Nokia's Flagship phone N97 announced

Nokia announced its first smartphone featuring both a touchscreen and a full QWERTY keyboard. This would be one of the most powerful phones available. Hear it from Nokia's Vice president for N-series,Jonas Geust "From the desktop to the laptop and now to your pocket, the Nokia N97 is the most powerful, multi-sensory mobile computer in existence".

Product managers calls it a 'facebook phone' as it is tuned for social networking sites, it features high multimedia capabilities. The Symbian Series 60 v.5, corporate clients such as Mail for Exchange and the physical keyboard make it a way closer to the business requirements.

Social-Location (So-Lo) is a new buzzword introduced here. Which refers to the assisted GPS and a built-in compass which enables the social networks to find where their N97 user are and where are they heading. Along with So-Lo the widgets for Facebook and Myspace make it a 'Facebook phone'.

 And it has everything that you expect: 3.5 -inch 640x360 resistive touchscreen, Tri-band HSDPA 3G, 802.11 b/g WiFi,  32GB built-in and microSD expansion upto 16GB,5 megapixel camera with Proffessional Carl Zeiss optics and flash support for web browser. Another phone which could give iPhone a competition. It is expected in first-half of 2009.