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Nokia unveils flagship N97 phone [update: video!]
Engadget Mobile — ... if the S60 5th Edition OS can support it. The N97 will launch with a retail price set at around €550 ($693) excluding subsidies and taxes, phone to ship in H1 2009. Update: Hah, Nokia just boasted on stage at Nokia World that the N97 was the scoop "Engadget didn't get." O RLY??? Sure looks like the device codenamed Eitri that we broke to the world last month. Update 2: Video demonstration after the break. Read -- Press Release Read -- A bit more detail Continue reading Nokia ...

Nokia unveils the Nokia N97
PalmAddicts — ... bar and adds an assortment of customizable desktop widgets that can pipe in your Facebook info, RSS feeds and the like, much like those found on Nokia's internet tablet OS. The widgets will be open to third party developers and available via the traditional "Downloads" Symbian app "for now" says Nokia—so not quite the App Store equivalent fans would hope for, but customization via software add-ons is definitely the route being pursued here." The Gizmodo after the jump and the press release here. ...

Nokia Announces Chunky, Full-Featured N97 'Cellphone'
Wired: Gadget Lab — ... cards, 3G comes in HSDPA flavor and there is Wi-Fi in the shape of 802.11b and g. In addition, there is real and faux GPS, just like the iPhone,and an accelerometer and a compass (like the G1 Googlephone). But take a look at it. Fitting in all that gear has made the N87 a little chubby. There's another problem, too -- the handset won't be available for another six months, time enough for the rest of the world to move on. How much? €550, or around $695 in today's dollars. Press release [Nokia] ...

Desktop. Laptop. Pocket: Nokia N97
2dayBlog - Technology Journal, New Gadget everyday! — ... 550 before tax and subsidies. More pictures after the break. The Nokia N97 introduces the concept of ’social location’ also known as the So-Lo. With integrated A-GPS sensors and an electronic compass, the Nokia N97 intuitively understands where it is. The Nokia N97 makes it easy to update social networks automatically with real-time information, giving approved friends the ability to update their ’status’ and share their ’social location’ as well as related pictures or videos. :: Press Release [image] As you can see there are four callers icon at the desktop, those are ...

Nokia N97 videos en acción y fotos oficiales
Celularis — A continuación dos videos de nuevo Nokia N97, el nuevo buque insignia de la marca finlandesa y que parece tener todo lo que uno puede pedirle a un equipo. Y el link al comunicado de prensa oficial, la galeria de fotos a continuación. ...

Nokia’s N97: Is this your future netbook?
Between the Lines — ... –are rethinking the netbook category and 2009 is likely to bring us a push toward 2.0 devices. Nokia’s N97 has some sweet specs ( statement , ...

Nokia officially unveils the high-end N97
Gadgetell — ... N97 also has the power to back it up, it will offer up to 320 minutes of 3G talk time and up to 400 hours of standby.  Additionally it will also allow for up to 37 hours of music playback and 4.5 hours of video playback in an offline mode. As for pricing and availability, the N97 is expected to retail for €550 (around $694 US) and will be shipping sometime in the first half of 2009. Keep reading to check out a few more pics of the Nokia N97… Read [Nokia] Full Story » | ...

Nokia ‘Batman’ Device Revealed
Screenwerk — ... The interesting thing is that the phone doesn’t actually exist. It appears almost identical to the iPhone but with Nokia branding. Nokia is reportedly developing the “Tube,” an iPhone like touch-screen device that will be out at some point next year. Accordingly, Nokia seems to be trying to create an association or impression (unconsciously) in the consumer mind that is unjustified at this point by its current phones. Not exactly what I saw in the film but the N97 showed up today: I discuss the device over at Local ...

Nokia announces N97 flagship phone
Boy Genius Report — We mentioned it a few days ago and rumors were true, something big has come from the Finnish mobile manufacturer. Nokia has just announced in Barcelona, Spain during Nokia World ‘08 that it will be launching the N97. This feature-packed phone is guaranteed to please Nokia fans and general phone geeks alike. Apparently, product managers are calling this the “Facebook Phone,” and while it is a little silly, the name doesn’t just come from nowhere. The device is geared toward social networking and multimedia but it doesn’t seem ...

Nokia N97 Announced with Slide, Touch and a Tilt
IntoMobile - Cell Phone News, Information, and Analysis — ... anything else. There’s still a fairly distinct line between UMPC and smartphone that the E-series Communicator straddles a little better than the N97 here, but we’ll let that slide. The N97 is also sporting a lot of draggable home screen widgets, a look reminiscent of Android and the TouchWiz UI. It looks like a great step to improving the smoothness of the Symbian experience and should make a great addition to the N series. Pretty cool, huh? Who wants one? [via Nokia] Videos of the Nokia N97 after of the jump! ...

Nokia Announces N97 Superphone, Won’t Sell It for Months [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network — ... More than two years after Apple launched the iPhone, and months after its rivals launched their versions of touchscreen phones, Nokia today started selling a touchscreen phone (5800 XpressMusic) and announced the N97 ...

