This is the new Nokia N97 Mini. You can guess why it's called “mini”, it is rather the smaller version of the Nokia N97. While it's a mini, the features are certainly not minimal.
The Nokia N97 Mini is designed to make it easier for users to carry it, portability. It has almost all of the features of the original N97. It's as powerful and as useful, it is also a high seller and no doubt about it. It's the most talked about and desired phone today.
Let's have a look at what the Nokia N97 Mini has to offer
Design
The Nokia N97 Mini is a Smartphone that isn't just usable, but usable too. The phone is compact and looks attractive. It's a touchscreen phone that is113 x 52.5 x 14.2 mm in size and but weighs heavy in 138 grams. It's just a bit smaller than the N97 but it's definitely much better in terms of handling and portability.
Despite it's smaller size, it has a big 3.2 Inch 16.7 million colour QVGA touch screen, displaying 640 x 360 pixels resolution. A very high quality screen, better than most of today's touchscreen mobilephones. It's a touchscreen phone but it has a slide out QWERTY keypad, this adds much usability as this doesn't alien out users who aren't used to touch screen phones.
Connectivity
The Nokia N97 Mini also shines in connectivity features, all the latest and fastest technologies. Its got GPRS, EDGE, 3G HSDPA and WLAN Wi-Fi with UPnP Support. These are fast data rate transfer technologies which has a download speed of that of broadband connection! This makes it easy to access the Internet as you have a lot of options to choose, all fast and reliable too!
The phone has Quad Band frequency which is great. It utilizes GSM 850, GSM 900, GSM 1800 & GSM 1900 and WCDMA (850, 900, 1900 and 2100). Having more than one frequency in one device is useful to enable roaming between different countries that peg the allowed transmission frequency at different values or to allow a better coverage in the same country. This basically means that you will have good connection when calling anywhere in the world and if you're inside a good coverage you can easily enjoy an uninterrupted calls.
Messaging
Messaging is never a problem for Nokia N97 Mini. It has SMS (Text Messaging) and MMS (Multimedia Messaging) support. The phone can send Email has predictive text functionality, it also has Push Email. You can add files to your Emails too, call it Email with Attachments.
Multimedia
As for mobilephone Multimedia features, Nokia phones are known for it having the best entertainment features. It is equipped with a Music Player that can virtually play all common music file types. These are: MP3, WMA, AAC, eAAC and eAAC+. It has FM Radio RDS and a Dedicated Volume control on the side.
You can watch movies or video clip that is in MPEG4, H264 or QCIF formats. You can also watch Online through Video Streaming.
Memory
The Nokia N97 Mini has a huge memory, capable of storing 8 Gbytes. It's also expandable using its MicroSD Memory Card Support that can go up to 16 Gbytes.
Camera
The Nokia N97 Mini is all you need, including camera features. It has a 5 Megapixel Camera which is a Carl Zeiss Optics quality. It has Dual LED Flash and a 14x Digital Zoom. And if it's a bother zooming manually while your target isn't too far away, you can just set it to Autofocus and take a shot.
The Nokia N97 Mini mobilephone has Picture and Video Geo Tagging, this is very efficient as well as fun for people who are on tour. The phone can record videos and it does a good job too. It can record in MPEG4 and VGA format in 30 fps. It has Video Scene feature which has Video Light, Colour Tone and White Balance control.
Battery Life
The Nokia N97 Mini has an expected 7 Hours GSM Talk Time or 320 Hours GSM Standby Time. If you're more of a multimedia user, the Nokia N97 Mini mobilephone has 32 Hours Music Playback Time or 3.5 Hours Video Playback Time, enough time to make your ears bleed or watch a long movie.
All in all, the Nokia N97 looks good and handy and with all its multimedia features, it's definitely a great value for money. So if you're planning to get it, better have a cheap Vodafone contract deal so that you will have a guarantee to be able to return it if you don't like it, depends on your contract though. You can also search for the best Nokia N97 Mini with free gift package offers, this will give you good discounts if you were planning on buying something else so that you can get this phone free.
