In light of Symbian-Guru shutting its doors, and Symbian 
falling behind Android in market share, I thought I should add my two cents about Symbian. I own a Nokia N97 which I got about a year ago. My critique of Symbian will be focused primarily on my experience with the N97 since I do not own any other Symbian powered devices. My intention is not to bash Nokia or Symbian, but rather to point out areas that need improvement. Nokia has done many things right with the N97. For example, the resistive screen is very responsive and the best I’ve used. The TFT screen works great in direct sunlight and the camera records in nHD resolution for a great viewing experience on the phone.
However, the N97 has be plagued by a ridiculous amount of problems and issues from day one. I’ve seen multiple complaints about performance and transitions. Nokia’s ads show the device very smoothly and with very nice transition effects. In reality the OS is anything but smooth, with noticeable lag when scrolling or launching applications; even auto screen rotation suffers from lag! The transitions amount to nothing more than the screen fading off and back on when you rotate the screen, yet somehow this pathetic excuse for a transition causes the system to run at a snail’s pace. I should note that Nokia has fixed most of the lag with it’s firmware updates. This is not to say that the OS is completely smooth now, but it is vastly superior to what I had to deal with in v10…
