Nokia’s half QWERTY device, Wahoo, headed for AT&T gets pictured



Well, what do we have here? It seems as if it’s a never before seen Nokia handset! We don’t have a name to call it other than the internal codename, “Wahoo,” but what we can do is recap some of the specs of the device for you…

    * Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE
    * Dual-band UMTS/HSDPA (850MHz/1900MHz)
    * There’s two displays, one internal and one external. They sizes are 2.2″ with a 240×320 resolution, and 1.36″ with a 128×160 resolution respectively
    * 2.0 megapixel camera with flash
    * Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP
    * Four hours of UMTS talk time
    * Sadly a 2.5mm headset jack

We don’t have a release date for you yet, but our ninja has confirmed to us (as if the UMTS radio bands didn’t give it away) that this Nokia phone will definitely be hitting AT&T. The form-factor is actually pretty similar to the BlackBerry Pearl Flip, with a half-QWERTY clamshell design. The specs aren’t incredible, but hey, we think any Nokia fans on AT&T will take what they can get… Larger shot with more specs after the break!

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Смешна копија Моторолиног модела, која има да шкрипи на сваком ћошку. 

Nokia slips out 5 megapixel 6260 slide with AGPS, a first for S40 devices



Peeped in spy pics on these Interwebs since June, Nokia just went official with the 6260 slide. Unfortunately, "slide" in this case reveals a numeric keypad not a QWERTY. Otherwise, it's pretty much an iterative step beyond the 6220 classic. As such, we're looking at a 5 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss lens, WiFi, and HSDPA/HSUPA data to quickly share photos and video on Nokia's Ovi service with the promise of support for other photo and video sharing sites you might actually use. The 6260 slide also features Nokia Maps riding AGPS -- a first for a mass market, Series 40 device. Ships in early 2009 for about €299 before taxes and carrier subsidies, naturally.

Update: Detailed specs just released show a 2.4-inch, 320 x 480 pixel display on this 15.4-mm thick slider with quad-band GSM/EDGE and tri-band UMTS radios and microSD expansion. [Thanks, L]

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Nokia's QWERTY slider E75 spotted in the wild again



In the "form factors Nokia hasn't fully explored, but probably should" bucket, side-sliding QWERTY candybars ranks pretty dang high on the list, so we're delighted to see that -- as far as we can tell, anyway -- Espoo's still hard at work banging out the details of its E75. We're told to expect WiFi (naturally), a 3.2-megapixel camera, and a 2.4-inch display, but more importantly, you've got a generous keyboard that should give the S740 a serious run for its money. We're a bit concerned about usability on a totally flush keyboard like this (E90 anyone?), but hey, maybe that's the reason it hasn't been announced yet, right?

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Nokia 6260 slide feature phone packs HSPA, WiFi, GPS, 5MP camera and more!

Nokia has announced a new device - 6260 slide. The stylish slider is one of the best feature phone announced to date, sporting a 5 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics and flash, both HSUPA and HSDPA support, WiFi, aGPS, Bluetooth, great web browser, music player and more. In addition, there’s a brand new navi-key (which looks identical to any D-pad) that according to the Finnish giant allows a “great mobile Internet experience.”

The Nokia 6260 slide can also sing along Ovi services, enabling users to share their music, photos, videos and files with friends and/or rest of the world.

As for the release date, the device is expected to begin shipping at the beginning of 2009. Estimated retail price is set on 299 EUR, before taxes and subsidies. We’ve no doubts it will be a best seller once it’s released…



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ne svidja mi se dizajn... 

