Source: Tom's Guide US | Keywords: n97, mini, nokia, facebook, nseries | Themes: Smartphones, 3GSM
Nokia has officially unveiled N97's little brother, the N97 Mini.
Despite having already added two new music phones and a netbook to its product line, it seems Nokia is on a roll at Nokia World in Stuttgart as the company today announced a new addition to its NSeries, the N97 Mini.
The N97 Mini is basically a just a revised version of the N97. eWeek reports that it's built on the same tilt display design as the N97 but it's all bundled into a smaller package. The phone features 8 GB of storage, 5-megapixel camera with dual LED flash, video light and a Carl Zeiss Tessar lens, plus the ability to up the capacity to 16GB with the help of a microSD card.
Nokia also announced a new deal with Facebook that will allow users to update their social networking page from the homescreen. Dubbed 'lifecasting,' the feature enables you to post status updates and your location from your phone.
Right now, the pricing for the N97 Mini is set at around €450 ($640) before taxes and subsidies. Anyone interested? More to the point, any N97 owners regretting their purchase?
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Think I'l stick to my N86
Looks like the better equipped version of the HTC Touch Pro 2. I'd rather have Symbian over WinMo.
Is it the same cruddy screen?
YES...
I ended up switching from T-Mobile to ATT when I purchased an N97 so 3g would work. Not only is there a revised version N97 Mini, Nokia is also releasing the N900 which will only work with T-Mobile.
Even if I sell my N97 for the N900, i'm locked into a 2 year contract with ATT.
I'm not going to even go into how buggy the N97 is. Hopefully additional firmware updates will make it more stable.
Not happy with Nokia at the moment.
I do regret purchasing my N97. It's buggy, it has a slow processor and only 128 MB RAM.
As chaugh said, I hope that new firmware updates will make it more stable, but I feel Symbian is an almost obsolete OS.
The Nokia N95 was also buggy in the beginning. I remember countless times I plugged in my headphones and the phone would reboot.
Only after many firmware revisions did they fix almost all if not all the bugs. Mine only crashes very seldomly now.
But I do agree with Chulek, Symbian is a nice operating system, but it needs a revamping. Upgrading the OS for example implies you make a full backup of everything because the phone's memory gets wiped and the OS fully reinstalled every time you want to upgrade the firmware/OS.
Imagine if Windows worked the same way an updated came along!
I agree that touch-enabled Symbian is very buggy. I currently use Nokia 5800 XM and it's still unbelievable buggy after 3 (!) firmware updates. I am looking forward to Nokia N900 and a Linux-based platform. I hope it will provide more stability and same access to applications as Symbian. I am too very upset by the need to reinstall the software every time firmware changes. It's a great nuissance. Even Sony-Ericson's Symbian does not have this problem so it's not Symbian to blame but Nokia.
Nokia phones have been buggy across the range ever since Symbian 3 came out. The worst part of it is that every model seems to suffer the same issues from release hinting that the Firmware updates are model specific and never make it in to the Image of the OS that is originally installed.
Nokia makes some lovely phones and I love the menu system. After trying other manufacturers for a few years it felt like coming home when I got my N73 a few years ago. But the buggy-ness of each and every release is inexcusable. I am still using my N73 because I refuse to update to a buggy phone, inspite of liking the N95, N86, N96 and now the N97.
Back to the main topic, this phone is dubbed 'Mini' and I fail to see the 'Mini' part of the phone. So they have scraped off a couple MMs here and there... 'OOOHHH... Ahhhhh...'. I think it will still be a while before I think of updating my phone.
I think apple iphone (3gs now) is still the best touch smartphone.
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