Jun 12, 2009
Nokia N97 in Australia early next month
Nokia’s new flagship brand, the Nokia N97 is close to arriving in Australia. Nokia have scheduled a world release for early July. The pricing details haven’t been confirmed but the price is likely to be around $1300. The timing is close to the release of the new iPhone 3GS which should be available in Australia on 26 June so it will be interesting to see how they compete.
The N97 is being promoted by Nokia as a mobile computer, not just a phone. There are a couple of features which are firsts in the Nokia suite of smartphones.
- The home screen of the N97 can be personalised by selecting widgets to include applications such as Facebook and content such as shopping information, weather and news.
- The N97 is the first Nokia phone to be shipped with the Ovi store. This will enable the downloading and installation of applications onto the phone and it will also be the first time Nokia’s relevance engine will be seen which personalises the content in the store depending on the user’s history and location.
Nokia want to be seen as a content provider not just a handset manufacturer and the N97 is a move in this direction for them.
The Nokia N97 features are impressive:
- 3.5†touchscreen
- Full QWERTY slideout and tilt keyboard
- 5 megapixels camera
- MP3 player
- 32GB of storage plus a micro SD card giving up to 16GB of additional storage
- Symbian S60 5th edition operating system
- GPS, HSDPA, WiFi, Bluetooth
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