Touch screen technology has caught the attention of everyone and the smooth scrolling introduced by the Apple iPhone and HTC Touch has now turned into a mini-revolution with all manufacturers coming out with their best efforts to capture the market share. So, it’s not surprising that conventional leader Nokia is not far behind. However, a unanimous problem with most touch screen phones is the difficulty of typing text messages and full emails. Somehow using fingers on the screen itself just doesn’t seem to work well.

The solution appears to be to take a full touch-screen technology mobile phone and mix it with a QWERTY keypad. This combined form factor does the trick and the fantastic result of this can be seen in the form of Nokia N97, release date confirmed by Phones4u as 26th June 2009.

If critics said that such a phone would be bulky, let them eat their own words, because Nokia N97 weighs just 150gms! It has an impressive internal memory of 32GB and has an expandable card slot for up to 16GB. Just imagine having a small computer in your hands that’s as powerful as your laptop. It also features Wi-Fi, 3G, 5MP camera with LED Flash, 3.5 mm audio jack, stereo speakers, GPS, accelerometer, handwriting recognition and even FM radio.

All this is neatly packaged with the latest Symbian OS 9.4 S60 rel.5. Viewing all formats of video files on the 3.5 inch resistive touch screen is surely going to be a fun experience. It is all set to compete against the ruling Apple iPhone and other mobile phones by Samsung, LG and HTC. It seems Nokia finally is ready with the perfect recipe for ruling the roost, even in the touch screen segment.

Phones4u are also running a free competition to win a Nokia N97 – http://www.phones4u.co.uk/Reviews/Nokia_N97/

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Now entering it’s second year on the market the iPhone has now got some serious competition in the form of the number one selling mobile phones company in the world, Nokia. Nokia had previously previewed a touch screen phone that was a part of their music phone range but they had stressed that despite it having more impressive features than the iPhone that it was their entry level model of phones.

Little more than a few months later at their grandiose sounding “Nokia World” the Finnish mobiles giant revealed the Nokia N97, the next step in their flagship “n series” phones which have sold well amongst power users and business types for the past few years.

The phone has a large 3.5 in touchscreen with only one button on the face of it the phone slides out to reveal a full qwerty keyboard like the AT+T Tilt where the screen tilts to a 35 degree angle making the phone look more like a computer which Nokia feels that will help go along with their marketing of the N97 as a “mobile computer” rather than a simple phone.

The other interesting statistics are the storage inside of the phone being up to a massive 48GB of storage and a 5 Mega Pixel camera that rains on the iPhone’s parade with it’s non-upgradable 16GB and 2MP camera. The phone bears more than a passing likeness to the recent Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 which also has a hidden keyboard beneath it’s touch screen exterior.

The Symbian software the phone is based on has had it’s knocks over the past few years as being fairly unintuitive compared to the iPhone’s simplistic OSX based software but the new revision of the operating system has learnt from these mistakes and has many specific innovations like disabling the touchscreen when in a call by detecting when your face is close to the phone’s screen.

With the same size screen it is being compared to the Apple iPhone but is slightly thicker due to the qwerty keyboard being included, a growing market of mobile phones customers are looking for smaller phones but with the iPhone itself being fairly wide it is clear that true power house mobile phones like the N97 and the iPhone are moving towards larger screens for media use like watching movies or browsing the internet.

The N97 is expected to be released in selected markets around April 2009 in either White or traditional n series colour, Black at an estimated 500 euros.

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