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An article has emerged on IntoMobile, in this article it discusses the top 5 pros and top 5 cons with Nokia’s latest handset the Nokia N97, obviously the big question with the handset would be whether the handsets OS could deliver what all the high end hardware has the potential to offer.

The pros according to the report on IntoMobile included, that its form factor is great and the combination of having a full touch screen display and a full QWERTY keyboard is great. The Carl Zeiss optics powered camera is said to leave its Windows Mobile competition behind. The customizable home screen allows a user create a unique easy to use and efficient interface. The Nokia N97’s overall multimedia performance is said to be very good. Finally the pre-installed applications on the handset allow a great deal of different functionality.

The cons seem to be that the keyboard design doesn’t allow as seamless usage as other competing full QWERTY keyboards, also the camera although it is great it still takes the same 5 megapixel photos which the N95 offered in 2007. Performance wise a combination of the CPU, RAM and OS seem to make the Operating System sluggish, especially when compared to some other competing handsets. Another complainT is just the general functionality of the Symbian OS it just doesn’t offer as much of an enjoyable experience as webOS, Android and Apple OS 3.0. The final problem IntoMobile with the Ovi Store read the full article for full details.

Nokia N97 Specification
General
- 2G Network GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
- 3G Network HSDPA 900 / 1900 / 2100
- HSDPA 850 / 1900 / 2100 - American version
- Announced 2008, November
- Status Available. Released 2009, June
Size
- Dimensions 117.2 x 55.3 x 15.9 mm, 88 cc
- Weight 150 g
Display
- Type TFT resistive touchscreen, 16M colors
- Size 360 x 640 pixels, 3.5 inches
- Proximity sensor for auto turn-off
- Accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate
- Full QWERTY keyboard
- Handwriting recognition
Sound
- Alert types Vibration; MP3 ringtones
- Speakerphone, with stereo speakers 3.5 mm audio jack
Memory
- Phonebook Practically unlimited entries and fields, Photocall
- Call records Detailed, max 30 days
- Internal 32 GB storage, 128 MB RAM
- Card slot microSD (TransFlash), up to 16GB, buy memory
Data
- GPRS Class 32
- HSCSD
- EDGE Class 32
- 3G HSDPA, 3.6 Mbps
- WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g, UPnP technology
- Bluetooth, v2.0 with A2DP
- Infrared port
- USB, v2.0 microUSB
Camera
- Camera Primary 5 MP, 2592x1944 pixels, Carl Zeiss optics, autofocus, LED flash, video light
- Features Geo-tagging
- Video, VGA@30fps
- Secondary, VGA@15fps
Features
- OS Symbian OS v9.4, Series 60 rel. 5
- CPU ARM 11 434 MHz processor
- Messaging SMS, MMS, Email, Push Email, IM
- Browser WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML, RSS feeds
- Radio Stereo FM radio with RDS, Visual radio; FM transmitter
- Games, N-gage + downloadable
- Colors White, Black
- GPS, with A-GPS support; Nokia Maps
- Java, MIDP 2.1
- Digital compass
- MP3/WMA/WAV/eAAC+ music player
- WMV/RealVideo/MP4 video player
- TV-out
- Voice command/dial
- Document viewer (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF)
- Video and photo editor
- Flash Lite 3
- T9
Battery
- Standard battery, Li-Ion 1500 mAh (BP-4L)
- Stand-by Up to 432 h (2G) / 408 h (3G)
- Talk time Up to 9 h 30 min (2G) / Up to 6 h (3G)
- Music play Up to 40 h