Nokia N97 CNet Review!
With the release of the much awaited Nokia N97 very near, CNet which has managed to get their hands on the Nokia N97 gives us a review of the device. The review goes through all the aspects of the device. The review is not much in to depth or detailed but it goes straight down to the point.
Here is a quite from the review:
It’s marked by a very well-designed user interface and a result of very extensive global user research ranging from the US and Europe to China and Japan. I should think this is in no small part due to the research of its sociographer, Jan Chipchase, a key researcher at Nokia Design. And, of course, kudos to the key designer of the N97, Shunjiro Eguchi of Japanese descent. Who else would be better at understanding the mobile market than the Japanese?
Designed for “Internet in the pocket”, the Nokia N97 boasts a complete Internet experience on your mobile. Launching in Singapore, it will have 32GB of internal memory (the biggest of all phones in the market, by my reckoning), a 5-megapixel Carl Zeiss lens, 3.5mm audio jack, 3.5-inch 16:9 widescreen, long battery life (can watch a video continuously for 4.5 hours), and more.
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3 Comments on “Nokia N97 CNet Review!”
I noticed an extensive marketing strategy placed for Nokia N97 throughout the first quarter of the year in Singapore.
The functionalities of the device are what people have been searching for; a portable device intact with the latest advance technology, a perfection in this era.
Temptation builds up whereby everyone craves to have one of this. Most willingly, people start to fork out hundreds of dollars to buy this marvelous gadget, never to know that there are many technical glitches.
I was deceived by the marketing gimmicks and became one of the unfortunate consumers who purchased this ‘gadget of perfection’. Perfection is just an illusion and never to be in reality. I wish to express my egregious disappointment with regards to the Nokia device N97 that I bought not long ago (19 August 2009).
During the second day of purchase, problems start to surface:
Problem 1: Calls start to hang while the other parties hang up. I will have to reboot my N97 to resolve this issue.
Problem 2: While on the call, the volume automatically shifts to mute or to the maximum. I will have to switch off my N97 to resolve this issue.
Problem 3: The functionality that was greatly emphasized in favorite contacts isn’t working properly at all. The personalization of Ringtone assigned for the contact individuals fail severely. Instead of playing selected ringtone, it turns out to be default Nokia Ringtone.
Problem 4: Another remarkable feature that it brings is mobile surfing. However, during the loading of pages, the screen blacks out and I will have to take out the battery and reboot the phone.
It seems that all these while, I have been wasting my time calling and traveling down to and fro with problems unsolved. As a brand loyalty customer, all these repercussions have prove and change my perception of Nokia.
These unsolved technical glitches imply inadequate research and testing to ensure quality of the product before launching into the market.
It’s a shame that the basic function of a phone (to call) cannot even work properly. The perception that has put across to me is that I have waste my money on something which is not valuable and of no use to me.
Those problems that are mentioned earlier are actually part of the functions for the phone, and it seems ridiculous that the problems cannot be rectified.
i feel it is not so worth keeping such a huge sum of 32000 on this mobile, i bought this phone in the midle of october and within days i have come to feel the misery it gives ,the interface takes long time to open , we can have few sips of cofee by the time the menu opens, and the phone gets hanged up so often that , i havve to restart atleast five to eight times a day , and much more is that the phone restarts by itself in the middle of the usage of an application. when i contacted nokia , they say that we dont recomond usage of any third part applications.if a phone bought wth such a huge sm of 32000 is not usefull for using a third party apps then what’s the fun in buying it, added more do nokia sell any apps that are pretty good usefull, and the answer is no , nokia has to release a new firm ware so that atleast then the problems of mine solves