Nokia N97 Review

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Nokia N97

Among the rising number of smart phones, a new entry has certainly made a lot of impact. It is the new N97 from the cell phone giant Nokia. The new Nokia N97 has an amazing set of functionalities.

Features of Nokia N97

The new Nokia N97 runs on a Symbian 6.0 operating system. It has a 32 GB memory. The memory can be expanded to 48 GB by using a memory card in the phone’s expansion slot.

Also the Nokia N97 has a number of extra applications. It has a wonderful inbuilt YouTube player, the video sharing application Quik, a Wi-Fi application etc.

The Nokia N97 is also designed to support the recently launched Nokia Ovi Store. It allows the N97 users to check out the Symbian applications catalogue and download the preferred applications into the phone.

Also included are the other staple Symbian 60 applications like QuickOffice, Adobe PDF, file manager, Zip manager, a notepad, a calculator, a measurement converter, a voice recorder as well as a clock.

Other important features of the Nokia N97 include a quad-band world roaming facility, a speaker phone, a speed dial functionality, a conference call function and a voice-command support, text and multimedia messaging functionality.

Camera

The N97 has the same 5-megapixel camera like the really popular Nokia N96. The camera has a Carl Zeiss Vario-Tessar lens as well as a dual-LED flash and the auto focus. The camera also offers a 4x digital zoom.

Music player

The Nokia N97 has a really good media player that plays all kind of sound files like MP3, AAC, WMA, AAC+ as well as eAAC+ files. The users can also categorize the tracks according to the artist, the album and the genre. There also is a built-in equalizer. The phone also offers Internet radio support as well as a FM tuner.

Video Player

The phone also has a built in RealPlayer that can play both 3GP as well as the MPEG-4 files. The display quality is really good.

Verdict

In spite of the fact that the Symbian 60 operating system is not as wonderful as it used to be, the Nokia N97 still is one of the best smart phones around and is actually worth the money spent.

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