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As sales slump, Toyota cuts bonuses and vehicle production

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pFiled under: a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/japan/" rel="tag"Japan/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/plants-manufacturing/" rel="tag"Plants/Manufacturing/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/toyota/" rel="tag"Toyota/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/earnings-financials/" rel="tag"Earnings/Financials/a/pa href="http://www.autonews.com/article/20081202/COPY01/312029894/1176"img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" align="right" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/12/toyota_250_opt.jpg" //aManagement bonuses will be slashed 10 percent at Toyota as a result of the global economic slowdown. About 5,000 managers will take cuts as the Japanese automaker reels from falling global sales that are hitting its local market hard. Toyota vehicle sales in Japan dropped 27 percent in November (excluding 660cc minivehicles) and Lexus sales dipped 24 percent -- mirroring the same sales issues that both brands are having in the United States. As a result, the Japanse Juggernaut will halt production for two days on one of the Tahara production lines manufacturing the Lexus LS, GS and IS models, which will prevent about 5,000 luxury cars from being built, and idle another factory in southern Japan for two days, as well. Toyota is also expected to announce lower sales and production estimates at its year-end press conference that happens at the end of this month. That news will follow the 1 trillion yen ($10.7 billion) yanked just last month from its annual operating profit forecast. p /p p[Source: a href="http://www.autonews.com/article/20081202/COPY01/312029894/1176"Automotive News/a, subs. req'd]/p p /p p /pp style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/12/02/as-sales-slump-toyota-cuts-bonuses-and-vehicle-production/"As sales slump, Toyota cuts bonuses and vehicle production/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.autoblog.com"Autoblog/a on Tue, 02 Dec 2008 19:01:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/12/02/as-sales-slump-toyota-cuts-bonuses-and-vehicle-production/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/forward/1388772/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/12/02/as-sales-slump-toyota-cuts-bonuses-and-vehicle-production/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/7cyMl4l_iNP_JPNVvK4NKXtNLEw/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/7cyMl4l_iNP_JPNVvK4NKXtNLEw/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=5Ywtvpn2"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=5Ywtvpn2" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=LMjOjfsH"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=LMjOjfsH" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/autoblog/~4/gRtv3IrJUQQ" height="1" width="1"/

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Ford claims to be back in black by 2011, release EV sedan same year

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pFiled under: a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/hybrids/" rel="tag"Hybrids/Alternative/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/government-legal/" rel="tag"Government/Legal/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/green/" rel="tag"Green/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/hirings-firings/" rel="tag"Hirings/Firings/Layoffs/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/ford/" rel="tag"Ford/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/earnings-financials/" rel="tag"Earnings/Financials/a/pimg vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" align="right" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/12/back_in_black_optford.jpg" alt="" /In just a few short days, Ford and its two cross-town rivals will be required to lay down a plan before Congress that points a clear path towards profitability and global competitiveness. These days, any automaker's future will involve plenty of greenery, and as the first of the three automakers to submit its comprehensive business plan to the lawmakers in DC, Ford's plan includes electric vehicles slated for launch starting in 2010. First up will be a new electric van for commercial use, followed in 2011 by a new electric sedan. Other highlights include U.S. versions of the European-designed automobiles that are currently making their way across the pond, the sale of all its private jets, further plant closings and continued negotiations with the UAW.br /br /So, what kind of money are we talking? The Blue Oval's plan calls for a bridge loan of $9 million to be made available, though it hopes it doesn't need it. You may remember that Ford bet Henry's farm already when Mulally first took office at the automaker, so it's already got a load of financed cash on hand to weather the current stormy climate through 2010. What's more, Ford hopes to get $5B of loans under the already-promised $25B for fuel efficient cars. On the negative side, the plan suggests that a bankruptcy of either General Motors or Chrysler would be enough to cripple Ford's operations. Barring that, even with a forecast of flat sales of 12.5 million units per year for the next three years for the U.S. auto industry, Ford believes it's on its way back to profitability as early as 2011. Check out the Blue Oval's official press release detailing its proposed plan to Congress after the jump.br /br /[Source: Ford]pa href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/12/02/ford-claims-to-be-back-in-the-black-in-2011-release-ev-sedan-sa/" rel="bookmark"Continue reading emFord claims to be back in black by 2011, release EV sedan same year/em/a/pp style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/12/02/ford-claims-to-be-back-in-the-black-in-2011-release-ev-sedan-sa/"Ford claims to be back in black by 2011, release EV sedan same year/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.autoblog.com"Autoblog/a on Tue, 02 Dec 2008 12:58:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/12/02/ford-claims-to-be-back-in-the-black-in-2011-release-ev-sedan-sa/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/forward/1388704/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/12/02/ford-claims-to-be-back-in-the-black-in-2011-release-ev-sedan-sa/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/sOcomEZGJwTmQrTY5bu66WuW2ek/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/sOcomEZGJwTmQrTY5bu66WuW2ek/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=MXXx2U6D"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=MXXx2U6D" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=8nIuCOy1"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=8nIuCOy1" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/autoblog/~4/-ELRWJyzCLY" height="1" width="1"/

