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So, finally we got a replacement phone today!

Nokia N97

We are still exploring, but here are the first few impressions.

• The built is excellently sturdy, very good materials and not the standard plastic-like body seen in other N-Series
• The sliding QWERTY keyboard to the left and then upward at 45Deg, is simply just stunning — haven’t seen one that slides as elegant as this before!
• N97 is with polished-look and glossy surface; the buttons are minimalistic and therefore very elegant. The 5mp-camera button is carefully designed so that it doesn’t protrude out from the body like in other phones and to snap a photo is very snappy indeed.
• The proximity next to the earpiece makes sure that the touch-screen area is automatically deactivated to prevent accidental touch (of course when you press the phone on your cheek) — great thought!
• The menu is simple — we are still exploring this part but I can see some great stuffs such as good looking bookmarks, ample entries for contacts (i think about 5000 entries, about the same numbers with the active voters in Tambunan hehehe … ), and the contact menu itself has a contextual menu that provides shotcuts to almost everything you wanted to do with the person i.e. send SMS, MMS, profile, call and so on — neat stuff, as expected.
• The main page (home menu) is cool — see for yourself.
  

So, bye-bye HTC, welcome N97! Will share more things soon.