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Nokia N97 Announced : Product Specifications and Features

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Nokia, the world leader in manufacturing Mobile Phones, announced its next big thing today, Nokia N97.

Nokia N97 is running on Symbian Series60 5th Edition with touchscreen user interface and fully optimized for one hand operation. Navigation is pretty easy like Nokia 5800 XpressMusic Tube. There are only three buttons below the 3.5 inch screen. One is Menu and the others are Call Accept and Call Reject. There are several dedicated keys like Volume, Camera Shutter, Power are also present. This device has a full functional QWERTY Keyboard when you slide it from left to right making it the PDA.

Nokia N97

Nokia N97

Watching video is also a great experience with built in support for MPEG-4 / SP and MPEG-4 AVC/H.264,up to 30 fps. Theres no issue for framerate according to Nokia. It also supports Real Video up to QCIF @ 30 fps and Windows Media (WMV9) up to CIF @ 30 fps.

The Music Quality is excellent, and supports MP3, AAC, eAAC, eAAC+, WMA formats. The N Series Music Player lets you create, edit your own playlist and save them. It also supports embedded Album Art into mp3 files and show it while playing. The built in FM Receiver is also good on producing excellent sound quality. Theres also an option to listen to Internet Radio stations of your choice.

The main Camera supports up to 5 megapixels (2584 x 1938), like former N95 or N96. It can save images in JPEG/EXIF formats with 16.7 million/24-bit colors. Video Recording is of DVD quality. It can record MPEG-4 VGA (640 x 480) at up to 30 fps. Theres also option to record in 3GP format for MMS and Video Ringing Tone. The camera aperture is F2.8 with Focal Length of 5.4 mm which is really very good. The Dual LED camera flash and video light is sufficient to shoot at dark.

Browsing Internet experience is improved since Nokia N96. Built in browser supports full HTML/XHTML encoding. Flash Lite 3.0 / Flash Video in internet browser lets you watch your favorite videos from YouTube, Google Video or any other sites. It also supports streaming video and audio.

The device comes with preloaded Nokia Maps and with integrated compass and A-GPS receiver. Other GPS features are Multimedia city guides and navigation services. Drive: voice guided car navigation, or Walk: pedestrian-optimized turn-by-turn guidance. (Navigation may need to be purchased separately.)

Nokia N97 supports both GSM 850/900/1800/1900 MHz and WCDMA 900/1900/2100 (HSDPA) mode. Internet Access is possible through 3G, EDGE (GPRS Class 1) and IEEE 802.11b/g. Local Connectivity is possible through WiFi, Bluetooth wireless technology 2.0 with A2DP stereo audio, enhanced data rates (EDR) and Micro-USB connector, Hi-Speed USB 2.0. A 3.5mm stereo headphone plug and TV-out support (PAL/NTSC) is also present.

Built in 32GB Flash Memory ensures you never have to delete your valuable data. If you feel that this is not sufficient, theres also a MicroSD card slot available and can be extended to 42GB with a 16GB MicroSD HC Memory Card stick.

So, the verdict, is the N97 worth it or not? Sure, arguably funkier looking, sleeker and has a high quality finish, in addition to having huge storage. The price is not yet disclosed by Nokia but can be estimated a little over $1000 since it’s predecessor Nokia N96 comes at around $750.

Popularity: 17% [?]

Nokia 5800 Xpress Music Tube : Nokia’s answer to Apple

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The new Nokia 5800 Xpress Music Tube is Nokia’s answer to Apple’s iPhone. With it’s sleek look and design its going to give iPhone 3G a good competition ahead.

The Nokia 5800 is the first device running of Symbian Series60 5th Edition. The main advantage of this latest OS is its touchscreen support. The device is mainly aimed for people who love multimedia to the highest level on the go.

The 3.2 inch display with resolution of 640 x 360 pixels (nHD) supporting up to 16 million colors is crisp enough to give the user a better experience. Brightness is also good which makes the display visible id direct sunlight. The built in 3D Image Engine takes the mobile gaming to the next level.

Nokia 5800 XpressMusic

Nokia 5800 XpressMusic

The Touch Screen user interface is fully optimized for single hand operation and supported by three buttons at the bottom of the screen. That includes Call Accept, Call Reject and Menu. The Power Key is at the top of the handset and the camera and volume keys are on the right edge like other new Nokia Handsets.

Music quality is pretty good, I bet Nokia researched a lot to improve this. Theres no noticeable distortion of sound quality on maximum volume out in both headset and loudspeaker. The phone supports mp3, SpMidi, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, WMA music formats. The signal reception on built in FM tuner is also good which makes it truly Xpress Music. The 3.5 mm Nokia AV connector allows you to use your favorite headset to listen to music.

You can take decent quality pictures (2048 x 1536 pixels maximum) and videos (MP4 and 3GP) with its 3.2 MegaPixel Camera sensor. Carl Zeiss Optics lenses with Autofocus and Duel LED flash captures decent quality pictures even at low light conditions.

The phone is truly connected with GPS, CSD, HSCSD, 3G and EDGE (GPRS Packet Data). MTP (Mobile Transfer Protocol) and TCP/IP is also available. PC Connectivity is possible trough Mini USB port, Bluetooth 2.0 and WiFi. A TV output post is also available.

The phone has a 81MB dynamic user memory sharing with contacts, messages, PIM informations and Gallery. The Memory can be expandable to 16GB with MicroSD Memory Sticks. The supplied 8GB Nokia MU-43 MicroSD HC memory card saves you some money though.

Battery life is very good, With its supplied BL-5J battary (1350 mA) you can listen up to 35 hours of music or capture 3.6 hours of high quality video. Stand by time in GSM is about 400 hours and talktime is about 8 hours.

These all makes this phone a must have and is a steal at tentative price of $499.

Popularity: 17% [?]

Symbian S60 5th Edition Lunched

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In addition to the well-known features like the S60 browser and web widgets of the previous S60 3rd Edition, the new S60 5th Edition introduces a host of new features that improve the multimedia and internet experience, offer a reliable, visual touch UI experience, and drive the evolution of developer innovation.

S60 5th Edition includes advanced camcorder features, including widescreen (16:9) video recording capability. Advanced users can adjust image capture with settings such as white balance, color tone and sharpness. Even with the finest settings, errors such as red eye might happen. There is no need to transfer files as the S60 5th Edition includes built-in image and video editors for quick corrections, which make it possible for users to share their images and videos directly from their mobile.

Series60 5th Edition

Series60 5th Edition

With the widescreen nHD display support in S60 5th Edition, it’s now possible watch videos and images in widescreen mode. The versatile multimedia support includes the common video and audio formats such as MP3, ACC, H.264, Windows Media, Flash Video, and many more. With the built-in internet browser and Flash Lite support, it’s possible to browse the internet as it was intended, and the bigger nHD screen combined with a touch UI enhance the browsing experience even further.

Touch UI, combined with tactile feedback and sensor framework, creates new opportunities for S60 licensees to differentiate and enhance the familiar S60 user experience. The built-in demand paging in S60 5th Edition improves application performance especially for memory-hungry applications and improves memory management to minimize the risks of an out-of-memory situation.

To evolve the developer innovation and opportunities, S60 5th Edition introduces Platform Services for S60. Platform Services enable web widget and Flash developers to access a rich set of features offered by S60 on the Symbian OS platform. With the addition of Open C++, S60 on Symbian OS offers a wide set of powerful developer opportunities for various different developer needs.

First device with S60 5th Edition is Nokia 5800 Xpress Music.

Popularity: 34% [?]