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
Nokia N97 – Dimensions – Length x Width x thickness
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
Nokia N97 Emailing - Front View
Form:Side-slide with tilting screen
Volume:88 cc
Dimensions:117.2 x 55.3 x 15.9 mm (18.25 mm at thickest point)
Weight (with battery):150 g
Additional size and shape information:
Sliding tilt mechanism
Nokia N97 - Front view dexternights
Keys and Input Method
Full slide out keyboard
Cover keys (S60 keys, Menu key, Send/End keys)
Touch screen
4-way navigation key with centre select
Dedicated camera and volume keys
Memory
MicroSD memory card slot, hot swappable, up to 16 GB
Internal memory: 32 GB
Nokia N97 - Full Keyboard
Connectivity
Bluetooth version 2.0 with Enhanced Data Rate
TV out
Support for local and remote SyncML synchronisation
High-Speed USB 2.0 (micro USB connector)
3.5 mm AV connector
Nokia N97 white - dexternights Back view
Display and User Interface
Size: 3.5″
Resolution: 640 x 360 pixels
Up to 16.7 million colours
Resistive touch screen with separate touch foil and touch feedback
Brightness control
Orientation sensor
Proximity sensor
Ambient light detector
Power Management
BP-4L 1500 mAh Li-Ion battery
Talk time (maximum):
GSM up to 570 min
WCDMA up to 360 min
Standby time (maximum):
GSM up to 430 h
WCDMA up to 400 h
Video playback time (maximum): VGA 30fps
QCIF 15fps up to 5.5 h
Video recording time (maximum): up to 1 h per clip
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 introduced its most powerful camera phone the Nokia N86. This starts a new generation camera phone series with slider CMOS sensor, Carl Zeiss optics, Tessar™ lens, up to 20x digital zoom (This could be visualized as an update of N80 and N85 line) . The N86 packs GPS,a powerful battery, Nokia Music Player and Mobile browsing with Nokia browser. As with all Nokia NSeries phones this supports 3G.
The Camera :
The camera is 8 megapixel camera (3280 x 2464 maximum) with Carl Zeiss Vario Tessar lens (same as N93)
Image formats: JPEG, EXIF
CMOS sensor, Carl Zeiss optics, Tessar™ lens, up to 20x digital zoom
Autofocus with assist light and two stage capture key
Focal length: 4.61 mm
Focus range: 10 cm to infinity
Macro focus: 10-50 cm
Dual LED flash
Large and variable aperture: F2.4, F3.2, F4.8
Wide exposure range
Wide angle optics: 28mm
High speed shutter, max shutter speed: 1/1000 sec
Data Network
CSD
HSCSD, maximum speed 43.2 kbps
GPRS class A, multislot class 32, maximum speed 107/64.2 kbps (DL/UL)
WCDMA 900/2100, maximum speed PS 384/384 kbps (UL/DL)
