The Nokia N97 has been touted as the company's response to the Apple iPhone, with tilting touch display, QWERTY keyboard and personalized home screen. But it marks the maturation of the portable computer format with a 3.5" touch display and full QWERTY keyboard.
"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".
Nokia likes to think it is introducing the idea of 'social location' by using the assisted GPS and an electronic compass. While this is intended to make 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, it is more important for a wide ragne of location aware applications.
The N97 supports up to 48 GB of storage, including 32 GB of on-board memory, expandable with a 16 GB microSD card and 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.
It is expected to begin shipping in the first half of 2009 at an estimated retail price of EUR 550 before taxes or subsidies.
Review from Nokia World this week:
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