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Device details
Built on: S60 5th Edition
Nokia N97
Announced Date
2 December 2008
Availability
Legacy
Updated
25 January 2012
Device Description
The Nokia N97 is a S60 5th Edition mobile computer with a large 3,5“, bright nHD (640 x 360 pixels and 16:9 aspect ratio) TFT color display with resistive touch screen and tactile feedback. The device provides excellent user experience for internet and entertainment by combining qwerty keyboard with touch UI and Home screen functionality. Use the N97 to connect to mobile broadband using WLAN or HSDPA (3.5G). Find directions and locations with the integrated A-GPS and included maps. Additional features include game titles with N-Gage, a 5 mega pixel camera with dual LED flash and automatic geotagging of images and videos. Device variants:
Tools
The Tools Centre page (www.developer.nokia.com/Resources/Tools_and_downloads/) provides links to details about all the Nokia Developer tools & SDKs.
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Recommended SDK(s)
The Nokia N97 SDK for Symbian OS enables the creation of applications using Qt (with the Qt Libraries for Symbian), Symbian C++, Open C/C++ (with Open C/C++ plug-in), Java™ technology, web technologies, and Python (with the PyS60 plug-in). The SDK includes support for Nokia N97 specific features such as home-screen views as well as new memory and sensor APIs. The SDK includes the all key resources needed for application development (documentation, API reference, examples, and an emulator), excluding an IDE.
Now including the final 1.0 version of the Symbian Belle SDK, the all-in-one SDKs enable application development using Qt, C++, Java™ technology, and web technology. Each SDK includes all the key resources needed for application development, such as documentation, API reference, examples, and an emulator. An IDE is not included.
Specifications are subject to change without notice.
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Technical Specs
- Developer Platform
- S60 5th Edition
- Operating System
- Symbian OS v9.4
- Screen Resolution
- 360 x 640 pixels
General
- Development Frameworks
-
Qt[1]
Web Runtime
Java
Symbian C++
Flash
Open C/C++ - Screen Resolution
- 360 x 640 pixels
- Screen Color Depth
- 24 bits
- Screen Size
- 3.5 inches
- Display Technology
- LCD transflective
- Device Size
- 117.2 x 55.3 x 15.9[2] mm
- Volume
- 88 cc
- Weight
- 150 g
- Display Touch Technology
- Resistive Single-Touch
- Input Method
- Touch Screen
- Keypad
- Slide-out QWERTY Keyboard
- Other Keys
-
Applications Key
Call Creation Key
Call Termination Key
Camera Key
Volume Keys - Frequency Bands
-
GSM 1800
GSM 1900
GSM 850
GSM 900
WCDMA Band I (2100)
WCDMA Band II (1900)
WCDMA Band V (850)
WCDMA Band VIII (900) - Data Bearers
-
CSD
Dual Transfer Mode (MSC 11)
EGPRS
GPRS
HSCSD
HSDPA
WCDMA
WLAN IEEE 802.11 b/g - Regional Availability
- Africa, Asia-Pacific, CHINA, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, North America
- CPU Count
- Single CPU
- CPU Type
- ARM 11
- CPU Clock Rate
- 434 MHz
- Consumer Link
- Device Home Page
- Developer Page Link
- Developer Home Page
- Remote Device Access Service
- Link to the Service
- Notes
-
1
Qt content can be published to Ovi Store.
2 18.25mm at camera area.
Extra Features
- Extra Features
-
Compass
Flight Mode
FOTA Firmware over the Air
Nokia Store
Ovi Maps
Ovi Music
PictBridge
Share on OVI
Software Updates
Themes
TV Out - Positioning
-
A-GPS
GPS - Sensors
-
Accelerometer Sensor
Ambient Light Sensor
Compass (Magnetometer Sensor)
Proximity Sensor
APIs
- Java Runtime
- Java Runtime 1.4 for S60
- Java Technology
-
JSR 139 Connected, Limited Device Configuration (CLDC) 1.1
JSR 118 MIDP 2.1
JSR 248 Mobile Service Architecture Subset for CLDC
JSR 75 FileConnection and PIM API 1.0
JSR 82 Java™ APIs for Bluetooth 1.1
JSR 172 J2ME™ Web Services Specification 1.0 (RPC package)
JSR 172 J2ME™ Web Services Specification 1.0 (XML Parser package)
JSR 177 Security and Trust Services API for J2ME™ 1.0 (SATSA-CRYPTO package)
JSR 177 Security and Trust Services API for J2ME™ 1.0 (SATSA-PKI package)
JSR 179 Location API for J2ME™ 1.0
JSR 184 Mobile 3D Graphics API for J2ME™ 1.1
JSR 205 Wireless Messaging API 2.0
JSR 226 Scalable 2D Vector Graphics API for J2ME™ 1.1
JSR 234 Advanced Multimedia Supplements 1.1 (audio3d)
JSR 234 Advanced Multimedia Supplements 1.1 (music)
JSR 256 Mobile Sensor API
IAP Info API 1.0
eSWT UI API 1.0.3
Nokia UI API 1.2
JSR 135 Mobile Media API 1.2 - Java API Access Permissions
- Java API Access Permissions
- Other APIs
-
Home Screen Publishing API (Symbian C++)
Open C APIs
Open C++ APIs
Out of Memory Monitor Client API (Symbian C++)
Sensor Data Compensator API (Symbian C++) - Product ID
-
0x20014DDD[1]
0x20014DDE[2] - Sensor API Channels
-
Accelerometer Double Tap
Accelerometer XYZ
Ambient Light
Magnetic North
Magnetometer XYZ
Orientation
Proximity Monitor
Rotation - Certificates
- Symbian A, Symbian B, Symbian C, Symbian D, UTI Root
- Notes
-
1
For RM-505 and RM-507.
