Nokia N97
Product Features:
| 3G: Yes | Wifi: Yes | Camera: 5 MP with flash |
| Display: 3.5 inches | Touch: Yes | Memory Card: upto 16 GB |
| Music Player: Yes | OS: Symbian | FM Radio: Yes |
Product Review:
- Large, beautiful screen with high sensitivity
- GPS is fast and trouble free
- Good audio quality
- Reliable, high quality sliding mechanism
- The S60 5th edition UI still has poor ergonomics and is not as thumbable as expected
- Camera features are so two-thousand-and-late
Quick Specifications
See Full Specifications- General:
- Symbian, v9.4
- Qwerty
- Display:
- Touch (Resistive)
- 3.5 inches
- 360 x 640 pixels
- Camera:
- 5 MP
- AutoFocus
- Flash
- Video Recording
- QVGA Front Camera
- Video Calling
- Technical:
- 32 GB Inbuilt Memory
- Memory Card Support, upto 16 GB
- 128 MB RAM
- 434 MHz Processor
- Connectivity:
- 3G
- WiFi
- Bluetooth
- GPS
- Extra:
- Music Player
- Video Player
- FM Radio
- 3.5 mm Headphone
Advantages
Display In Groups| General | |
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Has A Qwerty Keypad
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Qwerty keypad allows you to type faster. |
| Display | |
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Has A Touch Screen
Resistive
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Touch Displays offer a more interactive experience. |
| Camera | |
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High Resloution Camera
5 MP with AutoFocus
(Average: 6.3 MP)
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High resolution camera for taking sharp and clear photos. |
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Has Flash For Camera
Dual LED
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Having a camera flash allows you to take photos in low light. |
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Has Front Camera
QVGA (0.07 MP) with videocalling
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Front Camera enables you to take your own photos and also you can use videocalling feature because videocalling is supported in this phone. |
| Technical | |
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Supports Memory Card
upto 16 GB
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Memory cards give your device more storage capacity. So you can store more songs, photos and videos. |
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Lots Of Storage Capacity
32 GB
(Average: 9 GB)
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More storage allows you to store more songs, videos, photos and install more applications. |
| Connectivity | |
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Supports 3G
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3G Enabled Handsets give you more download speed and a faster internet experience. |
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Supports WiFi
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You can connect to wifi hotspots in your area to experience a superior internet experience. |
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Supports Bluetooth v2.0
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Bluetooth enables you to wirelessly listen to music and calls using bluetooth headsets. |
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Supports GPS
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GPS is used for determining your location. You can get directions to a place with the help of GPS. |
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Can Output To TV
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Allows users to connect the smartphone, to a TV or any other composite video input to show photos and videos on a large screen. |
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Has A 3.5mm Headphone Jack
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Having 3.5mm Jack enables you to connect to large number of other devices (such as speakers) having 3.5mm Port. |
| Extra | |
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Has Accelerometer
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Detects motion as well as the orientation of a device (horizontally or vertically). |
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Has Compass
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Determines direction facing relative to North, East, West and South. |
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Supports Video Player
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Watch your favourite video songs and movies in video player. It supports MPEG4, H.263, H.264, WMV, 3GPP, RealVideo 7, RealVideo 8, RealVideo 9, RealVideo 10, Flash Video file types. |
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Supports Music Player
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Listen to your favourite songs in music player. It supports MP3, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, WAV, RealAudio 7, RealAudio 8, RealAudio 10, M4A (Apple lossless), MP4, AMR, etc. file types. |
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Supports FM Radio
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Listen to your favourite radio stations on your phone. Enjoy music on the go with FM Radio. |
| Battery | |
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Long Battery Standby Time
18 days
(Average: 16.7 days)
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With long battery standby time, mobile phone battery can last more days without charging in idle condition. |
Disadvantages
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Thick
15.9 mm
(Average: 11.5 mm)
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Slider phones are generally thick. |
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Heavy Weight
150 g
(Average: 188 g)
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Holding Heavy weight mobiles for long time will make your arms tired. |
| Display | |
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Less Sensitive Touch Screen
Resistive
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Although it has a touch display, but its touch type is resistive which is less sensitive compared to a capacitive one. |
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Doesn't Use OLED Display
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OLED Displays have faster response times, better viewing angles, improved contrast and consume less bettery power. |
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Relatively Smaller Screen
3.5 inches
(Average: 4.58 inches)
