The Nokia N97 mini is a small mobile computer packed with style. The word “mini” noway refers to the size of the phone. It is definitely a smartphone with enough features packed to be considered a good buy. Now let’s review some of its features:

The body of the phone is made of a plastic which is unique in properties that allows it to provide self-healing qualities and unparalleled abrasion resistance making it invisible and invincible. The stainless steel body enhances the sleek and trendy look. The slide-out keyboard, 3.2” touch screen, a body measuring 113(h) x 52.5(w) x 14.2(d) mm and weighing 138g makes it less bulging when pocketed.

The five-way navigation pad leaves a bit more finger-room for the 38 keys (which include direction keys).The rubber-like keys give a better feel of the keyboard. You can easily bring up the phone number pad by holding the phone upright. The tilted angle makes it reasonably well balanced for desk typing. Further, making calls is easy with the touch screen and number pad, while accessing and calling contacts from the phonebook is just a tap away. It’s easy to set up POP3/IMAP4 email accounts by using Nokia Messaging. One has to simply type in their email address and password, and the email client automatically takes care of the rest.

The phone is equipped with a 5-megapixel camera with decent picture quality and allows you to shoot videos clips with 640 x 480 pixels resolution. It has a selection of online media apps pre-loaded, giving access to services including online streaming like YouTube and CNN Video's news service. Battery life gives 310 hours on standby and 4 hours of talk time but can differ based on usage. It has other features like Wi-fi, WLAN, Bluetooth 2.0, A-GPS technology (satellite based locating), voice recording, voice reader, active notes, tri band HSDPA support that gives download connectivity up to 3.6 mbps, music player, headphones socket of 3.5mm it is a smart phone to buy.