2 For RM-506.
Browser, Flash and Web Technologies
- UAProfile Link
-
Profile 1
Profile 2
Profile 3 - Example User Agent Header
- Mozilla/5.0 (SymbianOS/9.4; U; Series60/5.0 NokiaN97-1/20.0.019; Profile/MIDP-2.1 Configuration/CLDC-1.1; en-us) AppleWebKit/525 (KHTML, like Gecko) BrowserNG/7.1.18124
- Browser Details
-
HTML over TCP/IP
OSS Browser
WAP 2.0
XHTML over TCP/IP - Flash Technology
- Flash Lite 3.0
- Flash Lite Features
- Flash Video
- Web Runtime
- Web Runtime 1.1
Multimedia
- Multimedia Codecs in Detail
- Codec
- Camera Resolution
- 2592 x 1944 pixels
- CMOS Sensor
- 5.0 Megapixels
- Camera Digital Zoom
- 4 x
- Camera Focal length
- 5.4 mm
- Camera F-Stop/Aperture
- f/2.8
- Camera Focus range
- 10 cm to infinity
- Camera Image Formats
- JPEG/Exif
- Camera Features
- Auto Exposure, Auto Focus, Carl Zeiss Optics, Exposure Compensation, Flash[1], Full Screen Viewfinder, Self Timer, Sequence Mode, Still Image Editor
- Video Recording Resolution
- 640 x 480[2] pixels
- Video Recording Frame Rate
- 30 fps
- Video Digital Zoom
- 4 x
- Video Recording Formats
- H.263, MPEG-4
- Video Features
-
Video Call
Video Editor
Video Player
Video Recorder
Video Ringtones
Video Sharing
Video Streaming - Video Playback Formats
- 3GPP formats (H.263), Flash Video, H.264/AVC, MPEG-4, RealVideo 7,8,9/10, WMV 9
- Video Playback Frame Rate
- 30 fps
- Graphic Formats
- BMP, EXIF, GIF87a, GIF89a, JPEG, JPEG 2000, MBM, OTA, PNG, TIFF, WBMP, WMF
- Audio Features
-
Audio Equalizer
Audio Recording AAC
Audio Streaming
Bluetooth Stereo
FM Transmitter (88.1 - 107.9 MHz)
Loudness
Music Player
Stereo FM RDS Radio
Stereo Handsfree Speakers
Stereo Widening
Visual Radio - Audio Formats
- AAC, AAC+, AMR-NB, AMR-WB, AU, AWB, HE-AAC v2, M4A, MIDI Tones (poly 64), Mobile XMF, MP3, MP4, RealAudio 7, 8, 10, RMF, SND, SP-MIDI, True tones, WAV, WMA, WVE
- Secondary Camera Resolution
- 640 x 480 pixels
- Secondary Camera Digital Zoom
- 2 x
- Secondary Camera Image Formats
- JPEG
- Secondary Camera Video Recording Resolution
- 176 x 144 pixels
- Secondary Camera Video Recording Frame Rate
- 15 fps
- Secondary Camera Video Recording Format
- H.263
- Notes
-
1
Dual LED flash and video light.
2 Supporting also widescreen mode 640x352 (16:9) @ 30fps.
Memory Functions
- Mass Storage Memory
- 32 GB
- ROM Memory
- 256 MB
- RAM Memory
- 128 MB
- Memory Card type
- Micro SD
- Memory Card Features
- Hot Swap
- Maximum Memory Card Size
- 16 GB
- Maximum Heap Size
- Unlimited
- Maximum JAR Size
- Unlimited
Connectivity
- Local Connectivity
-
Bluetooth 2.0 +EDR
Bluetooth Stereo Audio
Micro USB
MTP (Multimedia Transfer Protocol)
Nokia AV 3.5mm
Nokia microUSB Cable CA-101
UPnP
USB 2.0 High-Speed
USB Mass Storage - Bluetooth Profiles
- A2DP, AVDTP 1.0, AVRCP 1.0, BIP, DUN, FTP, GAP, GOEP, HFP, HID, HSP, OPP, PBAP 1.0, SAP, SDP
- WLAN support
-
802.11b/g[1]
WEP
WPA
WPA2 (AES/TKIP) - Notes
- 1 Not included in RM-506 China variant.
Messaging
- Messaging
- IM, MMS+SMIL, SMS
- Messaging Features
- OMA Multimedia Messaging Service v1.3
- Email Solutions
-
Mail for Exchange
OMA E-mail Notification v1.0 - Supported Email Protocols
- IMAP4, POP3, SMTP
- Supported Document Formats
- Excel, PDF, Powerpoint, Word, Zip
Power Management
- Power Management
- USB Charging
- Battery model
- BP-4L 3.7V 1500mAh
- GSM Talk Time up to
- 9.5 hours
- WCDMA Talk Time up to
- 6.0 hours
- GSM Standby Time up to
- 430.0 hours
- WCDMA Standby Time up to
- 400.0 hours
- Video Playback Time up to
- 4.5 hours
- Video Recording Time up to
- 3.6 hours
- Music Playback Time up to
- 40.0 hours
Other
- OMA Device Management
-
OMA Client Provisioning v1.1
OMA Device Management v1.1.2 - Synchronization
-
OMA Data Synchronization v1.2
SyncML - Digital Rights Management
-
OMA DRM Forward Lock
OMA DRM v1.0
OMA DRM v2.0
Windows Media DRM 10 - DRM Delivery Method
-
HTTP Download
MMS
OMA Download v1.0
