As expected, some huge search traffics from both Google and Yahoo has pointed towards this blog after my previous post on Nokia N97 versus Samsung OmniaHD i8910. Everyone’s looking to find out how much would Nokia announce their Nokia N97 price at, or which phone to buy? Nokia N97? Samsung OmniaHD i8910? Which one would you choose?

Given the experiences I had from both Nokia and Samsung, I’d personally recommend Nokia N97 even though I have not tested out any of them and neither did the Samsung OmniaHD release yet. In my personal opinion, I still find that Nokia products does give better confidence to their clients.

As many would have expected that Nokia N97 is gonna be a heavy bulky phone, my webhost Bryan who was invited to the sneak preview of the N97 in KL last week said that it was smaller and lighter than he thought it’d be. Ok, that’d be a great news for me!

Cutting the long story short, I was told that the Nokia N97 is to be priced at RM 2,480/US$ 910 and it is currently on its way from the Finland. So we should be seeing the phone in market probably by next week by the usual distributors of Nokia(Avaxx & Zitron).

Here are some of the highlights of this incoming Nokia N97:

Internet

• Easy and fast connections to internet services
• Easy text input with QWERTY keyboard and touch screen
• 3.5 inch sliding tilt display
• Live personalized home screen with widgets
• Up-to-date information via RSS feed
• Fully compatible with Ovi services
• Browse real web pages
• Take pictures and videos and share them immediately

Video and TV

• Watch high-quality video on the large 3.5 inch 16:9 widescreen
• Video playback at 30 fps, for a wide array of formats
• Play videos, music and pictures on TV using TV-out
• Access internet video feeds through Nokia Video Center

Music

• Enjoy great audio through standard 3.5 mm jack headphones, built-in stereo speakers or Bluetooth technology
• Digital music player with support for playlist editing, equalizer and categorized access to your music collection
• Search, browse and purchase songs online in Nokia Music Store.

Maps and Navigation

• Nokia Maps with integrated compass and A-GPS receiver
• Multimedia city guides and navigation services. Drive: voice guided car navigation, or Walk: pedestrian-optimized turn-by-turn guidance.

Technical Profile

• System: WCDMA 900/1900/2100 (HSDPA), EGSM 850/900/1800/1900 MHz
• User Interface: S60 5th Edition
• Dimensions: 117.2 x 55.3 x 15.9 mm* mm (L x W x H), *18.25 mm at camera area
• Weight: Approx. 150 g
• Display: 3.5 inch TFT with up to 16 million colors, nHD 16:9 widescreen (640×360 pixels)
• Battery: Nokia Battery BP-4L, 1500 mAh

Media

• Memory: Up to 48GB, (32 GB on-board memory, plus 16GB expansion via microSD memory card slot)
• Video playback: H.264/AVC: baseline profile, CIF 30fps 768kbps, MPEG-4/SP: VGA 30fps 4Mbps
• RealVideo: Flash lite 3.0, up to QCIF@30fps, 15fps video playback in browser, Youtube.com over WLAN, WMV9: WideCIF 30fps 2Mbps H.263 Profile 0 Level 10: CIF 30fps 384kbps
• Music playback: MP3, AAC, eAAC, eAAC+, WMA

Main Camera

• Lens: Carl Zeiss Tessar
• Image capture: Up to 5 megapixels (2584 x 1938) JPEG/EXIF (16.7 million/24-bit color)
• Video capture: MPEG-4 VGA (640 x 480) at up to 30 fps
• Aperture: F2.8
• Focal length: 5.4 mm
• Flash: Dual LED camera flash and video light

Operating Times

• Talk time: Up to 360 min (3G), 585 min (GSM)
• Standby time: Up to 385 hrs (3G), 400 hrs (GSM)
• Video playback: Up to 4,5 hours (640×360, 30 fps, offline mode)
• Music playback: Up to 39 hours (offline mode)

Connectivity & Data Services

• WLAN IEEE 802.11b/g without UPnP support
• Micro-USB connector, Hi-Speed USB 2.0
• 3.5mm stereo headphone plug and TV-out support (PAL/NTSC)
• Bluetooth wireless technology 2.0 with A2DP stereo audio, enhanced data rates (EDR)
• GPS receiver with support for assisted GPS (A-GPS)

Even though the Nokia N97 does not have a good 8 megapixels camera like Samsung Omnia i8910, I can still safely assume that it’d be a better choice in the market with such suprising price and the huge internal storage(something that Samsung currently could not offer yet).

I’m off working hard on this killer baby, what about you? What’s your pick? Samsung OmniaHD or Nokia N97? or the upcoming Nokia N900?

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