Remember the last time we talked about Nokia N97, it was in February and we gave you a peak through this wonderful product. Now that it has launched, we are pleased to say that Nokia hasn’t let us down this time too. No matter how powerful it is inside, the outer looks are aesthetically pleasing too. A 3.5 inch touch screen TFT Display, a full QWERTY slideout keyboard, A-GPS and GPS, HSDPA, Wi-Fi, USB 2.0, stereo Bluetooth connectivity and 5 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss Tessar lens and dual LED flash are some of the main features of the Nokia N97.

Full Phone Specifications

General:

• 2G Network: GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900

• 3G Network: HSDPA 900 / 1900 / 2100

Size:

• Dimensions: 117.2 x 55.3 x 15.9-18.3 mm

• Weight: 150 g

Features:

• OS: Symbian OS v9.4, Series 60 rel. 5

• Messaging SMS, MMS, Email, Push Email, IM

• Browser: WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML, RSS feeds

• Games: Yes + downloadable

• Colors: White, Brown

• Camera: 5 MP, 2584×1938 pixels, Carl Zeiss optics, autofocus, video(VGA@30fps), flash; secondary videocall camera

• – Built-in GPS receiver

• – A-GPS support

• – Nokia Maps 2.0 Touch

• – Digital compass

• - Java MIDP 2.0

• – MP3/WMA/WAV/eAAC+ player

• – MPEG4/WMV/3gp video player

• – Stereo FM radio with RDS

• – FM transmitter

• – TV out

• – 3.5 mm audio output jack

• – Voice command/dial

• – Document viewer

• – T9 Dictionary

• – Flash Lite 3

• – Built-in handsfree

Display:

• - 360 x 640 pixels, 3.5 inches Display

• – Proximity sensor for auto turn-off

• – Accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate

• – Full QWERTY keyboard

• – Handwriting recognition

Memory:

• - microSD (TransFlash), up to 16GB of Memory

• – 32 GB internal memory

The Nokia N97 introduces the concept of ‘social location’. With integrated A-GPS sensors and an electronic compass, the Nokia N97 mobile computer intuitively understands where it is. The Nokia N97 makes it easy to update social networks automatically with real-time information, giving approved friends the ability to update their ‘status’ and share their ‘social location’ as well as related pictures or videos.

At a price of about $600, it is still much better and cheaper than the New iPhone 3G-S. TestFreaks rate the Nokia N97 9.4 out of 10, CNet gave it a score of 3.5 stars out of 5 and PhoneMag describes the phone as a serious, business-like phone.

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Nokia has recently announced the launch of three new handsets in the market. These new phones are targeted towards Music lovers.  The first one of the line, 5730 XpressMusic is a slide open QWERTY Phone, the 5330 XpressMusic is a simple slider and 5030 XpressRadio is a candybar phone. All these phones support access to the Nokia Music Store which is now supported in 15 countries.

Nokia 5730 XpressMusic

The Nokia 5730 will be available for purchase in the 3rd Quarter if this year and will cost $360.  It will have 128 MB of RAM and up to 140 MB of internal storage memory. The Nokia 5730 is Nokia’s first QWERTY device optimized for both music and gaming with dedicated audio and N-Gage keys just like the Nokia N81.

Nokia 5730 XpressMusic will feature a 2 inch 16M colored QVGA display, a built-in GPS receiver, Bluetooth and USB connectivity. It will have a 3.2 Megapixel Camera with Carl Zeiss. It will also have 3G with video-call support.

Nokia 5330 XpressMusic

The 5330 slider is priced at $330 and has a 3.5-mm Audio Jack. It sports Music touch keys on the side of the display for easy music navigation. It has a slightly bigger Screen than the Nokia 5730. The Screen is a 2.4″ True Colour TFT,  having a resolution of 240 x 320 pixels (QVGA) and 16M colors.

The Phone has Combo memory of 64 MB flash and 32 MB RAM and a Hot Swap microSD card slot for extending memory. For the eye-candy, illumination effects have been added to the phone. The battery is sufficient for 26-hours of continuous Audio Playback. this phone will be available for purchase later this year.

Nokia 5330 XpressRadio

The Last one and the cheapest of this product line, The 5030 XpressRadio has a built in FM antenna. The built-in antenna eliminates the need of connecting the headphone while listening to Radio. It is Nokia’s first model which is capable of playing radio without connecting Headphone. It has 1.8 inch TFT screen having 65K colors and a resolution of 128 x 160 pixels. The Phone has a 2.5 mm Nokia AV connector and gives 24 hours of continous Radio Playback. The phone also has a torch and Dedicated radio and channel selection keys. It will hit the stores in April and will cost $50.

