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General info

• Phone type:
  • Smart phone
• Network technology:
  Network technology - Referes to the kind of network technology used. Three major technologies are used today - TDMA, CDMA and GSM.
  • GSM:
    GSM - Global System for Mobile communications. A world standard for digital cellular communications using narrowband TDMA (Time Division Multiple Access), which allows up to eight calls at a time on 800 MHz and 1800 MHz frequencies. Introduced in 1991. Is the standard most commonly used in Europe and Asia, but not in the United States. GSM phones use a Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) smart card that contains user account information. Any GSM phone becomes immediately programmed after plugging in the SIM card, thus allowing GSM phones to be easily rented or borrowed. SIM cards can be programmed to display custom menus for personalized services.GSM provides a short messaging service (SMS) that enables text messages up to 160 characters in length to be sent to and from a GSM phone.
    • 850, 900, 1800, 1900
  • UMTS:
    UMTS - Universal Mobile Telecommunications Service, also called WCDMA, is a 3G (Third Generation) packet-based transmission of text, digitized voice, video, and multimedia at data rates up to 2 Mbps. It is based on GSM standard and is supported by major standards bodies and manufacturers
    • 850, 900, 1700/2100, 1900, 2100
• Data:
  Data - Shows the particular phone's type of data. the major mobile phone data types are GPRS, CDMA2000 1xRTT, EDGE, CDMA2000 1xEV-DO, UMTS, etc.
  • GPRS
  • UMTS:
    • Yes
  • HSDPA:
    • Yes (HSDPA 10.2 Mbit/s)
  • HSUPA 2.0 Mbit/s

Design

• Design:
  Design - Phone design type
  • Form Factor:
    Form Factor - Refers to the form factor of a phone. The main handset designs are bar, clamshell, slide, swivel
    • Candybar
  • Colors:
    • Black, Brown, Gray

Display

• Display:
  Display - Phone's main display
  • Colors:
    Colors - Shows the number of colors that the display supports
    • 16 777 216
  • Touch Screen:
    • Yes (Capacitive)
  • Multi-touch:
    • Yes
  • Proximity Sensor:
    • Yes
  • Light sensor:
    • Yes

Software

• Smart Phone:
  Smart Phone - Phone that has capabilities, not usually associated with phones. Usually it has some of the above features: - Email, Web browsing - Personal information management - LAN connectivity etc
  • Yes
  • OS:
    OS - Operating system, which is the software that enables and controls the basic operation of an electronic device. The major OS for mobile phones are UIQ over Symbian, Microsoft Mobile for Pocket PC Phone Edition, Microsoft Mobile for Smartphones, Linux, Palm
    • Symbian (Symbian^3)
• 3D Graphics hardware accelerator:
  • Yes

Camera

• Camera:
  Camera - Camera specs
  • Yes
  • Resolution:
    Resolution - Shows the particular phone's camera resolution. The major mobile phone camera resolutions available are QCIF; CIF; VGA (640x480); 1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.0 and 3.0 megapixels.
    • 8 megapixels
  • Flash:
    • Yes (Dual LED)
  • Features:
    • Face detection, Digital zoom, Geo tagging, Self-timer
• Video capture:
  • Yes
  • • Resolution:
      Resolution - Shows whether the particular phone's camera can record a video clip
      • 1280x720 (720p HD) (25 fps)
  • Recording format:
    • MPEG4, H.263, H.264
  • Video light:
    • Yes

Multimedia

• Music Player:
  Music Player - Audio support such as MP3
  • Yes
  • Supports:
    • MP3, AAC, eAAC, eAAC+, WMA, AMR, MIDI
• Video Playback:
  Video Playback - Video support such as MPEG4
  • Yes
  • Supports:
    • MPEG4, H.263, H.264, DivX, XviD, WMV, RealVideo 10, Flash Video
• Radio:
  • Yes
  • Type:
    • FM
• FM Transmitter:
  • Yes

Internet browsing

• Internet Browsing:
  Internet Browsing - Capability to access special Internet sites using the mobile phone
  • Yes
  • Supports:
    • HTML, XHTML, Flash Lite, RSS, CSS, WML
• Built-in online services support:
  • Facebook, Twitter

Location Based Services

• • Location Based Services:
    • Yes
  • Type:
    • GPS, A-GPS
  • Navigation:
    • Yes
  • Features:
    • Points of interest (POI), Turn-by-turn navigation, Voice navigation
    
