Nokia unveiled the Nokia N97, the highly anticipated and the most advanced converged touch device from c in India. The Nokia N97 pioneers the concept of a personalized home screen that lets people choose their favourite content, providing an ‘always open’ window to applications and/or Internet content such as social networking sites, RSS feeds and other widgets in addition to Ovi feeds. Designed for the needs of Internet savvy consumers, the Nokia N97 will transform the way people connect to the Internet and to each other. Expected to begin shipping in India at the end of June 2009, the Nokia N97 will be the first Nokia device to offer integrated access to the newly opened Ovi Store.  

“From the desktop to the laptop and now to your pocket, the Nokia N97 is the most powerful, multi-sensory mobile device in existence. It is an important step towards our vision of delivering a highly personalized Internet experience,” said Vineet Taneja, Director-Marketing, Nokia India. “Fuelled by a multitude of media and applications through the Ovi Store, the Nokia N97 transforms the Internet into an experience that’s completely tailored to the tastes and interests of its user”.

Sensing your ‘So-Lo’
Nokia’s flagship Nseries device introduces leading technology – including multiple sensors, memory, processing power and connection speeds – for people to share their ‘social location. With integrated A-GPS sensors and an electronic compass, the Nokia N97 mobile computer intuitively understands where it is. The Nokia N97 makes it easy to update social networks automatically with real-time information, giving approved friends the ability to update their ‘status’ and share their ‘social location’ as well as related pictures or videos.

Widescreen - Internet and entertainment
The  home screen of Nokia N97 can be customized to feature the people, content and media that matter the most. Friends, social networks and news are available by simply touching the home screen. The unique tilting, large touch 3.5”, 16:9 widescreen display, which comes with a fill QWERTY keyboard, can be fully personalized with a range of widgets* which bring live information directly to the devices.

These widgets include key social networking destinations like Facebook, news services like NDTV and Reuters, as well as email, shopping and weather information. The Nokia N97 is also perfectly suited for browsing the web, streaming Flash videos or playing games. The intuitive User Interface with a choice of physical QWERTY and virtual touch input ensure efficiency in blogging, chatting, posting, sending texts or emailing.  Images can also be geo-tagged to specific locations and shared instantly with friends or uploaded online via Ovi Share, Twitter, Flickr or Facebook.

Ovi Store on board
The Nokia N97 is the first device to ship with Ovi Store, a one-stop shop for a full catalog of applications, games, videos, podcasts, productivity tools, web and location-based services, and much more. Ovi Store has paid and free content from a range of global and local content providers and developers, including Facebook, Paramount Pictures and Twitter applications. In India, the Ovi Store on the N97 will offer a choice of 50 free to download items developed specifically for Indian consumers, by Indian developers.  In addition, users will also have access to global items, a mix of paid and free to download content.

Added Mr. Taneja, “Ovi Store makes shopping for content and applications easy and fun for feature phone and smart phone owners alike. For content providers and developers, Ovi Store provides an opportunity to tap into potential customers in India as well as around the world. In a first of its kind initiative, Forum Nokia had invited Indian developers to innovate and develop a pool of region specific content for the Ovi Store and 50 of them will be available on the Nokia N97 when it starts shipping here.  We believe this initiative will encourage our developer partners to further drive the enhanced use of mobile devices in real-world scenarios with truly innovative applications and services that are designed specifically for the Nokia N97.”

The Nokia N97 supports up to 48 GB of storage, including 32 GB of on-board memory, expandable with a 16 GB microSD card for music, media and more. This is complemented by excellent music capabilities, full support for the Nokia Music Store and continuous playback time of up to 1.5 days. The Nokia N97 also has a 5-Megapixel camera with high-quality Carl Zeiss optics, 16:9 and DVD quality video capture, and support for services like Share on Ovi for immediate sharing over HSDPA and WLAN.   

Courtesy: Nokia

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