Day one – First experiences with the Nokia N97 mini
Today was my first day with the Nokia N97.
The first thing that strikes is that the widgets are very useful when u have mobile internet.
Unfortunately, I don’t have an unrestricted mobile internet connections (I have 15 free internet sessions a month. Every time it reconnects, it uses a session), so I only update my widgets and E-Mail when I’m at home.
The phone is quite fast and responsive. But even when the phone doesn’t bug or isn’t slow, the animations aren’t always that fluent, especially when u scroll kinetic*.
The screen is resistive*, that means you have to ‘press’ on the screen to select an option.
The device feels very solid (thanks to the bronze backplate and bronze border around the screen), and even the keyboard doesn’t ‘wobble’ or anything like that.
The phone connects perfectly with iSync on Snow Leopard over bluetotth, I was perfectly able to sync my calendar and contacts
But I wasn’t able to connect it trough USB in Windows 7 with the newest OVI suite.. strange. I’ll try to clean windows and try it again.
At school, it got some attention of classmates and friends. Even some girls said the phone looks awesome (I mean girls who don’t care about os, camera, gps, and other features), so I think Nokia did a great job about the design of the phone.
I think the OS isn’t meant to run with a touchscreen from the start of the development (like the iPhone OS or Maemo), like sometimes you have to double-click an item to select it (first you select it, then you confirm your choice).
You can switch the screen from landscape to portrait, and vice versa, anywhere in the os.
The keyboard is really awesome to text, there is enough space between the keys, so you won’t accidentally press 2 buttons or more.
* Clearance of some Jargon
Kinetic scrolling: Scrolling through items by sliding the whole menu up or down (just like an iPhone/iPod Touch, to be clear 
)
Resistive screen: A screen u have to ‘press in’. So you can use any object to operate the phone.
Capacitive screen: A screen operated by touching it with a conductor (The human body for ex).
nice gsm!!!