The Nokia N97 has finally been given a pre-order price from the Nokia shop in what must be one of the longest build-ups to a mobile phone launch ever.
Nokia is offering its soon-to-be flagship handset for £499 SIM-free for those that don’t wish to be tied down to any long-standing contracts.
Many retailers have announced they will be stocking the phone, with the Carphone Warehouse revealing recently it will stock the phone from June through a deal with O2, and Phones4u, although no sales date or operator availability has been confirmed by Nokia. Retailers have also said that they will be putting the phone on shelves from 26 June onwards.
To be released with access to the company’s much-mooted Ovi app store, the Nokia N97 is the latest high-end touchscreen smartphone to be launched by Nokia.
A multitude of applications for Nokia users will be offered by the store.
Forbes predicts that as many as 20,000 items to be available at time of launch.
