Nokia N97 Smartphone and HTC Touch Pro2 Smartphone share many common features. There are quite some differences as well. Though they look quite similar, they are designed for and serve different purposes, based on their features and specifications.

Both the smartphones have similar form factors. They slide out and upward to show full QWERTY keyboards on the panel below. On the display front, the Nokia N97 phone features a 3.5 inch screen having a resolution of 360 x 640 pixels. The HTC Touch Pro2 phone has a slightly larger display measuring 3.6" diagonally and presenting a resolution of 480 X 800 pixels. Thus you can expect greater clarity with the HTC model, owing to a greater resolution. Either of the screens are touch sensitive, offering easy operation with the finger tips.

The operating system running on the Nokia hand-set is the native Symbian 60 5th edition, while that featured in the HTC hand-set is the Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional OS. Throwing a glance on the memory aspects, the Nokia N97 Smartphone has a supreme 32GB in house memory. The HTC Touch Pro2 Smartphone offers a user memory of 288MB. Both phones support microSD cards for memory expansion.

On the networking front, the Nokia phone supports WiFi and Bluetooth connectivity. Quad band GSM, GPRS, EDGE, 3G networking technology with WCDMA capabilities are offered too. A-GPS along with a compass is integrated into this mobile phone. This GPS utility lets you use the "Social Location" feature to update and share your location with near and dear ones, while also getting to know their locations. Nokia has designed this cell phone to have quick access to their Ovi Service to download information, maps, music, games and more. The Nokia Music Store can be accessed as well for listening to your favourite music. The HTC phone has similar networking abilities. WiFi and Bluetooth are supported by this device too. Quad band GSM, GPRS, EDGE, 3G technology with HSDPA, WCDMA are compatible also. GPS is integrated into this cell phone as well and allows access to location based services.

Coming to the dimensions of the phones, the Nokia smartphone measures 117.2mm in length, 55.3mm in width and 15.9mm in thickness and weighs 150g. The HTC smartphone is 116mm long, 59.2mm wide and 17.25mm thick and weighs 175g. Thus the Nokia model is longer, lighter and thinner.

Turning our attention toward the connections and interfaces that these phones present, the HTC Touch Pro2 mobile phone has an HTC ExtUSB, which acts as an 11-pin mini-USB 2.0 port, an audio jack as well as a TV output. An FM radio is present in this phone also. The Nokia N97 mobile phone houses a microUSB jack, a 3.5 mm audio jack and a TV output too. An FM radio with built in stereo speakers is present as well.

The HTC camera phone has a built in 3.2 Megapixel camera and a secondary VGA CMOS camera. On the other hand, the Nokia camera phone has a 5MP camera with Carl Zeiss optics and dual LED flash, integrated into it.

The HTC Touch Pro2 3.2MP Camera Smartphone has features like StraightTalk technology and TouchFLO 3D interface, making it more a mobile phone for professionals. It also allows easy call conferencing and quick emailing to the stakeholders. On the other hand the Nokia N97 5MP Camera Smartphone is more a multimedia phone for photographers and music lovers.

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