New flagship phone from Nokia
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Today in Barcelona at the Nokia World 2009 event, Nokia unveiled the next generation of its Nseries smartphones in the form of the touchscreen equipped N97. The S60 5th Edition equipped N97 is the first Nokia device to be announced that features both a touchscreen and a full QWERTY keyboard, and is also the first Nokia handset to feature the sideways slider form factor made popular by HTC with its line of Windows Mobile smartphones.
The new N97 is the device that Nokia has chosen to use to feature its new suite of apps and services, such as Nokia Maps 3.0, which now features satellite imagery and topographical maps and works with the N97's built-in A-GPS unit. The N97 will also be aware of its user's "social location", sharing location information with approved friends and family as well as taking advantage of the built-in electronic compass for simple pedestrian navigation directions. The new apps should look quite impressive on the N97's 3.5", 640x360 pixel resistive touchscreen(INFO) display. The home screen, which is completely customizable with live-data widgets, also takes advantage of the large display.
The sliding mechanism that reveals the QWERTY keyboard moves in an arc that leaves the display at a 35 degree angle to the keyboard, making for easy viewing both while entering text on the 3 row QWERTY keyboard or when watching 30fps video content. Inside the N97 is packed an impressive 32GB of built-in storage space that can be augmented with a microSD memory card of up to 16GB in size - for a possible total of 48GB of storage space.
The new N97 is the device that Nokia has chosen to use to feature its new suite of apps and services, such as Nokia Maps 3.0, which now features satellite imagery and topographical maps and works with the N97's built-in A-GPS unit. The N97 will also be aware of its user's "social location", sharing location information with approved friends and family as well as taking advantage of the built-in electronic compass for simple pedestrian navigation directions. The new apps should look quite impressive on the N97's 3.5", 640x360 pixel resistive touchscreen(INFO) display. The home screen, which is completely customizable with live-data widgets, also takes advantage of the large display.
The sliding mechanism that reveals the QWERTY keyboard moves in an arc that leaves the display at a 35 degree angle to the keyboard, making for easy viewing both while entering text on the 3 row QWERTY keyboard or when watching 30fps video content. Inside the N97 is packed an impressive 32GB of built-in storage space that can be augmented with a microSD memory card of up to 16GB in size - for a possible total of 48GB of storage space.
Soldato
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link doesnt work for me
but found some pics and it looks....well average, sounds damn impressie, any idea on release date?
but found some pics and it looks....well average, sounds damn impressie, any idea on release date?
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so probally june then
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Still gonna be crappy old symbian OS. I wish Nokia would ditch that clunky piece of crap and get with the times.
Whats wrong with Symbian? Can't think of a mobile OS better then it.....
The N97 is the same thickness as the iPhone 3G, including slide-out keyboard. I assume that including the kind of optics needed to make 8MP pictures worthwhile would have required a thicker phone.
Link was dead, so I had to google the phone.
Kinda low res for a screen that size though.
Yeah, considering it's a similar size to the HTC Touch HD and it offers 400x800
Or indeed the 3" 480x800 on the Xperia