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Nokia N900 Voted as the Most Favorite Product at Nokia World 09

James — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 14:05:27 +0000

During the Nokia World 09 event last week, Nokia Conversation team conducted kind of popularity contest among those products announced at the event. And as the result, the Nokia N900 voted as the most favorite product followed by the Nokia Booklet 3G at the second place and the new Nokia X6 at the third place. One thing that’s interesting is that the Nokia N97 that was became a hot issues few weeks ago is only voted at the fourth place with 6% of vote.

This result is based on 2,670 votes received. The Nokia’s debut Linux-based Maemo 5 device N900 earned 1,804 votes or 68% compared to 15% for the mini laptop PC Nokia Booklet 3G at the second place and 11% for the Nokia X6 at the third place. Below is the complete chart of the result.

[via: NokiaConv]

SE Satio, Nokia N97 Mini, Nokia E72, LG GM750 to Hit Vodafone UK in October

James — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 17:39:44 +0000

Vodafone Promotions UK just published the October release of new mobile phone handsets. Among those phones there are few interesting handsets including Sony Ericsson Satio, Nokia N72 and LG GM750 and the newly announced the Nokia N97 Mini that was rumored for the first time at Vodafone Ireland forum and became a hot issue few times ago.

Sony Erisccon Satio – A 12.1 MP camera phone

Nokia N97 Mini – a slimmer version of the Nokia N97 comes with lower internal memory capacity

Nokia E72 – the successor of the Nokia E71 with 5 megapixel camera

LG GM750 – a touchscreen Windows Mobile phone

[via: vodafone promotions]

Nokia N97 Mini Video Preview

James — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 19:06:21 +0000

Looking at pictures only sometimes could not give us a feel of something. That’s why we have video. And like the previous Xperia X2 this time i would like to share you couple of videos of the newly announced the Nokia N97 mini. Since the phone is still new so the video only shows a preview of the phone. Again, hopefully we’ll see some reviews in the next couple of days. Enjoy the videos!

Nokia Conversations Team Introducing the N97 Mini

N97 Mini short hands-on

Nokia N97 Mini Promo Video

Nokia N97 Mini Officially Announced Today, Comes with New Home Screen Widgets

James — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 18:39:48 +0000

Like what we have reported before, the Nokia N97 mini is officially announced today as the companion to the existing Nokia N97 at the first day of the Nokia World Event in Stutgart, Germany. The Nokia N97 mini features new software to include new home screen widgets and flick scrolling. Together with the N97 mini, Nokia also announces Lifecasting with Ovi, the first application to let people publish their location and status updates directly to their Facebook account from the home screen of a mobile device. The Nokia N97 mini is expected to begin shipping in October 2009 for an estimated retail price of EUR 450 before taxes and subsidies.

The specs of the Nokia N97 mini is exactly the same with the current N97 except for the internal memory that’s reduced to 8GB. Below is the picture taken from one of a blog showing the comparison between the Nokia N97 and the Nokia N97 mini. And looking at the picture, the Nokia N97 mini is not so much different than it’s brother.

Lifecasting with Ovi will be available for both the Nokia N97 and Nokia N97 mini via Nokia Beta Labs. While the new software for the Nokia N97 will be released in October as a free update.

Nokia N97 Mini is Real, We Got More Details

James — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 05:45:19 +0000

Few weeks ago Engadget posted an article showing the Nokia 97 Mini side by side with it’s bigger brother N97. This is the second time the phone was heard after previously leaked incidentally on the Vodafone Ireland Forum. At that time the news was still unclear and not sure yet whether it’s true or just a fake. But this time, the news is no longer a rumor. The Nokia N97 Mini is real and will be announced at Nokia World 09, in Stuttgart on September 2-3.

So far the phone name will be called Nokia N97 Mini. It has a smaller body size and smaller screen compared to the current N97 model where the navigation button has been eliminated. Technically the Nokia N97 Mini specifications more or less is the same with the existing N97. One of the difference is the internal memory storage which has been reduced from 16GB to 8GB, depending on the model. The display specs are very close to the Nokia 5530 XM with 2.9″ size, 16M colors, 640×360 resolution and automatic brightness control.

So the point is, the Nokia N97 Mini is intended for people who wants to have the N97 but doesn’t want to carry that big device in their pocket like what Nokia did with it’s communicator series before. Besides, this N97 Mini also will have a better price which is 100 EUR cheaper than the current model. There’s no detail info about the countries that will offer this model, so we’ll wait until the Press release is out.

[via: unwiredview]

Nokia N97 Mini Could be real, pictures leaked

James — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 20:11:12 +0000

Pardon me for this silly words but to be honest i just heard about this “mini” N97 and tried to get to know more about the story behind it on the Vodafone Ireland Forum. Currently the post related to the incident behind the Nokia N97 Mini was removed by Vodafone and the accused man of this issue just replaced by someone else as the new twitjokey in Twitter, poor guy.

But the truth will out. EngadgetMobile just posted pictures of this N97 Mini side by side with its bigger brother. So despite the incident happened on the forum, the real device could be there and soon we’ll know.

For those of you who haven’t heard about this incident, few weeks ago someone on the Vodafone Ireland forums who is a moderator and has the user name “Ev from Vodafone” posted this message:

Vodafone Ireland will not be launching the N97 but will be launching the N97 Mini later this year. Due to the N97 Mini’s competitive pricing, we feel that it will appeal to a wider segment of consumers.

Another operator has exclusivity on the Palm (NSDQ: PALM) Pre so we are not able stock it.

I can say that we are going to Launch the N97 mini as mentioned above and the Storm 2 though.

But then the message was removed with the following statement:

Some information posted here yesterday has been removed. We are not in a position to discuss the N97 at this point. We apologise for any inconvenience caused and will update you in due course.”