Nokia N97, premijerno na Bureku

3.5" touch display (16 miliona boja, tactile feedback, 640x360 pixels) with a full QWERTY keyboard.
5-Megapixel camera with high-quality Carl Zeiss Tessar optics, 16:9 and DVD quality video capture
64 GB of on-board memory (ovo nisam baš 100% siguran da li se radi o 32 GB interne + microSD, ili je 64 GB interne)
BL-4C (1500 mAh) battery
estimated retail price of EUR 550 before taxes or subsidies
očekuje se u prvoj polovini 2009. (srećom, Nokija nije SE, pa na N97 nećemo čekati godinu dana, kao na Xperiu X1, valjda)

znači tilt dizajn su maznuli od HTC TYTN II, i što se mene tiče, pun pogodak 

edit:

Specifications for the Nokia N97
Operating System= Symbian S60 5th Edition
Band= GSM 850/900/1800/1900MHz, UMTS 900/1900/2100MHz
Data =GPRS/EDGE/WCDMA/HSDPA/WiFi
Size =117mm x 56mm x 15mm (4.6" x 2.2" x 0.6")
Weight 147g (5.2oz)
Battery ==Nokia BP-4L, 1500 mAh
Battery= Life Up to 17.9 days GSM, 16.6 days WCDMA standby
Up to 6.6 hours GSM, 5.3 hours WCDMA talk time
Main Display= 3.5" 16M color widescreen TFT, 640x360 pixel resolution
Camera =5 megapixel auto-focus with dual-LED flash
Video =Video capture/playback, MPEG4 VGA (640x480 pixel) resolution at 30fps
Messaging =MMS/EMS/SMS
Email =POP/IMAP/SMTP
Bluetooth =2.0, A2DP (stereo), EDR
Memory =32GB, microSD memory card slot (up to 16GB)
Availability= 1st half 2009 (manufacturer's estimate)
Other QWERTY keyboard, MP3/AAC/eAAC/eAAC+/WMA music player, A-GPS support, dual LED flash, micro-USB connector, 3.5mm headphone jack, TV-out support

Tilting touch display, QWERTY keyboard and personalized home screen - a true mobile computer



Nokia today unveiled the Nokia N97, the world's most advanced mobile computer, which will transform the way people connect to the Internet and to each other.

Designed for the needs of Internet-savvy consumers, the Nokia N97 combines a large 3.5" touch display with a full QWERTY keyboard, providing an 'always open' window to favorite social networking sites and Internet destinations.

Nokia's flagship Nseries device introduces leading technology - including multiple sensors, memory, processing power and connection speeds - for people to create a personal Internet and share their 'social location.'

"From the desktop to the laptop and now to your pocket, the Nokia N97 is the most powerful, multi-sensory mobile computer in existence," said Jonas Geust, Vice President, heading Nokia Nseries.

"Together with the Ovi services announced today, the Nokia N97 mobile computer adjusts to the world around us, helping stay connected to the people and things that matter most. With the Nokia N97, Nseries leads the charge in helping to transform the Internet into your Internet".



Sensing your 'So-Lo'

The Nokia N97 introduces the concept of '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 the Nokia N97 mobile computer features the people, content and media that matter the most. Friends, social networks and news are available by simply touching the home screen. The 16:9 widescreen display can be fully personalized with frequently updated widgets of favorite web services and social networking sites. The Nokia N97 is also perfectly suited for browsing the web, streaming Flash videos or playing games. Both the physical QWERTY and virtual touch input ensure efficiency in blogging, chatting, posting, sending texts or emailing.



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.

The Nokia N97 is expected to begin shipping in the first half of 2009 at an estimated retail price of EUR 550 before taxes or subsidies



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Touchscreen Nokia N97 is the next step ahead with full QWERTY

The Nokia N97 is most definitely one of the most loaded N-series devices out there, but that's not it's all about. The N97 is the first high-end device powered by the latest touchscreen Symbians S60 OS. And if the 3.5-inch touchscreen display is not enough for you, you can always slide-and-tilt it up so the large full QWERTY keyboard gets revealed.


Nokia N97

Tri-band HSDPA and quad-band GSM ensure world wide roaming, but the new Nokia N97 also boasts 32GB of internal memory, a 5 megapixel camera, Wi-Fi, GPS, touch-enabled Nokia Maps with a digital compass, an accelerometer for auto screen rotation and a proximity sensor for auto screen turn-off during calls.

Of course all the basics are covered too - with stereo Bluetooth, 3.5mm audio jack, and FM radio with RDS.


