WhatsApp Messenger is a smartphone messaging app which allows you to exchange messages with your friends and contacts without having to pay for SMS. Skype on the go with Skype for Symbian. Make voice calls and chat for free, no matter where you are.
Skype for Symbian works over WiFi or 3G data connection. It is recommended to have an unlimited data plan when using 3G connection Opera Mini enables you to take your full Web experience to your mobile phone. Stay in touch with your friends on Facebook, search with Google, get your e-mail on the go, do your online banking. There are no limits - Opera Mini is the quick, easy and secure way to get any Web page you want.
Opera Mini is now available as a native version for Symbian Race against territorial thugs and out drift gang leaders en-route to owning the streets. Prove your skills across 6 different race types and fill your garage with 8 fully licensed cars Ovi Maps 3 takes you where you want to be and shows you what you want to see, with navigable maps for over 70 countries worldwide.
All this with only one click. Note: This will, by the way, be positively my last 'Pimping' piece for S60 5th Edition devices. This time. Well, maybe Let me repeat that last statistic. I know, it's slow by modern standards and is not a capacitive-screened Android monster, but the N97 mini is still quite a lot of phone for that kind of money, given that it's got a top quality Nclass 5 megapixel camera, the usual worldwide offline real time sat-nav in Nokia Maps, and - that rarest of beasts in - a real, usable qwerty keyboard.
This last is the most salient point, as it's a unique selling point - when entering text in any application, the keyboard provides a foolproof way to enter even tricky text without losing any screen real estate to a virtual equivalent. The keyboard's the same usable one as on the N97, once you get past the non-centred space bar. The form factor is unique to Nokia and refined, of course, in the subsequent E7. A quick summary of the main differences between the N97 'classic' and the N97 mini, from the latter's point of view:.
For a full illustrated breakdown of the differences, see David's comprehensive comparison of the N97 classic and N97 mini. There's also my original N97 mini review part 1 , though bear in mind that it was written two and a half years ago - the smartphone goalposts have moved on a bit since then! Owning and using a smartphone that can be replaced for such a relatively low amount makes one rather less 'precious' about dropping it, scratching it or otherwise exposing it to the rigours of daily life without a safety net.
As with the other 'Pimping' articles in this All About Symbian series, the idea is to take yesterday's 'discarded' hardware and pimp it to something approaching modern standards. It can be done - because I've done it, with a few compromises along the way. What's needed from a hardware and software perspective and where do you get it all from? Although available in both colours plus a rather rare dark red variant - get the black one. In bright light and pitch darkness there's no problem, but in everything in between, you just can't read which key is which.
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. Take a clean cotton cloth and some light screen polish e. You'll also find that a polished and smooth screen makes the touch interface far more sensitive and pleasurable.
A cotton bud can help you clean up the camera bay's two regions too. It all helps. 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.
Buying up spares on the Internet has always been tricky. Nokia's own site quotes top prices, prohibitively so, while unscrupulous eBay sellers show what appear to be genuine batteries but turn out to be fakes. I recommend Amazon here - though avoid their third party sellers with less than perfect feedback and examine the holograms with a fine toothcomb to prove their origin etc.
You can charge the BL-4D in the N97 mini, of course, but it's even better to charge up your spares in something like this. It goes without saying that you'll need latest firmware on your N97 mini. Various carrier-supplied N97 minis like mine, screenshot below - sob! Simply starting the existing Nokia Store client will prompt the installation of the official latest version for S60 5th Edition - it's important to be up to date, to stay in step with changes at Nokia's end, i.
Plus it'll be slightly faster and smoother. Most of the most recent third party Symbian applications are built on Qt - involving the installation of the Qt libraries on your device. Unlike on the N97, the N97 mini has plenty of space for these and so Qt apps are welcomed. They won't run as fast as native Symbian apps from days past, but at least they'll run.
You can tell which apps are Qt-based in the Nokia Store because they'll have a brief warning about possibly having to download one-time modules. Don't worry about these, apps will grab any Qt updates as and when they need to and you'll be warned before this happens. To get started with Qt, simply pick a decent Qt-needing application e.
Date approved - Shows the date when the particular phone is approved by the Federal Communications Commission. These limits are given in terms of a unit referred to as the Specific Absorption Rate SAR , which is a measure of the amount of radio frequency energy absorbed by the body when using a mobile phone. PhoneArena Score Review. User Score User reviews. Released Jun 10, Display 3. Camera 5 MP Single camera. Hardware 0. Battery mAh. OS Symbian 9. Description Nokia N97 is the second phone to feature a touchscreen while running on a Symbian S60 operating system.
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