It looks like mobile phone industry and all the top leading mobile phone companies are up with the competition for leading in smart phones segments, few Months back we have seen that Apple Inc. Launched IPhone 3G, Than it was Blackberry Bold’s turn to spread the E-business Solution, and later on Palm Centro and AT&T HTC Smart Phones were introduced. Now we have seen Samsung even launched their New Smart phone “OMINIA” in the competition with Sony Ericsson’s XPERIA X1. So the market is quite a bit on high, as Nokia Unveiled their new touch screen which will be launched as Nokia N97 Touch screen. It is expected to be the greatest release from Nokia’s N series mobile phones. Mobile Critics are describing it as it’s a follow up release of Nokia 5800 Xpress Music touch Screen phone. One of the Major features of Nokia N97 will be having is the 3.5 inch wide touch screen and a slide-out QWERTY keyboard.

Nokia N97 Touch Screen Overview: 

Nokia N97 Design:  Only one word come out, when we describe and talk about the design of N97 is “Brilliant”. It seems a bit similar to Sony Ericsson’s XPERIA X1, but has a lot different design elements which can clearly make it a different one all together. Nokia N97 looks like it is inspired from many smart phones like apple’s IPhone, Samsung’s Omnia,  Sony Ericsson’s Xperia X1, and HTC touch Smart, or even Google’s G1 as far as comparison is concerned on the basis of design inspirations. The Most Impressive element of Nokia N97 design is the 3.5 inch wide touch screen, makes it a perfect looking smart phone which suite best to make it an advance mini laptop smart phone on the go. It’s a Brilliant 3.5 inch sliding Tilt display, nourished by nice live personalized screen with many widgets. The keypad of Nokia N97 is designed to keep the computer keyboard element in mind, as it has easy typing interface with QWERT keyboard for the wide screen to make it useable as a laptop. Colour kit wise we are not sure, because its early previews have only silver white edition, which is really looking good and adapting to its design and structure, as well as with the slide touch Screen and QWERTY Keyboard.

Features & Performances: I’m really impressed with these new exciting features of Nokia N97, even though its demo that we have been gone through, but still it really looks promising. The newly launched refined Symbion OS is worked on, & upgraded to make it work perfectly with the Nokia N97 touch screen interface and widgets. When we Compare Nokia N97 with the Nokia 5800 Xpress Music demo version, the Nokia N97 interface is quite fast and responsive. You can barely see any waiting signs when you’re navigating the Symbian OS. The user interface on the Nokia N97 is also quite new but is still very user-friendly. They have also included lots of new widgets with which you can play around. On the other way, when we talk about internet connectivity, its inbuilt browser is pretty handy as its user friendly and has really good improved fast navigation features. The Nokia N97 also supports TV Out so you guys can watch you videos and movies on your home theatres and LCD Screens. Nokia n97 also has WiFi, GPS, Bluetooth, GPS, FM radio, and a 5 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics.

Messaging and Connectivity:  Nokia N97 is designed to suit your E-business and Multimedia needs and ready to go connectivity environment to send your messages and access to your emails. As we mentioned key layout is made to keep in mind the Business factor and quick typing of messages and emails. It provides quick access to your email accounts, and users can also create their own excel, word or PowerPoint Documents for Nokia N97 to send them through mails. Now talking about its internet connectivity abilities and speed factor, Nokia N97 is power packed with 3g connection, for your ready to go online access, with inbuilt excellent Nokia browser support, which includes almost all features like bookmarking, websites feeds move back and on etc, which really makes it easy to navigate and access online.

Camera and Multimedia: Nokia N97 has a 5 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics, which is pretty nice as well as Picture and image quality is good enough as it resolution is good for quick snap shot. Now about Multimedia features, the Nokia N97 is power pack multimedia house. its speakers are able to produce great quality sound which is quite good enough for those people which love music on the go. It has windows media player with Video playback MPEG-4 / SP and MPEG-4 AVC/H.264,

Technical Details of Nokia N97:

System:
WCDMA 900/1900/2100 (HSDPA),
EGSM 850/900/1800/1900 MHz

User Interface:
S60 5th Edition

Dimensions:
117.2 x 55.3 x 15.9 mm* mm (L x W x H)
*18.25 mm at camera area

Weight:
Approx. 150 g

Display:
3.5 inches TFT with up to 16 million colours HD 16:9 widescreen (640×360 pixels)

Battery:
Nokia Battery BP-4L

Memory:
Up to 48GB (32 GB on-board memory, plus 16GB expansion via microSD memory card slot)

Video playback:
MPEG-4 / SP and MPEG-4 AVC/H.264,
RealVideo up to QCIF @ 30 fps
Windows Media (WMV9) up to CIF @ 30 fps
Flash Lite 3.0 / Flash Video in internet

Music playback:
MP3, AAC, eAAC, eAAC+, WMA

Camera Lens: Carl Zeiss Tessar™

Image capture:
Up to 5 megapixels (2584 x 1938)
JPEG/EXIF (16.7 million/24-bit color)

Video capture:
MPEG-4 VGA (640 x 480) at up to 30 fps

Aperture:
F2.8

Focal length:
5.4 mm

Flash:
Dual LED camera flash and video light

Operating Times

Talk time: Up to 320 min (3G), 400 min (GSM)
Standby time: Up to 400 hrs (3G), 430 hrs (GSM)
Video playback: Up to 4,5 hours (offline mode)
Music playback: Up to 37 hours (offline mode)

Connectivity & Data Services

• WLAN IEEE 802.11b/g with UPnP support
• World-class game titles with N-Gage
• Micro-USB connector, Hi-Speed USB 2.0
• 3.5mm stereo headphone plug and TV-out support (PAL/NTSC)
• Bluetooth wireless technology 2.0 with A2DP stereo audio, enhanced data rates (EDR)
• GPS receiver with support for assisted GPS (A-GPS)

User Ratings for Nokia N97 -

Design and Looks -           4/5
User friendly -                   4/5
F­eatu­res -                          4/5
Qu­ality -                            4/5
Value for money -             3/5