Nokia N97 review
Sunday, September 6, 2009
Recently upgraded my phone to the Nokia N97. It was a huge upgrade to the N70, since it came with wireless connection and a proper browser.
- Touch screen. Not as responsive as Apple’s iPhone. Somewhat inconsistent interface (sometimes you can use the whole screen to scroll, other times you need to use the scrollbar at the side).
- Navigation/GPS. Works great, includes voice navigation. Drove from Drammen to Lillestrøm and back (about 55 km) without much problems. Navigation controls is somewhat confusing. And direction sometimes gets confused (you’re on a highway and it ask you take continue pass the intersection when you drive over an overpass etc)
- Browser. Works OK. Opera Mini does better caching. That is, the included browser is good, but when you navigate back to a previous page, instead of loading it from the cache, it will try to download the page again.
- Ovi Store. OK. Not sure how to compare with Apple’s AppStore since I’ve never used the latter. Ovi store is somewhat redundant in Europe since there are so many other places you can download and install S60 software
- Email. Still crap. Can’t move email from one folder to another in IMAP
Overall, I must say I’m happy with the phone and would probably recommend it with some caveat.
