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Nokia N97 gets touchscreen and qwerty

Even before we get to buy the Nokia 5800 XPressMusic here in the Philippines, Nokia is already banking on a better and more usable version for its NSeries version — the Nokia N97.

The Nokia N97 looks like it’s positioned against the touchscreen + qwerty combination of the Sony Ericsson XPeria X1.

nokia n97

…and the Nokia N97 specs:

3.5 inches (360×640 pixels, 16 million colors) touchscreen display
32GB internal memory
up to 16GB on microSD
Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g
HSDPA 3.6Mbps
proximity sensor
accelerometer sensor
full qwerty keyboard
handwriting recognition
5 MP (2584×1938 pixels) Carl Zeiss optics, autofocus, video (30fps)
2nd front facing camera for videocalls
LED Flash
GPS receiver (A-GPS support)
Stereo FM radio with RDS
TV Out
3.5 mm audio output jack
Symbian OS v9.4, Series 60 rel. 5

With that much specs on a qwerty and touchscreen phone, the Nokia N97 could cool down excitement for the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic. It will be out by first half of 2009 and will retail for about $693 (~Php34,000).

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28 Responses to “Nokia N97 gets touchscreen and qwerty”


  1. Gravatar Icon jhay replied on Dec 2nd, 2008 at 7:25 pm (1)

    It’s definitely aimed at the X1. A story on Reuters said that it’s release in 2009 is a little late if Nokia were to take the lead of the market again.

    Then again, it would be a different story here in the Philippines because we practically swallowed up every phone Nokia dished out at us. ;)

  2. Gravatar Icon Mark Anthony Grejaldo replied on Dec 2nd, 2008 at 7:56 pm (2)

    32GB of internal disk space plus another 16GB is pretty neat storage. Oh well, this could be my wish list for Christmas 2009. LOL

  3. Gravatar Icon NieL replied on Dec 2nd, 2008 at 8:07 pm (3)

    Wow, awesome spec.

  4. Gravatar Icon Shaine replied on Dec 2nd, 2008 at 8:25 pm (4)

    Oh darn! I wasn’t informed about this phone earlier. If I was, I would’ve wait for this to come out than buying Xperia all the way from Saudi. Oh well, it’s still cool though. I’m just a 15 yr. old kid. No need to have things flashy :) I favor Sony Ericsson’s camera than Nokia :)

  5. Gravatar Icon Yoe replied on Dec 2nd, 2008 at 8:47 pm (5)

    Compared to the current price of the X1, the N97s price is very tempting.

  6. Gravatar Icon xymo replied on Dec 2nd, 2008 at 9:06 pm (6)

    i hope this one got a better touch screen than 5800 and less bug unlike the N85 and N96 that Nseries recently released.

  7. Gravatar Icon resourcesandmoney.blogspot.com replied on Dec 2nd, 2008 at 10:21 pm (7)

    N97 vs. iPhone. Hmm.. The market has a good fight now.

  8. Gravatar Icon Chester replied on Dec 2nd, 2008 at 10:24 pm (8)

    My gripe is always with the LED Flash :-(

  9. Gravatar Icon noel replied on Dec 2nd, 2008 at 11:06 pm (9)

    windows mobile has this version before – the physical aspect i mean; HTC Tilt or Kaiser.

  10. Gravatar Icon jazzy replied on Dec 3rd, 2008 at 4:53 am (10)

    dvbh is missing in n97? why?

  11. Gravatar Icon Lloyd Lopez replied on Dec 3rd, 2008 at 1:53 pm (11)

    The design looks an HTC Kaiser / Tyn II to me.

  12. Gravatar Icon gpc replied on Dec 3rd, 2008 at 3:21 pm (12)

    Parang HTC TyTN II nga. Hehe.
    http://msmobiles.com/news.php/7859.html

  13. Gravatar Icon Obed replied on Dec 3rd, 2008 at 4:05 pm (13)

    The thing about Nokia is, after they released a new product, after months they will release another product, so people will buy like SE or LG or Samsung instead of Nokia…

    But I like the specs, I wish other brand will create more exciting feature, I just don’t want to buy Nokia anymore.

  14. Gravatar Icon humblePride replied on Dec 6th, 2008 at 11:37 am (14)

    wow ever since Im a nokia enthusiast..

  15. Gravatar Icon berryboy replied on Dec 9th, 2008 at 10:00 pm (15)

    cool phone! but i love my BB Bold now :) i had different nokia units in the past, the last was N80, which was lost recently:(

  16. Gravatar Icon Embeded Systems Programmer replied on Jan 11th, 2009 at 2:46 pm (16)

    sayang walang dvbh receiver

  17. Gravatar Icon coolkiko replied on Jan 23rd, 2009 at 12:59 am (17)

    well thats what puts nokia a leader on mobile phones. they keep on introducing no products. and when they introduce products they dont just introduce one.

    im enjoying my 5800XM but i will surely buy this new baby. what i love about nokia is the ease of use. i also love their decent camera.

  18. Gravatar Icon Makubex replied on Apr 15th, 2009 at 4:40 pm (18)

    the nokia n97 price is 34k pesos?
    i wish that are true because i read in another forum that nokia n97 is 54k pesos

  19. Gravatar Icon makubex replied on Apr 15th, 2009 at 4:59 pm (19)

    click the link they said Nokia N97 are come out with 55k pesos not 34k

    http://www.grabeh.com/tech/nokia-n97-price-in-the-philippines/

  20. Gravatar Icon N97 Nokia Boy replied on May 30th, 2009 at 7:29 am (20)

    thanks for that nice blog!

  21. Gravatar Icon viel replied on May 30th, 2009 at 10:56 pm (21)

    is it already in the market? how much? anyone? :D

  22. Gravatar Icon inglesero replied on May 30th, 2009 at 11:13 pm (22)

    stop making fools of yourselves, posers! if you can’t talk straight up english, then don’t. i hate social climbers, wannabees. you don’t have money to buy this phone! drool your guts out!

  23. Gravatar Icon test replied on Jun 17th, 2009 at 11:08 am (23)

    wehhhh. ang yabang naman ni inglesero…

  24. Gravatar Icon Nikka replied on Jun 19th, 2009 at 1:53 am (24)

    Price is PhP34,000 only! Last day to pre-order the Nokia N97 is June 19! Plus get a chance to get your Nokia N97 bundled with a free Linksys Wireless-G Broadband Router (worth Php 2,995) and free delivery. Go to http://www.nokia.com.ph/n97preorder for details

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  28. Gravatar Icon Edward replied on Sep 24th, 2009 at 6:33 pm (28)

    this phone was ranked poorly by GSM arena, and I think I’ll go with them… and besides, I find this phone too ostentatious.

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