    

    Phonebook

    • Support:
      • Yes
    • Capacity:
      • Capacity depends on system memory
    • Features:
      • Caller groups, Multiple numbers per contact, Search by both first and last name, Picture ID, Ring ID

    Organizer

    • Calendar:
      • Yes
    • Alarms:
      • Yes
    • To-Do / Tasks:
      • Yes
    • Document Viewer:
      • Yes
      • Supported formats:
        • Office 2007, Office 2003, PDF, Other
      • Other formats:
        • ZIP
    • Other:
      • Calculator, Notes

    Messaging

    • SMS:
      • Yes
      • Threaded messaging:
        • Yes
    • Templates:
      Templates - Pre-set text that can be used to quickly send common messages without typing the message itself
      • Yes
    • E-mail:
      E-mail - Shows if the phone supports email features
      • Yes (IMAP, POP3, SMTP, Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Domino)

    Memory

    • Memory Expansion:
      Memory Expansion - Capability to add additional memory to your phone.
      • Slot Type:
        Slot Type - Shows what type of additional memory can be added to the particular phone. Eight major memory slot types are available: MMC, SD, CF, Memory Stick Duo, miniSD, RS MMC, TransFlash (microSD), Memory Stick Pro Duo
        • microSD, microSDHC
      • Maximum card size:
        Maximum card size - Shows the capacity of the memo0ry expansion slot that can be added
        • 32 GB
    • Built-in:
      • 8542 MB

    Connectivity

    • Bluetooth:
      Bluetooth - Low power radio technology replacing the need for wires connecting electronic devices such as personal computers, printers, palm top computers and mobile phones.
      • Yes
    • Wi-Fi:
      Wi-Fi - Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) - used radio waves (RF) or infrared signals to send and receive data over the air. Most popular WLAN solutions today is Wi-Fi (802.11b and 802.11g) standards. 801.11b provides data speeds of around 11mbps while 802.11g can go up to 54 mbps.
      • Yes (802.11b, 802.11g, 802.11n)
    • USB:
      • Yes
      • Type:
        • microUSB
      • Version:
        • USB 2.0
      • Features:
        Features - Universal Serial Bus - is a plug-and-play interface for connection a computer and add-on devices such as joysticks, keyboards, wireless phones, scanner, cameras etc. USB supports hot-swap (ability to add a new device without having to reboot the computer). USB supports data speed of 12 megabits per second.
        • Mass storage device
    • Headphones connector:
      • 3.5mm
    • Tethering:
      • Yes

    Other features

    • Additional microphone:
      • Yes
      • Used for:
        • Noise cancellation
    • Sensors:
      • Accelerometer, Compass

nokia n 97 reviews

nokia n 97 reviews

The Nokia N 97 is the flagship device of the manufacturer at the moment and Nokia vaunts it as being not only a top of the range device, but a “mobile computer” as well. This certainly gets things rather too far, since computers should be able to cope with wide variety of tasks these days. The Nokia N97 sports quite nice specifications indeed like 3.5-inch touch sensitive screen, full QWERTY keyboard, Wi-Fi, 3G (HSDPA 3.6Mbps), A-GPS, 5-megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss Tessar optics, 434 MHz ARM11 processor and 32GB built-in memory plus support for up to 16GB microSDHC expansion cards. Will all this be enough for the Nokia N97 to win over its rivals? This is what we are going to find out on the next several pages. Before we get down to the thorough review, let´s first see what is inside the black box, made all from recycled materials (it´s nothing to do with the one on airplanes):

• Nokia N 97
• Stylus
• Charger
• microUSB adapter to other Nokia chargers
• microUSB cable
• 3.5mm jack earphones with wired remote
• Small duster
• Software DVD with Nokia Ovi Suite
• User guide

There is no dedicated stylus slot on the phone as on the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic and the thingy is attachable to the phone body with a small strap that has metal cover which looks pretty cool. The phone case is missing from our set, but we know there is one sold along with the N97 on other markets. You better enquire about this at your local dealership.


