Jun 21 2011
Nokia N97 Carriers
Posted by: CameraPhonesPlaza in Nokia
There are advantages and disadvantages of buying unlocked mobile phones or choosing a carrier. Users choosing a carrier benefit of a more decent price, but they do sign a one-year or two-year contract. What is more, they also receive extra services, such as bonus minutes, messages included, internet services, navigation, depending on the type of mobile phone you pick. Those who want an unlocked phone pay the full price, but they have the freedom to pick a carrier or nothing at all.
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But as Nokia n97 is an expensive mobile phones, it is more convenient to choose a carrier and still afford to buy some extra accessories or other items. Nokia n97 brings up a lot of benefits, such as a touch screen, a sliding full QWERTY keyboard, 32GB internal memory, GPS, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, a great 5 megapixels camera and 3G. You can definitely say you have it all with this smartphone, but as everything comes at a certain price, for this one we are talking about big numbers. Because the phone was launched several years ago, the initial price, $700, has lowered down and now you can have it for just around $450, still something for some users.

But let’s move on and see how much the phone worth it is after all and if you really have reasons to buy it. First of all, when it comes to design, once you place it near other touch screen phones, you can hardly distinguish it. But as the construction is solid, you can say it wins at this chapter. The touch screen is resistive and it measures 3.5”, supporting 16.7 million colors and having a pixel resolution of 640x360. There is also the built-in accelerometer, but in some tasks and applications you have to give it a bit of time to turn the phone in landscape mode. Because we are referring to a resistive touch screen, even the name recalls it, you have to press a bit more and be precise in your actions. Even the scrolling and the navigating experience is not as smooth as expected, it does not compare to the iPhone in any ways.

The widget-based home screen is welcomed, because you can customize the home screen and have any widget you want. You can place 8 of them, arrange them as you like, and move them around and so on. By default, the phone comes with some pre-installed widgets, useful nothing to argue here, but if you have any preferences what so ever, feel free to make it your way. And if you want the full menu of applications, you just need to press the small button located below the display. And now for the QWERTY keyboard, as there were some complaints, but also some good things said about it. But to see exactly how you feel about it, the best thing would be to test it yourself. The keys are non-slippery and thus they provide a nice tactile feedback. If you just need to enter a short text, web address or something like that, you can also use the soft keyboard.

What most users appreciate about this mobile phone is the large internal memory. Not only you get 32GB, but you can add extra to have a maximum of 48GB, which is a lot of free space for all your stuff.











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