14 DAY TRIAL // Nokia N97, an S60 5th Edition mobile phone, is expected to come to the market in July on Vodafone's airwaves, and we must agree that it looks like a great high-end device, not only due to its 3.5-inch bright nHD TFT resistive touch screen able to offer a 640 x 360 pixel resolution, or to its operating system, but courtesy of the entire list of hardware components, features and capabilities it will offer its owners.
The full specification list for the smartphone is available in the wild, and we can count three different device models, depending on the market they are expected to be launched on. For the beginning, there is the RM-505 Global model, which sports WCDMA, HSDPA (Cat 6 max.3.6 Mbps) 900/1900/2100 and EGSM 850/900/1800/1900 + WLAN, then comes the RM-506 China, with EGSM 850/900/1800/1900, and the RM-507 Americas variant, featuring WCDMA, HSDPA (Cat 6 max.3.6 Mbps) 850/1900/2100 and EGSM 850/900/1800/1900 + WLAN.
The 117.2 x 55.3 x 15.9 mm phone weighs 150g, and sports a slide-out QWERTY keyboard along with five other keys: one for applications, two for calling/ending calls, a dedicated camera key and a dedicated volume key. Inside there is an ARM 11 434 MHz CPU, Accelerometer Sensor, Ambient Light Sensor, Compass, Stereo FM RDS Radio, Stereo Handsfree Speakers, TV Out, A-GPS Bluetooth 2.0 +EDR, USB 2.0 High-Speed, WLAN 802.11b/g, and a 5.0-megapixel camera with 4x digital zoom, Auto Focus, Carl Zeiss Optics, Self Timer, Sequence Mode, Video Recording and Dual LED flash and video light, as well as a secondary camera.
The feature list of the device includes Files on OVI, Nokia Maps 2.0, Nokia Music Store, Share on OVI, Still Image Editor, HTML Browser, Flash Lite 3.0, Video Editor, Video Player (with support for 3GPP formats (H.263), Flash Video, H.264/AVC, MPEG-4, RealVideo 7,8,9/10, WMV 9), Audio Streaming, Music Player (supports AAC, AAC+, AMR-NB, AMR-WB, AU, AWB, eAAC+, M4A, MIDI Tones (poly 64), Mobile XMF, MP3, MP4, RealAudio 7,8,10, RMF, SND, SP-MIDI, True tones, WAV, WMA, WVE), support for Excel, PDF, PowerPoint, Word, Zip, and messaging capabilities that include IM, SMS, MMS+SMIL, OMA Multimedia Messaging Service v1.3, email (IMAP4, POP3, SMTP) and OMA E-mail Notification v1.0.
The Nokia N97 comes with 32GB of mass storage capabilities, 256 MB Nand Memory, 128 MB, SDRAM Memory, Micro SD memory card slot with support for up to 16 GB of additional storage space, and includes a BP-4L 3.7V 1500 mAh battery that can offer up to 9.5 hours of talk time and up to 18 days of standby time on GSM, as well as 6.0 hours of talk time and 17 days of standby on WCDMA. In addition, it can also provide Video Playback Time up to 4.5 hours, Video Recording Time up to 3.6 hours and Music Playback Time up to 40.0 hours.