The N97 mini can on occasion also be unresponsive when selecting an application and our unit crashed a few times. Also onboard is aGPS which keep you on track with Nokia's free Maps that boasts turn-by-turn voice guided navigation. It's also easy to configure your personal email like Gmail and Yahoo! Complimenting the host of connectivity options is the great variety of office and business functionality on offer, including QuickOffice for viewing Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents, an Adobe PDF document viewer as well as a Zip manager.
For this you need to download QuickOffice Premier 6 which will set you back about R The space button is still located in the same funny position, aligned on the right, as opposed to being centred like on your PC keyboard. Nevertheless it is still a joy to use and the directional pad that Nokia cut from the N97 hardly goes amiss. The N97 mini makes use of the same resistive touch-screen with a x resolution, but the display real-estate has been reduced from 3.
Though the more compact hardware and smoother user experience are welcome improvements, we can't help but feel this is what the original Nokia N97 should have been in the first place. The Nokia N97 mini really is a smaller version of the original N If some users found the N97 too large, then the N97 mini is surely the perfect size.
Naturally, Nokia has had to compromise and the result is a slightly smaller 3. We don't feel this affects the overall user experience, and we prefer the more compact dimensions of the N97 mini.
A minor complaint is the poorly designed, sunken power button — it often requires the dig of a fingernail to press. The Nokia N97 mini retains the flip-up screen design, and the angle of the display makes it ideal for multimedia playback.
Unfortunately, the touch screen is resistive rather than capacitive, which means the N97 isn't as responsive as smartphones like Apple's iPhone. That being said, the N97 mini's screen feels better than its predecessor's and is responsive to most finger presses.
Build quality is similar, with a sturdy and smooth plastic frame available in black, brown and white colours.
The main highlight is once again the QWERTY keyboard — it's well spaced, the soft blue backlighting is impressive and the N97's annoyingly positioned navigational pad has been replaced by a more effective arrow pad situated on the bottom right. It isn't the most comfortable keypad we've used on a phone though, and it does have a steep learning curve. The N97 mini runs the same Symbian operating system albeit with a software update and has largely the same features as its bigger counterpart.
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