The Nokia N97 Mini Appreciation Post

                                   

          Nokia N97 Mini (White)                                                           Nokia N97 Mini (Black)

I think the reason why I like this "polished", social-focused design of Nokia smartphone a lot is because it seems to blend a friendly looking chassis and ui (rounded corners, elegant white and green ui theme, flat yet whimsical icons and lively at-a-glance information about friends and your world) with a robust and utilitarian, even gadgety feel (see the abundance of ports, flashy cameras and of course, the omni-present full-sized qwerty keyboard).

The N97 Mini is (I think?) a revision to the N97 and I think that the keypad area was significantly improved and beat out the previous model's directional pad for navigation.

Not speaking from personal experience by the way-- just speculation as I do not actually own any of those devices. I do own an E7 though and might make a blog on that later.

One more thing I want to mention (and miss on the E7 that I own) is that, the version of pre-symbian^x S60 that the N97 ran seems more straightforward to use than its younger siblings when it comes to setting up the home screen in a beautiful way. They should've kept the option to snap your widgets into a rectangular grid instead of having squircles all over!  

  

Nokia N97 For Reference :)