Nokia N97 vs Nokia N96
Both the Nokia N96 and the N97 are very powerful smartphones and offer functions which significantly boost their appeal in the mobile technology arena.
The N97 is a touch screen phone with a full slide out QWERTY keyboard, whereas the N96 is a display camera phone and its keypad is a slide-out traditional pad. These technological features make the N97 slightly larger and heavier than the N96.
The N97 has an incredible 32GB built-in memory in comparison with the N96 which has only 16GB of memory, although both are expandable by up to 16GB through the use of a microSD memory card.
The camera capabilities of both these phones are highly comparable. Both include a five megapixel camera which incorporates a high quality Carl Zeiss lens and supports video recording. A night-mode setting in both these phones facilitates capturing still and video images in dark surroundings. However, the N97 has very high quality video recording and playback.
Both the N97 and the N96 has a GPS navigation system with Nokia maps application, although the N97 introduces the idea of “social location”.
Each phone is very competitive in its own niche market and although they have very similar features, each has a number of features which distinguishes them in terms of capability and functionality from the other.
