Wow! It looks like that countdown we came across yesterday actually was masking something really big. Nokia has announced the N97 and it looks like a corker. We hate to gloat, but our prediction was right – back of the net!
Parrying the iPhone, the G1 and the Blackberry Storm, the N97 is a full touchscreen handset with a slide out QWERTY keyboard. There’s also a towering 32GB of onboard storage which is expandable by a further 16GB via microSD. Nokia is also taking care of one of the often overlooked aspects of high end smartphones by stuffing the N97 with a battery that promises up to 37 hours of music and 4.5 hours of video.
There’s also A-GPS, a 5 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss Tessar lens and dual LED flash, GPS, HSDPA, Wi-Fi, USB 2.0, stereo Bluetooth and a 3.5mm headphone jack.
Of course this pretty little package will not come cheap weighing in at a wallet crushing 550 Euros (£466) when it launches in the first half of 2009. More on this as soon as we have finished watching Nokia’s live direct feed keynote from Nokia World.
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