I still have this phone, I was so hyped when it was announced and bought it day one. The camera was really great for that time, felt like a great upgrade for me going from Nokia 6600 to N97!

I love these Flashbacks! They always show me what I miss in today's phones: - Expandable Storage - Removable Battery - Compact devices - No Notches or Punch holes - Headphone Jacks

The only thing that sank Nokia was its software. NOKIA N series was a huge success like N72.

S60 was such a beast at its era compared to java based sony Ericssons, but it clearly cannot compete with iOs

The interview was talking about how Nokia didn’t put enough RAM in the device to run apps. At this time, all apps had to sequence off the internal memory, and the software “fix” was to move as much of the OS to the exterior memory (not the expandable memory as this was different) as possible to make room to keep applications from either crashing or having an error when trying to installing them. This is why the N97 mini existed.

I had this phone back in 2010 and I remember throughly enjoying the device! It of course was no iphone killer because of the resistive touchscreen and limited apps, but having a fullblown qwerty keyboard was a premium luxury back then and I loved it!

When the news hit that an MS exec was steering Nokia into the Windows Mobile platform, I knew this was gonna break their neck.

Still having this one Was using it back in 2010

Bought in 2009. Still have this! 😍 KILLER Title!😂👍🏻

Will always have a special place in my heart 💜 dad's last phone before I lost him 💜

But we gotta admit, it was waaaay more exciting before when Nokia ruled the land (Europe and Asia)

I remember really liking this phone because it had an actual keyboard. It was only when my friend showed me his iPhone that I realised that a whole new smart phone era had begun.

great topic and enjoyable to watch through!! well done, very appreciated

Loved this phone. 32gb was a luxury at the time, had a perfectly working nes / mega drive emulator which was great to use on the keyboard and the built in FM transmitter was a bonus. Truly a great phone, shame mine fell to bits.

Excellent, fun and informative video. More of these👍

This form factor should come back in a phone with Desktop mode.

Cool series 😍, thank you will and gsmarena team.

This series sould be done more frequently

I paid a lot for mine - then the camera cover scratched the lens and ruined all photos. It was fixed under warranty and I sold it going back to a 5800 XM.

i still have the N96 when N97 came out and i really wanted it at that time. but something was off about it so i didn't bought it. a few years later i jumped into the touchscreen bandwagon with the samsung galaxy note 1, and the rest is history. i still keep my N96 though but it's already broken. a very memorable phone. one of the best i ever had.

Can you cover Blackberry and Palm as well? Was really excited about the Palm Pre back in the day. The Sony Ericsson P800 to P1 were such cool phones as well.

You tell the story so well, thanks for the history lesson, although I lived through it I didn't realize it was do bad but now it's obvious

They have Maemo OS and MeeGo OS that were really capable to compete with android and ios at that time. But instead of that, they ditched everything and went with Windows Mobile.

Please make more of this. ❤️

Great video! Just one thing I personally disagree with; I had the N97 Mini, and that physical keyboard was a joy to type on. It was way faster and more accurate than even on today's best smartphones (currently I have Galaxy S21).

The Nokia N800 was a true iPhone killer in the shadows but they never produced enough of them and barely promoted them. It was nothing short of amazing but meant to be a niche browsing device. From a series of N-series "internet tablets" (this was pre-iPad so it wasn't a well defined term yet) debian based linux distro called Maemo, for the N900 the biggest change was that they added phone capability but it was actually designed to be a browsing device (it had Firefox on it and was capable of rendering Flash). Which accidentally made an amazing smartphone experience! The biggest mistake was that their next CEO never properly pursued it's follow up: the Nokia N9 with Meego, the successor of Maemo, as they decided to focus smartphone efforts on Windows Phone (and cheap entry level "Asha" smartphones on Symbian).

I owned Nokia N97 Mini back then. Loved its keyboard opening, slide it and it opens up a different world!

I guess the only Nokia that could have competed with iPhone and Androids, before the windows phone devices was the N9. Even today it still looks so fresh, different and interesting. It's really a shame Nokia ditched Meego and went with Micro$oft...

