Preview: Nokia N97 Touchscreen Phone
December 3, 2008
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
