Nokia N97 Given Official Launch Date

Author	Gordon Kelly
Published	2nd Jun 2009

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The title rather gives this away...

Nokia has finally given us a release date for its most anticipated handset to date, the N97. The flagship handset will officially go on sale in the UK on Friday 19 June. It will be available at Nokia stores and from its online store for the slightly more palatable sim free price of £499.

Interestingly, Nokia has also announced the N97 will be launched on the 3, Orange, T-Mobile and Vodafone networks and stocked by the Carphone Warehouse and Phones 4U branches from 26 June. Previously Orange had declined the N97 based on its native Skype integration so we've pressed Nokia for clarification over this issue. O2 still remains out the picture.

The Nokia N97 marks the Finns' first high end touchscreen device (following the mid-range 5800 XpressMusic) and packs in top specs. Most notably you'll find HSDPA, WiFi, aGPS, a 5MP camera with Carl Zeiss lens, physical sliding Qwerty keyboard, whopping 32GB of native memory and a microSD slot. It will also come with the Ovi Store preinstalled. The choice of a resistive touchscreen however is a disappointment while at 117.2 x 55.3 x 15.9mm (18.25mm at the camera) and approximately 150g you'll need big pockets.

So, that's the Palm Pre, Nokia N97 and possibly a third generation iPhone as well as the exciting Android based Samsung I7500 all arriving this month. Happy June folks!

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Helmore said on 3rd June 2009

Multi-touch on a resistive touchscreen can be done, but it is like you (Gordon) pretty much said, you can't update the firmware of current resistive touchscreen phones and sud... more

Gordon said on 3rd June 2009

@Helmore you do realise that sentence says: "resistive touchscreens currently can't support multi-touch" - what you a pointing out is a prototype next generation of ... more

Keith said on 4th June 2009

@Steve - where did you pre-order your 6700 from? Do you have a definitive spec? Nokia.com isn't much help, some screens say it has wifi, some say it doesn't...

Nick Boardman said on 11th June 2009

Hey Gordon, long time no speak, I trust you are well? Any update on the Orange situation? I think this is the first time I could live with just 1 device, by ditching my 6301 and E7... more

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