On January 25, Xiao Lei found in the Jingdong App that there are merchants selling Nokia's classic slide phone N97 Mini, priced at 1999 yuan, all of which are Jingdong International Hong Kong direct mail, and the merchants are also marked with "new models", which may be a new unopened inventory machine.
As a Nokia mobile phone released more than a decade ago, it is indeed a bit outrageous to describe it as "new", in the era of not yet fully stepping into the smart phone, the mobile phone circle can be said to be "a hundred flowers blooming", even if it is the same brand of products, in terms of design and functionality are very different.
Not only N97 Mini, Nokia also has a N-Gage that looks very similar to a handheld, although the unique and bold design has not been accepted by consumers, but when it comes to gaming phones, N-Gage is definitely the "originator".
N97 Mini uses a breakthrough full keyboard slide design, after the phone is expanded, users can use it as a "handheld computer", after all, the mobile phone screen of that year was generally very small, the touch is not as sensitive as it is today, the physical full keyboard has considerable use, and the Internet typing chat will always be one step faster.
It is worth mentioning that the N97 Mini is a product of the 3G era, so surfing the Internet with this machine is definitely not as good as the later 4G and 5G. Of course, the endurance of this phone is still good compared with today's smart phones.
After it, there are also some Android phones that continue the design of the physical full keyboard, such as the classic BlackBerry and the Motorola Milestone Series. Xiao Lei also has a Motorola Milestone 1 generation, when chatting qq, he likes to expand the keyboard typing, although the key range is very short, but it is also more than the current motor vibration to feel a lot, but the software adaptation was very bad, and the keyboard could not come in handy many times.
In addition, N97 Mini is also a smart phone, equipped with the Symbian operating system, you can hang QQ, WeChat in the background, and even download games by yourself, when everyone is still using the button function machine, its existence is simply a star. Although Symbian has been flooded by the mobile phone market, it represents a step in Nokia's transformation to intelligence, and the collection value is still quite high.
In Xiao Lei's view, Nokia N97 Mini sold for 1999 yuan today, quite a "harvest feeling" taste, and it is certainly not as good as the K40 and other cost-effective models released last year. Even if you want to buy one to collect, the second-hand price is much cheaper than this.