Nokia N97 Mobile Phone Review - Slide Opening QWERTY Mobile With an Era of Talk Time

If conserving your battery life and skimping on your handset use is important to you, then the Nokia N97 could possibly the answer to your needs. The fantastic battery backup allows talk time of up to 9 h30 min (2G) and up to 6 h (3G).

If this isn’t enough to tickle your fancy, the internal 32GB memory and Wi-Fi support should make you smile.

Announced in November 2008 and released in June 2009, the Nokia N97 measures 117.2 x 55.3 x 15.9mm (88cc) in size and weighs in at 150g. While not the lightest, this is a nice looking phone which is available in two colours - black or white.

It has a number of excellent features, and comes area-specific models - one for use in America, and the other for everywhere else. On 2G, it works on GSM 850/900/1800/1900 and on 3G, supports HSDPA 900/1900/2100. The American version works on 3G on HSDPA 850/1900/2100.

The N97 exterior is pretty much in the Nokia shape and style, with this model featuring a TFT resistive touchscreen showing 16M colours. Displaying 360 x 640 pixels, it measures 3.5 inches and incorporates a proximity sensor for auto turn-off, an Accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate when viewing alternating landscape or portrait format, a full QWERTY keyboard and handwriting recognition.

It will alert you with either vibration or MP3 ringtones, includes a stereo speaker speakerphone and a standard 3.5mm audio jack. Stereo FM radio with RDS in included, as is Visual radio and an FM transmitter.

If a large internal memory is one of your requirements the Nokia N97 may be the phone for you - it’s 32GB storage and 128 MB RAM allows you to store practically unlimited phonebook entries and fields, Photocall, and detailed call records for up to 30 days. The memory can be extended up to 16GB by means of a slot-in microSD card.

Class 32 EDGE and GPRS data handling is made possible by means of the Symbian OS v9.4, Series 60 rel 5 operating system which runs on an ARM 11 434 MHz processor. The phone offers browser capabilities in the form of WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML and RSS feeds. Messaging is possible via SMS, MMS, Email, Push Email and IM.

The 5 MP primary camera (259x1944 pixels) uses Carl Zeiss Optics, and has autofocus, LED flash and a video light. It features Geo-Tagging, enabling picture taking and uploading - an example of location based services. Video is possible through this camera at 30fps in VGA mode, and through the secondary camera at 15fps.

Yes - it does play games (N-gage plus downloadable), and yes - it also supports java (MIDP 2.1), GPS with A-GOS support, Nokia Maps and … a digital compass!

For your entertainment, the handset plays MP3/WMA/WAV/eAAC+ music files and - pleasingly - WMV/RealVideo/MP4 video player. Then there is TV-out, Voice Command and dial, and the Document Viewer supports Word, Excel, PowerPoint and PDF files. Then too there is a video and photo editor, T9 text input and Flash Lite 3.

The extra power in the battery, enabling much longer talk and stand by time is a great plus for making the N97 a more usable Smartphone than the others.

from : http://www.isnare.com/?aid=458221&ca=Computers+and+Technology