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What Nokia Says
“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.

“The Nokia N97 is an important step towards our vision of delivering a highly personalized Internet experience,” said Jonas Geust, Vice President and head of Nokia Nseries. “Fuelled by a multitude of music, maps, games, media and applications via Ovi, the Nokia N97 transforms the Internet into an experience that’s completely tailored to the tastes and interests of its owner.”

The Nokia N97 is Nokia’s first device to feature a personalizable home screen, which can be customized with a range of widgets which bring live information directly to the device. These widgets include key social networking destinations like Facebook and Hi5, news services like the Associated Press, Bloomberg and Reuters, as well as shopping and weather information. The Nokia N97 is the first device to ship with the Ovi Store, which offers easy access to applications, games, videos, podcasts, productivity tools, web and location-based services, and much more. Ovi Store has paid and free content from a range of global and local content providers and developers, including Paramount Pictures, Facebook and Qik, as well as a selection of Twitter applications.”

Source
http://www.nokia.com/press/press-releases/showpressrelease?newsid=1319081

What other people are saying
“Before sifting through the features that will make the N97 unique, let’s start by acknowledging that the N97 has everything the N96 has: HSDPA, Wi-Fi, A-GPS, Bluetooth and the growing range of Nokia Ovi content services. It also sports a 5-megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics and a 3.5mm headphone jack conveniently located on the top of the handset.

Now to the juicy bits. The centrepiece of this “multi-sensory” mobile phone is a 3.5-inch touchscreen with 640×360 resolution, or what Nokia describes as nHD — higher res than WQVGA but less than VGA. This is more pixels than the iPhone, but significantly lower than the res of the displays on the HTC Touch HD and the Xperia X1. Hopefully, this results in a better battery life than some of the competition, which will also be helped by the massive 1500mAh battery included with the phone.

The landscape slider form factor isn’t new to the Finns, its E90 Communicator featured the same profile and we liked how it was implemented into that phone when we reviewed it in late 2007. It’s very difficult to tell from the early images how well designed the QWERTY keyboard is, but our opinion is that a badly designed
QWERTY pad is better than the alternatives, particularly on-screen keyboards.

But the big news is its 32GB of internal storage plus microSD memory card expansion. Like megapixels in cameras, storage is fast becoming the defining feature between competing smartphones, and with a possible 48GB of storage the N97 is well ahead of the pack.”

Source:
http://m.cnet.com.au/mobilephones/339293633-2d.htm

What I think:

Personally, I am an Iphone person, but I am very excited about the N97- more excited than I have been about any Nokia phone in a long time. The specs and the features look great!

If you are a Nokia person looking at getting in to the Smart Phone bandwagon, then this is probably the handset for you.