If flash animations and S60 5th edition are your idea of a good time then you'll want to head on over to Nokia's new interactive N97 landing page. From there you can get as close as you'll ever get to Nokia's flagship slider with 3.5-inch, 640 x 360 pixel resistive touch-screen display prior to its expected June launch. So go ahead, take 'er for a spin and then hit the
newly live pre-order button after you're convinced that this is the smartphone for you. Sure, there's lots of potential June competition out there but take heart: the Android-powered Samsung i7500 lacks a QWERTY, there's no guarantee that a next-gen iPhone will launch in June, and the Palm Pre might be a big fat dud. There, feel better about your choice?
Update: Tipster Chris just let us know that the N97 show a $699 phone-only price on the "
find products" tab over at Nokia USA. That's $6 cheaper than the
N96, strangely enough. See screen-grab after the break.
Update 2: Pre-order is go for the US.
[Via
mivadika, thanks Nikos K.]
posted May 4th 2009 at 5:40AM
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Eddie @ May 4th 2009 9:45AM
The preoder site is saying July release. So it's still 2-2.5 month wait.
niftydl @ May 4th 2009 10:56AM
Why oh why must you take forever Nokia. I still feel like this would have been awesome say, in January. Its still a very capable phone, but we've been hearing about it for ages. The price tag is as expected. Could have been worse, could be as demented as the X1 release.
dansus @ May 4th 2009 1:08PM
Only $699, thats pretty cheap compared to $999 for the Pre.
JonnyBruha @ May 4th 2009 10:21PM
Pass, though I'm glad they're not raping people with the price.
Danny @ May 5th 2009 11:38AM
Does anyone know the carrier or are the specs high end enough that you can assign it ur own carrier
bdotwoods @ May 5th 2009 11:48AM
Gsm more then likely..which makes it for tmo and att. 850 / 1900 / 2100 which means it wouldn't pick up the 3g on tmobile. (idiots @ tmo really did me over on that one, but i still can't leave em, love em too much) hope that helped. lol.