There are a lot of good mobile phones available now, so the competition for your mobile $$ (or £s or whatever) is strong. So why are do many people web comentators still have the N97 high up their list of must have mobiles.

The concensus is that although the N97 will not be adding anything really new to the Nokia or N Series range, what it does is pull together a lot of the great Nokia features currently available on other Nokia phones and drops those that are not that hot (DVB-H TV being an obvous example).

So what are the good features:

• Touch screen (hopefully refined from the 5800 experience)
• Full QWERTY keyboard, starting to combine the E series functionality into N Series phones
• GPS
• Music Player
• BIG memory capacity
• FM transmitter (why was this not on the N96?)
• 5 Mega Pixel Camera -tried and tested, good in reasonable light although could be improved with a better flash for night time
• N-Gage (no other operator can offer this, so if you want N-Gage games, it has to be Nokia)

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