Ok, so many detailed and well writen reviews are here so what I'm going to do is tell you my personal experience with this phone that I've been using for a month and a half now.
When I first got the phone, I had a very HARD time with it restarting by itself when using the Internet or when using more than 2 applications at a time. Within a Nokia forum I found out that it was because of the firmware that the phone came with (not totally tested I guess) and that was why I almost threw it to the wall more than one time, as I was sick of having a brand new phone that restarted itself every time I used it.
Thanks to that forum, I found a way to go around and manually fix the problem and it was really solved. Then came the firmware update and finally the phone was working fine using Nokia factory configurations (not a manual fix).
About the good stuff on this phone: it was made to work as a little computer on your hands, which is great since it has several applications (not so many) to work with and customize it. The Internet browsing it IS like you were seating on your on PC/laptop, if you go to youtube, or facebook or amazon, etc, you will not enter the "mobile" sites but to the actual site.
When making a call, I've had several volume issues, I've took the volume to the limit and if I'm in a noisy environment, I have a hard time hearing the other person. Even worse is the speaker phone, I really don't know why, since the stereo speakers sound great if you play music or videos, but not when using it for a call (lack of volume).
The video quality is amazing, I actually connected my phone to my LCD TV and watched a couple of widescreen movies. The music player is nice too, I haven't used playlists but the phone itself categorize the music by 4 categories that are very useful, most of all the "never played" category.
The keyboard, well, it is nice, but as many others had said, you have to get used to the space bar on the right side, not in the middle. The keyboard also may get slided accidentally when handling the phone to take a photo. About the camera, it works pretty cool to, it has several settings that are useful. I can't comment more on this since I did not buy the phone because of the camera, I don't really "use" it like some others. In addtion, I haven't found out how to copy and paste when browsing, since you cannot use the pencil to "select" text then copy and paste it elsewhere.
About disk space, touchscreen usage and resolution, this is where this phone starts to be a competition to the iphone and so many other phones. 32GB is enough space to put my favorite music and movies, I can't say applications since there aren't so many apps for maemo yet. The touchscreen is beautiful, the 4 different workspaces make the phone very interesting, since you may customize one for business, one for fun/media, one for internet related stuff and another one for whatever you may like.
Personally, I like to have custom ringtones for several contacts, but Im still unable to do this with this phone... :(
Now, even that the phone is beautiful, fast and very useful, what I still don't like is the size, weight and grip of it. Don't take me wrong, I was not expecting a lightweight phone with all the features it has, BUT, this is way to heavy and bulky for me and that is one more reason for me to rate it 3 stars (IT IS OK).
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