Nokia introduces Touchscreen, QWERTY-equipped N97

Nokia has just unveiled its new flagship phone, the N97.

It comes packed with a 3.5-inch 640×360 resistive touchscreen display with tactile feedback, a slide-out QWERTY keypad, 5-megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss glass lens, HSDPA, WiFi, Bluetooth, A-GPS, 32GB internal memory and support for up to 16GB microSD memory. It also boasts DVD quality video recording at 30fps. That’s certainly an impressive stat sheet to behold.

Below is a short teaser video of the N97 to get you excited for next year. The full press release can be found here.

The N97 is expected to begin shipping in the first half of 2009 with a retail price of €550 or roughly $693 excluding taxes and subsidies. It definitely belongs to the more expensive side of the family, but with its stellar feature-set, we certainly wouldn’t mind skipping the N96 and 5800 XpressMusic just to make sure we’d have the cash reserves floating around when this baby hits the market.

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Posted by Allan David Reyes on December 02, 2008 in Cell Phone News

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Rocci says:

Posted on February 17th, 2009 at 11:40 am

I just love how cool the handling is. I cant wait fo have my Nokia 97 with qwerty and full touch!!!!! I’m just gonna get it unlocked from http://www.puremobile.com/Nokia/Nokia-N97-White-GSM-Phone/ as soon as its in stock. I dont plan on exteding my contract in this economic crisis.

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