The ‘world’s most advanced mobile computer’, apparently.

Following on the heels of the massively popular N-series mobile phones come the Nokia N97 and this looks like is going to be a must have phone when it launches.

The N97, which features touchscreen and a QWERTY keyboard, takes up where the N96 left off and is set to go head to head with other touchscreen handsets such as the Apple’s iPhone 3G, Ericsson’s X1 and BlackBerry Storm.

The Nokia N97 isn’t due to be available for another 6 months so this gives current market leaders Apple plenty of time to plugin in more gadgets/release an updated iPhone/buy Nokia!

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It seem that the world is going touch mad, in the nicest sense of the phrase. But the additional features packed into the N97 should be a real hit with Nokia fan; HSDPA, Wi-Fi, 32GB of memory plus microSD expansion and a 5 Mpxs camera (lens courtesy of Carl Zeiss) and video capture (apparently, video capture will be ‘DVD quality’). This is probably the biggest gripe I have about the iPhone - the crappy camera. The N97 could score big points on this feature alone.  The N97 also packs in about 36 hours of battery life for audio playback which is reasonable.

The Nokia N97 is expected to start shipping around July 2009 with a price of about £470…unless those pesky Chinese produce yet another ripoff!

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