It’s the latest "mobile computer" from Nokia — Nokia claims that it is one of the most advanced gadgets to date — well, these sound to be the most luring reasons to buy Nokia N97. However, these are not the only reasons, Nokia’s latest smartphone – Nokia N97 – offers you plenty.

Nokia N97 offers you 3.5 inch sliding tilt TFT LCD touchscreen, featuring higher resolution of 640 X 360 pixels, 16:9 aspect ratio, and up to 16.7 million colors, for enjoying DVD quality content. With 5.0 megapixels camera, featuring f/2.8 Carl Zeiss Tessar lens and dual LED flash, you can shoot fine photos and DVD quality videos comfortably anytime day or night. With fast, accurate, and easy-to-use slide-out QWERTY keypad, you can do ceaseless and tireless typing.    

Nokia N97 offers you huge storage capacity. The smartphone offers internal storage of 32 GB, and what is more, you can enhance the storage capacity up to 48 GB with micro SDHC card. The phone offers you plenty of storage space to hoard your music or video collections, or other files. The gizmo supports “audio file formats” including MP3, AAC, eAAC, eAAC+, WMA; — “video file formats” including MPEG-4 SP, H.264, RealVideo, WMV9, Flash Video; — and “ringtone file formats” including MIDI, AMR (NB-AMR), WAV, MP3, AAC2.

With 802.11b/g with UPnP, USB 2.0, Bluetooth 2.0, and TV-out (PAL/NTSC), Nokia N97 offers wider connectivity. The phone also offers connectivity via MicroSD, MicroUSB, and Usb Mass Storage. The phone allows you experience the complete power of cyber world with fast WLAN and HSDPA connections (higher 7.2 Mbps speed). The phone offers support and compatibility with EDGE, 3G, GPRS, and Wi-Fi 802.11b/g networks.

Nokia N97 offers a slew of entertainment features, such music player, video player, Stereo FM radio with RDS, Visual radio, FM transmitter, and 3.5 mm headphone jack. Furthermore, Nokia N97 comes with Nokia Maps 3.0 Touch, Digital Compass, Document Viewer, Nokia Photo Browser, Built-in GPS receivers, Widgets for connecting social networking sites, such as Facebook, Twitter and others, and Handwriting Recognition Feature. The phone also allows you to download a number of widgets, ringtones, images, videos, games from Ovi Store.

Nokia N97 comes powered by BP-4L 3.7V 1500 mAh battery boasting of 9.5 hours (GSM) talk time and 6.0 hours (WCDMA) talk time; 18 days (GSM) standby time and 17 days (WCDMA) standby time; and 40 hours (Offline Mode) of music playback time.

Physically, the size of Nokia N97 is 117.2 × 55.3 × 15.9 mm (18.25 mm at camera area), and its weight is 150g. Technologically, Nokia N97 uses Symbian OS 9.4 with Nokia S60 Fifth Edition UI. It comes equipped with single CPU, 434 MHz ARM11 clocking at 434 MHz and 128 MB RAM, and PowerVR SGX graphics supporting OPENGL ES 2.0.

Nokia N97 supports networks including HSDPA (3.5G), Quad band GSM / GPRS / EDGE GSM 850, GSM 900, GSM 1800, GSM 1900. Nokia N97 is also capable of supporting Skype VOIP. Nokia N97 is priced around Rs. 36,000. You can buy your Nokia N97 from Nokia retail outlets throughout the country.