With Nokia loosing market share to the Apple iPhone, this is not just another N-series phone. This is a product built on years of experience in the mobile phone market, it has tangible new technologies, pushed to the extreme and embodied in a slimline pocket shell.

The new Nokia N97, a fusion of the best proven Nokia hardware and software, such as the much loved Nokia contacts list and apps front and centre on the home page and the touch screen from the Nokia 5800 Tube. It also has the E-series style slide-out QWERTY keyboard hidden behind a 3.5-inch widescreen 16:9 touch display that tilts smartly above the keys as well as the excellent camera and multimedia trimmings we have so much come to admire from the previous N-series handsets.

Nokia have gone all guns blazing with the N97, with 32GB of memory and a microSD slot, this is by far the largest amount of memory found on any smart phone enabling you to use the device as a trully portable multimedia device for music, movies, photos and N-Gage games.

With the launch of the N97, Nokia are to launch the Nokia Ovi Store to rival the Apple App store and the Android marketplace. It is unlikley it will have the same volume of apps but give it time and it won’t be far.

The N97 will truely rivel the iPhone and the Android, it does the simple things well, it looks very sexy and with 32GB storage it has alot of potential. Are Nokia too late in joining the smartphone party?

Specifications: Nokia N97

Screen: 3.5 inches, 640×360 pixels
Connectivity: 3.5Mbps HSDPA, Wi-Fi, A2DP, A-GPS
Storage: 32Gb + MicroSD slot
Camera: 5 Megapixls, dual Flash, Carl Zeiss lens
Battery: 6.6 hours talk time / 18 hours standby / 37 hours music playback / 4.5 hours video
Dimensions: 177 x 55 x 15.9mm
Weight: 150g