Nokia N97 mini's FCC docs gain full disclosure
By Chris Ziegler 
posted Sep 24th 2009 5:09PM
posted Sep 24th 2009 5:09PM
posted Sep 24th 2009 5:09PM
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Isn't this the first quad band 3g phone? apparently that's not significant enough for you guys ... way to undercut technological advancement.
sigh
As a 5800XM user, this would be nice upgrade for me. It's like 5800 with qwerty....
Many prefers smaller qwerty devices. N97 is too "bulky" for me...
But happy with this 5800.
Don't be afraid of the N97 "bulkines", it's smaller than it seems (smaller also than my other phone, an HTC touchHD), and if at launch it was plagued by all kinds of bugs now, after dozens of OTA updates and no less than 3 ROMs in 3 months(v 1.0, v.1.1 and v.1.2), it has became a real beast, and ROM v. 2.0, due in just a few weeks will transform it in teh uberphone it should have been from day 1, ready to fight off and fly over the HTC Leo and Samsung Omnia pro of this world (try to see some youtube video of the 2.0 ROM on N97 and tell me if I'm exagerating).
Considering that the N97 mini will cost less than 100 euros less than the real thing and take up only a couple of cm. less of pocket space, I can't see why anyone should settle for the mini's inferior camera, inferior specs and lack of functions.
Get a real N97 , install the 2.0 ROM and the latest firmware and you'll never look back.
Sorry,but this phone has two versions-NAM with 850/1900/2100 HSDPA and 900/1900/2100 HSDPA for Europe.I wonder why though when the NAM version could easily be used in Europe because all operators use 2100MHz band for 3G and only some use 900MHz in addition.
it's about time to burn down all nokia assets in states
only N900 can't put our hate away!
N97 is always the star propuct of NOKIA. We have so many version of N97,and so many colors.1:1 version, mini version,common version,black color,white color,coffee color!I love u,N97! For more detail, http://global-cell-phones.com/nokla-phones.html
Hell Yeah NOKLA! NOKLA ftw! Cymbian s6o KIRF all the way!
Hmm - I wondered about this phone's worth, but actually I think if this phone came to ATT, I would get it on a cheapo E71x like contract. Here's hoping for an N97x Mini. I'd just rather it was running Maemo.
@Wobbly: There are many other quadband 3G phones. N85, SE K850i, iPhone, and others all do quadband along with triband (850 / 1900 / 2100) HSPDA, if that's what you mean.
Oh -- I see (duh, helps to read) quadband 3G. Or maybe not. Well, here's hoping.
Did anyone at Engadget bother to read the FCC documents before posting this? The test result clearly shows it was only tested for 3 WCDMA bands, not 4. To date, there is NO quadband 3G radio used in any phone.
Yes, I did. Did you bother to do your research before calling us out?
1. The FCC only cares about bands used for coverage within the United States. It's common for other bands to be left out of the filed documentation altogether. In fact, that's usually the case.
2. http://europe.nokia.com/find-products/devices/nokia-n97-mini/specifications
According to Nokia's own developer forum at http://www.forum.nokia.com/devices/N97_mini there seems to be two variants of the Nokia N97 mini:
* RM-555 Global. WCDMA, HSDPA (Cat 6 max.3.6 Mbps) 900/1900/2100 and EGSM 850/900/1800/1900 + WLAN
* RM-553 LTA & Brazil. WCDMA, HSDPA (Cat 6 max.3.6 Mbps) 850/1900/2100 and EGSM 850/900/1800/1900 + WLAN
Looking at the FCC label, it seems you guys (and gals) in the US will be getting the 2nd variant, which (of course) sings along nicely on the 850MHz HSDPA. Everyone else will have to make do with the 900MHz HSDPA variant (sorry Telstra Next G customers, you'll have to import the US version if u want one).
Is that why they also tested GSM 900/1800 and WCDMA 2100/900, Chris? And tell me, which networks in the US use those frequencies?
I've seen FCC reports that exclude testing of bands not used in the US and this isn't once of them. If it was, the aforementioned bands wouldn't have been tested. And that same Nokia spec sheet you posted also lists 640x360 as "QVGA".
Again, there is no quadband 3G phone on the market to date.
As ultirage notes, Nokia's got some explaining to do -- they've got conflicting information on two product pages. Quadband HSPA chipsets exist, so there's no reason to think this couldn't go to market configured that way.