Touchscreen Fones

NOKIA N97 REVIEW

Posted on: July 12, 2009 by admin

Over the past few years Nokia became the leader on the mobile phone market. Thankfully for its innovative designs and feature rich products it is one of the most desirable mobile brands.

One of the flagship models in the multimedia N series is the N97. The N series were designed to be a multimedia accessory capable for music and video playback with a superior camera. Over the few new series the N design became richer with a GPS capability and today it represents complete multimedia solutions for both younger and business users.

The newest addition in the N series in the N97. Observing the design only we can notice that the shape of the N97 is much like the Apple iPhone. But only at first glance, if we take a second look we can see that the Nokia N97 has a full slider Qwerty keyboard. This is a really new thing in the N series, the only Nokia’s which had Qwerty keyboards were the Communicator series. They were a business class which evolved to the E series but the full keyboard was left out on most of the devices.

Like with all the Nokia products this device is also made of top quality materials. Under the hood, the N97 is a very powerful phone, it has a large touch screen display plenty of memory and the latest Symbian operating system.

The display is a 16 million color touch screen display and its resolution is 360×640 and it guarantees a sharp and colorful picture. The newest Symbian works with a touchscreen capability so we can use this feature for most of the time. If we want to write a longer text message or e-mail we can slide the phone and use the convenience of the full qwerty keyboard.

The N97 phone features a 5 Megapixels camera with  auto-focus and flash. This mobile camera is one of the best in this category. The camera can also record video in 640×480 VGA resolution. There are a lot of storage space where we can save our photos or videos. The N97 have an impressive 32GB of free storage space and it can be additionally expanded with memory cards.It supports micro SD ( TransFlash ) up to 16 GB. So we do not have to worry about storage space there is really a plenty of it available.

As for the connectivity, the N97 supports the following technologies : GPRS, EDGE, HDSPA. Besides this it has a built in WiFi and GPS. Also we can get connected with the help of Bluetooth technology.

The connectivity to the computers and laptops is solved with a standard USB 2.0 and with the well known and well functioning Nokia software which come on the installation CD.

Anyone who is looking for a well rounded multimedia telephone the new N97 is the answer. It is one of the most expensive mobiles today but its worth the price. It is one of the most powerful phones on the market.

REVIEWED BY macinger84 FROM seek4shopping.co.uk