Company Press
release:
NOKIA ANNOUNCES AN EXCITING PRE-BOOKING OFFER
ON THE NOKIA N97
New Delhi, June 16, 2009: To address the huge
excitement and anticipation amongst consumers around the much awaited Nokia
N97, Nokia Nseries has announced an exciting pre-booking scheme for gadget
enthusiasts across the country. In addition, Nokia also offers ‘Demo@Home’,
a unique opportunity for consumers to preview the N97 from the confines of
their home or office before its release in the market. Designed for the needs
of Internet savvy consumers, the Nokia N97 will transform the way people connect to the
Internet and to each other. It pioneers the concept of a personalized home screen that lets
people choose their favourite content, providing an ‘always open’
window to applications and/or Internet content such as social networking sites,
RSS feeds and other widgets in addition to Ovi feeds. Expected to start
shipping in India in June end, the Nokia N97 will be the first Nokia device to offer
integrated access to the newly opened Ovi Store.
|
Elaborating on the pre-launch
initiatives, Vineet Taneja, Director Marketing, Nokia India, said, “The Nokia N97 combines the
best of the mobile phone and personal internet experience. Our objective is to
offer a differentiated experience to our consumers even before they purchase
the device. Consumer
interest and excitement around the product has been very high and with the
pre-booking scheme we hope to offer our customers an opportunity to become the
first to own the N97. Our exclusive Demo@home offer has already received a
very heartwarming response from people across the country for previewing the
device.” For the first time ever for an Nseries
device, Nokia has also worked out an easy EMI payment system for the Nokia
N97. It has partnered with HDFC and Citibank to provide a 3 month EMI
option at 0% interest rate to consumers in select Nokia Branded Retail outlets
in select cities. In order to be among one of the first to own a new
Nokia N97, consumers can pre-book the device online by visiting
www.nokia.co.in/prebookn97
to fill up a simple form, or by typing <N97> and sending a message to
55555. Consumers also have the option of pre-booking the device through key
Nokia Branded Retail outlets in the metros and select cities and towns across
the country. Once the device is available, a message will be sent to the buyers
to collect their new Nokia N97 from the nearest Nokia outlet. |
|
Pre-booking his Nokia N97, noted Bollywood actor Rahul
Bose said, “I am glad that I have pre booked My Nokia N97 and be able
to take it home as soon as it reaches the store shelves. Nokia N97 is most
techno-cool mobile device I have seen till date. What excites me most about it
is that I can make my home screen as unique as my fingerprint, simply by
plotting my important contacts and the content of my choice on it. I can be
online 24x7, with live updates from friends and family as also on my favourite
sources of information and entertainment.”
The Nokia N97
Sensing your ‘So-Lo’
Nokia’s flagship Nseries device introduces
leading technology – including multiple sensors, memory, processing power
and connection speeds – for people to share their ‘social location.
With integrated A-GPS sensors and an electronic compass, the Nokia N97 mobile
computer intuitively understands where it is. The Nokia N97 makes it easy to
update social networks automatically with real-time information, giving
approved friends the ability to update their ‘status’ and share
their ‘social location’ as well as related pictures or videos.
Ovi Store on board
The Nokia N97 is
the first device to ship with Ovi Store, a one-stop shop for a full catalog of 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 Facebook, Paramount Pictures and
Twitter applications. In India, the Ovi Store on the N97 will offer a choice of
50 free to download items developed specifically for Indian consumers, by
Indian developers under the aegis of Forum Nokia. In addition, users will
also have access to global items, a mix of paid and
free to download content.
Widescreen
- Internet and entertainment
The home screen of Nokia N97 can be customized to
feature the people, content and media that matter the most. Friends, social
networks and news are available by simply touching the home screen. The unique
tilting, large touch 3.5”, 16:9 widescreen display, which comes with a
fill QWERTY keyboard, can be fully personalized with a range of widgets* which
bring live information directly to the devices. In India, the NokiaN97 will
come with 10 international widgets and 5 local widgets and applications
pre-loaded on it. These include key social networking destinations like
Facebook, news services like NDTV and Reuters, as well as email, shopping and
weather information. The Nokia N97 is also perfectly suited for browsing the
web, streaming Flash videos or playing games. The intuitive User Interface with
a choice of physical QWERTY and virtual touch input ensure efficiency in
blogging, chatting, posting, sending texts or emailing. Images can also
be geo-tagged to specific locations and shared instantly with friends or
uploaded online via Ovi Share, Twitter, Flickr or Facebook.
The Nokia N97 supports up to 48 GB of storage,
including 32 GB of on-board memory, expandable with a 16 GB microSD card for
music, media and more. This is complemented by excellent music capabilities,
full support for the Nokia Music Store and continuous playback time of up to
1.5 days. The Nokia N97 also has a
5-Megapixel camera with high-quality Carl Zeiss optics, 16:9 and DVD quality
video capture, and support for services like Share on Ovi for immediate sharing
over HSDPA and WLAN.
*Widgets: Widgets are dynamic,
stand-alone, mini web-based applications that offer focused features and an
optimized mobile web experience on a mobile device. They are small icons
that give you quick, live access to your favourite content - the current
weather, the stock market, news, a language translator, social networking
sites, among other things. In short, they are programmed to offer relevant
content and information, live, to you on your favourite topics.
About Nokia Nseries
Nokia Nseries is a range of high performance
multimedia devices that delivers unparalleled mobile multimedia experiences by
combining the latest technologies with stylish design and ease of use. With
Nokia Nseries products, consumers can use a single device to enjoy
entertainment, access information and to capture and share pictures and videos,
on the go at any time.
About Nokia
Nokia is a pioneer in mobile telecommunications and
the world’s leading maker of mobile devices. Today, we are connecting
people in new and different ways - fusing advanced mobile technology with
personalized services to enable people to stay close to what matters to them.
We also provide comprehensive digital map information through NAVTEQ; and
equipment, solutions and services for communications networks through Nokia
Siemens Networks.