Show Me My Rival: Nokia Introduces New iPhone Killer

Not content to have just one touchscreen competitor to the iPhone, Nokia today debuted a companion to the previously announced 5800 XpressMusic with the N97. But more than just a multimedia phone, the N97 joins its N-Series brethren with a host of smartphone features including Symbian S60 operating system, A-GPS receiver, video-to-TV output, Wi-Fi networking, and 32 GB of internal memory (which can be expanded using 16 GB microSDHC memory cards for 48 GB of total memory). It also one-ups the iPhone with a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, a design that's all the rage these days.

From the looks of the initial images after today's release in Spain, the N97 looks less chunky than the T-Mobile G1 (aka, the Google Phone), but is thicker than the iPhone (as seen in this photo captured by Robert Scoble, hat tip to Mobile Mentalism). In addition to a 5-megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss lens and LED flash, Electronista notes that the N97 also kicks the iPhone in the dock connector with "a 'real' web browser with embedded Adobe Flash video and a new version of Nokia Maps that supports 3D landmarks, satellite terrain data and a newer pedestrian guidance mode that can create a straight line through parks and other areas." However, AppleInsider adds one thing it doesn't have: "Apple's patents nonetheless prevent it from using multi-touch."

Follow the jump to see some Nokia marketing videos showing off the touchscreen UI and of the phone spinning around (both accompanied by annoyingly over-loud techno pop)...

Comments

[Dr. B on December 03, 2008 at 02:43 PM]

I am so tired of "this killer" and "that killer." This device is not going to kill anything. The terminology is overused and unoriginal and hardly ever true. Give it a rest.

Not to mention that you hardly even provide an argument for why it would be an "iPhone killer" in the first place. How is a physical keyboard "one-upping" the iPhone? Apple never wanted one in the phone in the first place.

Amazon, you're better than this.

[Bright on February 26, 2009 at 09:37 AM]

I will love 2 win the prize

[RICHY RICH on May 29, 2009 at 07:45 AM]

Looks like lg voyager to me!