The Nokia N97 revealed! The most powerful, multi-sensory mobile computer in existence

Desktop. Laptop. Pocket: The era of the personal Internet dawns with the Nokia N97

“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.

Tilting touch display, QWERTY keyboard and personalized home screen – a true mobile computer

Nokia has managed to shock the hell out of me! OMG! Wow!

I was thinking of getting Nokia’s first mid-range and affordable Touch-screen 5800 XpressMusic phone to replace my N82 in late 2009, but I was really unhappy that the Nokia 5800 had no physical keys, so now it looks like this new upcoming sexy beast, the Nseries Nokia N97 will hopefully be my phone replacement for next year (unless something even better turns up till that time! I’m keeping my fingers crossed for a phone with Xenon-Flash, but lets see…)

I absolutely love, love, love the QWERTY keyboard and touch-screen. In addition to being so darn sexy in looks, I’m simply over the moon with the specifications.

The Nokia N97 has taken the specs of the Nokia 5800 and notched it up by adding:

• Full-QWERTY keyboard + Touch-screen (Nokia 5800 has no physical keys! A deal-breaker for me as I blog and chat a lot)
• 5MP Carl Zeiss lens camera (Nokia 5800 has the measely 3.2MP outdated camera)
• Huge 3.5″ display (Nokia 5800 display is 3.2″)
• Powerful 1500mAh Battery! Same powerful battery as the Nokia E61i & Nokia E71 (Nokia 5800 only has a 1320 mAh battery)
• Massive 32GBs of onboard Memory + 16GB expandable Memory Card (Nokia 5800 only has 128MB onboard with 8GB expandable Card)
• MicroUSB jack, which supports charging over USB.
• 3.5mm Audio jack, with TV-Out support.
  

Nokia Press Release:
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 N97 runs on Symbian S60 5th Edition UI.

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.

Nokia N97 is 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.

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.

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.

The guys at AllAboutSymbian.com already have a prototype of the Nokia N97 in their hands, and have done an excellent job of writing down the detailed specifications, so head on over there to read all about it!