well, i dont seem to have battery issues with my phone. in fact, for me it is rather good, i listen to music and use FM transmitter often and the battery seems to last real good..

one man meat is another man poison dude.

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Added on June 29, 2009, 11:34 amyeap i agree Iphone is idiot proof phone for normal people usage that's why so popular. even a small kid can use it.

for Symbian gonna be for first time user, for me i've been using symbian since Nokia 3650 so i'm kind of used to it already.

This post has been edited by snakevenom: Jun 29 2009, 11:34 AM

Nice V11 soon

To me the battery life never dissapoint me till now.....hehehehe

To prolong battery life, I suggest you put the homescreen content to offline mode. Keeping 3G on all the time is what eats up battery life fast.

don forget those with no unlimited data plan, drain ur $$ fast too

To those who have complaints... wait and see whether the coming version 11 firmware solves your problems/bugs. I have complaints too but will wait and see whether the new firmware update solves all or at least the main problems...

what are the main problemssssss ?

added me to the list
got mine yesterday..white N97

still exploring the phone..all seems very different from nokia previous model..

i'm using e90 previously

firmware also need update 1 ah? is it hard? i scare later i simply flash then spoil lulz

just came back from NCC, most ppl come there to send in their N97, reason hanged, battery fast drain out and others. Seems this set still new alot of bugs , i guess

I'm facing that problem.

I do keep my 3G connected all the time because I'm streaming Facebook and The Star on my homescreen, plus my office email is constantly connected and retrieving new emails every 5 minutes. I may have shorter battery life but I guess it's worth it, at least I'm maximising the usage of my phone.

I have one charger at home, one charger in my office and a car charger. I also have a spare battery so I think it's not too bad

did u guys notice.. when incoming call, you can turn down the phone makes the screen facing the table, it will be silent.. pretty cool lah.. this is new feature or 5800 already has this function?

It's the proximity sensor located on the top left.

If you noticed, when you make a call, the moment your phone goes close to your face, the screen will turn dark, this is to avoid the large screen glaring your eyes.

Neat.

oo yes yes.. that one i know when 1st time make a call using this phone..

i heard that we can update the new firmware by *#0000# and follow the intruction on the screen?

yeap

Plus turning off the touch screen to avoid disconnection if you accidentally pressed the "end call" button.

5800 sudah ade... its actually due to the accelerometer (the same meter when you turn phone horizontal and the screen auto rotates to landscape mode). You can also use it to silence your clock alarm. Its not the proximity sensor as blinky pointed out. That one is only used when there is a call active and the screen switches off when the sensor detects that the phone is close to something like your face. Its to prevent accidental presses of buttons or icons on your touchscreen, like accidentally pressing the "Call End" button or something while in the middle of a conversation.

Okay guys..I might be flamed for posting my own review on this N97..
But anyway..I hope I don't get flame without a reason and I really hope it is out of my own stupidity of not knowing how to use the phone properly..

Here goes,

Just got this phone yesterday, not very impressed, but rather, disappointed. -.-
It get hangs and lag pretty badly and so frequently that I have to switch off and on the phone..
The touch screen isn't too smooth. (Well compare to iphone and such)
Annoying loud clapping sound when pushing up the screen for the keyboard.
Slow responsive accelerometer sensor.
Backlitting for the keyboard is stupid as well. Could be the light sensor isn't sensitive enough, it lits up even though its exposed under the bright room light, and making me even harder to see the words on the keyboards.
Without the backlitting, every words is black and it's so easy to see rather than backlitted.
Though, in the dark, the backlitting is very nice.

I don't know why but the removal of the usual charging port annoys me, and the fact that they changed the usb port as well, but this is personal, nothing to do with overall of the phone.

And the SDHC micro SD memory slot is just lame, you have to remove the back plate for access and what even lamer is, it is very hard to remove the memory card once you put it in place (I'm not sure if this is my phone problem or not or that I'm not doing it right)

And another thing that I noticed is the music player, it's even worst than N95, in terms of interface, there is some improvement, but for music quality, it's downright lousy.
(Well, I've got my proper portable music player so this isn't a big deal for me anymore)

Hope the future firmware will fix these issues.

77mb for the phone memory is just bad...(Even lesser than N95 which have around 140mb+)
I get a lot of "Phone memory low" warning messages quite frequently too..

32Gb Onboard is sweet though. But that's about it, I'm not sure how am I gonna fill them up lol.
The web browser..I wouldn't say it's great but yes it's now usable comparing to N95's one (LoL)

Anyhow, the large sized screen is nice, bright and sharp (Too bad touch screen isn't good/responsive enough)
I like the front face design of N97, it's why I even consider this device, I just can't get myself to like iphone, they look stupid to me.
N97 has at least some sense of fashion with it, iphone? Ermm no.

I should consider selling it..soon perhaps.

Thank you for reading. And I hope someone can enlighten me regarding the problem I mentioned above..