Expected release in June of 2009, this should be the world’s most advanced mobile computer.

The N97 is the newest phone in Nokia’s line of products based on the S60 platform (5th Edition).

The target market for this phone is definitely the younger crowd who wants a modern, powerful phone but prefer features and capability to trendiness and brand name wow-factor.

It’s designed for the needs of Internet-savvy consumers and anyone is into gadgets, phones, or simply be someone who loves having the latest and greatest in the wireless market.

The large 3.5? touch screen display makes it very convenient to operate and with a slide-out full QWERTY keyboard you can text all day long with ease. The screen resolution is 640 by 360 pixels, which is close to the resolution many full sized desktop computers were offering 10 years ago. It seems that touch screen smart phones are the current trend right now.

The Symbian OS-based smartphone also features a music and video player, a 5-megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics and the internal memory is 32GB, and that comes standard on the phone. In addition to the internal space, expandable memory card slots can hold data cards of up to 16GB in size, to store music, photos, or videos. That’s a total storage limit of 48GB, which blows any other device clean out of the water.

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. The Nokia N97 makes it easy to update social networks automatically with real-time information. Integrated social networking utilities update your MySpace and Facebook information right from the main page. Nokia Maps is included as well, which gives you access to national and local maps whenever you need them.

As a phone with a sliding keyboard, it is a little thicker than phones that do not have a physical keyboard but it is directly comparable to the thickness of phones of the same type. It is less than 16 mm thick and does not seem too large or small in any way.

The fully functional integrated web browser can view practically any website that a desktop computer could; making it easy to surf the web, especially when using the Wi-Fi.

Packing the N97 smart phone with all these great features will make it one of the priciest mobile devices out there but as the saying goes “you get what you paid for”. With a tag of around $700 without a contract discount, Nokia N97 is perhaps the most expensive mainstream smart phone available.

 

The Nokia N97 will certainly be the flagship Smartphone of Nokia for quite a while.