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Nokia N97 processor revealed
By Mike Browne on April 29,
 2009 at 00:00,

The Nokia N97 is set for release in June and should appear on Vodafone come July but still the tech specs and features of the phone are being finalised. The latest news is that the processor for the Nokia N97 has been fixed. You can get the full details on the speeds and feeds after the jump...

The Nokia N97 is set to be the flagship model of the Nokia range and while anticipation is high – check out our hands-on review for full details – one thing that has alluded the number crunchers has been the speed of the processor.

Nokia Forum has announced that  the Nokia N97 will use the ARM 11 CPU, clocked to a more than reasonable 434MHz. This isn't going to launch any rockets but it does mean you'll get a stable and responsive turn of speed. What's more, it also helps keep the cost of the device within the bounds of reason, as adding a faster chip would only bring with it a cost difference.

Check out the Nokia Forum for the full Nokia N97 Tech Spec

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  • Sarah

    Another touch screen concept device from Nokia, looks pretty hot and 434 Mhz processor will make it more faster than any other symbian device. Hope this work fine with VoIP applications i.e. Vopium and fring and come over the problem of normal Symbian SIP devices of halt.

  • Zubair

    well now by looking at the speed of the processor i can my a correct decision for a samusungs monster which has a processor speed of 600MHZ….gud luck….finaly i have to change my lifetime brand to someother brand!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Mikey Bee

    Is the speed of the CPU the only criteria people should be thinking about? What about ease-of-use, features? All the great Services Nokia offers?

  • Danny

    @ Mikey Bee
    CPU clock speed might not be the only important thing but in this day and economy people want it ALL and a speed of 434 Mhz is not that exciting. The phone is not going to be cheap to begin with throwing a better faster processor into it will not be that much of an offset, I’m thinking. Not putting you down just wondering what Nokia is thinking. They didn’t announce the processor getting everyone’s hopes up and now its the same old thing. I’m a little disappointed if you ask me, MIGHT have to wait for Nokia Ivalo. Also the phone will be close to $700 USD it hear and I don’t want to spend that kind of money and has the next best thing come in a year, what a waste of $700 in this bad economy.

    @Zubair
    I like all the specs from samsung and sony ericson but in my opinion after using all the rest I returned to Nokia. After all a phone will be a phone first and if you can’t hold on to cellular signal first what good are you. Samsung and Sony needs to take a hint from Nokia and design their phones around a “phone” and not cramp alot of features into it and say we have all these features the consumer won’t care about the “phone” part?@#$

    Man this situation sucks, I’m willing to let go of no OLED and 8 MP camera but I need processing power and this just bites. How am I going to be editting a word document, surfacing the internet and using the GPS at the same time if it chugging along at 3 words a minute on Word, 5 pages a minute on the browser and I’ve already missed my instruction for GPS or whatever.

  • code565472

    Well, you know, the spec. mania plus affluenza disease.

    I’m more interested with how the magnetometer works in three axis :-)
    ……and hope the S60 5th can support japanese input in Asia-Pacific so I can search videos in NICONICO video :-P

  • Danny

    Nokia if you are listening I’m disappointed but I’ll get over it, not because I’m spending $700 on something that will have something better (Nokia) come out in another year, but Nokia it still one of the best phones out there in terms of quality of service (cellular signal).

  • Mikey Bee

    @Danny I hear you. Lot of money to pay but if they stick a 600MHz chip in there and it punts the price to $750, would you sleep easier at night? Am thinking that speed isn’t everything, it’s nice but not essential – do you use all the grunt power in your laptop/PC? – when after all we’re talking what, 10th of a second (subjective, I’ve not benchmarked them) difference when loading apps? That kind of speed can be made up by having a great interface, which N97 hopefully will have. Technology moves on, it’s a fact of life – am looking at my six month old laptop now and thinking I’d like a shiny new one :)

  • http://i-newtechnology.blogspot.com suyanto

    thank for information

  • Fadi

    @Zubair.. Wow man, just because another phone has 600mhz you will go for that!? lol.. You know it’s not always about CPU speed. As long as the phone is responsive and fast why worry about the CPU speed??

    The N97 does NOT have any problem about responsivness or slowliness, so why worry about the CPU speed..

    I do agree with everyone else though that this phone is not that exciting (at least for me), and that I will be waiting for the next one.. Main thing that is really bugging me is the screen type.. I am not a big fan of resistive type of screens.

    But it’s an awesome phone anyways though, don’t get me wrong, I am not talking smack about the phone or anything like that.. but for me, I’ll just be waiting for the next version.. N97-2? :D

  • mato56

    No, not any Symbian device, Samsung OMNIA HD, has a much faster 800Mhz processor, and to my knowledge is 100€ cheaper than N97:) I don’t know why nokia is making shitty phones like this.

  • juanma

    What a shitty processor!!! ive been with nokia phones all my life and i think that nokia is really cheating with this “monolith-with-keyboard”. its a deception. this cant be the nokia flagship phone, common!!!
    im going to buy the samsungs omniaHD with a processor acording to XXI century!!

    nokia if you hear me: You have lost a consumer!!!

  • hammer

    Processor speed isn\’t everything. Good software coding really, really helps. The E71 is proof of that. It\’s the fastest Nokia that I have ever used.

    BUT…$700 is a lot of cash. Placing this phone squarely as an iPhone competitor.

    The iphone runs at about the same speed but has a 3d accelerator to help with the transitions, games and gps maps etc…

    This phone will also be competing with the Omnia HD and I can tell you (I\’ve played with the Omnia HD) that the N97 is gonna need to be amazing to beat it.

    I don\’t think it will.

    In fact, I\’ll go as far as saying that unless the price halves it\’s as good as dead.

    Resistative screen. Average UI, no 3D, slow(er) processor and a ridiculous price are all screaming FAIL. Certainly in the current economic climate.

  • http://www.n97geeks.com N97 Geeks

    Is there a source for the processor spec? Not found anything official from Nokia.

    The phone is expensive and I agree, a more powerful processor would have been nice but whether it’s needed or not, remains to be seen. Time will tell, time will tell.

  • Mikey Bee

    N97 Geeks: The source is in the story – it comes from Nokia itself : http://www.forum.nokia.com/devices/N97 it’s under the GENERAL specs for the device

  • http://www.n97geeks.com N97 Geeks

    Thanks Mikey, much appreciated.