Nokia announces touchscreen N97
December 2, 2008 by Insider Staff
It’s only been on sale a few months, but the king of mobile phones, the Nokia N96, has already been usurped. All hail the new king, the Nokia N97 – and this time, it’s touchscreen. It’s just two thirds the size of an N95 8GB, but as well as a pokeable, tilting 3.5-inch screen, there’s a slide-out QWERTY keyboard a la the T-Mobile G1 and an immense 32GB of flash memory for all your media storage. Read on for all the juicy specs…
HSDPA internet, Wi-Fi, GPS and a five-megapixel camera are all included, naturally, and it’s compatible with all of Nok’s favourite Ovi internet services, like the Nokia Music Store and where-would-you-be-without-it Nokia Maps. The Finnish company’s been flaunting it to all-comers at the Nokia World show in Barcelona this week, but it won’t be on sale until the middle of next year, sim free for €550, which gives you a few months yet to say farewell to your N96. It had a good innings.
Top talents
Mega memory
As if 32GB of storage wasn’t enough, you can upgrade that to 48 with the SD slot. If you run out of space, you own too many CDs.
Symbian software
Nokia’s brand new touchscreen Symbian 60 smartphone offers widgets on the home screen including Facebook, and it’ll play N-Gage games too. Touchscreen N-Games too.
Battery beast
You might expect a touchscreen smartphone to drain juice like the battery was an Um Bongo carton, but the N97 will give you almost 400 hours on standby, or 37 hours of tunes.
Going up against
Apple iPhone 3G – The touchscreen smartphone that kickstarted the trend.
Nokia N96 – Nokia’s flagship phone won’t be one for much longer.
Samsung Omnia – It says it does it all, but what about N-Gage and iPlayer support and a QWERTY keypad and, oh, the list goes on…
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