Nokia N97 (Unlocked) - Review, Part 1

In general, I find Noah reviews quite objective. It's a shame so many people bashed him because of his review on the 5800 XM, I had one in my hands, it wasn't as impressive as the iPhone.

None the less, I'm considering getting one of this or the 5800 xm, these have everything you need and Nokia keeps updating firmwares.

Hey, noah you seem like a really sweet guy, but when you do these videos can you jump straight to the good info about the phone? On my sputtering internet connection these videos seem to take forever, and it seems like after 5 minutes of watching you have'nt said anything meaningful regarding the utilites of the phone.Don't mean to cramp your style or anything,it's just a request.

Nokia is not impressive at all when compared to the smartphones that are out these days. As always, as soon as someone doesnt like a new smartphone, everyone else calls them iPhone fanboys. Thats getting a little old now. I, for one, do not like the iPhone, and I also do not like this phone. I have never liked Nokia phones and I still don't. Their smartphone experience just does not compare to the other smartphones on the market. I give a lot of credit to Noah for giving a true review and not giving in and acting like Nokia is the best, like all the other cell phone blogs do.

go read a book kids dont wastee ur money and time on phones okayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

I think Noah provides non-biased, thorough, informative reviews. Keep up the good work bro, and I now know to wait till after summer for a possible better phone from Nokia. At least a Google phone, seems to be coming along nicely.

do the lg tritan

this phone is totaly useless, It has even got windows, I mean derrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. It hasnt even got any desent apps or a party piece. Its jst a pile of dogs sh*t !

NOAH u Suck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Although I'm a big Nokia fan myself and especially Symbian fan, on some points I will have to agree with Noah. Also, I personally don't mind that space button placed to the right instead of centered, also, I don't mind that plastic back cover thingy although, yes, it could have been better. I do mind that some keys/commends are not present for easy use on the keyboard and you have to use additional commends in order to get to them. I love the homescreen with all that widgets and stuff and I love Noah's style of reviewing phones. He's nice and funny and he knows how to do his job well. Thanks a lot, Noah!

/Agree, I for one am glad Noah does these reviews, and I will not be spending 700 bucks on a phone that looks and feels that cheap. Thx Noah, GG Nokia

I have to agree with fuzzlejr08 in that if Noah is taking the time to really get to know these phones for us...how 'bout a little less critcism folks. Think how and expensive and time consuming it would be if we did this own our own.

Well for someone who was crackin really hard for this phone I have to say I agree with this review. If I am paying 700 bucks...and let me state I only found it that cheap in one place and as high as 900, then I expect it to FEEL expensive. That battery back and keyboard are very disappointing. I agree they lost alot of space with the half/mast tilt. I still LOVE the customizable home page on it.
I am looking for a new AT&T upgrade, I myself use a VU. I was considering an Impression but have chosen not to get it due to OS lock up issues, hopefully they will work those out. So now I am looking at a Xenon because I really would like a slide out qwerty although it has less customizable widgets.
Before you say Iphone let me say, I will NOT get an Iphone as I hate them. Not to mention I have talked to two AT&T employees and many Iphone users and they are all mad that apple has SLOWED down the Iphone 3G to make the 3Gs APPEAR faster, and I think this is shady. Most likely done in desperation because their new Iphone release did not live up to the hype.

Opinions??

Dear faggy commenters,

This guy is taking time to use these phones and know them inside and backwards for us and people are being criticle???? Whats up with that. This guy devotes time for people that are undecided or want information and I can see how much time he puts along with all the other phonedog people. Noah your awsome this review is the best review you can find for this phone.

Thanks Noah

R u gonna apologize or this is your real review??? r u kidding??? your IPHONE brain will never understand symbian, and all the things that nokia phones have better than the IPHONE, just T H I N K a little bit more is not that hard and i promess you will get why the chin... really dude think symbian is really not that hard try it may change your IPHONE world...

Too sad that u can't make an objective review when it comes to Nokia... dont make Nokia reviews, sotp doing them if you can't be objective then just drop it... keep doing HTC, Samsung and Apple reviews, you are good at that...

Noah

of course this doesnt have anything to do with this phone but i have been searching for an email adress to email you but have failed to find one. I love the palm pre but im on ATT and i want to know if i could unlock one? if so where can i find out how?

THanks

most people really just dont know how to get the most out of the phone. the reviewers, for the most part, dont know what they are doing when it comes to symbian phones. you really have to use the phone to know if you like it or not.

The phone's back is good, you are just stupid enough to mess it up

What about the N97 mini?

damn, i have the N95 8GB... after seeing many review videos im thinking of just keeping my phone. Never had a problem with it, nothing wrong, fast, never freezes, loud, and just great over all... and for the price of this bad boy (n97) idk... i want to like it but it seems like it cant compete with other smart phones on the market...

it looks nice

you cut the review into their respective parts at the weirdest times.

Geez, the phone's back is good.

nokia n97 is wayyyyy better than iphone....

couple? more like a hundred , but thanks to software 2.0 , its much better! :D

that's because Motorola droid is newer

He is wright, the iphone has a capacitive screen, thousands of apps, an amazing browser, the iphone is better than the n97 but it's not the best phone ever. Check out the motorola droid

woop woop uk :D

Does this phone have dual sim? where you can put in 2 sims? looks like a great phone.. :)

I swear to God, Apple have brainwashed their customers>>> This guy sucks at this, according to him, nothing beats the iphone, and the iphone is plastic too....I think this phone kicks ass, it can multitask, the battery (WHICH YOU CAN REPLACE, THE IPHONE CANT) is better and the bluetooth is better too.

the piece you broke off... broke off because you didnt slide it in the first time...

you idiots i have that phone the i had no trouble with the back!

My Review Of This Phone Is Better. Check My Page.

i have nokia n97 is really good but does hav a couple of bugs

yeah the secnd part is so true, how shit the iphone is. a fucking £10 tesco phone shits on iphone

very naggy.

fuck all of the apple fanboys..

and the reason why there is a space bar on the right is because it is closer to your right thumb. if you have notice, the space bar in you keyboard is huge to compensate for left and right handed people, or else if everyone was right handed the keyboard would have place it on the right while have more featured buttons on the left. don't forget, nokia people aren't stupid, you just have to look more in dept why they do their thing.

though i am not a particular nokia fan ( i prefer ericsson more) this review seems more subjective then open minded. he beat around the bush a lot, couldn't get his point clear, obviously bias, and over looked some of the amazing feature it has that other phone don't. Btw, the reason why it has a extra ridge at the bottom back cover is because so that you can type on a flat surface since the camera sticks out. any moron can figure that out. sorry but you failed

N97 suck??!!! Iphone 3gS-Bluetooth is s#hit,no multitasking,Battery is really s#hit(1 day of use with power saving,OS is really neanderthalien. N97 all that iphone 3gs has and many more better working smartphone.When iphone will have 3g video camera and 5 mpx,multitasking and good batery the Nokia will have teleporting in space with your smartphone...Iphone lives in 1960.Cheating people. Apple quote ,,Give nothing in high price,and the dumb will bite it``.For me iphone is a very bad smartphone

The N97 sucks donkey ass balls! The N97 doesn't even compare to the iPhone 3GS