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I am up for an upgrade and while I am happy with my N95 8GB I need something new. I had a look at the Sony XPERIA, but don't like the fact that it runs Windows Mobile. So I was excited to see that Nokia is coming out with the N97 and even though it has impressive specifications, like a total of 48 gigabytes of potential storage and a 5-megapixel camera and video recorder, the phone seems more like an evolution of Nokia's N-95 or N-96 smartphones rather than a ground-breaking new touch-screen device that could potentially be the next iPhone killer.

Design-wise the phone looks more like Sony Ericsson's Xperia X1. It has a slide-out QWERTY keyboard and a tilted screen. In this way, it's an improvement over the N95 or the N96, which offer tons of features and functionality, but lack full QWERTY keyboards. That said, there are a few key features that the N97 offers that the iPhone doesn't.

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Nokia is still my favourite phone-manufacturer and most of Nokia's competitors have lost the plot (look at Sony Ericsson). In my previous posts I listed the shortcomings of the iPhone and subsequently got plenty of fan-mail (not really - lots of emails with the F-word in it) when proposing the new Nokia N96 as an iPhone-alternative.

But I think that the latest Nokia addition, the Nokia E71, will go nicely with my MacBook Air:

The quadband E71 is about 10mm thick thin and features WiFi (802.11b/g), HSDPA, Bluetooth 2.0 (with A2DP - iPhone, eat your heart out), A-GPS, 3.2 megapixel camera and a front facing camera for video chat. The business-class phone features 110MB of built-in storage and a microSD slot if you grow out of that. The battery life on the phone is also impressive:

Talk time: GSM up to 10 h 30 min, WCDMA up to 4 h 30 min
Standby time: GSM up to 17 days, WCDMA up to 20 days, WLAN idle up to 166 hours