The new concept of cute little computers with small screens and wireless connectivity that enable playing good old games and surfing the net over WiFi hotspots is called netbook. Brought to us by Asus, it became the new standard thing to carry around. But, it is still a little bothersome sometimes to carry a bag with you everywhere you go, and sometimes you need it and you forget to bring it along with you… What if your mobile phone was your netbook? And your digital camera? And your 32GB of storage? There are already some smartphones which can be compared with the Nokia N97, but they have either a bad camera and limited media possibilities, like the iPhone, or a hopelessly bad operating system, like the Windows Mobile devices. Nokia phones have the Symbian operating system, which enables people to create very powerful programs for it, and the Nokia N97 has 128MB of ram memory for the programs. It also has a touch screen controlled web browser with zoom functions and such, with Flash support so that your websites look exactly like when surfing on a desktop computer. The screen resolution is 640 times 360 pixels, a wide resolution, and the software enables you to save video in the same resolution in 30fps. The keyboard slides out and stops the screen at an angle, so that you can put the device on a flat surface and be able to see the screen, and be seen from the secondary camera.
The phone lets you do whatever you think about, connect everywhere, publish videos to the web or to a TV, have your messenger contacts and rss feeds checked regularly and displayed to the desktop surface in the way you choose them to be displayed… It almost makes having a computer redundant, and for most people, it is all they need. The wealth of options of the N97 is enough for every possible application thought of until today. The only real drawback to the iPhone is a singletouch touchscreen, but the Symbian OS isn’t built for a multitouch interface anyway and you can do everything the other can do, if in another way. The phone even supports NGage 3D games! And the battery life is enough for you to record videos for more than 3.5 hours, or watch them for more than 4.5. You don’t need your PDA anymore. You don’t need your netbook anymore. You only need a N97 phone.
