[failsafe_ade]

Hi All,

Wonder how many of us N97 users out there.

I personally think, because we were badly let down by NOKIA's N97 both in terms of software and after care we should get some sort of discount on new windows phone.

I pre-ordered my N97 a month before on a £45 contract for 18months .. now God knows how I have spent that time.

I swore that after the experience I will never buy a Nokia again and do everything in my power to dissuade others.

So, Nokia if you are reading and you care, please right what you have wronged. give us some sort of discount on windows phone or at least let us try it out for a month to change our opinion of you.

Looking forward to what other have to say...

Cheerio

failsafe_ade

[jimmyireland]

This will not happen! sorry...

[rdcinhou]

Nokia has "written off" N97 owners, so there is no expectation that they would do ANYTHING for us...updated firmware, GPS antenna replacement to a proper length, etc.

Besides the Lumia are NOT smartphones, so they don't really replace everything the N97 was intended to do (i.e. the difference between a "tool" and a "toy").

Apart from the GPS antenna being inadequately sized/designed/connected, my N97 does rather well.  I have added a program which allows me to reclaim memory and it helps me manage my N97 and has improved performance.  Nokia won't let me mention it here but it is a pay program (well-written) and it has a picture of a red knife as it's icon.

[failsafe_ade]

Dude, I know it is a long shot...

But there are people like us who have been die hard nokia fan and owned a Nokia most of their adult life.

For Nokia In the end it will come down to "throwing good money after bad" which I my view could be sensible if one could win hard core fans like me.

I am a "techie" and people around me trust my opinion on these things. I could probably get them 30 more customers just by recommending them phones to my company.

But at the mo, I say to people "Dont even touch with a barge pole" .... Sorry Nokia that is how badly burnt I am.

[rdcinhou]

I too will never recommend a Nokia device after many years of using nothing but Nokia.

My N97 is going to be retired this weekend after way too many GPS problems, a badly scratched camera lens (even after getting their "factory fix" for this problem!), and now too many spontaneous reboots.  The rebooting problem in the AT&T network is well-documented and is part of the reason why they are no longer carrying Nokia 3G phones.  Something about the switching in the network causes Nokia 3G phones to reboot on-their-own frequently--interrupting calls and running down the battery.

Even looking at Nokia's new Lumia series--the VALUE that you get compared to other manufacturers is non-competitive.  Nokia prices themselves out of the market at sometimes TWICE the cost of comparable handsets in the upper end.

What bothers me the most about the initial reviews of the Lumia is that the main selling point was the word "pretty".  Nokia's own promotional video doesn't really show the phone in action--instead you see a big composite picture wall with moving shots--they MUST be trying to hide how disappointing the phone really is.

I just wished that I'd recognized the lack of real value in the N97 when most of the reviews focused on the "flip up revealing" keyboard and not on speed, features, reliability, etc.