Nokia N97 Mini

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The Nokia army of touchscreen smartphones gets larger by the hour and the Nokia N97 mini is surely one of the most interesting new recruits. The Finnish company has obviously reconsidered its priories and now focuses on optimization, rather than expansion with its flagships.

The original Nokia N97 was the first sign of that as it hardly offered any ground-breaking features, instead relaying on the good all-round performance. However the first high-end S60 touchscreen handset left enough room for another similar handset in the portfolio and Nokia feel that its downsized version is enough to fill the gap.

Classi Nokia N-97 Mini

   

   Slide-n-tilt 3.2" 16M-color resistive touchscreen of 640 x 360 pixel resolution

    5 megapixel autofocus camera with dual-LED flash and VGA@30fps video recording

    Symbian OS 9.4 with S60 5th edition UI with kinetic scrolling

    Slide-out three-row full QWERTY keyboard

    ARM 11 434MHz CPU and 128 MB of RAM

    Quad-band GSM and tri-band 3G with 3.6Mbps HSDPA support

    Wi-Fi and GPS with A-GPS

    Digital compass

    8GB onboard storage

    microSD card slot with microSDHC support

    Built-in accelerometer

    3.5 mm audio jack and TV-out

    Stereo FM Radio with RDS

    microUSB port (charging) and stereo Bluetooth v2.0

    Web browser has full Flash and Java support

    Nice audio reproduction quality

    Office document viewer

The S60 touch UI is still inconsistent

Outdated camera interface and features

No DivX or XviD video support out-of-the-box

No smart dialing

No office document editing (without a paid upgrade)

No camera lens protection

No FM transmitter (though that may be 

Classic Mini N-97

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    More compact (113 x 52.5 x 14.2 mm, 75 cc vs 117.2 x 55.3 x 15.9 mm, 88 cc)

    Lighter (138g vs 150g)

    Smaller display (3.2" vs 3.5")

    Less internal memory (8GB vs 32GB)

    Smaller battery (1200 mAh vs 1500 mAh)

    No lens cover

    No FM transmitter

    Arrow keys vs D-pad 

Side View Of Nokia N97 Mini

The N97 mini has quite a task on its hands, constantly being compared to the moe high ranking Nokia N97 even though it comes later to the market. As usually happens in such cases, the price difference that would have been present if both handsets were launched simultaneously is reduced and the balance of powers has shifted.