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Imserba Webstore - Nokia N97 Unlocked Phone, Touchscreen, 3G, 5 MP Camera, A-GPS, 32 GB, MicroSD Slot, and Integrated Ovi Applications--U.S. Version with Warranty (Black)
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List Price: $699.99
Our Price: $548.00
Your Save: $ 151.99 ( 22% )
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Manufacturer: Nokia
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Average Customer Rating:   
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Batteries Included: 1
Battery Description: 1 Lithium-Ion
Binding: Wireless Phone Accessory
Brand: Nokia
Color: Black
EAN: 0758478020098
Feature: This unlocked cell phone is compatible with GSM carriers like AT&T and T-Mobile. Not all carrier features may be supported. It will not work with CDMA carriers like Verizon Wireless, Alltel and Sprint.
Is Autographed: 0
Is Memorabilia: 0
Label: Nokia
Manufacturer: Nokia
Model: N97 Black
Publisher: Nokia
Release Date: 2009-05-18
Studio: Nokia
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Features
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This unlocked cell phone is compatible with GSM carriers like AT&T and T-Mobile. Not all carrier features may be supported. It will not work with CDMA carriers like Verizon Wireless, Alltel and Sprint.
Unlocked quad-band GSM cell phone compatible with 850/900/1800/1900 frequencies and US/International 3G compatibility via 850/1900/2100 UMTS/HSDPA plus GPRS/EDGE capabilities
Flip-out full QWERTY keyboard; A-GPS and Nokia Maps; Wi-Fi networking; Bluetooth stereo music; 32 GB internal memory; expandable via MicroSD
Up to 9.5 hours of GSM talk time (6 hours on 3G, up to 430 hours (17.9 days) of standby time
What's in the Box: Nokia N97, Nokia Battery (BP-4L), travel charger (AC-10U), connectivity cable (CA-101), wired headset (AD-54, HS-45), charger adapter (CA-146), cleaning cloth
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Accessories
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Nokia DC-4 Mobile Charger for Nokia N90, 770, 7370, 6155i, 6102, 6101, 3155i
Ultimate Ears-Metro.fi 100v Noise Isolating Earphones for iPhone (Black)
Ultimate Ears TripleFi 10vi Noise Isolating Earphones w/ Microphone
Ultimate Ears SuperFi 5vi Noise Isolating Earphones w/ Microphone
Krusell Apollo Multidapt Case Large with SpringClip for BlackBerry 8100, 8110, 8120, 8130, Nokia E63, E66, E71, N81, N82, N96, N97 (Black)
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Editorial Reviews:
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The Nokia N97 mobile phone provides excellent user experience for internet and entertainment by combining QWERTY keyboard with resistive touch screen. Integrated A-GPS. 5 mega pixel camera. Video.A-GPS is a network dependant feature that requires a data plan. Additional charges may apply Personalize your homescreen arrow Have all of your content and connections at your fingertips on the beautiful personalizable home screen. Manage and access your internet directly from the intuitive user interface and enjoy the experience through the 3.5" sliding tilt display. Touch and QWERTY for connections to people and places arrow Enjoy the fast and fun ways to connect to your friends. Discover, share and navigate with Nokia Maps and the integrated compass that keeps you facing the right direction all the time. Downloading maps and/or navigating with Nokia Maps may involve the transmission of large amounts of data through your cellular service provider’s network. Contact your service provider for information about data transmission charges. The availability and accuracy of GPS location services are dependent on wireless networks, satellite systems. It may not function in all areas or at all times. You should never rely solely on GPS products for essential communications like emergencies. Indulge in videos, music and pictures arrow Have all your entertainment on board with up to 32 GB of storage. Get more from Ovi Store arrow Download apps, games, videos, and widgets directly to your device.
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Best phone ever
Comment: N97 is, to me, the best phone available right now!
In this Amazon item it does not come with Comes With Music or any other accessories (just the charger and head phones). But the low price make it a great by!
Totally recommend it!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great Phone, not so great web browser.
Comment: I absolutely love this phone. My only complaint about it is that the web browser could be better. A few sites like Google Wave will not render correctly and other times the browser will just crash out and bring me back to the home screen.
Customer Rating:
Summary: I wouldn't allow releasing such a half-way developed product
Comment: I've now used my N97 for 2.5 months or so. Even though the device has already lived through two important firmware updates, it has still got some major bugs and inconsistencies in usability, stability and performance. Even after the updates, I'm surprised how badly and half-way the software is developed and designed, and how this ultimately cracks all the promising value from many intendedly great features that cannot be found anywhere else in a single unit.