Nokia N97

As you can imagine the Nokia N97 is quite hefty carrying that load - it weighs 150 g, but size-wise it's not bigger than say, the Apple iPhone 3G (except in thickness, that is).


Nokia N97 lifestyle shots

The Nokia N97 will be available in Q2 2009, at an estimated price of 550 euro before subsidies and taxes.

Here's the official promo video for you to enjoy:



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Nokia N97 - Nseries with touch and QWERTY

Nokia today announced the launch of  the Nokia N97. It is the first touch-enabled Nseries device and has a horizontal tilt-slide form factor. It transforms from a touch slate to a landscape QWERTY device. The device, which has an Internet and entertainment focus, runs on S60 5th Edition, has a customisable, widget-based, home screen and full support for Ovi services.

It features a 3.5 inch (360 x 640 resolution) touchscreen with haptic feedback, 5 megapixel camera (with Carl Zeiss optics and dual LED flash), A-GPS and compass sensors, comprehensive connectivity options (WiFi, tri-band HSDPA, Bluetooth and USB), and 32GB of internal flash memory. Read on for more.

The N97 is the most feature packed Nseries device to date and, by adding touch, it moves Nokia's high end Nseries into direct competition with touch devices such as the Samsung Omnia, LG Renoir, Apple iPhone and G1 Android Phone.

Here are first few hand-ons impressions: In the hand the N97 feels pleasingly solid, with an extremely impressive slide mechanism - it is obvious a lot of testing has gone into the hinge mechanism. In slide closed mode it is equally solid, with no give. The keyboard, while limited by design constraints, feels good, though as ever it's difficult to come to any final conclusions with prototypes. Subjectively, the 'feel' and the design of the handset screams high end with materials that can not be fully appreciated in pictures (it has that caress-ability x-factor).



It is a relatively large device, especially length-wise, but that's inevitable given the size of the screen and the inclusion of a QWERTY keyboard. There's the usual plethora of hardware features, including sensors (accelerometer, compass sensors and proximity sensors), integrated A-GPS, and connectivity options (tri-band 3G, WiFi, Bluetooth and USB). The large screen is a definite highlight - its widescreen 16:9 resolution is ideal for watching videos, but also works well for browsing the Internet. The touch screen is very sensitive, and there have been further refinements to the home screen to enable easier finger touch usage (the larger physical screen also helps with this). The UI can also be driven from the keypad using the D-pad on the left hand side of the keyboard, together with the on-screen softkeys and home key.

S60 5th Edition has been updated to Nseries specifications for the N97. Extras include UPnP, Internet Radio and Nokia Photos applications and we can expect to see a lot more in this area before the phone is released.

We'll report in greater detail in due course.
Key features of the phone:

Software:

    * Runs S60 5th Edition. You can read more about S60 5th Edition in our Nokia 5800 preview. However, the N97 will have the Nseries version of S60, which means there will be a number of extra applications including Internet Radio, FM transmitter, Home media (UPnP) and Photos.
       
    * The home screen can be personalised with Internet-aware widgets (based on WRT technology). Examples included in the press photos include weather forecasts, social networking (Facebook, Friendster, My Space) status summaries, and media collections. There are also indicators for time, profiles, email, application shortcuts and so on.
       
    * Text input is via on screen keyboard (full screen QWERTY, pop-up QWERTY and alphanumeric), as is standard on S60 5th Edition, or handwriting recognition or via the QWERTY keyboard.
       
    * Fully compatible with Ovi services including Maps, Music, Share and Games. Nokia Music store can be accessed from the device (touch optimised version) or from Nokia Music for the PC (an iTunes -Windows application). Nokia Maps now supports high resolution satellite imagery, 3D buildings (selected buildings) and richer map meta data. Pedestrian route finding and turn by turn, voice guided car navigation, are available as premium services.

    * Internet focus with WebKit based browser, comprehensive RSS feed support and runtime technologies including Flash, WRT (widget).

    * Introduces the social location (So-Lo) concept; the N97 has software that allows you to automatically update and share your location with friends and popular social networks.
       
