Eh? Really?
A moderator on the Vodafone Ireland forums – “Ev the moderator” has seemingly let slip that Nokia is planning a ‘mini’ version of the N97, not unlike the rumoured ‘iPhone Nano‘ that we keep hearing about.
Ordinarily we would dismiss this out of hand, but Vodafone seems to have gone to some lengths to cover up the posts in question. Are they just having a bit of an old tidy up over at Vodafone.ie or is the game afoot?
Well, we don’t know to be honest What we do know is that Ev’s reference to an N97 Mini which is “competitively” priced has been edited out of the thread, as has much of the surrounding discussion. ‘John from Vodafone’ chipped in with “Some information posted here yesterday has been removed. We are not in a position to discuss the N97 at this point. We apologise for any inconvenience caused and will update you in due course.” which somehow manages to be both bland and suspicious. Neat trick, John.
If it is true, this would be a bit of a change of direction for Nokia – usually they just bring out a new, differently numbered, model with its own feature set. A ‘mini’ version of an existing phone just doesn’t seem like them, really.
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