From the picture it give a perception. From what I saw, the outer design is similar to other brand of Smart Phone out there, that is Pocket PC phone namely Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 and Samsung Omnia. It is again can be said that they are competing each other and try to capture own market segment. While Nokia N97 is based on Symbian platform, both Xperia and Omnia are based on Microsoft Mobile 6.1 and the only different is Omnia do not come with slider keyboard.

Above picture: Sony Ericsson Xperia X1

Above picture: Samsung Omnia

As you can see from the above picture, Nokia N97 comes with a QWERTY-slider keyboard and a tilting touchable widescreen with a 16:9 aspect ratio and a resolution of 640 x 360 pixels, standard Symbian S60 OS with a UI improved for touch input. What is totally new in this Nokia N97 is all about the first touch-sensitive Nseries device, that will be entering a competitive market of touch-sensitive multimedia smartphones.

How well the Symbian S60 5th Edition OS has been modified for touch-sentitive, and how well the hardware performs to provide a responsive experience? Is it fair to compare to Apple iPhone well responsive touch screen? From my experience with Omnia and Xperia X1, the touch screen responsiveness for Microsoft Mobile is quite good and well done, but yet it is lower compared to Apple iPhone. Nokia N97 and both Omnia and Xperia X1 have widgets that can be dragged around on the home screen and it do response quickly. However, until I review and try it myself then it will bring a different and for now I will retain my comments.

Other features

Here are some features about Nokia N97

• 5 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss Tessar lens and dual LED flash
• up to 32 GB of storage
• up to 16GB additional memory via microSD
• Symbian S60 5th Edition
• haptic feedback
• can play up to 37 hours of music
• can play up to 4.5 hours of video
• A-GPS and GPS Map
• HSDPA, Wi-Fi, USB 2.0, stereo Bluetooth connectivity
• a 3.5mm headphone jack.

Capacity of memory always be the key factor for many users. Nokia N97 come with a 32GB of onboard memory, plus the microSD slot (up to 12GB), bringing the total capacity to 48GB. With this great memory, it is sure that Nokia N97 will become one of the top smartphone out there with massive memory in one phone that can offer. Other than that Nokia N97 also will bring user experience browsing full internet with a browser than can display Flash animation and also will support Flash Lite 3.0 and Flash Video.

Nokia N97 will hit global market, probably in the middle of next year. In Malaysia, the price will be around RM3000 – RM4000, while for Europeans the price will be starting from 550 Euros.

Press release of Nokia N97

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