We have seen and talked about the Nokia N97 mini and know all the required details and such to determine if we want the device or not. Now that the handset is shipping it’s time for new limited edition versions to tip up and woo those undecided shoppers into buying. Today we spied the Nokia N97 mini RAOUL limited edition handset, and the thing actually looks pretty good.
The Nokia N900 was the stand-out device from Nokia World back in September, and we’ve been tracking the Maemo 5 smartphone ever since. Imagine our surprise, then, when a pre-release N900 dropped onto the SlashGear test bench today; the hardware is final, so the 5-megapixel autofocus Carl Zeiss camera is onboard, together with HSPA, WiFi b/g, a 3.5-inch 800 x 480 touchscreen and slide-out QWERTY keyboard, and you can check out our video unboxing and gallery after the cut.
In the second chunk of Maemo 6 news today, Nokia have been spilling details regarding the upcoming OS at the Maemo Summit. Steve from UMPC Portal has snapped some of the slides, with confirmation that Maemo 6 will support multitouch and capacitive touchscreens – as we already knew – together with some previews of potential UI designs.
Nokia have already been pretty upfront about their intentions with the cross-platform Qt framework and Maemo, but the company has just pushed out an official Qt port to Maemo 5 in the form of a “technology preview” release. Contrary to earlier news that Qt wouldn’t play nicely with Maemo 5, the OS which the Nokia N900 will run, but only Maemo 6 (expected in late 2010), the Qt port “is designed specifically to work within the Maemo 5 environment”.
Video demo on the N900 after the cut
We already knew that the Nokia E72 was coming this month – it’s been listed on Vodafone UK’s site since early September – but the Finns themselves have now got into the action with a SIM-free price. The E72 has been added to Nokia UK’s online store for preorder, priced at £359 ($572), though there’s no telling when they’ll actually begin shipping.
Nokia’s flagship London store has announced that the Nokia N97 Mini – the compact version of the N97 smartphone – will go on sale there from October 23rd. The N97 Mini has a 3.2-inch tilting resistive touchscreen, full QWERTY keyboard and 3G, and is expected to be priced at around €450 ($639) pre-subsidies.
There have been several new handsets that have hit the market this week, and most of them went to Verizon. Not to be outdone, AT&T and Nokia have announced that a new handset is going to AT&T called the Nokia 6350.
Yesterday we mentioned that Best Buy was going to be the exclusive supplier of the Nokia Booklet 3G netbook. The thing that many of us have been wondering is exactly how much the Booklet 3G would cost once it hit store shelves.
One of the things I always hate the most when my cell phone needs charged is that I know I will end up crawling around under the desk trying to find the cable to plug my phone in. I was so glad when WildCharge came out with a wireless charging solution for the iPhone and gladly gave up my charge and sync port to never have to plug in a wire again. There are lots of companies seeing the potential of wireless power and one of the latest to take up the cause is Nokia.
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Nokia's Booklet 3G is still splitting opinion - over-priced netbook or the next phase in smartphone-led mobile computing? - but if you're in the US and are thinking of finding out for yourself then prepare to get down to Best Buy. The company has confirmed that it will be the exclusive retailer for the Booklet 3G in the US.
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