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Nokia have announced that their proprietary navigation and mapping product, Ovi Maps, will be made available free for the N97 mini. This includes voice navigation for both driving and walking.
Before this announcement, certain handsets were pre loaded with Ovi Maps, and came with a limited trial for the turn by turn voice navigation services.
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N-Gage on the N97
Finally, Nokia N-Gage is available for the N97.
For those who do not know, N-Gage is the games application from Nokia. Although not showing on the N-Gage webside, it should be available by heading over to ‘Software updates’ application. Let is search for available updates and you should see N-Gage.
It takes a couple of minutes to update, but the application should then be in the games folder on your N97.
The hot rumour at the moment is that Vodafone will not be stocking the N97 in Ireland, instead offering a N97 mini later in the year.
This from a moderator at the Vodafone forums, with no clarification as to what mini means, except that the price will be less and therefore appeal to a wider range of people.
It has been reported that the Nokia N97 has arrived in the Nokia US flagship stores in Chicago and New York.
It will go on sale Tuesday for $699.99, or if in Nort America, you can order it from Amazon for a wopping $97 discount!
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Hot on the heels of Noki’a formal press release, giving details that the N97 will start shippping THIS MONTH, you will be able to Preorder Nokia N97 from 12 June for delivery 26th June.
So if you want to be one tf the first to own the new Nokia super phone, head over there!
Nokia N97 mobile computer to begin selling worldwide in June
Espoo, Finland – The highly anticipated Nokia N97, Nokia’s flagship mobile computer, will begin selling in June in more than 75 countries. Along with a tilting 3.5″ touch display, QWERTY keyboard and a fully customizable home screen, the Nokia N97 will offer instant access to the full range of Ovi services.
There are a lot of good mobile phones available now, so the competition for your mobile $$ (or £s or whatever) is strong. So why are do many people web comentators still have the N97 high up their list of must have mobiles.
The concensus is that although the N97 will not be adding anything really new to the Nokia or N Series range, what it does is pull together a lot of the great Nokia features currently available on other Nokia phones and drops those that are not that hot (DVB-H TV being an obvous example).
So what are the good features:
The Nokia Blog have a nice review of a prototype N97 with this video showing what they describe as a slider function that is smooth and responsive.
Nokia have recently announced that they would be including the popular Voip package, Skype on newer range N series phones, including the N97.
This would seem to have upset a number of crriers, particularly in the UK. Engadget report that O2 and Orange are threatening not to stock the N97 unless Nokia strip out the Skype platform.
Given that you can download Skype for Mobile phones for free, this would seem to be a storm in a teacup, although we can see that from the operators point of view, many users would not make an effotr to find the software if it is not already installed.
According to Play.com the N97 will be available on 31 March 2009.
Could this be the good folks at Play.com fishing for pre orders? Of course it could, as they got the release date of the N96 totally wrong, but it could also be an indication that Nokia have given major retailers an indication of when the N97 may be released.
In any event for those waiting eagerly for the Nokia N97, the end of March may not seem like as long a wait as they had feared.