Liza Lambert

The Nokia N97 Mini scales down the size of the N97 without losing out on any of the power. The N97 Mini features a 3.2 inch touchscreen and slide out QWERTY keyboard which, when combined, make for the perfect web browsing phone.

The Mini N97 runs on the Symbian operating system letting you download apps from the Ovi store, customise the phone and add live web feeds to the home screen letting you jump straight to your favourite online content. The N97 Mini also features a 5.0 Megapixel camera, HSDPA and Wi-Fi, GPS and 8GB of internal memory plus expandable memory.

Phone performance was strong, with the N97 mini tenacious with a signal. We experienced no dropped calls in all of our testing, and both parties reported clear and crackle-free audio. Battery life has proven slightly better than what you’d expect from a current-gen smartphone, capable of going two days with regular use (and judicious use of the peak/off-peak push email settings). Nokia quote up to 430 minutes of GSM talktime (240 minutes of WCDMA) or up to 320 hours of GSM standby (310 hours of WCDMA).