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Analyst: Digital Sales Won't Stop Overall Slide

I'll work for $1 a year, says Ford boss

Guardian Unlimited

- 7 hours and 47 minutes ago

divimg alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/93495?ns=guardianpageName=Business%3A+I%27ll+work+for+%241+a+year%2C+says+Ford+bossch=Businessc3=guardian.co.ukc4=Ford%2CAutomotive+industry+%28Business%29%2CCredit+crunch+%28Business%29%2CUS+economy+%28Business%29%2CUS+news%2CBusinessc5=Motoring%2CCredit+Crunch%2CNot+commercially+useful%2CBusiness+Markets%2CUS+Economyc6=Mark+Milnerc7=2008_12_02c8=1127620c9=articlec10=GUc11=Businessc12=Fordc13=c14=h2=GU%2FBusiness%2FFord" width="1" height="1" //divpFord's $2m-a-year chief executive, Alan Mulally, today vowed to work for an annual salary of just one dollar if the struggling US car maker has to take government money as part of a $25bn (£16.76bn) bail-out of the US car industry./ppIn a further move to woo congressional support Mulally has vowed to sell Ford's fleet of corporate jets, cancel next year's bonuses for global management and US employees as well as closing more plants, trimming its dealer network and stepping up its work on electric vehicles./ppIn its business plan, submitted to Congress today, Ford said it was seeking bridging finance of some $9bn but argued that if Congress gave its approval it would not have to draw down the money./pp"For Ford, government loans would serve as a critical backstop or safeguard against worsening conditions, as we drive transformational change in our company," Mulally said./ppAmerica's big three auto makers Ford, General Motors and Chrysler, were all due to submit business plans to Congress as they seek financial support to weather the economic downturn which has seen the industry faced with fierce competition and plunging sales./ppSome congressional leaders have already made it clear they are determined to ensure the car makers will only get their support if they come up with credible restructuring plans./ppToday Ford said that it expected both the company overall and the north American operations to be either profitable or breaking even in 2011. The forecast is based on a US market recovery which would see sales of 12.5m units next year, 14.5m in 2010 and 15.5m in 2011./ppFord has already sold Aston Martin, Jaguar and Land Rover over the last two years and yesterday said it was looking at the future of Volvo, which could involve the sale of the Swedish car maker./pdiv style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"ullia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/ford"Ford/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/automotive"Automotive industry/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/creditcrunch"Credit crunch/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/useconomy"US economy/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/usa"United States/a/li/ul/diva href="http://www.guardian.co.uk"guardian.co.uk/a copy; Guardian News Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our a href="http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html"Terms Conditions/a | a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/webfeeds/1,,1309488,00.html"More Feeds/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/_luGa_s8XM_I_e6u-1srXBgwoG8/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/_luGa_s8XM_I_e6u-1srXBgwoG8/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/p

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Mortgage market will grind to a halt, says Council of Mortgage Lenders

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- 7 hours and 57 minutes ago

