(Photo: Nokia)
Today Nokia launched their iPhone competitor on the Nokia World 08 in Spain. The Nokia N97 features a big tilting touch screen, sliding QWERTY keyboard and a 32 GB onboard memory.
Nokia calls the N97 the world most advanced mobile computer. It’s clearly aimed at people producing for and viewing content on social platforms.
The N97 comes with a 5 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics. Like N96 it comes with two LEDs, not the flash known from N82. The screen can show content in 16:9, but it seems like it only record in 640*480.
Nokia brags about the video recording quality, calling it DVD quality. I don’t believe it until I see it. The Nokia N96 was supposed to be better than N95 and N82, but in my opinion it’s really bad. It will be exciting to see if they have upped the video recording quality on N97. If they can’t produce better video quality, several years after the launched the N95, it will be really disappointing. From N95/N82 to N96, they among other things changed the recording codec, producing bigger files, but not better video quality.
The on-board memory is increased to 32 GB. You can even expand it with a 16 GB microSD card. The phone runs Symbian 60 5th edition. You will se a lot of iPhone like features with flipping and flopping in the menus.
According to Robert Scoble, the N97 is a much better phone than iPhone . Scoble has tested the phone and thinks this is the perfect phone for Facebook.
Besides a 5 megapixel camera, the phone of course have WIFI, HSDPA and GPS. The battery is a lot bigger than on N82 and N96.
As usual, you will have to wait a bit for the N97. It’s supposed to hit the market in the first half of 2009. That probably means in June next year.
Tags: Cell phone, Uncategorized by Frank Barth-Nilsen
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