The Nokia N97 is perfect incarnation of the Tube. We’ve seen the 5800 XpressMusic phone which was the first of the touchscreen symbian phones to release in the market. Even though the handset hasn’t made it to most markets it has created quite a hype. Immidiately after its release there were rumors of a premium grade “Tube” to release but it wasn’t expected to come from the horses mouth. Nokia has announced the N97, a full fledged reflection of their codename creation the “Tube”.

Being Premium the N97 has an expected price of 550 Euro that translates into roughly around Rs.38,000. Quite a premium price. Here are a couple of videos before the N97 makes it into the stores which is in Q2 of 2009; long way to go.

N97 Specs:

Size: 117.2 x 55.3 x 15.9 mm - 18.25 mm at the camera area
Weight: Approx. 150 g
Memory: Up to 48GB (32 GB on-board memory plus 16GB expansion via microSD memory card slot)
Display: 3.5-inch TFT with upto 16 million colors and a nHD 16:9 widescreen (640 x 360 pixels)
Battery: 1500mAh
Video playback: Up to 4.5 hours (offline mode)
Music playback: Up to 37 hours (offline mode)
Image capture: Up to 5 megapixels (2584 x 1938) JPEG/EXIF (16.7 million/24-bit color)
Talk time: Up to 320 min (3G), 400 min (GSM)
Standby time: Up to 400 hrs (3G), 430 hrs (GSM)