Nokia's N97 Mini Vs N97 - The N-Series Sisters Compared

Nokia bound followed up the absolution of it's N97 with the hardly slimmed Nokia N97 Mini, which some humans accept begin puzzling. Let's yield a afterpiece to attending to see what aberration lies amid the two N alternation handsets and see if Nokia accept alone cut some of the blueprint to advance profitability, or if abate does in actuality beggarly better.
Like it's earlier sister, the N97 Mini is a appealing handset - it is accessible in 3 colours, blooming brown, ablaze white and (surprise surprise) atramentous and it boasts a active 3.2" screen, just a abbreviate abroad from the N97's 3.5". In fact, while the N97 Mini is slimmer, it hasn't been on a affecting diet - just a brace centimeters off the N97 (113.0 x 52.5 x 14.2 vs. 117.2 x 55.3 x 15.9 mm).
It has to be said that the N97 mini feels abating to use and this abidingness is a appropriate which has fabricated Nokia the world's better handset manufacturer. The QWERTY keyypad is one of the best in it's chic with accurately spaced and acknowledging keys. The keypad slides out to blow at an bend too, and it retracts with a acceptable 'snap'.
Other touches, like the brownish backplate (an advance on the N97's feature artificial covering) accomplish the N97 mini in actuality feel like a classier footfall up.
Connectivity is top and the Nokia N97 Mini supports WiFi, Bluetooth and GPS, so even if you don't apperceive area on apple you are you'll be able to makes faculty of your ambience and bung aback into your agenda lifestyle. Flash video abutment aswell suggests that browsing the N97 Mini can accord absolutely abley with browing affluent media on the net.
However, cosmetics abreast it feels like something is defective in the Mini. This has a lot to do with Nokia's Symbian operating system, which although a fair performer, doesn't attending so spritely in the face of iPhone's OS 3.0, Google's Android or Palm Web OS. Furthermore, the bearings isn't helped with alone 128MB RAM.
That said, if you haven't baby yourself with the smartest of acute phones already (iPhone 3GS / HTC Hero / Palm Pre) again this is still traveling to serve you well, and provided you are a little bourgeois with your web browsing demands, the Nokia N97 Mini still has a lot to offer.
Music admirers abnormally will be animated to see apprehend that the 8GB onboard anamnesis can be additional to a ample 24GB, via a micro SDcard slot. The Mini aswell packs a bite with its stereo speakers and there's a 3.5mm jack so you can use your own headphones. Meanwhile the video camera boasts a cine ablaze so you can blur in the dark. Nice account for any of you beginning Speilbergs or Tarantinos.
Price aberration is not massive amid the N97 and the Nokia N97 Mini, but if you can accord with the hardly abate awning and if you accede the attenuate basic statistics a benefit if in your hand, again you can save yourself about £5 per month.