Nokia N97 Touch Phone with QWERTY
iTech News Net — ... and a microSD card slot (up 16GB). The N97, other than the touchscreen, comes with a slide-out QWERTY keyboard. It supports A-GPS and has Nokia Maps 3.0 preloaded. The N97 supports also HSDPA, WiFi and Bluetooth connectivity. The N97 runs Symbian-based S60 OS 5th Edition and has some of the features of 5800 XpressMusic. Nokia will launch the N97 first in Asia and Europe and the price is about Euro 550. [Nokia] ...

Nokia Intros Social Network-Friendly N97
Gearlog — ... Today at Nokia World in Barcelona, the eponymous handset manufacture unveiled its latest smartphone, the N97. Referred to by the company as "the world's most advanced mobile computer," the phone features a 3.5-inch touch display and a slide out QWERTY keyboard. ...

Mobile Computer, Phone Included
Know It All — Another day, another smartphone announcement that makes me want to go buy a new phone. This time its from Nokia, and it looks nice. Scoble ...

Nokia reveals N97, its highest-end smartphone
DVICE Atom Feed — ... the usual discounts, too bad we won't be seeing this trinket in the real world until the second quarter of next year, which could mean the end of June. If it just had a robust app store, multitouch capability, and were a little less bulky, this would be the perfect smartphone. Check out the gallery of close-ups below, and then click Continue for a hands-on video: Via Nokia press release

Nokia previews N97 touch-screen mobile for net users
Technology: Technology blog | guardian.co.uk — ... Nokia says it has unveiled "the world's most advanced mobile computer, which will transform the way people connect to the Internet and to each other." The N97 has a 640 x 360 pixel 3.5 inch touch screen and a slide-out qwerty keyboard, so it looks a lot like an HTC device. As expected, it runs Symbian S60, and is Ovi- and N-Gage-compatible. Rivals will include the Sony Ericsson X1 and HTC's Touch Pro, both of which are based on Windows Mobile. ...

The T-Grid: Nokia N97 vs. iPhone 3G
Technologizer — [image] I hope that we’ll soon stop thinking about new touch-screen phones in terms of whether any of them has what it takes to be an “iPhone killer.” For now, though, I can’t help myself. And while I don’t think Nokia’s new N97 , which it just announced at its Nokia World show in Barcelona, will murder Apple’s handset, it looks intriguing from a hardware standpoint, at least. (It’s certainly a more interesting phone than the company’s ...

Nokia’s Flagship: The N-97 Smartphone
dailywireless.org — Nokia has announced a new flagship smart phone, the N97, in Barcelona on Tuesday. The N97 combines a touch screen, a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, Wi-Fi, Web-based widgets, GPS, high-speed Internet and even Flash video. The bulky phone houses a powerful ARM11 processor, a 5-megapixel camera with 640 x 480 video recording, 32 Gbytes of on-board memory and a big, 3.5-inch, 640 x 360 touch screen. ...

Nokia N97 is The Most Attractive iPhone Competitor
Cult of Mac — ... Today in Europe, Nokia introduced the N97, its first serious effort to combat the iPhone’s rapid rise in the smartphone market. And I have to say, I’m pretty impressed. It’s chock full of features the iPhone can’t match (twice the storage, higher-res screen, 5 megapixel camera with a real lens and a good flash), and it’s actually attractive, too. Even better, it doesn’t run Windows Mobile, and the S60 OS seems to have been much better adapted to touch form than the BlackBerry OS on the unfortunate Storm. Plus, it has a really nice QWERTY ...

Nokia Challenges Apple and Google with New N97 Phone
ReadWriteWeb — Nokia today unveiled its new flagship phone, the N97, which is clearly meant to compete with the iPhone and Google's Android platform. Unlike the iPhone, however, the N97 has a full slide-out QWERTY keyboard. In terms of its other hardware features, the N97 also clearly outperforms the iPhone. The N97 supports up to 48 GB of storage, including the 32 GB that are already built-in. The phone has a 5 megapixel camera and its GPS is capable of giving turn-by-turn directions. The resolution of the phone's 16:9 touchscreen is 640x360. Sponsor ...

Nokia's N97 and the dilemma of the iPhone killer
L.A. Times Tech Blog — ... Yet another knight has come forward vowing to slay the iPhone. Nokia today unveiled its N97, which  features a 3.5-inch touch screen and a QWERTY keyboard, 48 GB of storage and a GPS device that allows you to constantly update your location on social networks. ...

Nokia introduces flagship N97 handset
Krunker — ... 37 hours Measures 117.2 x 55.3 x 15.9 mm and weighs approximately 150 grams 3.5 inch 16:9 widescreen display with 640 x 360 resolution Video playback at 30 fps Nokia expects the N97 to ship in the first half of 2009 with an estimated price of EUR 550. This probably means U.S. customers will see the N97 by the end of 2009 if we’re lucky. [Check it out] Technorati Tags: Nokia Nseries N97 ...