divimg alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/85004?ns=guardianpageName=Money%3A+Mortgage+market+will+%27grind+to+a+halt%27ch=Moneyc3=guardian.co.ukc4=Mortgages+%28Money%29%2CProperty%2CMoney%2CHousing+market+%28Business%29%2CBusiness%2CUK+newsc5=Personal+Finance%2CCredit+Crunch%2CNot+commercially+useful%2CBusiness+Markets%2CProperty+Mortgages+and+Interest+Ratesc6=Jill+Treanorc7=2008_12_02c8=1127595c9=articlec10=GUc11=Moneyc12=Mortgagesc13=c14=h2=GU%2FMoney%2FMortgages" width="1" height="1" //divpThe mortgage market will come to a standstill next year unless the government takes further action to help banks and building societies, the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) said today./ppDirector general, Michael Coogan, raised the prospect of "mortgage rationing" as he admitted the government's demand for mortgage lending to return to 2007 levels could not be achieved./ppHis warning echoed last week's prediction by the government's mortgage tsar, Sir James Crosby, that 2009 could see a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2008/nov/25/mortgages-property"negative net lending for the first time/a as more home loans are paid off than new ones are granted./ppAddressing this year's CML conference, Coogan called on the government to take further steps to make life easier for mortgage lenders, including cutting the cost to the banking industry of funding the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS). /ppThe scheme is currently paying out depositors in Bradford Bingley, the collapsed Icelandic banks and London Scottish Bank, and Coogan said the contributions demanded by the government could amount to 20%-30% of the industry profits next year./pp"Unless government takes further targeted action to help market participants, we will see a worsening of the picture next year compared to this. I would therefore not disagree today with Sir James Crosby's analysis or prognosis in his report," Coogan told delegates./pp"A good outcome next year in my view would be if had lending at levels seen in 2008, but bearing in mind we will be in a recession ... this would be a real challenge."br / br /Jon Pain, the retail markets managing director at the Financial Services Authority (FSA), agreed with the predictions for negative net lending./ppBut while some areas of the mortgage market had dried up, Pain said the regulator wanted to "encourage growth in mortgage lending that properly reflects the price of risk"./ppThe CML has forecast that net lending this year will be half the record £108bn reached last year. However, the government has set this figure as a target for the banks accepting its £37bn bail-out./ppCoogan set out a number of steps the government, the Bank of England and the FSA should take rejuvinate lending. These included calling a halt to demanding that lenders pass on base rate cuts because of the impact this has on savings rates, and allowing income support for mortgage interest payments to be paid when one borrower's income is reduced, not just an entire household's./ppHe also said specialist lenders should be allowed to use the special liquidity scheme which banks and building societies can use to swap mortgage bonds for higher rated government paper, and that the terms of the £37bn recapitalisation measures should be reviewed./pdiv style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"ullia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/mortgages"Mortgages/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/property"Property/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/housingmarket"Housing market/a/li/ul/diva href="http://www.guardian.co.uk"guardian.co.uk/a copy; Guardian News Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our a href="http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html"Terms Conditions/a | a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/webfeeds/1,,1309488,00.html"More Feeds/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/lTDDTAzgY42-IMViJADPHuF9eDg/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/lTDDTAzgY42-IMViJADPHuF9eDg/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/p

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Digital Growth Won't Stop Overall Music Sales Shrinking: Forecast

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- 12 hours and 7 minutes ago

pUS digital music sales will grow by 17 percent per year on average over the next five years, to make up 41 percent of sales by 2013, Forrester's latest a href="http://www.jupiterresearch.com/bin/item.pl/research:vision/105/id=100799/" title="Jupiterresearch forecast"Jupiterresearch forecast/a says. But that won't stop ioverall/i sales ishrinking/i by 0.8 percent per year on average from $10.2 billion to $9.8 billion. To blame - sticking points in the digital world and an acceleration in CDs' decline, their forecast revised from a 7.1 percent annual drop to 8.7 percent following poor 2007 CD sales. Other projections... /p p -- bPhones trump media players/b: The number of MP3-capable phones will grow from today's 53 million to 240 million, or 75 percent of the US, by 2013, significantly hitting demand for unconnected media devices, which will plateau at 41 percent of the population. br / -- bSubscriptions stutter/b: So much for the great white hope. While the number of digital music consumers is forecast to grow from this year's 58.7 million to 174.1 million or $3.5 billion by 2013 (55 percent of US online users), those taking music isubscriptions/i will creep from just 2.7 million to 4.8 million. br / -- bCasual spenders/b: Per-user music spend is expected to shrink as more consumers will be phone users, reckoned to be only casual spenders. br / -- bDRM-free, so what?/b: Only 24 percent of music buyers said DRM-free would entice them to buy more digital tracks (though it's possible some are merely unaware what DRM even is). /p pstrongRelated/strong/p ul class="related" lia href="http://www.paidcontent.co.uk/entry/419-321-million-mp3-players-sold-in-the-uk-last-year-huh"32.1 Million MP3 Players Sold In The UK Last Year. Huh?/a/li lia href="http://www.paidcontent.co.uk/entry/419-pay-for-content-set-to-grow-faster-than-free-driven-by-music-forecast"Pay-For Content Set To Grow Faster Than Free, Driven By Music: Forecast/a/li /ul p!-- iMark Logic Digital Publishing Summit, Thursday November 6, Westin Times Square. Insight and perspective from Outsell, Gilbane, Simon Schuster, BusinessWeek.com, more. Evening cocktail reception. Cost is complimentary. a href="http://content.adbureau.net/accipiter/adclick/CID=000010cb0000000000000000/SITE=PC_US/AAMSZ=PREMB_NEWS/relocate=http://marklogicdps.eventbrite.com/"Register now!/a/i --/p pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?a=bUOBWR"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?i=bUOBWR" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=qhhiO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=qhhiO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=p7h1O"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=p7h1O" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=V35uo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=V35uo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=dyZGO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=dyZGO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=2hgKO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=2hgKO" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/pcorg/~4/472433097" height="1" width="1"/

