Nokia N97

Announced November 2008

Nokia N97 phone fits somewhere between being a smartphone and laptop. This phone is a product built on a concept of rock solid mobile principles, Nokia innovations, and tangible new technologies. This phone has a 3.5-inch touchscreen display and full QWERTY keyboard with 640 x 360 pixel display, multiple sensors, enhanced memory functions and high-performance processing. This phone measures 117 x 55 x 16mm.

The mobile phone has social location function that combines A-GPS technology with an electronic compass which allows finding out where it is. Fans of social networking could find this service particularly useful, as it will permit their friends and contacts to be aware of where they are as and when the application is activated.

Nokia N97 has a 5.0 megapixel camera with autofocus and dual-LED flash, a Carl Zeiss Tessar lens and geo tagging. Video capture resolution is 640 x 480 pixels at 30 frames per second. Recorded video clips can be played back using the N97's TV-out port. It has Ovi integration with the help of this that photos can be uploaded as soon as you take them.

The Nokia N97 has A-GPS technology, and which comes with the digital compass. This facility can be used with the Nokia Maps application or one of Nokia's city guides. You can also use google maps but it will cost you extra. The new version of Maps adds with a PC and comes with a satellite view, 3D view of major landmarks, camera alerts, traffic information and integration into Ovi service.

It is housed with media player which can supports MP3, WMA and AAC formats as well as there is MPEG4, WMV and Flash video format up to 30 frames per second in addition with audio output is via a standard 3.5mm socket. It has internal memory 32 GB which is impressive and can be extended till 16 GB by using microSD card. It comes with Bluetooth and USB 2.0 connectivity. Nokia N97 has battery back up of 5 hours talktime and 16 days standby time on 3G or 4.5 hours of video playback or 37 hours of music playback. This is a quad-band GSM phone with tri-band HSDPA support plus 802.11 b and WiFi.

Features
  • Camera Resolution :
  • 5 Megapixel
  • Size :
  • 117.2 x 55.3 x 15.9 mm
  • Weight :
  • 150 g
  • Display :
  • 3.5 Inch
  • MP3 :
  • Yes
  • FM :
  • Yes
  • Memory :
  • 32 GB storage, 128 MB RAM
  • Browser :
  • WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML, RSS feeds
  • Bluetooth :
  • Yes, v2.0 with A2DP
  • GPRS :
  • Class 32
  • 3G :
  • HSDPA, 3.6 Mbps
  • Standby :
  • Up to 432 h (2G) / 408 h (3G)
  • Talktime :
  • Up to 9 h 30 min (2G) / Up to 6 h (3G)