N97 mini hugely disappointing

Where do i begin...i'll try to be brief. I know the vast majority of my complaints have probably been raised on numerous occassions but i feel the need to vent myself. Just as a bit of background about myself I have spent six years in various technical support roles for both Orange and T-Mobile Uk so would rate myself as 'reasonably clued up' when it comes to using a handset (probably why i'm so frustrated). The issues so far are in no particular order; error messages (memory full, close some applications and try again) when all i want to do is read a text message, and having to pull the battery out to fix. Fluctuating signal AAAAAAArgh!!! between full 3.5g and unable to make a voice call in my own home in the same spot. If i didn't have WLAN access the phone would be unusable for anything other than poor quality voice calls. I am also now unable to use my phone at work. Unable to remove unwanted unused apps Qik, Boingo, Joikuspot etc. The phone is MY property, its not on lease and I should be able to do what i want with it. Email...unreliable delivery (i once got mails two days late) and entire days mails going missing from my phone despite still being in my gmail account. Nothing appears to be easy to do. I foolishly traded in my T-Mobile G1 for this pile of garbage and despite being an eighteen month old model it was still streaks ahead of the N97mini. I could add shortcuts to my home page, on the mini i can only add widgets (if they are available) which drain my battery in a day (or less), The integration of my gmail account was obviously seemless and trouble free. The apps store for the G1 was superb and reasonably priced wheras the ovi store is lacking in content and overpriced (£25 for a dictionary, what a joke). The touch screen was a dream to use, as was the internal browser, and I never felt the need to change it for anything else. The mini's browser is awful, slow and unable to display most of the much publicised flash content (apart from rolling adverts which is nice) and you cant even download flash video content to real player to play seperately. If you get a message saying to need to upgrade your flash player you are taken to the adobe site which doesnt recognise the handset...AAAAArgh...and I cant set my default browser as the far superior opera5 beta 2 (which I urge you to try)...I could go on...general rant over, an official response from Nokia would be nice, but I won't hold my breath...

hi there could i ask how you resolved the problem of when it says memory full close some applictions please because i am having the same problem and tryed everything.
many thanks joe
Message Edited by littleclueless on 06-Jan-2010 08:56 PM

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