News Round-Up from Day 1 at Nokia World 2008
Forum Nokia Blogs — ... For starters, there is a S60 5th Edition new mobile computer, the Nokia N97, which combines a large, bright 3.5" touch display with a full QWERTY keyboard in a very distinctive form factor. Use the Nokia N97 to connect to mobile broadband using WLAN or HSDPA (3.5G). Find directions and locations with the integrated A-GPS and included maps. Additional features include a 5 mega pixel camera with dual LED flash and automatic geotagging of images and videos. ...

Why Nokia Could Kill The Netbook
Forbes.com: Technology News — ... ) N97, introduced at the Nokia World 2008 conference in Barcelona Tuesday, is a GPS-equipped, 3G phone that comes with a touchscreen, a keyboard and a mission: stopping Apple's (nasdaq: ...

Preview: Nokia N97 Phone (First Touch-Screen Nseries Phone)
The Nokia Phone Blog — ... is good enough for 6.6 hours of talk time (GSM) or 5.3 hours (3G). Sweet. There’s always a huge drawback when it comes to this much awesomeness, and the drawback in this case is the wait. The N97 ain’t comin’ out until the first half of 2009, which is damn long time. There might even be an Xperia X2 by then. Don’t forget to add +5 months to that date if you live in the USA. Finally, expect the N97 to be priced at 550 euros, or $698 USD. Nokia Press Release

What's Up, Sexy?
Homotron.net — ... browser that can actually handle Flash video? Absolutely! The only drawback I can see so far? It looks to be a custom OS, so official support for third-party apps is probably not going to happen (you will probably be able to install apps through some hack though, I'm sure). Also, it looks to be a Europe only release as of now, but our European friends should be able to snag one in early 2009 for the low, low price of just EUR 550 (about $700 US)! Press Release [Nokia] [via: Gearlog]

Weekly Wrapup: Open Social Networks, Education 2.0, Nokia N97, And More...
ReadWriteWeb — ... the excitement we have about the new, social web with others. What do you show other people to demonstrate how powerful, and yet easy to use, this new world of technology really is? We asked our staff and a number of other advanced social web users what the one thing is that they like most to show people who are less experienced with the web than they are. Nokia Challenges Apple and Google with New N97 Phone This week Nokia unveiled its new flagship phone, the N97, which is clearly meant to compete with the iPhone and ...

MobileTechRoundup 156: Nokia's N97; features vs. user experience [jkOnTheRun]
GigaOM Network — CLICK HERE to download the file and listen directly. MoTR 156 is 35 minutes long and is a 32.1 MB file in MP3 format. INTRO: Based on “Time v2.1″ by Meta Sektion, additional mixing by James Kendrick. HOSTS: James Kendrick (Houston), Matthew Miller (Seattle) and Kevin C. Tofel (Philadelphia) TOPICS: Thoughts on the Nokia N97 and Symbian S60 with touch. Should resistive touchscreens for phones be on the way out in favor of capacitive? Features vs. ...

Qt on S60 Open Source Project - Bluemapia
Forum Nokia Blogs — ... (hopefully it'll be at that link soon anyway) today that Nokia intend to make Qt free for commercial S60 development.  However, we're going to need some good examples of Qt on S60 projects on a variety of scales.  I'm starting work on one of those now, incorporating the other cutting edge trend for mobile social location (N97 anyone?).  Which will mean we also have an example of extending Qt with camera and GPS functionality. ...

Skype Making Mobile Deals
WebProNews Feed — ... Nokia and Sony Ericsson Getting On Board Nokia N97 Nokia and eBay-owned VoIP service Skype announced a deal today. Skype will be integrated into Nokia devices, starting with the ...

What Will Mobile Phones Look Like in 2010? [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network — ... Most of these phones will come with services integrated into them, and many phones will be “solution-specific.” As an example, Vanjoki offered the soon-to-be-released Nokia N97 and forecast that by 2013, such feature-laden phones will be commonplace. I remember the Nokia N73 and N81 phones from three years ago. Indeed, their features — 3-megapixel camera, music playback and high-speed wireless access (3G or Wi-Fi) — are commonplace today. From that perspective, Vanjoki (and by extension, Nokia) might be right, though there remain ...

Calling All Innovators Hackathon during the Nokia Developer Summit
Forum Nokia Blogs — ... in Monaco to build the best Web Runtime (WRT)T widget for use on the home screen of the new Nokia N97 mobile computer.  ...

Nokia Launches 3rd Party App Store
Podcasting News — ... If Nokia is using its new app store and third-party developers as a strategy to challenge the Apple iPhone for a larger share of the mobile computing pie, it will likely be an uphill struggle. Nokia makes handsets that are superior in many ways (fantastic 5-Megapixel camera with high-quality Carl Zeiss optics, 16:9 and DVD quality video capture that upload and stream video online, mobile podcasting apps, and 48 GB of storage, including 32 GB of on-board memory), but have yet to capture the mass-market attention of the iPhone. ...