Nokia’s Touchscreen N97 Pre-Review
Nokia N97 is a sleek new touch screen handset with HSDPA data access, a slide-out QWERTY keypad, and customizable widgets. It also have GPS, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth (including a stereo Bluetooth profile), and a whopping 32GB of on-board memory—plus a microSD memory slot, for a potential total of 48GB of storage. It will be released in 2009.
Unlike the Nokia 5800, the N97 is a full-on N series handset, including new universal messaging features, online file storage, and the ability to sync driving directions—from PC to phone, and vice versa after you’ve completed your journey—with Nokia Maps (now enhanced with topographical features and satellite views). Also : N-Gage gaming.
Multimedia features of Nokia N97 including 30 frame-per-second video playback, a 3.5mm headset jack, TV out, and a 5-megapixel camera capable of VGA-quality video capture—nice.
Even N97 is a cool handset but the price will be high when it releases perhaps 550 euros when it debuts in Europe next year and the unlocked version of the phone will cost in the $500-$700 range.
