Hello!
I've been reading this forum for some time, and thought I'd join and contribute. I've had an N97 Mini since Jan, bought SIM Free and used on my UK Three Contract.
I have to report that, apart from some minor irritations (and the usual moans about the quality of signal from my provider) I'm really happy with the phone! My wife has an HTC phone, and I don't find that my Nokia is inferior at all. The Symbian software has its odd ways, but so does Android, and the HTC does things that I find irritating... She also uses an iPod touch, and it drives me to distraction. It's only selling point that I can find is that there is some top quality software available for the iPhone.
I do wish that Nokia's browser was more like Opera Mobile (but then, I've tried Opera and can't get the text to wrap and fit on the screen when I enlarge the font), and the Messaging program handled e-mails better (and I've tried some other programs including Emoze and Gmail, and have returned to the native client because it is integrated with the phone and the Homescreen widgets more).
My biggest gripe is actually with the way that everyone makes Apps for the iPhone, but no-one seems to be doing anything for Symbian. For example. I want to edit Google Docs on the phone, but QuickOffice haven't extended their Connect product for Symbian yet. I resent the way that there is "an app for that", but not for MY phone...!
Anyway, before I try to fix the minor quibbles by asking for advice from readers of this forum, I thought I'd register my happiness with my phone - no crashes, no resets, no "that's it, Nokia, I'm getting an Android next"! I can't imagine wanting to replace my N97 Mini for some time.
GJD