We have all been waiting for the Nokia’s Real iPhone Competitor. The Nokia 5800 XPress Music was good, but it wasn’t good enough to give the Apple iPhone a tough Competition. Some users weren’t even impressed by the Nokia Touch Screen Phone as it was too buggy. There was new a couple months back about the N-Series Touch Screen Phone, all those rumors have come to be true and the Real iPhone Competitor by Nokia is Here.

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