Ok so ive been fiddling with my N97 since saturday and here is what I think...
Battery : Awesome. I abused it for 2 full days and it eventually died. When I eventually die out of my 'new phone' phase I expect it to last a bit longer.
Camera: Superb. Very nice photographs, and amazing video quality. no complaints in this section
Qwerty: Some of the reviewers ragged the keyboard. Im honestly confused as to why, but im sure thats them just looking for faults. It is a very easy keyboard to get used to.
Emailing, etc: I put on Emoze as it syncs contacts, calendars , etc through push. very satisfied with this service.
Homescreen: This is my favourite. I have set it up so that I have Facebook, Calendar, Favourite Contacts, Weather, and email. Everything is LIVE which i think is amazing. You also have the a quick shortcut to put the homescreen in offline mode which is useful if you want to save battery.
Touchscreen: From the reviews I was expecting something terrible, but to be honest I actually prefer this screen to the I phone screen (resistive vs capacitive). My last phone was the HTC diamond which was terrible compared to the n97. They did a very good job with this IMO.
OS: Fast, fun and and stable. Reviewers made this out to be terrible. Its not as 'fun' as the Iphone, but I think its brilliant. It kicks any windows mobile operating system, and is very easy to use.
Slider: The hinge that flips the screen up and down is a nice novelty. It seems sturdy enough, and I suppose if it ever gives me problems we have the awesome people from nokia to look after us
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Body: Beautiful looking phone in the flesh. Pictures dont justify it at all. IMO it actually makes the Iphone shape look outdated. The sliding screen works very well. There is a nice spring-loaded slider that locks and unlocks the screen, which is an awesome touch. Camera shutter works well as it opens and closes the camera which is pretty standard. it has stereo speakers which are quite powerful.
Apps: I havnt put much stuff on it really, as I was still setting it up to sync with my Work and Home pc.... and transfering contacts, with pictures, etc was a bit of a mission for me as I had problems with the OVI Suite (coz i didnt know what I was doing). The only problem that irritated me was syncing it with my outlook with the Ovi Suite. It didnt transfer contacts pictures, and i ended up duplicating things and deleting things but that was my own fault. All is sorted now, and now I have my N97 syncing through Emoze to both my pc's. I didnt enjoy the Ovi Suite that much on my pc, but i will use it to automatically sync Photo's, Vids and Music. The Ovi Store is not available in South Africa as well yet. And I havnt tried the GPS yet are fiddled with the Nokia maps. Just wanted to settle in my with my phone then Im gonna start fiddling with other apps.
All in all, Im in love with this phone. I dont even know what to show people when I show it to them. I just give it to them and let them go wild. Its really fun, looks amazing, its not as heavy as it looks, and it has so much memory space. Ive already put 18gigs of music on it, and I still got 12gigs left as storage space. I also put a 8gig memory card in, so as a portable hard drive it works very well, which I dont think you can do on the iphone, standardly. I had an N80 before my HTC, and swore Id never go back to a boring symbian OS, but the 5th edition of this S60 OS is really awesome.
Im very impressed, thank you Nokia and to the bloggers for this phone.
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