Nokia N97 calling
Finally! Nokia has unveiled a touch-screen phone – the N97 – that could give Apple’s iPhone 3G a run for its money (Nokia N97 image). Though many thought the company’s upcoming 5800 XpressMusic would be a potential iPhone killer, it’s nothing of the sort, lacking the refinement and power of the Apple product.
But with the N97, the successor to the popular but expensive N95 and N96, the Finnish company finally has something in its armoury to take on the developers at Apple’s California headquarters.
With the N97, Nokia has clearly taken a few design ideas from Taiwan’s HTC – though, thankfully, the N97 doesn’t run the outdated Windows Mobile, the preferred operating system of HTC.
The N97 is no lightweight at 150 g, but its features pack a punch. It has a 640 x 360-pixel, 3,5-inch touchscreen in 16:9 widescreen format and features a full slide-out Qwerty keyboard – beat that, Apple! The phone also has 32 GB of integrated flash memory, handily beating the amount of space the iPhone provides for storing music, pictures and video.
The N97 supports everything else you’d expect in a top-end phone, including 3G HSDPA and Wi-Fi.
The integrated camera is 5-megapixels and has a Carl Zeiss lens. That’s standard for high-end Nokia phones, but it can capture video in VGA resolution at up to an impressive 30 fps.
Nokia claims a talk time of 320 minutes on 3G and 400 minutes on GSM. Standby time is 400 hours on 3G.
The phone is expected in the first half of 2009. Whatever the price – and it will be expensive – we expect them to sell like hot cakes.
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