The N97 Mini is a full touchscreen smartphone device, running on Nokia's Symbian S60 5th Edition platform - previously seen on recent models like the N97 and XpressMusic.
It has a 3. It's loaded up with an impressive amount of applications out of the box, and as well as multimedia player capabilities it has A-GPS location finding with Nokia's Maps software, plus a 5-megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics.
Slimmer devices are easier to carry in pocket and look more fashionable. With more battery size, device's battery can generally last more time, though it depends on various other factors too.
With longer standby time, device's battery can last more days without charging in idle condition. With longer battery talk time, you can talk on your device continously without charging. Email your email will not be published.
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There's less space for storing your images on the mini than on the N97 -- the internal memory has been slashed from 32GB to 8GB. There's room for a 16GB microSD card, though. A total of 24GB should suffice for most people. The phone's shorter battery life might be an issue for some people -- Nokia claims it has a talk time of 7 hours, compared to the N97's 9. Conclusion Despite a slightly smaller screen and less memory, we think the trim size and slicker appearance of the Nokia N97 mini make it a more desirable phone than the N It packs in almost all of the N97's powerful smart-phone features, while feeling less like a lumbering beast.
But, with a dull user interface that's not as fun or user-friendly as its competitors, it's still not a phone worth getting too excited about. Update: We originally said that the N97 mini doesn't have an FM radio or compass, but, in fact, it has both. All responsible have been flogged. Pricing Not Available. The Good Looks sleeker than the N97; handy Qwerty keyboard; customisable home screen; widgets with live updates; angled screen.
The N97 mini's screen is TFT and the impact of running the screen 'frontlight' on full brightness is quite a bit less than if the same were done with say a white theme on a modern AMOLED device.
Your N97 mini's display will almost look modern. In addition, you can opt for a nice bright theme to make the display as clear as possible, without worrying about AMOLED power wastage. I'm a big fan of the simple Just Light theme , which is incredibly efficient and uses hardly any RAM - which means more for your applications.
Try to resist the temptation to install that pretty 3MB theme from your favourite novelties site - it'll slow the N97 down and will decrease usability. On the keylocking front, I find all the S60 5th Edition devices to be rather annoying in that with the screen off, it's not clear whether the screen's just powered down and waiting for a keypress or whether the device is actually keylocked. So you toggle the keylock and And now you've got to wait a second and toggle it again to bring the device back on again.
Thus, the only time the N97 mini will be keylocked is when I've done it explicitly. If the screen is then off under normal circumstances I know the device isn't keylocked and can just press the main front-face menu button to bring it back to life. The N97's variant of S60 5th Edition in famously introduced the widgetised homescreen. I say 'infamously' because the default selection included two huge RAM guzzlers, both just as dangerous on the N97 mini: Facebook and Accuweather.
Delete these two widgets and the N97 mini starts to sing. In which case the single homescreen of the N97 mini is perfectly good enough.
My pimped N97 mini ended up with Calendar, Music player, Favourite contacts and application shortcuts on its homescreen.
All offline content, you'll note, but this has RAM and battery life benefits. Besides which, every online widget I've tried, whether email or social or weather, has required me to tap it anyway, to bring up the full app for any serious use - so why not simply have that application as a 'shortcut' and save lots of homescreen real estate?
In my estimation, the biggest Achilles heel of the N97 mini was its battery life. A mAh cell should have been just about acceptable, but in practice the device always seemed to burn through the charge faster than I'd expect.
With the latest firmware and software patches, detailed above, I'd hope that efficiency should be higher now, at least with a newish BL-4D installed. For its size and now cost, the N97 mini is a stunningly useful smartphone. It's at the polar opposite end of every smartphone spectrum to the iPhones of this world, but with a little pimping it might just make a super backup device, super cheap and by modern standards super-small. A quick summary of the main differences between the N97 'classic' and the N97 mini, from the latter's point of view: 3.
No FM transmitter a bit of a disappointment, at least to me personally Better GPS antenna, no location issues Metal back cover, premium materials used Unprotected camera glass For a full illustrated breakdown of the differences, see David's comprehensive comparison of the N97 classic and N97 mini.
Black or white Although available in both colours plus a rather rare dark red variant - get the black one. The black N97 mini also doesn't ahem show the dirt like the white one does. Spring clean Now, this may well be me just being fastidious, but there are practical advantages too, to giving the N97 mini a good physical spring clean.
Spare batteries The N97 mini uses the BL-4D, used in several other Nokia smartphones, including the N8 and E5, which means that there are replacement batteries around or, simply, spares if you need them.
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