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The King Has Returned For His Crown....
Whenwe first caught glimpse of the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic "Tube" phone, we wondered why Nokia didn't create a touchscreen N-series superphoneinstead. Well, now they have and it could be the best Nokia mobile created to date. Over at Nokia World '08 in Barcelona, the flagship Nokia N97 wasrevealed to the world. If you've been a fan of previous N-series multimedia phones but wanted a little more robustness when it came to messaging, thissuperphone will certainly fit the bill. The form factor is very similar to something like the AT&T Tilt and the Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 in that the largetouchscreen display slides away to reveal a full QWERTY keyboard, but the display actually boasts a 30-degree angle for greater visibility and ergonomics. Someproduct managers are calling this the "Facebook Phone", but it's so much more than a social media wizard. Among the features are the new S60Touch user interface, 3.5-inch 640x360 resistive touchscreen, three-row QWERTY keyboard, touch sensitive controls, tri-band HSDPA, 802.11b/g Wi-Fi, aGPS andstandalone GPS, 32GB internal memory (!), up to 16GB additional space via the microSD slot, 5 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics, Flash Lite 3.0, FlashVideo in web browser, music player, and Share and Ovi services support. It's also got a widget-based customized home screen. Europe and Asia will get firstdibs on this remarkable phone during the first half of next year, assuming that they'll be willing to fork out the unsubsidized price of 550 Euro ($695). ANorth American version with NA-friendly 3G bands will follow "shortly after," whatever that means.
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Whenwe first caught glimpse of the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic "Tube" phone, we wondered why Nokia didn't create a touchscreen N-series superphoneinstead. Well, now they have and it could be the best Nokia mobile created to date. Over at Nokia World '08 in Barcelona, the flagship Nokia N97 wasrevealed to the world. If you've been a fan of previous N-series multimedia phones but wanted a little more robustness when it came to messaging, thissuperphone will certainly fit the bill. The form factor is very similar to something like the AT&T Tilt and the Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 in that the largetouchscreen display slides away to reveal a full QWERTY keyboard, but the display actually boasts a 30-degree angle for greater visibility and ergonomics. Someproduct managers are calling this the "Facebook Phone", but it's so much more than a social media wizard. Among the features are the new S60Touch user interface, 3.5-inch 640x360 resistive touchscreen, three-row QWERTY keyboard, touch sensitive controls, tri-band HSDPA, 802.11b/g Wi-Fi, aGPS andstandalone GPS, 32GB internal memory (!), up to 16GB additional space via the microSD slot, 5 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics, Flash Lite 3.0, FlashVideo in web browser, music player, and Share and Ovi services support. It's also got a widget-based customized home screen. Europe and Asia will get firstdibs on this remarkable phone during the first half of next year, assuming that they'll be willing to fork out the unsubsidized price of 550 Euro ($695). ANorth American version with NA-friendly 3G bands will follow "shortly after," whatever that means.
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