Aug 19 2009

Nokia N97 In The Real Life: Crazy Girls, Yellow D-Pads & the NSC

Posted by Norman John in N-Series, N97, Nokia

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We all have read lots of N97 reviews and articles. These reviews are all written by Nokia lovers or mobile geeks. In this post I want to write about the N97 in the real life, about stories my friends and I have experienced.

Girls going crazy:

In the biology class I wanted to check the time so that I took my N97 out of my pocket. However, two girls in front of me saw that I was using an N97. They asked me if this is the Nokia N97. I said yes and they went totally crazy. They said: ” Wicked, I also want to buy a N97”. I showed them the device and they really liked it. I’ve never seen girls going crazy for a mobile phone, especially not for a Nokia.

Yellow D-Pad:

One of my friends also bought a Nokia N97. Overall he liked it but there was one aspect he absolutely didn’t liked. As he bought a white N97 his D-Pad turned orange. This is something he and frankly many other users don’t like.

Nokia Service Center and the Dislike:

Another friend of mine is working at a Nokia Service Center. Recently I visited him and talked with him. After a while we talked about the N97 and how good or bad it is. He told me that in his eyes, the eyes of a man who needs to repair the N97, the N97 is totally rubbish. He had lots of customers who bought him N97 – mainly due to the bad software. Furthermore, he thinks that the hinge mechanism isn’t that good and that it will break after some months.

http://www.symbian60.mobi Symbian60.mobi

How can a DPad “turn” orange?! Doesn´t make too much sense too me, sorry!
daClaus

I have the white E71 for almost a year now and the white middle housing is starting to turn yellow around the edges. The white USB/ card slot cover has turned yellow after two months of use. That happens when the uses material is not up to the requirements.
http://www.symbianworld.org Norman John

@Symbian60

I don’t get your point? What do you mean?
ninjafox

it’s white plastic with a rough surface… this means every time you press it you rub skin particles, sweat and dirt in those microscopic gaps, which makes the white colored surface appear orange… you get the same effect with black material, but it’s just not visible.

I hope all the white color electronics trendwhores learned their lesson with this.
http://emo185.blogspot.com Emo185

If your hands are dirty it makes white go cream / yellow………espically if you smoke, like Xbox 360 (White) owners, if they smoke in their house the Xbox 360 goes yellow/cream.

I should be getting a black N97 in next week or so i cant wait
MoJoker

At least its not going yellow because its overheating!! Just make sure you wash your hands and lay off the cheesy crisps!!

The N97 is a good looking phone and thats what people like. Most people who bought the n95 bought it for one of the features such as the camera but people are buying the iPhone because of the way it looks AND the features even though the majority of those features are bettered by other older phones!
MoJoker

Also don’t always take the word of support centres as to whether a phone is good as they have a biased view since all they deal with is problems. If you ever ask a person who works on a helpdesk, for example for an isp, in most cases they would tell you to choose another company cos their’s have loads of problems, since that is all they deal with everyday! what they don’;t realise is the number of people who are not having problems.