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TATA Motors is gearing up for a busy week. If all goes well TATA Motors will announce the list of the first 1,00,000 customers to get the worlds cheapest car. The TATA Nano bookings closed on April 25 and it is almost two months.
It is expected that the first car will be handed over to first lucky customer (TATA motors will pick a low income person) in a grand function in the first week of July. 70% of the customers have decided to wait even if they dont get the car in the lottery.
Finally the much awaited Nokia’s high end Full Touch Screen Nokia N97 is out. It will be available in most of the stores in a week and expected to be priced at Rs 32000 -34000 in India. Around 380 UK Pounds, same will be available in US for 670-700 USD. The phone has been much talked about for almost a year.The phone itself doesnt offer anything new except the full touch screen and QWERTY keyboard, a marriage between its Entertainment heavy weights like N96 and E series beauties. Actually N97 reminds me of some of the HTC slider phones, but they weren’t this good in features.
If you are someone expecting a slim phone then it isnt the phone for you, it is slightly thinner than the N96 or N95 8GB but still is 15.6mm thick (18mm at the camera location). Lets get to comparing the N97 with some other popular phones.
The phone comes in two colors White and Black and the white definitely looks better. It definitely blurs the line between the mini laptops and Mobile phones, in terms of features it is better than any mini laptop.
Though most of the media ignorantly writes that main disadvantage of Nokia N97 is that it doesnt have a App Store like Iphone, the truth is the opposite. Most people have been buying Nokia N series and E series because of the availability of so many softwares and most of them being free. The symbian OS is the operating system with more softwares than Iphone OS or Windows Mobile or Google’s Android.
The Coolness factor – Looks and Dimensions
Here are the dimensions of the popular Models
Nokia N97 – 117.2 x 55.3 x 15.9 (18.25) mm
Nokia N86 – 103.4 x 51.4 x 16.5 mm
Nokia N96 – 103 x 55 x 20 mm
Nokia N95 8GB – 99 x 53 x 21 mm
Nokia E71 – 114 x 57 x 10 mm
Apple Iphone 3G S – 115.5 x 62.1 x 12.3 mm
Interestingly the Nokia N97’s dimensions are not far off from Apple iphone 3G S , it is 3 mm thicker than the iphone but has powerful features and Full QWERTY keyboard to balance that.
Pictures of Nokia N97
Keys and Input Method
You might get surprised by the below numbers. A day after N97 was announced in I wanted to see how different are the high end ones different from the other models of Nokia’s Nseries and ESeries models. Here are the findings. Surprisingly N97 doesn’t have fastest processor and also it is marginally better than that of N95.
Generally the Eseries models had better and faster processors than their costlier Nseries counterparts. Below is the list of processor CPU speeds for Latest Nokia mobiles. The Nokia model with fastest CPU are E52 and E55. The N96 has dual processors (2 ARM 9) . Though the CPU itself is not the only criteria in pricing of the models, but costliest model N97 has a reasonably lower CPU speed than E52 which 50% of N97’s price.
Same with E71 and E63. E63 is exact replica of E71 except GPS and 3G.
Nokia E52 – ARM 11 – 600 MHz
Nokia E55 – ARM 11 – 600 MHz
Nokia N97 – ARM 11 – 434 MHz
Nokia N86 8MP – ARM 11 – 434 MHz
Nokia N96 – ARM 9 – 2 * 264 MHz
Nokia N79 – ARM 9 – 2 * 220 MHz
Nokia E63 – ARM 11 – 369 MHz
Nokia E71 – ARM 11 – 369 MHz
Nokia N79 – ARM 11 -369 MHz
Nokia E75 – ARM 11 – 369 MHz
Nokia N85 – ARM 11 – 369 MHz
Nokia N82 – ARM 11 – 332 MHz