At Nokia World ‘08, Barcelona, Finnish mobile manufacturer Nokia has announced that they’ll be soon launching N97. Nokia’s product managers have dubbed this phone as “Facebook Phone” for its social networking and multimedia inclined features.
Check out the specs, they look really impressive:
- 3.5?, 640 x 360 (resistive touch screen)
- QWERTY keyboard
- Tri-band HSDPA 3G
- 802.11 b/g WiFi
- A-GPS and Stand-alone GPS for directions and geo-tagging
- 32GB Built-In Memory
- microSD expansion support for ADDITIONAL 16GB
- 5 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics
- Flash Lite 3.0 support and Flash Video in web browser
- Music player up to 36 hours playback time
- Share and Ovi services support
If 32GB + 16GB expandable of storage isn’t enough to make your mouth water, N97 will also support flash video in its web browser. This means, you’ll be able to watch streaming videos from sites like YouTube. The customizable home screen enables you to drag and drop widgets. 5MP camera seems to have become a standard thesedays, thanks to Nokia. Here’s a short video demo of N97:
This phone has everything you could ask for! Lack of capacitive touch screen (like the one in iPhone) seems to be only handicap, but the QWERTY keyboard should easily overcome it.
It phone should be publicly available in the first half of 2009 and will be priced approximately around $650.
[via: Boy Genius]
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