Nokia announced its all new S60 smartphone, the N97. The phone has a 3.5-inch touch-screen display boasting a resolution of 640 x 360 with haptic feedback, full QWERTY keyboard, a slide and tilt mechanism that bends the screen up to 30 degrees for added comfort.
The S60 Operating System has been tweaked to make better use of touch input. The phone includes many of the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic’s features such as quick contacts bar and desktop widgets.
The Phone also features a 5-megapixel auto-focus camera with Carl Zeiss optics and LED flash, A-GPS with Nokia Maps 3.0, an integrated 32GB storage which can be extended by 16GB with an external microSD slot, Bluetooth with HSDPA, Wi-Fi connectivity, a digital compass and an accelerometer for screen rotation. A full Internet browser takes care of all the Internet needs.
The batter can hold up to an incredible 1.5 days of continuous audio playback. Nokia have also included a dynamically updating map by using the data from Navteq.
The N97 will go on sale in Europe and Asia markets first, in the first quarter of 2009. US release will not be far off, though no specific dates have been announced yet.
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