Jun 26, 2009 07:54 PM
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(Updated Jul 31, 2009 05:35 PM)
July:This pone is full of mechanical defects. Read problems with
Camera and camera cover. The pictures comes blure and there are slowly scratches on lense. The flash is not distributed evenly. Its high on left side.
Latest N97 issues
The video recording if it goes upto 3 mins, the file size it around 150mb and you can imagine how bad is the nokia mp4 compression. So a 1 hr movie takes a woopig 20GB space. And you know normal movie of 1.5hr is just 700mb. So what this nonsense nokia ?. Also, out of 5 movies I recorded 2 failed to open. They get corrupt.
The video quality is very inferior to N82(i have that). This video creates red noise in dark areas.
The inside screens are old Series S60 3rd edition. There is no improvement in Contacts, File manager and photo browser.
The photo browser is phatetic. It you zoom any image, it takes something 5 sec to get a clear picture. First it shows pixelated image. This is because of very low ram of 128mb of N97. Other phoes have 256mb. The photos look like folder optios and you click one picture and then click back. Where as other phoes. LG Arena and Samsung have innovative ways to see the pictures.
Earlier comments...
I have brought this phone 2 days back. I am facing frequent hanging of system. I checked the system status and it shows 120mb ram usage(without any apps running) and only 30mb for multitasking. So you can imagine why all problems are there.
## Also I notice that thespeaker quality is very cheap. Its sound volume is low then my previous E71. On full earpiece volume the speaker breaks. But the volume is still low as compared to other phones. I just say, nokia has just juse a cheap speaker then the chinese phone... It sounds like a empty barrel. and they call this sterio speaker. ..Nokia ... you are just a shameless folks.
%% The touch screen freezesat many places. the nokia email application (NMS) dosent support html emails which it use to support on my previous E71
## Accepting and rejecting calls is a nightmare. You first have to slide to unlock the screen and then click to accept call. So two actions. But that too are complex. The unlock slide is on left direction and then accept on right direction. The finger stroke. And since the phone is slow to repond, it takes 5-10 sec to accept the call.
@@@@ Another funny thing is, each time I go to accept the call and the icons rotate due toG-sensor. So it takes another 5 seconds to orient the phone in right direction and then slide the icons in opposite directions..
&&& >>>They have also copied the iphone unlock style. I mean, on the home screen you need to swap your fingure from left to right to unlock the screen. But the most idiot thing here is that the slider dont move with your fingure. It remains there and only your fingure goes ahead. Perhaps nokia couldnt copy the iphone properly or it was patented... ????
## another point. At 35K they dont supply you with the AV cable that use to come with N82. So you cant see movies on TV.
Problems with nokia emails: Nokia messaging dont work properly on the N97. It dosent have HTML support and neither Touch support. If you have 2-3 email, you cant switch by touching the email dropdown. The touch dont work. You have to use the slide keypad. Also the loading circular icon shows only half and full in the landscape mode.
The worst part in landscape mode is...., of the 3.5 inch display, 60% is taken by the buttons and email headers. So you are left with mear 200pix width. There is no full screen mode. Its a pathetic ..
Keypad problem: I saw that in the black model , the keys are white with black background. They are very think as if it looks like its used for past 1yrs and totally wornout. Now the funny part. Because of this I got the white phone. Now today in noticed that, indoors the sensor lights under the keypad so there is white lit text on white background. This means you cannot read the text at all... This problem is not an acceptable design.... its really sucks.
My earlier comments:
Since I had pre-booked this phone, yesterday a Nokia dealer salesman gave me a 15 min demo and I grilled them for an hour for bringing such a lousy phone. It has weak processor, old technology resistive touch screen (need hard press and sometime does not recognize touch. iPhone is Capacitive technology with has more success rate of touch recognization), low resolution, It hangs if you start to play a 1GB movie, the touch screen lags behind the thumb speed (low ram 128.
Most new touch phone as 256), wrong side D-pad for left handed, No Xenon flash for Rs35, 000, primitive camera functions. No smart contact search like in E71, and many more.. This phone was just hipped for no reason. Every demo had just the home screen demo. Because inside it was same old S60 phone. Not worth for 35K. Its not multi-touch like iPhone. Highly primitive technology phone.
There is no office doc editing. Only view. No preloaded N-gage or Microsoft active synch, No GPS
When I asked the salesman why I should spend 35k for this phone, he had no answer. some competition for this phone will be from HT HD,
Samsung I8000 Omnia II, Sony Ericsson Satio (Idou),
HTC Touch Pro2If you read everywhere, no one has appreciated this nokia phone. Nokia is making all its attempt to fool people to buy this. Their TV ad has nothing but just the homescreen. Whats so great of that homescreen ? now every phone has customizable screen.
