N97 Rants

With the launch of N97, there are numerous sites putting up reviews of the phone for current and potential owners to check out.

Since these had been done to death, I will go by a different approach: stating out the flaws and bugs I had experienced on the phone. In a way, you can say I'm nitpicking on it.

So I'll list them out in 2 categories: Hardware & Software.

Hardware:
- the placement of the Menu button is placed on bottom left side of the front panel, which makes it difficult to press the button with my right thumb when holding the phone single handedly.

- no protective cover for the microUSB port

- have to press shift button in order to input full stop punctuation

Software (based on V10):
- No user customisation on setting the widget update interval

- low resolution (crappy) individual photo display in photo viewer. No such issue when using the experimental Nokia Photo Browser

- video files is displayed as well in photo viewer, wonder what's the point of having a separate video viewer.

- intermittently, phone will ring with default tone instead of user defined tone

- contact photo unable to display in full screen

- Share Online upload unable to activate access point to perform upload task (intermittent)

- screen requires to unlock twice to light up

- the phone showed HSDPA access point as first choice despite having defined Wireless network in the area. Both connection options are parked under INTERNET destination settings

- phone did not prompt user to re-select access point for widget updates when the original defined access point had been moved to another connection destination.

- No N-gage client

- No DLNA application available for the phone.

- when select a contact with multiple numbers from the contact bar for sms, phone did not prompt user to select the number to send to, hence user will not know which number the message is sent to.

- No HTML support in Nokia Messenging and Built In email app

Basically this is what I had observed based on 2 weeks of usage so far. You can share more by putting them in your comments. Hope some of the listed bugs can be fixed on the next firmware.

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