subject: Nokia N97 - An Introduction [print this page] when it comes to multimedia, you might be hard pressed to find a device that offers more...
Nokia's N95 has been the flagship product of the brand for ages now, and still remains difficult to beat. There is so much hardware packed into this beast, it is absolutely mind-boggling. The first aspect to greet you, as always is the screen: av a mammoth 3.5 inches (16 million colors, 360x640 pixels), the resistive touchscreen has a proximity sensor, accelerometer, handwriting recognition etc. It is ideal for watching movies, and the 3.5mm audio jack will play back a thumping sound over your favourite headphones.
The Nokia N97's screen slides up and stands on a novel tilting mechanism, a bit like the Xperia X1, and the full QWERTY keyboard invites you to have a go. Large, spacious keys and a wide screen m operate Symbian S60 5th edition OS: the built-in Pocket Office now makes sense!
However, the highlight of the phone lies hidden behind. The N97 rocks a 5-megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics, that brings you autofocus, LED flash and a video light for night time footage. The 2592x1944 pixel images are great, don't forget that it also has 30fps VGA recording. And of course, there's a secondry camera on the front for video calling.
The ARM 11 434 MHz processor and 128MB of RAM will naturally make the phone fast enough. Nokia has also thrown in an amazing 32GB of built-in memory and you can increase this further with 32GB microSD care. A potential 64GB of disk space on a mobile phone! You could fit your entire music collection on that, and them some!
The usual suspects make their presence felt:3G, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth with A2DP, stereo FM radio, GPS (with Nokia Maps 3.0), voice commands, TV-Out, and support for any audio and video format you throw at it. A surprising addition gi that the Adobe Flash Lite 3 plug-in comes pre-installed. Online videos, here I come.
With so many things to take care of, you would forgive that N97's 1500 mAh battery for getting tired easily. But the Nokia N97 plays back up to 40 hours of music or nine and a half hours of talk-time. Anything else?
