Nokia N97, Packed With Features

The Nokia N97 is the tip of the spear in Nokia’s smartphone lineup. It is the most powerful, smartest and fully featured phone of the company. It is also the first Nokia phone to make use of a large touch-display and that alone has raised the expectations from die hard Nokia fans that have refused to switch over to the iPhone. And Nokia has put quite a lot of work and thought in the N97. The Nokia N97 features a touch screen, a slide-out full QWERTY keyboard, 5-megapixel camera with dual flash LED, 32GB of internal flash memory, 3G support, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and GPS. Nokia really did a nice job with the slider design, as the gliding motion is very smooth and doesn't have the harsh, abrupt feel.

The Nokia N97 is a nicely designed phone. The design is agreeable to look at, and the build quality is good. The N97 is a bit of a handful at 4.6 inches tall by 2.1 inches wide by 0.6 inch thick and 5.29 ounces. Overall, the smartphone has a solid construction and is a nice departure from the Nokia N95 and N96, especially with the addition of a touch screen, full QWERTY keyboard and Nokia N97 repair parts. There's a power button and a 3.5mm headphone jack on top of the device. On the left side, you'll a find a Micro-USB port, a lock switch, and the stereo speakers. The right side has a volume rocker that also doubles as zoom in/out buttons and a camera capture key. The camera is located on the back and both the lens and flash are protected by a sliding cover.

 The camera looks decent and there are two cameras, front one is for video calling and a 5-megapixel camera on back with a Carl Zeiss Vario-Tessar lens with dual-LED flash, auto focus, and up to 4x digital zoom. There are numerous advanced camera options, such as color tone, light sensitivity, exposure, and geotagging. In addition, the camera can record MPEG-4 videos at a maximum VGA resolution (640x480) at 30fps.

Nokia preloads the device with a number of extra apps, including a dedicated YouTube player, Qik (for sharing videos from your phone), Boingo Wi-Fi service, Psiloc World Traveler, AP News, and Guitar Rock Tour. The Nokia N97 repair services are affordable and mobile also supports the recently launched Nokia Ovi Store where users can peruse the large catalog of Symbian apps and download them to the device. This is, of course, on top of S60 platform staples like QuickOffice for viewing Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents, Adobe PDF, a file manager, and other PIM tools, such as a Zip manager, a calculator, a notepad, a measurement converter, a clock, and a voice recorder. The Nokia N97 has a good browser, it worked with pretty much all the sites that went to, including Yahoo Finance and Google Docs.

Overall Nokia N97 is a feature-packed smartphone and has plenty of memory for bulking its software content. The build quality is more than solid, and the touchscreen overhaul of the S60 OS is good enough to actually be considered an upgrade.