratulate the guys who came up with this form factor. It looks really good, it has a stylish finishing. People don’t realise that it has a full QWERTY keypad and when I slide it out, they go WoW. The tilt makes surfing the web and watching movies better.
2. 32 gigs of memory -Before N97 I used N70 with 2 GB memory and that was OK for me but now that I have grown used to 32 GB memory, I won’t be satisfied with anything less. I’ve got a large music collection, thousands of photos, a dozen movies (uncompressed avi format) and 60-70 music videos (compressed but high quality) in my N97. I’m using a 8 GB card in addition to 32 GB mass memory. N97 has expandable memory, so if I need more space (highly unlikely) I can expand memory up to 32 GB… that’s a total of 64 GB!
3. 3.5 inch nHD screen – Gorgeous trans-reflective display, visible even in sunlight. The 360×640 resolution screen makes watching movies pure pleasure. Surfing the web is also easy because of the huge screen. And so is playing games.
4. Keypad – I don’t care what people say, the QWERTY keypad works for me. i even find the space bar very comfortable to use. It is very good for the frequent tweet and for the not-so-frequent lengthy emails.
5. 5 Mega-pixel Camera – I love taking pictures and the N97 does a very good job. I also use it to take pictures of notes and labels and email it to Evernote.
Things I hate about N97-
1. Tiny C memory – After installing Quickoffice, Spotify, Nokia messaging and Ovi maps. I have only 12 MB of space left. Add a theme and I’m down to 7 MB. Horrible.
2. Symbian – Although very functional. It lacks the looks. In E72 there are some great transition effects, even the 5800 Xpress Music has great transition effects but N97 mysteriously lacks them.
3. Developers – This is not only an N97 thing, it concerns every symbian smartphone. Developers are concentrating on iPhone and Android only and are ignoring Symbian. More on this here.
4. Processor – After using E72 which has a 600 MHz processor, N97 feels a little slow to me. Why didn’t Nokia put a 600 MHz processor in N97?
hmm…. that’s about it. The worst problem among them is the lack of memory in C drive… I hope Nokia does something to fix it.
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This post is a result of discussion between me and @breathlesstao about switching to android specifically nexus one. I still love N97 and am not ready to switch yet.
