This is the best phone i ever had my first smartphone great upgrade easy using apps nice camara with the right browzer the wifi rocks Sometimes scrolling too fast makes it freeze that don't trouble me The n97 is my first nokia i ever bought it sure won't be my last

Nokia N97 was launched as Flagship mobile of Nokia. With extremely high price and hype in media, I decided to have it for upgrade. TBH, I regretted my decision straight away as the Phone literally feels like a copy cheap version from China. Symbian OS sucks. Its unreliable, amature sluggish and everything but good. Especially when you have used the likes of iPhone, or Google Android phones, it is really unpleasant to use Nokia N97. The only thing that is good is Camera. However for the price I'd certainly not recommend it to any one.

OK phone. Quick and does everything I need it for. Good if you're looking for an upgrade.

Not a bad phone. Can do everything all other smartphones on the market can do. The only down side to the phone is it has a nice habbit of crashing at annoying times. This is normally just after a phone call. I am on the latest firmware but the crashing has been an issue on all versions of the firmware.

Always had Nokia phones and with all the N series phone I have had this always seems to be an issue.

i've had this Mobile for around 8 months, i've had afew N-series, thier all fantasic but the newer versions isn't that much Great and same Features, the n900 series is just Bigger and that's it, the Nokia n-97 is Great little mobile packed with features and does great pictures, it shouldn't be expensive it's be around for around 2 years, nice design and takes quality videos and pictures.

I have bought a N97 from davismicro.com It only costs me about $100. The quality of my N97 is good and it is so cheap. I specially love the function of this mobile phone.

I got mine on conract in Jun 2009 due to it having a qwerty keyboard which was good to use while using public transport to work. The Accuweather function doesn't work, it's not as fast as the iPhone. My screen started playing up and despite several updates/calibrations. Vodafone took a week to repair and 2 days later it went back and had the screen replaced. It's no where near the iPhone or later Nokia touchscreens. Ovi store is far from competing with the Apple Store. Overall, it's a poor start to competing with iPhone and Blackberry despite Nokia having some great phones on the market. They need to work on their touchscreen/smartphone range.

I was very hyped up to get the Nokia N97 phone because of the features it boasted, like touch screen display, applications, email and so on. This could have been a great phone, but unfortunately it was let down by faults and software problems. I used the phone extensively and there are just too many problems and when you complain to the operator or manufacturer their answer is to simply 'repair' it with a firmware upgrade.

The phone very frequently locks up - when you answer by swiping the screen, when you haven't done anything and the keylock jams, thus you end up taking out the battery in order to turn it off and back on again, which is extremely annoying.

Many times I have had the phone reset itself automatically causing me to lose my settings and data, world clock time zones, alarms and so on. If the phone worked, it would have been decent, but because of the slowness, and could-have-been-better interface and lacklustre scrolling animations, I can't recommend it. An alternative is the Nokia N900 which apparently resolves many of the common faults, but that phone is also quite big and clunky. If you have the cash, it seems the Apple iPhone is your best bet and I am looking for the earliest opportunity to get rid of my N97 in exchange for an iPhone.

I am having a love/hate relationship with the Nokia 97.

On the one hand, the screen is a decent size, image quality for photos and video playback is good, the Camera is OK and the 32gb of built in storage is great.

On the other hand, the OS is tempermental and frequent hangs/freezes for no reason, the apps downloaded from the Ovi store seem to have a 50/50 chance of working and the fact that once connected to a WLAN it is impossible to get the damn thing to stop trying ti re-connected once you are no longer in range without rebooting the phone is extremely annoying.

But the worst thing about this phone is the web browser. Vodafone's mobile internet service is unreliable at best, and the built in browser on the N97 simply cannot cope with interruptions in service. If a web operation is interrupted, the browser crashes and the OS kicks you back out to the home screen

I progressed to the Nokia N97 via the N95 & the N95 8Gb. Initially I had reservations as I found the N97 difficult to use but now I am used to it it's fine. The touchscreen is great & the QWERTY keyboard is useful. 32Gb memory is excellent, I have saved 6 movies, 350 songs, photos, documents & I'm not short of memory at all. (More on memory later though). I do use the stylus although it is quite useablw with your finger. I can't believe there is no storage for the stylus in the phone! This is really bad & I've lost 3 styli already! The Home Screen is great & can be customised, it's SO easy to get to everything quickly. The best thing is that the phone is so versatile, it is everything I need....phone, PDA, camera, movie/music player, radio. I use all the functions all the time. Maybe I'm lucky but I've had few problems (there are lots of forums with complaints about stability/reliability). The only problems I have experienced are: irritating Nokia ringtone sounding even when the profile I have selected has silent ringtone & after the latest firmware update I could neither make nor receive calls without a hard reset.
Good Points: Touchscreen, camera, memory, features, kinetic scrolling, it does everything well.
Bad Points: Although the phone has 32Gb memory too little is phone memory so you can get 'low memory' warnings in normal use (the latest firmware update has improved this though. No storage for stylus.
Overall a very impressive, versatile phone. Recommended.