 "Nokia N97 Rumored with 20 GB HDD")
We delete at least 50 repeated comments about the price and availablity from the Nokia N95 page every day—that’s how popular that thing has gotten. But I think this piece is going to change things quite a bit. Ladies and gentlemen, the latest product of the internet rumor mill: The Nokia N97 Multimedia Computer!
The Nokia N97 clearly seems to be a slider, but one that drops the dual-sided concept that the N95 introduced. The multimedia play/pause buttons are now on the front of the phone, not hidden away on the top. This gives it a more PDA or Pocket PC-like look, but the media keys prove this is still an Nseries phone, not a business series phone.
The feature list is quite impressive. The first is a 3-inch, arguably QVGA (240x320) display (0.4 inches more than the N95), a whopping 20 GB hard drive for pure multimedia pwnage, a 5 megapixel digital camera with flash, 2.4x optical zoom (Carl-Zeiss, no doubt) and 20x digital zoom, video recording at 15 fps, an FM radio tuner and–not that you’d need it, but–a miniSD memory card slot.
All this technology will sure need a whole lot of power, so the upgraded battery is capable of more than 4 hours of talk time, more than 400 hours of stand by and supposedly also more than 24 hours of music playback.
The last time we put up a supposed rumor about the Nokia N95, it actually got officially announced by Nokia the next day, so…
Update 21/11/2006: Of course we all knew this wasn’t for real, but it was good to be hopeful, even if it was for just one day! :)