via Geeky Gadgets and Pocket Lint

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Yeah! You are reading it right. Nokia, the Mobile Phone giant is considering to enter the laptop business by manufacturing small, portable and powerful Laptops for its loyal customers. Chief Executive Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo said in an interview to Finnish national broadcaster YLE on Wednesday that Nokia is eyeing entering the laptop business. WHen asked about the Company’s plans to Produce laptops Kallasvuo said “We are looking very actively also at this opportunity.” Hefurther added “Today we have hundreds of millions of people who are having their first Internet experience on the phone. This is a good indication.” I have strong opinion that Nokia will use this to their advantage and it should. It has enable a long list of customers to get connected to the world. Nokia’s Low-end GPRS enabled phones have no doubt enabled the poor to experience the Internet which wouldn’t have otherwise afforded the Computers. This has resulted in a loyal following of Nokia products in the market. People will definitely prefer buying the Nokia Laptops instead of anyother brand they are not aware of. “All leading mobile network operators and retailers are adding connected notebooks and netbooks to their portfolios alongside mobile phones. On this basis it comes as no surprise that Nokia is evaluating this segment,” said Ben Wood, research director at CCS Insight.

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Disease Checking Cell phone by Nokia, First of its Kind.

The Handset measure the composition of variou gases in your breathe and compares it with that of various diseases and tell you if you are ill or not. Applied Nanodetectors Ltd (AND) of the UK successfully rolled out a prototyped cell phone which was specially developed to detect a range of diseases, all from the user’s breath. It was being paraded at the International Nanotechnology Exhibition & Conference 2009.

How Does it work?

the cell phone will come with an integrated AND chip that uses built-in sensors in order to detect a bunch of gases including CO2, NOx and ammonia (NH3). This chip is smart enough to break down the composition of the user’s breath, while tabulating the density of each gas. Results are matched with the characteristics of various diseases in order to detect them, making the matching process akin to fingerprint matching.

Now that we have this gadgets at hand, we will be able to treat maximum number of disesases at the right time with neccessary ailment and hence this will decrease overall Disease count. Quite cool, isn’t it?

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The Nokia N97 is the latest offering by Nokia. It has a 3.5 inch touch screen TFT Display, a full QWERTY slideout keyboard, A-GPS and GPS, HSDPA, Wi-Fi, USB 2.0, stereo Bluetooth connectivity and 5 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss Tessar lens and dual LED flash. The Nokia have disappointed us yet again by not adding the Xenon Flash as was built into the Nokia N82. The phone gives enough power to run up to 37 hours of music / up to 4.5 hours of video uninterrupted. It also sports a 3.5mm headphone jack for Audio out option. As for the Storage front, this phone beats when the Daddy of Memory, the Nokia N96 by 16 GBs of extra memory than the later. The Nokia N97 features up to 32 GB of storage and up to 16GB additional memory via microSD. The last but not the least, The Nokia N97 has a Symbian S60 5th Edition Operating system same as that of Nokia 5800 XpressMusic Touch Screen Phone.

Full Phone Specifications

General:

• 2G Network: GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900

• 3G Network: HSDPA 900 / 1900 / 2100

Size:

• Dimensions: 117.2 x 55.3 x 15.9-18.3 mm

• Weight: 150 g

Features:

• OS: Symbian OS v9.4, Series 60 rel. 5

• Messaging SMS, MMS, Email, Push Email, IM

• Browser: WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML, RSS feeds

• Games: Yes + downloadable

• Colors: White, Brown

• Camera: 5 MP, 2584×1938 pixels, Carl Zeiss optics, autofocus, video(VGA@30fps), flash; secondary videocall camera

• – Built-in GPS receiver

• – A-GPS support

• – Nokia Maps 2.0 Touch

• – Digital compass

• - Java MIDP 2.0

• – MP3/WMA/WAV/eAAC+ player

• – MPEG4/WMV/3gp video player

• – Stereo FM radio with RDS

• – FM transmitter

• – TV out

• – 3.5 mm audio output jack

• – Voice command/dial

• – Document viewer

• – T9 Dictionary

• – Flash Lite 3

• – Built-in handsfree

Display:

• - 360 x 640 pixels, 3.5 inches Display

• – Proximity sensor for auto turn-off

• – Accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate

• – Full QWERTY keyboard

• – Handwriting recognition

Memory:

• - microSD (TransFlash), up to 16GB of Memory

• – 32 GB internal memory

Nokia N97 Video

Here is a Demo video of the Nokia N97 Touch Screen Mobile Phone.

Some More Pictures

Nokia N-Series Touch Screen Phone - Nokia N97

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It was rather imminent after the launch of Nokia 5800 XpressMusic Phone ( More commonly called the ‘Tube’) that Nokia was trying to hit the Apple’s iPhone Head on. The Nokia tube is a Mid-Range Touchscreen phone but it doesn’t fail to surprise up with some of the unique features it bundled inside itself. The main features of the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic include but are not limited to a Touch Sensitve Screen, a 3.2 Megapixel with autofocus and a Symbian 5.0 Operating System.
The N-Series Touch screen phones will have a lot many features and they will be of course, High-end. At an event in New Delhi, India – Devinder Kishore, Director Marketing, Nokia India was quoted as saying – “We will have lot of touchscreen phones coming up, including an N-series device very soon.”

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