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Nokia N97 (via Nokia USA)

And now my favorite tech story of the week Nokia Europe and Nokia USA both began accepting pre-orders for the N97 yesterday. I have been excited for this phone for a while now. Mainly because I LOVE my N95, and it is currently being held together with electrical tape and a prayer.  ( Photo of my dinged up N95 is in another post )  I am optimistic about the new OS they are putting together for this device aside from some memory issues I have had good luck with the N95′s S60 series 3 software, so I am looking forward to putting the series 5 software on the N97 through it’s paces.

When I saw the N97 at CES shortly after it’s launch in Europe I couldn’t _really_ play with it since it was littlerly tethered to a Nokia rep. What I did see was impressive, which was a bit surprising since I believe this one of the first touch phones offered by Nokia.

I am slightly concerned about the camera on the N97 since it appears to have different optics and sensor then the N96. ( from visual inspection only ) The Nokia rep at CES in January assured me it is the same camera from the N96.

I am going to to be in the market for a new phone this year.  Most likely candidate is the N97 flowed closely by the E75 which arrived in Nokia Stores today.  There is an outside chance that the Palm Pre may get me to move back to Sprint but I’m not holding my breath.  My experience with Nokia and the N95 in particular leans me towards them.  Another option is always to keep using the N95 since it works perfectly fine, just looks like its been through a war (I’m pretty hard on phones)

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