Review of Nokia N97

This article is a review of the Nokia N97. I will compare its features with its biggest competitors in the mobile communication industry. Nokia N97, is a phone released by Nokia to compete with Apple’s iPhone 3G/3GS and HTC series. The phone is an improved version of Nokia 96 and with certain added features. This gadget is loaded with a number of applications and is the one of the best ‘smart phones’ currently available in the market. The sliding keyboard, for instance, is the USP of this gadget, its memory and multimedia features are bound to give its users an unforgettable experience for years to come.

Let’s have an in-depth look at some of its cool features:

Internet: This is the best feature of N97 in this category since it supports HTML, XHTML with RSS feed support. It also supports a large number of technologies like Bluetooth with A2DP, WLAN, Wi-Fi and Micro USB and has 3G support. It has a built-in support for social networking sites, with applications like ‘face book apps’. It also has a GPS Navigation system which guides the user to reach his/her destination. In this internet category, I shall rate it 4.5 on a scale of 5 due to its excellent features which it has to offer to its users.

Multimedia: It supports a large number of video formats for DVD quality. It supports major image formats including Jpeg, png, jpeg2000 and bmp. The 5 Megapixel cameras is a major disappointment, since its competitor (iPhone) shows off an 8 Megapixel camera. N97 has a high resolution of 2595 x1944 pixels. It also supports a 20x zoom and digital zoom. The email and SMS support is not as good as Blackberry but has lot of applications like SMS, instant messaging MMS and push Emailing. It also offers good music library support. Hence, in my opinion the phone should get a 3.5 on 5 for its not-so-good multimedia support.

Memory: The memory feature offered by N97 is extremely great; it gives you a feeling of a large power house in hand! It has a whooping 32 GB inbuilt memory and 16 GB support from the micro SD card expandable up to 64 GB. The phone support both GSM and CDMA technologies. It allows 6.6 hours of GSM talk time and 7.1 on standby. Thus the device undoubtedly gets a 5 on 5 for the memory support it offers.

Thus overall Nokia N97 is an extremely cool phone with some unmatched features. The phone is available at a price tag of 700$ (approx.) which is a bit expensive in comparison with the mobiles available in this range. The Internet and memory are the best features of this ‘smart phone’. This phone is good investment for any gizmo geek as it has attractive, worthy-of flaunting looks and a great superb application support.