The Nokia N97 mini leaked a long time ago and it was about time it got officially announced. The official announcement brought no surprises - the N97 mini sports a smaller 3.2-inch resistive touchscreen with 640x360 resolution, 3-row full QWERTY tilting keyboard (this time without the D-pad), a 5 megapixel camera (Carl Zeiss optics) with VGA@30fps recording and dual LED flash, 8 GB internal storage, FM radio and microSD card slot. The connectivity package is as full as usual - 3G, Wi-Fi, GPS, Bluetooth, 3.5mm audio jack and TV-out.

The Nokia 97 mini is for style-conscious, active social networkers everywhere. It delivers a truly personal mobile internet experience, starting with the premiere of Lifecasting with Ovi - the first ever widget that enables users to update their Facebook direct from the homescreen of their mobile.

Designed with the style-conscious and socially active in mind, the Nokia N97 mini is a compact variation on the iconic N97 device. It features a full QWERTY keyboard and tilting touch-screen - now with flick-scrolling for even better usability.

Top of the features is Lifecasting with Ovi, the result of a partnership between Nokia and Facebook that premieres on the Nokia N97 mini. It is the first application that lets people publish their status updates and location from their homescreen. Because it is so accessible and immersive, it will also be used for instant messaging and even navigating to meet a friend or find a meeting-place.

Users will also appreciate the fully customizable homescreen, which can be personalized with applications and widgets to suit the digital life you lead. The Ovi Store offers thousands of applications and services, from games or video entertainment to lifestyle and productivity tools. It is the easiest way to make this device your own.

The latest addition to the Nseries portfolio, the Nokia N97 mini is also a fully-featured and power-packed mobile computing and entertainment device with high spec camera, music and media capabilities.

The Nokia N97 mini is all about people expressing themselves whatever they do, whenever they choose, wherever they are - with richer content such as photos, videos and location information using social networking and sharing sites as well as calls, texts and emails.

Nokia N97 mini Features

• Lifecasting with Ovi: Facebook widget on the home screen that detects your location, and lets you update your status or profile, add a photo, or share nearby points of interest and lots more things you love to do on Facebook. Download the Ovi Lifecasting datasheet
• Personalized home screen - build a completely personal suite of internet services on your mobile, by downloading and adding widgets to the home screen
• Enhanced Ovi Maps experience - turns the Nokia N97 mini into the world’s smallest mobile travel companion. Now you can get a 5-day Weather forecast for your location - plus dynamic access to premium editorial content from Lonely Planet and Michelin. Searching, finding and navigating is easier than ever using ‘My position’ combined with Favorites, Drive and Walk functions. Read all about it in the Ovi Maps datasheet

• Ovi-enabled giving easy access to applications and services from the Ovi Store, and fully compatible with services such as Ovi Contacts, Ovi Files and Ovi Share.
• Excellent internet: Fast and easy access with built-in Flash player. Take pictures and publish them immediately on Ovi Share, Facebook, Flickr or other sharing sites. Watch web videos in widescreen on the brilliant 3.2-inch slide-and-tilt 16:9 display.
• High-end music player: discover and buy music from the Nokia Music store, edit playlists on the go. Fine-tune the music with the built-in equalizer, and listen over Bluetooth or through the standard headphone jack.
• 5 megapixel high-end camera: Includes Carl-Zeiss Tessar lens, dual LED camera flash and video light.
• Storage space to spare: Ships with 8GB on-board memory, expandable to 24GB with MicrosSD card
• Easy email and messaging: Simple 3-step email set-up and allows you to combine all your in-boxes into one. Supports Nokia Messaging, Yahoo! Mail, Gmail, Windows Live Hotmail and most other POP3/IMAP email clients. Great for instant messaging too - tap it all out on the touch-screen or the QWERTY keyboard. Supports Nokia Chat, Windows Live Messenger, Google Talk, Yahoo Go! and others.

Nokia N97 mini