Desktop. Laptop. Pocket: The era of the personal Internet dawns with the Nokia N97
December 02, 2008
Barcelona, Spain - Nokia today unveiled the Nokia N97, the world's most advanced mobile computer, which will transform the way people connect to the Internet and to each other. Designed for the needs of Internet-savvy consumers, the Nokia N97 combines a large 3.5" touch display with a full QWERTY keyboard, providing an 'always open' window to favorite social networking sites and Internet destinations. Nokia's flagship Nseries device introduces leading technology - including multiple sensors, memory, processing power and connection speeds - for people to create a personal Internet and share their 'social location.' 
December 02, 2008
Tilting touch display, QWERTY keyboard and personalized home screen - a true mobile computer
Barcelona, Spain - Nokia today unveiled the Nokia N97, the world's most advanced mobile computer, which will transform the way people connect to the Internet and to each other. Designed for the needs of Internet-savvy consumers, the Nokia N97 combines a large 3.5" touch display with a full QWERTY keyboard, providing an 'always open' window to favorite social networking sites and Internet destinations. Nokia's flagship Nseries device introduces leading technology - including multiple sensors, memory, processing power and connection speeds - for people to create a personal Internet and share their 'social location.'
"From
the desktop to the laptop and now to your pocket, the Nokia N97 is the
most powerful, multi-sensory mobile computer in existence," said Jonas
Geust, Vice President, heading Nokia Nseries. "Together with the Ovi
services announced today, the Nokia N97 mobile computer adjusts to the
world around us, helping stay connected to the people and things that
matter most. With the Nokia N97, Nseries leads the charge in helping to
transform the Internet into your Internet".
Sensing your 'So-Lo'
The
Nokia N97 introduces the concept of 'social location'. With integrated
A-GPS sensors and an electronic compass, the Nokia N97 mobile computer
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.
Widescreen - Internet and entertainment
The
home screen of the Nokia N97 mobile computer features the people,
content and media that matter the most. Friends, social networks and
news are available by simply touching the home screen. The 16:9
widescreen display can be fully personalized with frequently updated
widgets of favorite web services and social networking sites. The Nokia
N97 is also perfectly suited for browsing the web, streaming Flash
videos or playing games. Both the physical QWERTY and virtual touch
input ensure efficiency in blogging, chatting, posting, sending texts
or emailing.
The
Nokia N97 supports up to 48 GB of storage, including 32 GB of on-board
memory, expandable with a 16 GB microSD card for music, media and more.
This is complemented by excellent music capabilities, full support for
the Nokia Music Store and continuous playback time of up to 1.5 days.
The Nokia N97 also has a 5-Megapixel camera with high-quality Carl
Zeiss optics, 16:9 and DVD quality video capture, and support for
services like Share on Ovi for immediate sharing over HSDPA and WLAN.
The
Nokia N97 is expected to begin shipping in the first half of 2009 at an
estimated retail price of EUR 550 before taxes or subsidies.
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Very cool!
I want one.
Although around here the wireless providers will rape us all when it comes to metering-out data bandwidth.
How open/extensible is it?
Great compact mobile computer.
Symbian is now part of Nokia and Nokia set up the Symbian Foundation to further the open sourcing of Symbian.
Needless to say, I'll be getting one of these puppies.