To be honest and straight forward with you ..

No dont get it, wait for newer phones ..

N97 is buggy .. too buggy

When trying to capture a video of me writing some stuff on a paper, the camera could not focus and all is blurred ... I tried it many many times, the camera never focuses correctly during a video.

The normal image mode is fine, but the video is not .

The phone is amazing IF and ONLY IF it was polished better ... The N97 was not ready when it had been released.

Choice is yours

The posts where people say they are ditching nokia for the iphone like it's some kind of threat always make me laugh.  Feel like saying other brands do exist!

Personally i'll never touch an iphone until apple drop it's control over apps.  I want to be able to choose where I get mine from and not have some higher power with the ability to disable apps at will hanging over me.  Also really need to be able to run more than one third party app at a time.  Nicely built phone with a lovely interface but to me that's all it's got going for it.

Good luck with whatever choice you make, be it N97, iphone, X6 or something else!  The SE satio looks nice but it's let down by a very lousy battery. 

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psychomania wrote:

The posts where people say they are ditching nokia for the iphone like it's some kind of threat always make me laugh.  

 

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I lived in southern England from the early 90s until about three years ago. Every time there was a general election, loads of rich business moguls and celebrities used to go on record as saying that they'd quit the UK if Labour won. In 1997, the electorate of Britain called these peoples' bluffs, and still most of them are there 12 years into Labour rule...

If people are really fed up with Nokia, then most will find better alternatives than the iPhone.

I wouldn't advise it. The N97 appears to have many problems in practice even though it does have many wonderful features to recommend it. There is a problem with its loudspeaker which no one appears to know how to resolve. When you use the loudspeaker, you can hear the callers but they hear you as if you're "breaking up." This is a standard problem with many of the phones and no one can confirm for certain whether any of the software updates has or will solve the problem.

I'm in a similar situation to you as I own an N958GB which I've used for two years without a single issue, except a minor problem where the phone forgets new words you teach it when writing texts and where it sometimes uses wrong choices for predictive even though you correct it. Irritating but hardly deal breaking. I'm looking to change my phone too but the N97 continues to be so problematic I've given two handsets I bought back.

Wait until the problems are sorted out or buy a new model that doesn't have as many issues.

I would definitely say yes.

I've had mine for 10 weeks now and unlike a lot of others here I don't seem to have had real problems but as previously said forums are generally biased towards the negative.

A couple of minor niggles which did not bother me but updating to v20 has sorted all out and now it feels like a really good, complete phone.