Nokia N97 Overview

Some time ago, I wrote an article about Nokia N810, Internet tablet device. Recently I've heard a news that Nokia is comming out with a new device called Nokia N97. I made a connection with N810 because I find a similarity in the appearance between these two devices. Both of them have a kick-out full QWERTY keyboard.



N97 is running Symbian S60 5th generation. I'm not surprised, because Nokia is running Symbian for a long time. But still I see an advantage of using Windows Mobile on these devices. One of the reasons is Office (Word, Excel, Power Point..) which is fully supported in Windows Mobile. For example I find it very difficult to read office documents on my iPod Touch. Finally I found a solution how to read office documents but I can't edit them and sometimes I have problems with the new format "docx". But I have no experience with the new Symbian, maybe reading and editing Office documents is already solved somehow. In comparison N810 runs Linux.

N97 offers a widescreen display with resolution 640x360 (16:9). Which is not bad, for example iPod Touch's resolution is 480x320 and I'm quite content while watching movies :) but again in comparison with N810 it's a bit smaller screen. N810 has res. 800x480.

What impressed me is the 5MPx camera. N810 has a VGA resolution (640x480) if I'm not mistaken. 5MPx is a move forward, the quality of photos should be good enough. The camera is also supported by dual led camera flash.




Here is the technical specification:

• 5MPx camera, (VGA video)
• Bluetooth connectivity
  
• WiFi
• 3.5 inch display
• 3.5mm Audio Jack
• GPS
• 32GB integrated memory (extendable up to 48GB)
• hardware QWERTY keyboard
• weight 150g (iPhone - 133g)
• OS - Symbian S60 5th generation
• 640x360 (16:9) display, 16 million colors
• Video capture: MPEG-4 VGA (640 x 480) at up to 30 fps