Nokia officially announced the slimmed down version of their N97, the Mini N97.  The cut backs aren’t drastic as this version features a 3.2-inch versus a 3.5-inch touchscreen, lacks a d-pad and a slightly smaller footprint.  Nokia also says they’ve injected this version with “flick-scrolling”, which should mean iPhone like scrolling through web pages and applications.

Specs:

• Dimensions: 113 x 52.5 x 14.2 mm
• Weight: 138 g
• Display:     3.2 inch TFT nHD 16:9 widescreen (640 x 360 pixels) with up to 16 million colors
• Camera: 5 megapixels with Carl Zeiss Tessar lens; autofocus and flash
• Video capture: MPEG-4 VGA (640x 480 px) at up to 30 fps
• Video playback: supports RealVideo and Flash Lite 3.0 with PAL/NTSC video-out
• Music playback: MP3, AAC, eAAC, eAAC+, WMA
• Built-in GPS with A-GPS support
• 3.5mm AV connector for stereo headphone jack
• Memory: 8Gb internal memory with MicroSD expansion slot up to an additional 16 Gb
• Connectivity: High speed MicroUSB 2.0
• Data connectivity: WCDMA, GPRS/EDGE, HSDPA
• Talk time: Up to 7.1 hrs
• Standby time: Up to 320 hrs
• Music playback time: Up to 28 hrs
• Video playback time: Up to 3.5 hrs

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It’s official: Nokia will ship the N97 to 75 countries this June.  There’s still no official word on price or actual launch dates, but we’re hearing about $700 in the US.  Initially, the phone will be sold unsubsidized and unlocked, but I wouldn’t be surprised if a carrier eventually picked it up.

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We first got word of the Nokia N97 back in early December of last year. Now according to some rumor, speculation and sources the smartphone will ship early June in the US. Although the ship date is said to be specifically June 2nd, I have my doubts since Expansys says the phone won’t be available to the UK crowd until June 26th, and they’ve historically received these types of handsets before the US.  Expect the phone to cost about $700.

In case you forgot the Nokia N97 sports a 3.5-inch touchscreen, 32GB of flash memory, microSD card slot, aGPS, 5MP camera with dual LED flash, HDSPA, WiFi, USB 2.0 and Blueooth.

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