Ok, it wasn’t much of mystery (to me, what Nokia was launching today) … but check this Flash enabled “bad boy” out:

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

Yep, Nokia announced the N97 smartphone today and Nokia is calling it: “The world’s most advanced mobile computer”. Looks very cool, and I’m sure it will be (when it is will be in market within the next 6 months)! \m/

Nokia N97 (type mode)

Nokia N97 (touch mode)

Nokia N97 (type mode)

I missed the keynote and launch presentations from Nokia World 2008 (in Barcelona), but from the looks of the on-demand videos, basically they took all the goodness of Nseries N95/N96, mixed with a bit of Nokia E-series, plus lessons learned from the N810, and are now bundling it in a S60 5th edition device called the Nokia N97.

Ok, ok, it’s a bit more than that though, since it sports: 3G Tri-band, WiFi, A-GPS, touch screen input and slide out QWERTY keypad, 3.5-inch 16:9 touchscreen, 32GB of built-in storage, with an upgrade to 48GB possible using the micro-SD card, HSPDA and Wi-Fi, Flash Lite 3 & Flash Video support, 5px megapixel camera, DVD quality video recording and playback, and more. Sweet!

Here are is the official device specification data sheet from Nokia.

Plus, it also will be heavy on widgets, and newer Nokia Maps 3/location based technology … all of this, of course, will most likely tie into Ovi service!

Anyways, overall, from what I saw in some early demos, it looks like the device might be up to par to compete with another popular touchscreen device from Cupertino … let the games, begin!

Here are some select links to read:

• All About Symbian
• CNET
• Youtube videos
• Engadget
• Nokia World 2008
• Nokia Promo Video
• Nokia Press Release
• Times Online
• S60 Blog
• Flash4Nokia
• biskero.org

Scott Janousek
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