NOKIA N97 Released | Description, Specification, Video and Price

Price: 550 EUR/ 700 USD/ 35000 INR

Nokia unveils world’s most advanced phone N97 today. Nokia releases the phone with a caption as “Desktop. Laptop. Pocket: The era of the personal Internet dawns with the Nokia N97” and calls it a true mobile computer in the official nokia website. The Nokia N97 combines a large 3.5" touch display with a full QWERTY keyboard, providing an 'always open' window to favorite social networking sites and Internet destinations. This Nseries device introduces leading technology - including multiple sensors, memory, processing power and connection speeds - for people to create a personal Internet and share their 'social location'.

What is the concept of 'social location'? With integrated A-GPS sensors and an electronic compass, the Nokia N97 mobile computer intuitively understands where it is. The Nokia N97 makes it easy to update social networks automatically with real-time information, giving approved friends the ability to update their 'status' and share their 'social location' as well as related pictures or videos.

The home screen of the Nokia N97 mobile computer features the people, content and media that matter the most. Friends, social networks and news are available by simply touching the home screen. The 16:9 widescreen display can be fully personalized with frequently updated widgets of favorite web services and social networking sites. The Nokia N97 is also perfectly suited for browsing the web, streaming Flash videos or playing games. Both the physical QWERTY and virtual touch input ensure efficiency in blogging, chatting, posting, sending texts or emailing.

The Nokia N97 supports up to 48 GB of storage, including 32 GB of on-board memory, expandable with a 16 GB microSD card for music, media and more. This is complemented by excellent music capabilities, full support for the Nokia Music Store and continuous playback time of up to 1.5 days. The Nokia N97 also has a 5-Megapixel camera with high-quality Carl Zeiss optics, 16:9 and DVD quality video capture, and support for services like Share on Ovi for immediate sharing over HSDPA and WLAN.

The N97 is the most feature packed Nseries device to date and, by adding touch, it moves Nokia's high end Nseries into direct competition with touch devices such as the Samsung Omnia, LG Renoir, Apple iPhone and G1 Android Phone.

Tilting touch display, QWERTY keyboard and personalized home screen - a true mobile computer:

Key Specifications:

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• Physical dimensions: 117.2 x 55.3 x 15.9 mm (18.25 mm at camera area), and weighs approximately 150g.

• 3.5 inch, 360 x 640 (nHD) resolution resistive touch TFT screen with 16 million colours.

• Integrated A-GPS and compass sensor (magnetometer) means that the N97 'intuitively knows where it is' and this is used by Nokia Maps, and for social location; also embeds location information into images and video.

• 3.5 mm audio jack (also used for TV-Out) and built in stereo speakers. Music playback time of one and half days (36 hours). There's also an FM radio and FM transmitter.

• N-Gage compatible' device, which indicates that the N-Gage platform will be touch enabled by the release date of the N97.

• Text input is via on screen keyboard (full screen QWERTY, pop-up QWERTY and alphanumeric), as is standard on S60 5th Edition, or handwriting recognition or via the QWERTY keyboard.

• 5 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics and dual LED flash. The camera is covered by a sliding lens cover similar to that found on the N85 and N79.

• microUSB jack (USB 2.0 HiSpeed) and supports charging over USB

• 32GB of internal flash memory

• microSD card slot with support for SDHC cards upto 16GB in size (giving total potential memory of 48 GB)

• WiFi, 3.5G (tri-band HSDPA - 900, 1900 and 2100 Mhz), quad-band GSM and Bluetooth connectivity (various profiles including HID, SAP, A2DP and AVRCP).

• 1500 mAh battery (BP-4L used in the E71, E90, 6650 and N800).

• Fully compatible with Ovi services including Maps, Music, Share and Games.

• Internet focus with WebKit based browser, comprehensive RSS feed support and runtime technologies including Flash, WRT (widget).

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The Nokia N97 is expected to begin shipping in the first half of 2009 likely to be June at an estimated retail price of EUR 550 or 700 USD or 35000 INR before taxes or subsidies.