N97 – Tainted Love – Forgiven but not Forgoten – A Little Rant
Posted by MickyFin in EDITORIALThe many of you who know me from twitter, Nokiausers.net, or here will know full well that I have had my fair share of problems with my Nokia N97, resulting in countless hard resets, formats blah blah blah, but today, my N97 has let me down once again, and this time, its the final straw.
I have given my N97 its fair share of chances too. Why have I given it so many chances? I wanted to love it, I really did, I do love its form factor, but its now let me down once too often, and frankly, I’ve had enough now, and thought I would share a spooky experience i had earlier when my N97 started acting up.
Earlier today, I was connected to my White N97-1 with my Nokia BH-604 Bluetooth stereo headset, listening to my favorite tunes, when my N97 started becoming so slow, and laggy through the menu’s, it eventually froze on me, although it had continued to play my music, and this is where it gets real spooky,
Music player set to randomly choose songs as my default setting choice, after the freeze, music play stopped for around 30 seconds, I still kept my headset on, monitoring how long this freeze would take, my N97 decided to play Depeche Mode, "Tainted Love". If you actually listen to the lyrics of this song, they can pretty well cover my feelings for my once loved N97, so much so, its uncanny.
Then the next song came started to play, a sign maybe? No kidding, the next song was "Forgiven, but not Forgotten" by the Cores. When my own Nokia shows me signs like this, what does one do? I have already had to remove the battery twice today due freezes, and not wanting to go down the resetting, and formatting route again. I have lost count at the times I have done this before, and its really once too often for me now. I have given my N97 a damn good fair share of my patients, but with those running thin over the last few days, today was the final straw, and I have decided to sell it. What will I get next I hear you ask? We shall see.
It’s such a crying shame, it really is. The form-factor of the N97 is amazing, with it’s hinge mechanism being one of beauty, and superb design, but a combination of stretching S60 5th Edition to Touch, an under powered CPU, tied with insufficient Phone Memory, and RAM, the N97 is like a Ferrari on the outside, but with an Austin Mini 950cc engine inside.
I have Forgiven Nokia for the sheer oversight of this flawed Flagship Nokia handset, the N97, but hell, I have not forgotten. The sad thing is, I’m not alone in this thinking either, as I read almost daily on twitter from N97 owners who feel outdone, robbed, lead down the garden path, being sold something that clearly does not do as promised. (Take the Transitions of the widgets in the Original N97 Promotional video below for example).
Nokia have lost a lot of loyal followers during the N97 transition, with new firmware updates being released for the flagship, trying to fix something that cannot be fixed with no amount of firmware fixes, its flogging a dead horse.!
This leads me to something that I would love Nokia to implement, and at least show the end uers, consumers, and Nokia fans that they do care about us, and offer some kind of discount on the next Nokia Flagship device, be it a Symbian^4, or MeeGo device, how difficult could it be to offer people a discount? Not that difficult really in my opinion, all they would have to do, is ask for proof of purchase, which would be simple if purchased from Nokia directly.
Do you own/have owned an N97? If you do/have, please share your experiences with it, and please let us know if you are/were a normal user, or a power user.
Tell me what problems you have had with your N97, what lets you down the most with the device, what you love about it too would be useful to know. Please also share your experiences with any hardware related issues you have experienced too, camera lens scratches, poor GPS etc, and if you successfully got these repaired under warranty.
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