Best analyser, no drama no overacting only quality information and tech news

Enjoyed the video. Nicely done.

i remember going to school and watch movies with this phone in high school 😅. actually it was a great phone in it's time.

As an Oasis fan, I was immediately suprised when I saw Will wearing an Oasis t-shirt. It wasn't something I would've expected, especially as he's American 😂 well done!

Liked the Flashbacks more of these please i had a Nokia N95 back in the day

Really appreciate the info!

I had a 5800 XpressMusic and love it, specially the touch keyboard. Seams odd, but with T9 enabled it was awesome to write really fast..and the resistive touch was very good to, nowadays it would suck, but when it launched most websites did not have a mobile version..the stylus made easy work of that. The only big issue with it was the apparent lack of build quality, it felt cheap.

5:58 that's what really killed Nokia. If they partnered with Android instead of windows, things might be a lil different today.

I had my N91 back in 2006 when it was released. It has the most beautiful sound even up to this day.

Omg... I still have this in my collection, still can be used and still look like new.

Had it, loved it. Absolutely always loved symbian. Had A LOT of nokias, loved the pureview cameras. Stil got 10 pureviews layin around. Nice vid 👌🏻

Man this phone felt so good. The earphones were just crazy high quality for that time!

I had this phone and I loved it. The keyboard was so good to use

Awesome content guys!

Thanks Bruh! I liked the review!

"N97 had FM receiver....." What about the FM transmitter?! That was pretty cool in car on those times!!

Man, GSM savage with the titles

Ditching GPU hardware acceleration on the S60v5 phones was a complete mistake for Nokia. The N95 had it, and allowed all those cool apps and 3D stuff. This was the time where Apple was impressing with the hardware abilities of their phones, and Nokia just said "nah" on the N97.

I was in high school when that phone came out. I always wanted N97 but couldn't afford one. Now I have a Samsung s23 ultra and when I got it the excitement was less than when I saw N97 for the first time in 2008 in the shop.

I loveddd this phone when I had it. Especially the fm receiver which was always a lifesaver whenever there was no aux available.

I had this one . It was great . Taught me so well

This was my first phone. The slide keyboard and camera were amazing

This and the Nokia N8 hold a really special place in my heart.

Like the Oasis T-shirt 👏

I agree that the software needed work but IMO it wasn't a "relic" like GSMarena touts. They even pointed out that Nokia did true multitasking way before iOS did. Years in fact. Hell iOS had a serious lack of customizability by the time the N97 arrived. The biggest issue its OS had a problem with is accessibility to devs. With iOS and Android, all you had to do was download a dev kit and you're off to the races. Developing for Symbian was convoluted at best. If Symbian was easier to develop then it might have given Nokia a fighting chance and have had time to fix the tangibles that needed to be fixed like the resistive touch screen and UI usability.

I loved N97 even bought it's successor the E7. I would still use the E7 if it has latest processor and Android. The sliding Keyboard was just out of this world.

Honestly I was never excited by an I phone. But the Nokia N series, boy! Although the software was basically the same for all Nokia devices at the time, but the quirky and mostly unique hardware design lent each device a unique character. Unfortunately the only N series devices I could own were the N73 Music Edition and the last model in the series, the N8. Have wonderful memories with both the devices. But I still regret not being able to own the N95. And also the 808 Pureview. Even though that wasn't technically a N series, but it was the virtual successor to the N8.

Dunno about nokia or iphone but that OASIS t shirt is just DOPE dude!

I had one of these, good camera and memory.

I remember when the n95 came out everybody was hyped

I almost forgot that I used to own N96 (the predecessor) back then. It was huge upgrade from N73 in terms of camera and display as well. Good ol days

Can you review the new mi pad 5 pro?

These series are what keeps me from dying ...

I had it for 1.5 year . Back in the days

I still have a working N97, E7 and a Lumia 1020 too. Although sadly they aren't the main phones I'm using right now.

