Nokia N97 – the latest "mobile computer" from Nokia – Review

Nokia N97 – the latest "mobile computer" from Nokia – ReviewYou get the latest "mobile computer" from Nokia in “Nokia N97,” which is recently in the media spotlight. In smartphone from Nokia’s Nseries – Nokia N97, you definitely get one of the most high-tech gadgets up to now.

Nokia N97 sports 3.5 inch sliding tilt TFT LCD touchscreen, with higher resolution of 640 X 360 pixels, 16:9 aspect ratio, and up to 16.7 million colours. With N97’s 5.0 megapixels featuring f/2.8 Carl Zeiss Tessar lens and dual LED flash, you can capturing clear images and DVD quality videos anytime day or night. The mobile computer offers you fast, accurate and easy slide-out QWERTY keypad for typing and sending countless number emails and doing a lot of other typing works comfortably.

The successor of N96 – Nokia N97 weighs 150g. The physical size of the mobile computer N97 is 117.2 × 55.3 × 15.9 mm (18.25 mm at camera area). N97 runs Symbian OS 9.4 with Nokia S60 Fifth Edition UI.  It comes with single CPU, 434 MHz ARM11 clocking at 434 MHz and 128 MB RAM. The phone is powered by PowerVR SGX graphics supporting OPENGL ES 2.0.

Nokia N97 offers you internal storage of 32 GB; you can expand the storage capacity of the phone up to 48 GB with micro SDHC card. Hence in N97, you get massive space to store your huge music and video collection, along with other files. The audio format supported by the N97 are – MP3, AAC, eAAC, eAAC+, WMA; the video formats supported by the N97 include MPEG-4 SP, H.264, RealVideo, WMV9, Flash Video; the ringtone formats supported by the N97 include MIDI, AMR (NB-AMR), WAV, MP3, AAC2.

For connectivity, Nokia N97 features WLAN 802.11b/g with UPnP, USB 2.0, Bluetooth 2.0, and TV-out (PAL/NTSC). With fast WLAN and HSDPA connections (higher 7.2 Mbps speed), you can enjoy full might of Internet. Supporting EDGE, 3G and GPRS, the N97 offers compatible with Wi-Fi 802.11b/g networks. The N97 gadget offers you wider connectivity through – MicroSD, MicroUSB, and Usb Mass Storage.

Other specialties that you get in Nokia N97 include 3.5 mm headphone jack, Nokia Maps 3.0 Touch, Digital Compass, Document Viewer, Nokia Photo Browser, FM transmitter, Stereo FM radio with RDS, Visual radio, Built-in GPS receivers, Ovi Share, Ovi Contacts, Widgets for connecting social networking sites, such as Facebook, Twitter and others, and Handwriting Recognition Feature. Additionally, you can download widgets, ringtones, images, videos, games from Ovi Store.

Nokia N97 comes equipped with BP-4L 3.7V 1500 mAh battery, which offers you talk time of up to 9.5 hours (GSM) and 6.0 hours (WCDMA); standby time of up to 18 days (GSM) and17 days (WCDMA); and music playback time of up to 40 hours (Offline Mode).
 
The main competitor of Apple iPhone 3G S, Palm Pre, and HTC Dream, Nokia N97 offers Skype VOIP Support. The networks supported by Nokia N97 include HSDPA (3.5G),Quad band GSM / GPRS / EDGE GSM 850, GSM 900, GSM 1800, GSM 1900. You can buy Nokia N97 for around Rs. 36,000.