Nokia N97

Nokia N97

FEATURES:-

General 2G Network: GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
3G Network: HSDPA 900 / 1900 / 2100
HSDPA 850 / 1900 / 2100 - American version
Size and Dimensions:117.2 x 55.3 x 15.9 mm, 88 cc
Weight: 150 g
Display Type: TFT resistive touchscreen, 16M colors
Size: 360 x 640 pixels, 3.5 inches
- Proximity sensor for auto turn-off
- Accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate
- Full QWERTY keyboard
- Handwriting recognition
Sound: Alert types,Vibration; MP3 ringtones
Speakerphone: Yes, with stereo speakers
- 3.5 mm audio jack
Memory Phonebook: Practically unlimited entries and fields, Photocall
Call recordsL: Detailed, max 30 days
Internal: 32 GB storage, 128 MB RAM
Card slot microSD (TransFlash), up to 16GB, buy memory
Data GPRS: Class 32
HSCSD: Yes
EDGE: Class 32
3G HSDPA, 3.6 Mbps
WLAN: Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g, UPnP technology
Bluetooth: Yes, v2.0 with A2DP
Infrared port: No USB: Yes, v2.0 microUSB
Camera Primary: 5 MP, 2592x1944 pixels, Carl Zeiss optics, autofocus, LED flash, video light
Features: Geo-tagging
Video: Yes, VGA@30fps
Secondary: Yes, VGA@15fps
Features OS: Symbian OS v9.4, Series 60 rel. 5
CPU: ARM 11 434 MHz processor
Messaging: SMS, MMS, Email, Push Email, IM
Browser: WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML, RSS feeds
Radio: Stereo FM radio with RDS, Visual radio; FM transmitter
Games: Yes, N-gage + downloadable
Colors: White, Black
GPS: Yes, with A-GPS support; Nokia Maps
Java: Yes, MIDP 2.1
- Digital compass
- MP3/WMA/WAV/eAAC+ music player
- WMV/RealVideo/MP4 video player
- TV-out
- Voice command/dial
- Document viewer (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF)
- Video and photo editor
- Flash Lite 3
- T9
Battery:
Standard battery, Li-Ion 1500 mAh (BP-4L)
Stand-by: Up to 432 h (2G) / 408 h (3G)
Talk time: Up to 9 h 30 min (2G) / Up to 6 h (3G)
Music play: Up to 40 h

The good: The Nokia N97 features a touch screen, a full QWERTY keyboard, and 32GB of internal flash memory. The smartphone also offers 3G support, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and GPS and comes equipped with a 5-megapixel camera.

The bad: The N97's touch user interface isn't well integrated and can be inconsistent and confusing, especially compared with the competition. We would have preferred a capacitive touch screen instead of resistive.

The bottom line: While the Nokia N97 is packed with features and offers the freedom of an unlocked phone, its clunky touch interface, sky-high price tag, and outdated operating system make it hard to recommend when there are better touch-screen smartphones on the market.

REVIEWS:-

Even still, it feels like it would be a while before you did that with the Nokia N97, such is its build quality.

The chrome rim around the whole handset is a nice (if fingerprint attracting) touch, and the whole thing feels solid and stable in the hand, and the massive internal 32GB memory (which can be supplemented up to 64GB with a microSD card) gave us the feeling we had a powerhouse on our hands.

It seems a little chunky, which is strange considering it's only 15.9mm thick.

You obviously have to accept a fair amount of depth to the handset if you're after a QWERTY keyboard, but there's a notion that this still feels a little large and creates something of a protrusion from the average pocket.

In the box there are the usual suspects, albeit devoid of the 3.5mm adaptor, which is a lovely reminder that you're not going to have to fork out for loads of replacements in the future.

The new charger with the USB connector is obviously included but if you're like most others on the planet you'll have around 50 legacy Nokia chargers and there's an adaptor for both the old and the older chargers in the box too, which is a really nice touch.