THIS NEED'S SORTING NOKIA! [N97]

since i first seen this phone on a youtube video about 8 month's ago i was amazed at how stylish/powerful this phone was, now 8 month's later i'm on my second handset! my first one decided to lock up so bad i had to take it back to the shop and replace it, the lady at phones4u said she'd had 10 back within the first day of sale...GO NOKIA!
from reading this forum there's several issue's with the "flagship device" that need sorting! feel free to add your personal experience's with this topic.
1: widget's loading at "start-up"  seem's to take forever! thing's like facebook, a.p new's accuweather and bbci player they all take FOREVER to load!
2:facebook application has bin a bug since i switched my device on, im sure very N97 user's had a "script error" weather it's to restart their handset or can't directly upload picture's to their profile this need's sorting.
3:camera len's getting scratched im sure their allready aware of this but the n97 has a technical design fault where the len's shutter's collect's dust particle's which gather between the len's and the shutter, when slid this leave's deep scratches in the hanset's camera.
4:unable to view photo's that have been taken by the user, a lot of the forum's have been using their hanset's to take picture's , once taken  the user cant find them in their "photo's"  they can only find them in "file manager"
5:multiple app's is another issue i feel wrong with the n97, i know there's no update to solve this soon as the N97 had poor RAM  but with widget's on the homescreen and then streaming music wirelessly through bluetooth i get a lot of pauses in the music and the phone lock's up.
6:home media server is one thing i loved about my N95 8B and when looking through the N97 it's completely dissapeared! this could be sent in a future firmware update but what a good thing to leave off the handset!
7: 32GB storage is great for my files, picture's music adobe file's vid's but by the time i had 15 of the 32GB filled the phone was ridiculously slow! if ANY user use's the phone to it's full 32GB potential then please write how long it take's to load file's app etc.
 8: charging the N97 is another issue,allthough i havn't experienced this some user's place the phone on charge using the wall charger and somhow the hanset starts charging and then stop's allthoug the phone is still connected.
9:network coverage is poor on the n97 regardless of being in duel mode OR gsm, i know this all depend's on your provider aswell but i have the N97 on vodafone and an N95 on the same network and somehow my n95 allways has more coverage!
10:backlight not activating this was a problem with the N95 but when you slide the locked phone into the QWERTY keyboard  the phone unlock's but the backlight doesnt light up!
feel free to add more to this post i havnt posted on this forum much but i'd like to get a few N97 user's to write their personal issue's on this post and hopefully nokia may read this and help all these use's with a £500 handset which has too many bug's! im aware it took near on 70 update's to get my n95 where it is today but i feel like the N97 shipped as a BETA and this suck's!
oh and nokia i favoured this phone over the iphone 3GS not a great word to mention on this forum i know but being honest i'm kind of regretting it allready.

The problem we have here is that all your problems have been experienced and previously posted by other users.  Could you not have added your comments to an existing thread?  This forum is getting so bunged up with repeat threads over problems it is getting beyond a joke.
By the way, go easy on your apostrophes, it'll save you a lot of typing if you don't use so many! ;-)
Regardless of my comments above, I sympathise with your difficulties.  I haven't really had any trouble at all with my current N97 9although the first one had problems so got it swapped) so to be fair, I am quite happy.  Yes, some things niggle me but we have to wait until the next firmware release which is supposed to be late Q3 or early Q4, so not long now.  Hang in there.
Message Edited by matt_t on 12-Aug-2009 04:03 PM
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