Preview: Nokia N97 Touchscreen Phone

In the first half of 2009, Nokia will be releasing a touchscreen phone, N97, in the United States. It will have 3.5-inch screen, a widgetized home (OS is Symbian S60), a slide-out full QWERTY keyboard (comes from underneath and angles to about 30 degrees), and a pretty pricey price tag to round it off.

On the spec, expect 3G HSDPA data access, Wi-Fi, GPS, Bluetooth (including a stereo (Bluetooth 2.0) profile), and a gigantic 32GB of on-board flash memory and of course a microSD memory slot that can add another 16GB of storage.

Due to the physical keyboard, the size is bulkier than most modern touchscreen (such as the iPhone, but smaller than the G1 Google Android phone.

Nokia’s “Ovi” suite of online tools is included and Nokia is looking into fitting N-Gage Gaming on it too. POP, IMAP, and Exchange e-mail access; Nokia HTML browser.

Multimedia-wise, expect 30 frames-per-second video playback, a 3.5mm headset jack (YES!, any standard headset will work!), a TV out, and a 5-megapixel camera with VGA-quality video recording.

-Source: Yahoo Tech

Today’s CYBER MONDAY!!!

Hi all, in case anybody is living in a hole, today is Cyber Monday. What that means is super discounts + cheap or free shipping within the Continintal US. What we are talking about some things by 40%, 50%, even 70% off their normal price.

The term Cyber Monday comes from the fact that “they” noticed many people bought things online the Monday following “Black Friday” (the day after Thanksgiving). Since they want to pump up sales, a lot of store are doing promotions. So far it has proven to be much safer than Black Fridays (a store employee was trampled, and died, this past Friday do to the store rush) and many more people will be able to participate.

If you haven’t gone shopping yet and you want to get some things for Christmas (or for yourself), get over to www.CyberMonday.com to find out what you can still get.

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