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.
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