    * 'N-Gage compatible' device, which indicates that the N-Gage platform will be touch enabled by the release date of the N97.

The devices being demoed at Nokia World are running an early version of the software. In the six months leading up to the release date it is likely to evolve considerably.



Hardware:

    * Physical dimensions: 117.2 x 55.3 x 15.9 mm (18.25 mm at camera area), and weighs approximately 150g.
       
    * Tilt form factor with horizontal slide to reveal full QWERTY keyboard. The upper half of the device slides away from the bottom half and moves upwards in a diagonal direction. The slide is impressively smooth and when closed feels very solid in the hand (so much so its not immediately apparent it is a horizontal slide device).
       
    * There are three keys on the front of the device: send and end keys and a home/menu key. On the left side of the device there is a slider lock and a microUSB port, on the top of the device is the power and 3.5mm audio jack and on the right hand side are the volume keys and the camera capture key.
       
    * 3.5 inch, 360 x 640 (nHD) resolution 'conductive' touch TFT screen with 16 million colours. The device can be driven using finger touch or stylus, or from the QWERTY keyboard.
       
    * Haptic feedback for screen touches. This is provided via general vibra feedback, as on the Nokia 5800.
       
    * 5 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics and dual LED flash. The camera is covered by a sliding lens cover similar to that found on the N85 and N79.

      The camera is also used to record videos at VGA at 30 frames per seconds, but I've seen a demo of it recording and playing video back in a 16:9 resolution mode (also as on the 5800). The usual Share online application is present for uploading images and video to online services such as Flickr and Share on Ovi (available services likely to be expanded before launch).
       
    * Integrated A-GPS and compass sensor (magnetometer) means that the N97 'intuitively knows where it is' and this is used by Nokia Maps, and for social location; also embeds location information into images and video.
       
    * 3.5 mm audio jack (also used for TV-Out) and built in stereo speakers. Music playback time of one and half days (36 hours). There's also an FM radio and FM transmitter.
       
    * microUSB jack (USB 2.0 HiSpeed) and supports charging over USB
       
    * 32GB of internal flash memory
       
    * microSD card slot with support for SDHC cards upto 16GB in size (giving total potential memory of 48 GB)
       
    * WiFi, 3.5G (tri-band HSDPA - 900, 1900 and 2100 Mhz), quad-band GSM and Bluetooth connectivity (various profiles including HID, SAP, A2DP and AVRCP).
       
    * 1500 mAh battery (BP-4L - the same monster as that used in the E71, E90, 6650 and N800).
       
    * There is no stylus built into the phone, but one will be included in the box.
       
    * The Nokia N97 is expected to ship in the first half of 2009 (presumably in June) with an estimated price of 550 Euro before taxes and subsidies.


The N97 (117.2 x 55.3 x 15.9 mm) is larger than the 5800 (111 x 51.7 x 15.5 mm). Compared to the iPhone (112 x 56.9 x 12.5 mm) is a little taller, but slightly mm narrower. Quite impressive given the incluion of a QWERTY keyboard. N78 also shown.

Press release extract:

Nokia today unveiled the Nokia N97, the world’s most advanced mobile computer, which will transform the way people connect to the Internet and to each other. Designed for the needs of Internet-savvy consumers, the Nokia N97 combines a large 3.5” touch display with a full QWERTY keyboard, providing an ‘always open’ window to favorite social networking sites and Internet destinations. Nokia’s flagship Nseries device introduces leading technology – including multiple sensors, memory, processing power and connection speeds – for people to create a personal Internet and share their ‘social location.’

“From the desktop to the laptop and now to your pocket, the Nokia N97 is the most powerful, multi-sensory mobile computer in existence,” said Jonas Geust, Vice President, heading Nokia Nseries. “Together with the Ovi services announced today, the Nokia N97 mobile computer adjusts to the world around us, helping stay connected to the people and things that matter most. With the Nokia N97, Nseries leads the charge in helping to transform the Internet into your Internet”.



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