This was my first smartphone and my first mobile phone also. I used it for 4 years and changed it for the Galaxy S4 that I am still using today!

Anybody remember the trojan horse Stephen Elop?? 🤣🤣

Love the T-shirt! 💪

Totally cool. This is a brilliant idea showing off old pre smartphone or just pred 2010 phones. Cause these days all phones are the same = big screen, big battery, ips or oled, and Android all the same.

This still is my most frustrating phone I ever owned. I was super hyped to get it, but once that screen touch function failed it was all downhill. Used to cry when touch didn't work, which was about 70% of the time. Was glad to get rid of it. Thanks for the memories. Haha

woow amazing king old is gold

That acting of “disappointment” at the last part lol

I was working in phone sales when this was released. This was an incredibly bad product, was riddled with issues so much that the major carrier here in Australia removed it from sale for large periods. This was Nokia's chance. Users were already tired of the iPhone. I often had customers coming into the store with cracked screens or batteries barely lasting a day and specifically asking about what Nokia had at the time, as they had fond memories of the N95 and other previous Nokias. Despite this, I couldn't in good faith sell them the N97 because of how bad it was. It was quite sad to witness Nokia's demise from there; however the smartphone era really steamed ahead without them.

I miss this phone. The way it slid up was so cool. All the kids in my class would always ask me about it.

Poco F1 in 2021 review. is it snapdragon 800 series can give same performance on a long run. & How many years does flagship processor run? It will be clear to decide whether we should go for redmi note 10 pro max or Poco x3 pro

Make that Lumia phone review. I had one back in the day 😌

Wait, what is the name of the intro track? 🤔 Does anybody know? I used to work at Amazon and that is the ringtone of the softphone...

I was a fan Symbian OS and the OVI 🥺

Fortunately I still have this nostalgic phone

Good review

There is something unique in the narrator's manner of speech. I like it.

my first phone back in 2012 it was a gameboy machine at the time, physical keyboard is sweet

Before going into the depts of Windows Mobile, please make a video about MeeGo and Nokia N9.

i owned this then upgraded to n900 afterwards. those were the days. love qwerty keyboards

Oohhh this is a good series

we got the same shirt Will! 🔥🔥🔥

Hey I finally see you guys on youtube I always end up on your site

Meego was way ahead of its time Stephen Elop is the reason for Nokia’s fall not N97,remember N97 had a better sibling with linux based OS Maemo like android and iOS which was later updated and dubbed Meego, that OS had gestures and always on display when android phones had capacitive touch keys and iphone had homebutton,although yes the gesture crown and os crown from back then goes to palm android,ios and many other platform just stole everything from them even the recent most magsafe on iphone 12 lol

One of my favorite phones of all times

Please do N93 , amazing phone back in 2006 for me , great camera for that time , and flex effect off the charts.

Looking at nseries I really love it, it like a cool phone at many range prices, I love now samsung do it too with the a series and m series, at least we got many option

Cover the SE X1 pls. The candy slide out of n97 just reminded me of that

I remember my terrible experience with the N97, I had to return it and get the HTC touch pro 2 which was my first smartphone running windows mobile.

Before the Microsoft - Nokia partnership, Nokia created the successor of the Symbian OS, the MeeGo OS (was Linux based). Sadly the partnership killed the MeeGo OS for the sake of the Windows OS (which ended in a disaster for Nokia Mobile).

Nokia from Giant to Ant and the Nokia CEO still said, "We did nothing wrong."

Is it possible to put another camera of high mp in infinix Hot 10i

LOVE THE SHIRT! GONNA LIVE FOREVER!!!

i still have the nokia N80, E71, E90, and another one that gripped just like this phone, the N86. the good old times..

Great Video.

Wooo nostalgic phone and old friend🤩😍🥰☺😚

I remember watching ads for this phone and thinking what ballers the people that owned these were. In my country it was crazy for anyone to purchase a phone as expensive as this one was.

The last fantastic Nokia phone i had ( and have ) was E6, i miss those days!