Nokia N97 to land late Q1

The chaps over at online retailer Play.com have begun listing a price and launch date for Nokia’s recently unveiled N97 touchscreen webphone. Nokia_N97_play Nokia's N97 comes to Play.com in March Despite making waves at this year’s CES, Nokia’s kept mum about when the phone will be available from and – crucially – how much …

[Graeme Hill]

Looks nice.......

..... as long as it can handle the transition between 3g and 2g when travelling between inner city and rural areas which seems to be a problem with the new wave of 3g phones that have hit the market in the last few years, adn the battery can cope with an "allways open" window.

[Nicholas Wright]

And...

... the keyboard is easy to use.

[Robert Foxx]

Robert Foxx

Wow... wasn't expecting it until mid summer at least, but if it's here in March I think I'll hold off on going for the Nokia 5800 at the end of the month.

[Ash]

Too much?

Does everything, costs a bomb.

Can't I just have a Symbian phone with a decent keyboard which doesn't try to replace my MP3 player?

Looking at E71 instead.

[Anonymous Coward]

@Graeme Hill

"transition between 3g and 2g when travelling between inner city and rural areas"

Hm. Walking down my hallway into my lounge (both of which are in central Oxford :-) ) triggers such a transition. And the N95 certainly doesn't play well around it.

[Dan Maudsley]

It's gone!

Price and launch date removed. Mobile Computer has screenshots:

http://www.mobilecomputermag.co.uk/200901191224/play.com-lets-slip-nokia-n97-uk-launch-date-and-price.html

[Ascylto]

iPhone Killer

It's Nokia's iPhone Killer.

I just thought I'd post this as nobody seems to have used the "iPhone Killer" yet!

[Andy Watt]

inter-mode handover problems? jeez...

priceless, it's taken the networks an age to iron out 3G-GSM handovers and now the bloody handsets are going backwards. i bet HSPA is to blame, overlaid / bolted on as it is.

I spent time testing handovers on an automation rig I built some time back: it's not rocket science so come on Nokia, drag your game up before you become a laughing-stock. symbian will die on its' arse if Nokia don't improve their attitude.

in the meantime, i'll wait until this new phone is just about impossible to buy befor I buy it. after several software / hardware updates maybe it'll hang together.

still using my p990!l

[Bill]

For a flagship phone...

I'm very surprised that Nokia didn't include a Xenon flash in addition to dual LED. Without this, the camera will be damn near useless for night shots.

[Andy Hards]

Is it not a network thing?

As I used to have problems when I went for 'big jobs' cos the reception in my loo was bad but I haven't changed phone (still got my battered N73) and one day it just changed over with no problems and has been fine ever since.

Or is it just me?