Nokia N97 - The Social Networking Mini Computer
Desktop. Laptop. Pocket: The era of the personal Internet dawns with the Nokia N97
Tilting touch display, QWERTY keyboard and personalized home screen - a true mobile computer
Barcelona,
Spain - Nokia today unveiled the Nokia N97, promising to 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.' Watch the video here. 
Hailed as the ultimate social networking device, Nokia launches the N97 in black and white. The device has several features that make it appealing to the fashion bloggers:
--Large touch screen with svivle capabilities
--Robust design using titanium it can fall our of your bag several times
--Hinge to querty keyboard for browsing your favorite fashion news and eating a croissont at the same time
--Colors are White and Black
--Facebook application, Google application, Widgets for weather and RSS feed reading, and People Slots
photo by Scoble cc2008
How does the iPhone compare to the N97? It is a bit thinner in size, has it's active menu icons on the idle screen. It has the fold open keypad with querty keyboard, and swivel hinge for reading at your favorite cafe. The bluetooth works.
"Nokia is leaving iPhone in the dust for Camera (but it is impacting the form factor due to optics ...) and audio quality in hands free. For battery, I don't think [it is better] when I compare my N80 and my iPhone running firmware 2.2 that improved battery life a lot for me. And I use my iPhone much much more." says one iPhone lover. The fashion industry is currently dominated by Apple, Rim, and Motorola. It will be interesting to see how the fashion industry recieves this mini computer.
Interview with the Head Designer of the 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. "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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