The Nokia N97 combines a large 3.5" tilting touch screen display with a full QWERTY keyboard and provides an 'always open' window to favorite social networking sites and Internet destinations. Photo Credit: Nokia

December 02, 2008, (Sawf News) - The Nokia N97 combines a large 3.5" tilting touch screen display with a full QWERTY keyboard and provides an 'always open' window to favorite social networking sites and Internet destinations.

The phone also features an integrated A-GPS sensors and an electronic compass.

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.

Nokia, which introduced its first touch screen mobile phone last month, the last handset maker to do so, will make touch screens and full-qwerty keyboards standard features of its high end mobile phone range.

"This is really the start of the new N-series ... really kicking off the next wave," Jonas Geust, vice president of Nokia's Devices unit, told Reuters in an interview.

"What would there be these days without touch ... Touch for this category of devices is going to be important. Qwerty is also going to be important," he said.

The new N97 rivals Sony Ericsson's X1 and HTC's Touch Pro, both of which use Microsoft's Windows software.

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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