Before buying my N97, I had an iPhone for two weeks. I returned it because of some major feature limitations, including the lack of multitasking & file system, among others. I loved iPhone's user interface and the "it-just-works" fluency in most dimensions. Now I regret my decision.
So what's wrong with the N97 concretely? First, for a great user experience, fluent and reliable operation is an imperative. The N97 doesn't have this and probably never will - even after several firmware updates. The phone is incredibly slow, especially when multiple apps are open. Some apps are just slow regardless of how many apps you have open, including the camera as well as active notes. This majorly distracts the use of the device and usually generates frustration. Many of the applications are also prone to jamming. This requires constant restarting of the device -- which is slow and consumers the battery considerably. Perhaps related, the memory needed for applications to run is incredibly small. Often you have to close programs before doing something.
Second, several services that many use frequently, such as Skype, Gmail, Facebook, YouTube, PDF reader, have either badly designed apps for N97, or no apps at all (e.g. YouTube, Skype). Comparing to my iPhone experince, there is generally a night-and-day difference. Third, there's a number of rather stupid usability design flaws such as: music doesn't stop after unplugging earphones but instead activates speakers (I've had several humiliating experiences with this); menu structures of most apps are overly complicated; different sets of special characters are available through keyboard vs. on-screen keypad (sometimes you have to switch to the other to get them); cannot adjust wakeup beep volume, cannot change to any international language (like iPhone), and many others. Small things, but add to a larger reservoir of dysfunctionality.
Fourth, even though the physical and technical features of the device have been praised, they're not without problems either: camera cover scratches the lens, camera flash distorts the picture on other side because it's too close to the lens; GPS is incredibly inaccurate and slow in updating the location -- much more so than in earlier Nokia phones I've had; the quality of voice is very bad -- many of my friends keep constantly complaining about the quality of voice calls from me; the battery life is poor -- in normal use I have to charge every night, sometimes even more often; there's difficulties in connecting via USB to Ovi Player on PC (phone not recognized by the PC software).
To sum up, in everyday use the Nokia N97 involves a lot of waiting, restarting both apps and the phone, charging, solving all kinds of problems, as well as unintuitive and missing functionalities. It's not fluent. Rather, it's frustrating.
So is there anything good? Yes, there are a number of - intendedly, at least - great features. Cameara with excellent 5 megapixel accuracy, lots of mass memory (though not for running apps), multitasking, the widget-based home screen, coverage of all thinkable network technology, gps and maps with navigation, music store & manager, FM transmitter, software market, etc. Precisely because of these intendedly great features I'm giving two stars instead of just one. However, all these potentially great features are now suppressed under the major design flaws in and half-way developed user interface and software.
With this product, Nokia may be able to generate some sales with a relatively high price. But the price is not based on the value of the product. Rather, it is based on Nokia's brand as the largest and most innovative mobile phone manufacturer. However in the long run, if the products are not able to match the brand promise.. Well, I'd not buy Nokia's stock.
Customer Rating:
Summary: SERIOUSLY -- THE BEST SMARTPHONE NOW!!!!
Comment:
I just got my N97 phone few days ago and I'm already enjoying the everything about the phone. Its fast, it responds very well to touch. One of the great thing about the phone is the double clicking. It means you can open/select what you really wish to open instead of mistaken opening something else because you touched the wrong part of the screen.
Well, with the problems all other people are having with the phone, my advice for people buying this is that:
As soon as you buy the phone, before you install, copy or enter any contacts, calender or even do anything. Just put your SIM card in the phone and go to the Nokia PC Suite to upgrade to the latest firmware. That was exactly what I did and its working great.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Nokia N97 experiment gone bad...
Comment: I was looking to switch from my Blackberry to another Smart phone that I thought could handle my daily requirements (I'm what you would call a power user). I paid almost $600.00 for the phone and consequently had high expectations. I had the phone for one day and realized at the end of the day this definitely wasn't the phone for me. The software was very unstable and if you haven't used the Symbian Interface before, it is not as intuitive as other smart phones. I'm not exagerrating when I say the phone for whatever reason froze up while being used at least 3 times an hour. I would have to remove the battery and put it back in to get the phone working again and this was the ultimate deal breaker. The fact that I couldn't browse the internet or perform basic functions on such an expensive smartphone convinced me to return the phone the very same day. Amazon.com offered spectacular customer service and I was immediately given a refund. Hope other buyers have a better experience than I did but for me, I'm back to my Blackberry Bold 9000 and waiting for the Blackberry Bold 9700 to go on sale at Amazon.com...
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