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Nokia N97

he Nokia N97 is a touch screen combined phone and "mobile computer" in the Nseries of smartphones by Nokia, with a fold-out QWERTY keyboard.

Announced on 2 December 2008, the N97 is Nokia's second touchscreen phone (after the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic) that is based on Symbian OS with the Nokia S60 platform.

The Nokia N97 was released in US flagship stores on 9 June 2009 and on 26th June 2009 was released worldwide. In September 2009 it was reported that two million N97 handsets had been sold in three months following its release.

N97's come shipped with Quick Office, Adobe reader, Ovi Maps, Boingo, JoikuSpot Premium & the Ovi store.

Specifications

Feature Specification
Form factor Tilt slider
Platform/Operating System S60 5th Edition, Symbian OS v9.4
Current Firmware Version (RM-507) 12.2.024 (RM-505) 20.0.019
CPU Single CPU, 434 MHz ARM
Storage 32GB internal
Memory 128MB SDRAM
GSM frequencies 850/900/1800/1900 MHz
HSDPA frequencies 900/1900/2100 MHz (Worldwide) or 850/1900/2100 MHz (Americas)
GPRS Yes, class 32
EDGE (EGPRS) Yes, class 32
3G HSDPA (3.5G), 3.6 Mbit/s
Wi-Fi Yes, with WEP and WPA security
Main screen TFT touchscreen, 16,777,216 colours, 360×640 pixels, 3.5 inches, resistive touch screen with separate touch foil and touch feedback
Camera Primary: 5.0Mpx (2584×1938), f/2.8 Carl Zeiss Tessar lens, autofocus, video (VGA@30fps, H.263/MPEG-4), dual LED flash, f/2.8, 5.4 mm focal length, 4× digital zoom
Secondary: VGA (640×480), video (176×144@15fps, H.263), 2× digital zoom
Video recording MPEG-4 640×480 @ 30fps, nHD 16:9 video recording, MPEG-4 SP 640×352 at 30fps (sub-dvd quality)
MMS Yes
Video calls Yes
Java support Yes, MIDP 2.0
Memory card slot microSDHC, hotswap, 16 GB maximum
Bluetooth 2.0+EDR
Infrared No
Data cable support Yes, Micro USB 2.0, Nokia AV 3.5 mm
Browser HTML/XHTML over TCP/IP, WAP 2.0, RSS feeds, Flash Lite
Email Yes
Radio Stereo FM Radio with RDS
GPS A-GPS, GPS
Audio player Yes, AAC, eAAC, eAAC+, MP3, WMA
Video player H.264/AVC, MPEG-4, RealVideo 7,8,9/10, WMV 9 @ 30fps , Flash Video
Polyphonic tones 64 channels
Ringtones MIDI, AMR (NB-AMR), WAV, MP3, AAC2
HF speakerphone Yes
Offline mode Yes
Battery BP-4L 3.7V 1500 mAh
Talk time Up to 9.5 hours (GSM), 6.0 hours (WCDMA)
Standby time Up to 18 days (GSM), 17 days (WCDMA)
Music playback time Up to 40 hours (Offline Mode)
Weight 150 grams
Dimensions 117.2 × 55.3 × 15.9 (18.25 at camera area) mm,
SAR-Rating 0.5 W/kg
VOIP Support SIP (Session Initiation Protocol using IETF), lacks client to make/receive calls, due to be fixed in next firmware version
Other Nokia Maps 3.1 Touch, TV out, document viewer, Nokia Photo Browser, FM transmitter

Operating times

Informal tests have shown that the battery can last nearly two days despite regular use of the phone's various features.. Nokia quote the following claimed operating times

  • Talk time: Up to 6.0 hours (3G), 9.5 hours (GSM)
  • Standby time: Up to 17 days (3G), 18 days (GSM)
  • Video playback: Up to 4.5 hours (offline mode)
  • Video recording: Up to 3.6 hours (offline mode)
  • Music playback: Up to 40 hours (offline mode)