Design:

The minute you get the Nokia N97 into your hands you will find out you are dealing with a heavy player. There is nothing amusing about weight such as 5.29 oz (150 g) and the N97 strikes as bigger, yet better made device alongside of the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic. As a whole, it looks pretty stylish – our unit came in white color, but a classical black variety is also on offer. We don’t really like that the phone is predominantly made of plastic parts, rather than metal, so it simply doesn’t create all the same luxurious feel, like the one you get while holding in hand any top of the range makes belonging to the business lineup of the same manufacturer, say the Nokia E66, E71 and E75. The phone doesn’t feel cheap of anything, it´s just we expected much more than a simple, chrome plated edging that is slightly protruding over the screen. It does help towards easier dragging of the scroll throughout the phone menus though.
The Nokia N97 sports a 3.5-inch display with 16 mln colors and resolution of 360x640 pixels. Sounds familiar? These are the very same screen specs as the ones on devices like the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, Samsung OMNIA HD i8910 and Sony Ericsson Satio. Unlike the Samsung´s handset, the screen of the Nokia N97 is TFT and not AMOLED. The main difference between the two technologies is that despite the fact they both deliver 16 mln color support, colors are much more saturated and pleasing on phones utilizing the second. It doesn’t really come as a surprise that the Samsung OMNIA HD i8910 offers much better image quality in artificial lighting conditions. Situation is reversed when you take them in direct sunlight though. Similarly to other makes of the same manufacturer, the Nokia N97 remains fully usable even if colors tend to get slightly dim, while the screen of the OMNIA HD turns itself into an almost perfect mirror. The Finnish company flagship just loves fingerprints, although they are not that irritating, since screen visibility is not affected. Moreover, we need to point out the resistive touch screen of the Nokia N97 offers better sensitivity than the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, i.e. causes no troubles.Proximity sensor is clearly visible on the left of the earpiece and both video call camera and light sensor that controls screen brightness are on its right.

The Nokia team seems to have made a definite step towards modern ideas with regard to the buttons below the screen. Both send and end keys are touch sensitive and feature resistive technology. We didn’t encounter any issues using them, meaning there were no unregistered touches and every time they were pressed they gave slight vibration feedback. They are properly lit and easy to find in the dark. There is an ordinary looking button along with them that allows access to the main menu and task manager. It is also easy to use plus its white backlighting acts as indicator that notifies you of missed events.

The Nokia N97 is a side slider and to open the keyboard you need to … slide it. The mechanism is pretty robust and opens sharply, but closes smoothly and slowly. While open, display remains tilted at an angle of 40-45 degrees towards the keyboard, but unlike on the HTC Touch Pro2, this is default position and cannot be changed.

Buttons on the full QWERTY keyboard of the Nokia N97 are arranged in three rows and you also have a D-pad. This means you will have to get used to the position of all special symbols and the Space key in particular. This is an overused one when it comes to text entry, no matter the type of message! We definitely don’t like it being located on the right hand side of the keyboard, rather than in the middle. We were pretty prejudiced when we started our tests, but eventually came to think it is not that bad. All buttons feel discernible when pressed and are large enough for comfy use even by people with thicker fingers. Keyboard is not as good as the one on the HTC Touch Pro2 and even the Nokia E75 sports a better one. Still, the N97 fares fairly. We need to congratulate Nokia they have finally moved all letters on the lower most row with one position to your right, so we at last have the Z where it is on similar devices – below the letter S and not the A. Stereo speakers are at both ends of the left hand side of the device, with both microUSB slot (equipped with LED indicator) and slider button to lock/unlock the screen in between. The latter, as well as camera shutter are really easy to use. This, unfortunately, doesn’t hold true for the volume rocker. Well, situation is not that bad with the button that turns volume up, because it has enough travel, the thing is you will have to apply much more force to turn sound down. The 3.5 mm earphone jack is on top of the device, so you won´t need to swivel the N97 in weird positions while carrying it around into the pocket of your trousers or jeans. Power button is on one of the sides and feels comfy to press despite it doesn’t have much travel. The only thing on the bottom side is a lonely gap, where the stylus strap is attached - but you can hook any knick-knack that is to your own taste.
A panel takes up the entire back side and its lower part is slightly bulging not by chance. It prevents the phone from getting tilted to one side when placed onto flat surface, say table or desk. Our only gripe is the back cover is quite hard to remove and you really need to exert yourself to get to the microSD expansion slot.

As we mentioned at the beginning, the Nokia N97 sports 5-megapixel autofocus camera with Carl Zeiss Tessar optics and double LED flash. Its plastic cover slides pleasantly and clears collected dust particles while moving. Quite nice indeed! We are telling you more about the camera performance later on. Now, let´s get down to the OS interface of the Nokia N97.