Nokia unveils N97: First N-Series phone with Touchscreen

Nokia today has unvieled its flagship N-Series S60 Smartphone, N97 at Nokia World today. This is the first time you can see touch screen feature in Nokia N-Series phones. N97 comes with 3.5 inch 640 x 360 pixel Touchscreen display and fully QWERTY keyboard. It has got smooth slide and tilt mechanism and can flip upto 30° angle.

N97 has fully enhanced Symbian OS, S60 v5 and it includes 5800 XpressMusic’s features like quick contacts bar and fully customizable desktop widgets with which you can quickly access to internet, access RSS feeds and many more as found on Nokia’s Tablet PC OS.

It has got 5 Megapixel auto focus camera which can capture images and videos at DVD quality and 32GB of integrated storage with additional support for microSD cards up to 16GB. It also has GPS functionalty with Google Maps 3.0 installed. Like other Smartphones it has also got WiFi, Blutooth and HSDPA connectivity. The battery is capable of up to 1.5 days of continuous audio playback.

The N97 will first hit at European and Asian markets in first half of 2009 with a unsubsidized European price at €550 ($695). The US release will be followed after this.

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Full Press Release

Desktop. Laptop. Pocket: The era of the personal Internet dawns with the Nokia N97

Tilting touch display, QWERTY keyboard and personalized home screen – a true mobile computer.

Barcelona, Spain – Nokia today unveiled the Nokia N97, the world’s most advanced mobile computer, which will transform the way people connect to the Internet and to each other. Designed for the needs of Internet- savvy consumers, the Nokia N97 combines a large 3.5” touch display with a full QWERTY keyboard, providing an ‘always open’ window to favorite social networking sites and Internet destinations. Nokia’s flagship Nseries device introduces leading technology – including multiple sensors, memory, processing power and connection speeds – for people to create a personal Internet and share their ‘social location.’

“From the desktop to the laptop and now to your pocket, the Nokia N97 is the most powerful, multi-sensory mobile computer in existence,” said Jonas Geust, Vice President, heading Nokia Nseries. “Together with the Ovi services announced today, the Nokia N97 mobile computer adjusts to the world around us, helping stay connected to the people and things that matter most. With the Nokia N97, Nseries leads the charge in helping to transform the Internet into your Internet”.

The Nokia N97 introduces the concept of ‘social location’. With integrated A-GPS sensors and an electronic compass, the Nokia N97 mobile computer intuitively understands where it is. The Nokia N97 makes it easy to update social networks automatically with real-time information, giving approved friends the ability to update their ‘status’ and share their ‘social location’ as well as related pictures or videos.

The home screen of the Nokia N97 mobile computer features the people, content and media that matter the most. Friends, social networks and news are available by simply touching the home screen. The 16:9 widescreen display can be fully personalized with frequently updated widgets of favorite web services and social networking sites. The Nokia N97 is also perfectly suited for browsing the web, streaming Flash videos or playing games. Both the physical QWERTY and virtual touch input ensure efficiency in blogging, chatting, posting, sending texts or emailing.

The Nokia N97 supports up to 48 GB of storage, including 32 GB of on-board memory, expandable with a 16 GB microSD card for music, media and more. This is complemented by excellent music capabilities, full support for the Nokia Music Store and continuous playback time of up to 1.5 days. The Nokia N97 also has a 5- Megapixel camera with high-quality Carl Zeiss optics, 16:9 and DVD quality video capture, and support for services like Share on Ovi for immediate sharing over HSDPA and WLAN.

The Nokia N97 is expected to begin shipping in the first half of 2009 at an estimated retail price of EUR 550 before taxes or subsidies.

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