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Testseek.co.uk have collected 164 expert reviews of the Nokia N97 and the average rating is 75%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Nokia N97.
Award: Recommended June 2009
June 2009
 
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The editors liked

  • Qwerty keyboard
  • Large touchscreen
  • 32GB builtin memory
  • 3.5mm jack
  • Wide range of features
  • Customisable home screen
  • Plenty of storage
  • Great touchscreen
  • Solid build quality
  • Impressive internal memory
  • Dual flash LED 5MP camera
  • Perfect slide-out QWERTY
  • Great camera
  • Decent touchscreen
  • Responsive touchscreen
  • Spacious QWERTY keyboard
  • Ergonomic tilting display and good allround multimedia performance.
  • Fullsize keyboard
  • Loads of features
  • Sounds great
  • Browsing web works well
  • A proper keyboard that feels comfortable and sturdy.
  • Loaded with features
  • Nice touchscreen
  • 32GB storage
  • Nokia's been at the forefront of mobile phone innovation for years. Or at least it was before the iPhone sauntered in. It's taken a while
  • But the Finnish phone company's now thrown in its own iPhone equivalent - the all-powerful N97. First up...
  • Nice finish
  • Improved touch interface
  • Slide out keypad
  • Good battery life
  • Memory can be extended to 48 GB
  • Well laid-out Qwerty keyboard
  • Access to Ovi Store
  • Customisable homescreen
  • Widgets with live updates
  • Angled screen
  • Epic 32GB of memory with room for 16GB more
  • Full of features
  • More storage than you can shake a stick at
  • Excellent media playback functionality
  • Touch screen
  • Full QWERTY keyboard
  • 32GB of internal flash memory
  • 3G
  • WiFi
  • Bluetooth and GPS
  • 5megapixel camera

The editors didn't like

  • Drab interface
  • Temperamental camera
  • Touchscreen not as sensitive as rivals
  • Qwerty a bit spongy
  • Expensive
  • Poor keyboard
  • Clunky interface
  • Unpredictable OS
  • Lack of video codec support
  • Chunky design
  • Underpowered processor
  • Sometimes sluggish when browsing the web and awkward when navigating around the interface
  • Large and heavy
  • Temperamental web browser
  • And sometimes needs double taps to activate selection.
  • Ovi Store is only potential at the moment
  • Video could be better
  • The touchscreen is less responsive than we’d like
  • And worse than rivals.
  • Big and bulky
  • Pricey
  • Sluggish processor
  • Not too much here
  • To be honest. If we're being really picky
  • The secondary function key is hidden away on the right-hand side of the phone. Surely a more natural fit would have been to position it on the left-hand side? Hmm? Also
  • While this does com...
  • Touch interface lacks fluidity
  • Thickness
  • Ovi Store still limited
  • System is sometimes slow
  • Bland user interface not the easiest to use
  • Unimpressive-looking display
  • Resistive touchscreen
  • Still some bugs
  • No multitouch
  • Poor battery life
  • Clunky and outdated Symbian operating system
  • Slightly odd QWERTY keyboard
  • Touch user interface isnt well integrated and can be inconsistent and confusing
  • Resistive rather than capacitive touch screen

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  Published: 2016-02-03, Author: Daniel , review by: techdigest.tv

  • Abstract:  Share The Nokia N97 will be out on 19th June exclusively on Vodafone for a whole week before all but O2 get a look in. The RRP for the SIM free version is £499 or you can spread it over an 18-month contract for £40 per month making it one of the priciest...

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  Published: 2010-08-12, review by: gadgetspeak.com

  • Abstract:  If you are just looking for a mobile phone then you are unlikely to be interested in the Nokia N97. Let me explain....

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  Published: 2009-12-17, review by: electricpig.co.uk

  • A proper keyboard that feels comfortable and sturdy.
  • The touchscreen is less responsive than we’d like, and worse than rivals.
  • The best Nokia yet, but it still has its fair share of rough edges....

 
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(80%)
 
  Published: 2009-11-16, review by: expertreviews.co.uk

  • The keyboard is disappointing, and the Symbian OS feels outdated compared with those of more intuitive Android and Apple phones. ...

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  Published: 2009-11-10, review by: itreviews.com

  • Abstract:  The N97 has plenty of features and its touch based operating system is still something of a novelty for Nokia. We aren't convinced it is as responsive or intuitive as other touch based smartphone operating systems, though. Nokia - N97 price Buy Nokia ...

 
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  Published: 2009-09-23, review by: recombu.com

  • Nokia's phones are reliable, solid and exceptionally accessible. There will be many people who've held back from touchscreen phones because they didn't want to lose the Nokia user-friendliness. The N97 is a good phone, with lots of good features, but t...

 
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  Published: 2009-09-08, review by: fonehome.co.uk

  • The Nokia N97 is like a Pagani Zonda supercar – it’s been pushed to the very limit and excels in certain areas (both have a satisfing boot clunk) , but it’s not without it’s quirks. Is the N97 the best phone ever? Not quite. Does it come close? Very!Lo...

 
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  Published: 2009-08-26, review by: whatmobile.net

  • Technology usually moves forward, but Nokia’s top Nseries models seem to have been moving in the wrong direction since the N95 8GB. The N96 was a chunky brick that didn’t bring much to the table (and was beaten by the relatively anonymous N85...

 
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  Published: 2009-08-19, review by: wired.co.uk

  • Abstract:  The Nokia N97 and I didn’t get on well at the start. Firstly, I couldn’t get the phone to boot beyond the holding page and it wasn’t until I threatened to send it to a colleague known for his love of taking gadgets apart that it perked up. After that, ...

 
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  Published: 2009-08-12, review by: gadgetrepublic.com

  • I think the N97 is misunderstood. It is certainly not in the same space as the iPhone 3GS and I wish that the Symbian operating system worked better with the needs of a touch screen user interface but if you can get over the navigation I think you will...

 
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