N97 Nokia N-Series Touchscreen
As many of you know from Smashpop, the N97 has been unveiled.
This phone is a hybrid of both touchscreen and a QWERTY keyboard at the bottom. Though Serge has not touch the N97, but with what he has read; the N97’s touch screen uses the touch-enhanced Symbian OS, S60 v5, which features the 5800’s quick contacts bar and adds an assortment of customizable desktop widgets that can pipe in your Facebook info, RSS feeds and the like, much like those found on Nokia’s internet tablet OS.
The screen of the N97 is a resistive touchscreen, which relies on pressing two layers of screen together with a fingernail or stylus to register a signal, so it is not as responsive as a capacitive screen which is driven by the natural electricity in your fingers. In simpler terms, capacitive screen is what the iPhone uses.
The N97 has a 32GB of on-board memory (with 16GB more available via microSD), A-GPS with Nokia’s refreshed Maps 3.0 app and a compass, accelerometer for landscape/portrait screen switching, 5MP camera with Zeiss lens and LED flash, 3.5mm headphone jack, and N-Gage support.
For the Asian and Euro folks, rejoice as big ballers in Moscow and Macau can expect to be toting an N97 sometime in the “first half of 2009,” with a U.S. release (with the appropriate 3G bands) to follow “soon after.” In Europe it’ll run a hefty €550 ($695) unsubsidized.
Serge Norguard is the writer for Dustyhawk :: Broken Mirror. This site has been established in 2002, where he writes everything and anything under the sun. To know about Serge go to his 