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It has relatively smaller screen than other phones in this price range. You can get better. |
| Technical | |
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Fewer Processing Cores
1 Core
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More cores result in better parallelism, meaning more tasks can be processed in parallel without slowing down the User Interface. |
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Slower CPU
434 MHz
(Average: 1 GHz)
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Slower CPU has trouble in running graphics rich applications. |
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Limited Amount Of RAM
128 MB
(Average: 626.5 MB)
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Small RAM has trouble in running more applications at the same time, which makes the phone little slower. |
| Extra | |
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Doesn't Have A Gyroscope
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Gyroscope Determines orientation and rotation and provides more accurate 3D motion tracking than an accelerometer. |
| Battery | |
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Short Battery Talk Time
9.5 hours
(Average: 8.8 hours)
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With short battery talk time, you won't be able to talk continously on the phone for a long period of time without charging. |
Full Specifications
Report An Error| General | |
| Sim Type: | GSM |
| Dual Sim: | No |
| Device Type: | Smartphone |
| Release Date: | December, 2008 |
| Design | |
| Dimensions: | 117.2 x 55.3 x 15.9 mm |
| Weight: | 150 g |
| Form Factor: | Slider |
| Qwerty: | Yes |
| Display | |
| Type: | Color TFT screen, 16M colors |
| Touch: | Yes, Resistive |
| Size: | 3.5 inches, 360 x 640 pixels |
| Memory | |
| Phonebook: | Unlimited |
| Internal: | 32 GB inbuilt, 128 MB RAM, 256 MB ROM |
| Card Slot: | Yes, upto 16 GB |
| Connectivity | |
| GPRS: | Yes |
| EDGE: | Yes |
| 3G: | Yes, 3.6 Mbps Download |
| Wifi: | Yes |
| Bluetooth: | Yes, v2.0 |
| USB: | Yes, microUSB v2.0 |
| Extra | |
| GPS: | Yes, with A-GPS Support |
| Sensors: | Accelerometer, Compass |
| 3.5mm Headphone Jack: | Yes |
| Extra: | TV-Out |
| Camera | |
| Camera: | Yes, 5 MP with autofocus |
| Features: | Geo tagging |
| Video Recording: | Yes, 480p @ 30fps |
| Flash: | 2 Flash |
| Front Camera: | Yes, QVGA (0.07 MP), supports video calling |
| Technical | |
| OS: | Symbian, v9.4 |
| CPU: | 434 MHz, ARM 11 Processor |
| Java: | Yes, MIDP v2.1 |
| Browser: | Yes, supports HTML/Flash |
| Multimedia | |
| Supports: | MMS, Instant Messanging, Voice Recording, Voice Commands, Calendar |
| Email: | Yes |
| Music: | MP3, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, WAV, RealAudio 7, RealAudio 8, RealAudio 10, M4A (Apple lossless), MP4, AMR, |
| Video: | MPEG4, H.263, H.264, WMV, 3GPP, RealVideo 7, RealVideo 8, RealVideo 9, RealVideo 10, Flash Video |
| FM Radio: | Yes |
| Document Reader: | Yes |
| Battery | |
| Size: | 1500 mAH, Li-ion Battery |
| Standby time: | 432 hours, 408 hours on 3G |
| Talk time: | 570 minutes, 360 minutes on 3G |
| Music Playback time: | 2400 minutes |
It's an Nseries device we are talking about and we can't complain about looks. How's that for a nice start? Now seriously, the Nseries are back on track and we don't mean that as a mere comparison to the misfiring N96. All-in-one is the game and the N97 is ready to take charge of the Nokia multimedia squad. It has an arsenal full of (almost) all contemporary high-end weapons and Symbian smartness securing its rear.
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- Slide-n-tilt 3.5" 16M-color resistive touchscreen of 640 x 360 pixel resolution
- 5 megapixel autofocus camera with dual-LED flash and lens cover (VGA@30fps video recording)
- Symbian OS 9.4 with S60 5th edition UI
- Slide-out three-row full QWERTY keyboard
- ARM 11 434MHz CPU and 128 MB of RAM
- The S60 5th edition UI still has poor ergonomics and is not as thumbable as expected
- Camera features are so two-thousand-and-late
- No DivX or XviD support out-of-the-box
- No smart dialing
- Somewhat limited 3rd party software availability
Needless to say, the attention to detail on this phone's construction was not lost on me. The keyboard -- a major concern for everyone prior to launch with the left-aligned directional pad and right-aligned spacebar -- turns out to be a joy to use in practice, with plenty of tactile response, and I found that it really took me no time at all to get fast on it. In fact, it's as good of a landscape QWERTY keyboard as I've ever used on a phone. read more →
- Impressive hardware
- Loaded with high-end specs
- Did we mention the hardware?
- Unsubsidized price in the US
- ARM 11 CPU pathetic for flagship
- Packs all the charm of an STD without the perks
Nokia fans will see this as a definite upgrade from what's been offered before, and those that appreciate a decent form factor in a phone will definitely do so too.
But there's just too many annoying parts to the Nokia N97 to label it a classic, but if you're stuck with it for 18 months (at least) then you can at least take solace in the fact there are many, many worse handsets out there on the market to be imprisoned with. read more →
- Great touchscreen
- Solid build quality
- Impressive internal memory
- Dual flash LED 5MP camera
- Unpredictable OS
- Lack of video codec support
- Chunky design
- Underpowered processor
With the Nokia N97, the manufacturer brings their top range N-series into the realm of smart phone fashion that is called touch sensitive screens. The phone is also being introduced as a mobile computer, although it is far from being one. Computers should be able to cope with variety of tasks these days, because technology keeps pushing on and customer requirement follow suit. Both the 434 MHz ARM11 processor and 256 Mb ROM / 128 Mb RAM of the Nokia N97 deliver good operational speed, although the phone doesn’t feel any faster than other devices running the same operating system. read more →
- Large, beautiful screen with high sensitivity
- GPS is fast and trouble free
- Good audio quality
- Reliable, high quality sliding mechanism
- In-call quality is not good enough
- Lack of full Office support
- Limited support of video formats
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. read more →
- 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 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.
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