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Nokia N97 - Nseries with touch and QWERTY

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Nokia today announced the launch of the Nokia N97. It is the first touch-enabled Nseries device and has a horizontal tilt-slide form factor. It transforms from a touch slate to a landscape QWERTY device. The device, which has an Internet and entertainment focus, runs on S60 5th Edition, has a customisable, widget-based, home screen and full support for Ovi services.
It features a 3.5 inch (360 x 640 resolution) touchscreen with haptic feedback, 5 megapixel camera (with Carl Zeiss optics and dual LED flash), A-GPS and compass sensors, comprehensive connectivity options (WiFi, tri-band HSDPA, Bluetooth and USB), and 32GB of internal flash memory. Read on for more.
The N97 is the most feature packed Nseries device to date and, by adding touch, it moves Nokia's high end Nseries into direct competition with touch devices such as the Samsung Omnia, LG Renoir, Apple iPhone and G1 Android Phone.
Here are first few hand-ons impressions: In the hand the N97 feels pleasingly solid, with an extremely impressive slide mechanism - it is obvious a lot of testing has gone into the hinge mechanism. In slide closed mode it is equally solid, with no give. The keyboard, while limited by design constraints, feels good, though as ever it's difficult to come to any final conclusions with prototypes. Subjectively, the 'feel' and the design of the handset screams high end with materials that can not be fully appreciated in pictures (it has that caress-ability x-factor).

It is a relatively large device, especially length-wise, but that's inevitable given the size of the screen and the inclusion of a QWERTY keyboard. There's the usual plethora of hardware features, including sensors (accelerometer, compass sensors and proximity sensors), integrated A-GPS, and connectivity options (tri-band 3G, WiFi, Bluetooth and USB). The large screen is a definite highlight - its widescreen 16:9 resolution is ideal for watching videos, but also works well for browsing the Internet. The touch screen is very sensitive, and there have been further refinements to the home screen to enable easier finger touch usage (the larger physical screen also helps with this). The UI can also be driven from the keypad using the D-pad on the left hand side of the keyboard, together with the on-screen softkeys and home key.
S60 5th Edition has been updated to Nseries specifications for the N97. Extras include UPnP, Internet Radio and Nokia Photos applications and we can expect to see a lot more in this area before the phone is released.
We'll report in greater detail in due course.

Key features of the phone:

Software:

Runs S60 5th Edition. You can read more about S60 5th Edition in our Nokia 5800 preview. However, the N97 will have the Nseries version of S60, which means there will be a number of extra applications including Internet Radio, FM transmitter, Home media (UPnP) and Photos.
The home screen can be personalised with Internet-aware widgets (based on WRT technology). Examples included in the press photos include weather forecasts, social networking (Facebook, Friendster, My Space) status summaries, and media collections. There are also indicators for time, profiles, email, application shortcuts and so on.
Text input is via on screen keyboard (full screen QWERTY, pop-up QWERTY and alphanumeric), as is standard on S60 5th Edition, or handwriting recognition or via the QWERTY keyboard.
Fully compatible with Ovi services including Maps, Music, Share and Games. Nokia Music store can be accessed from the device (touch optimised version) or from Nokia Music for the PC (an iTunes -Windows application). Nokia Maps now supports high resolution satellite imagery, 3D buildings (selected buildings) and richer map meta data. Pedestrian route finding and turn by turn, voice guided car navigation, are available as premium services.
Internet focus with WebKit based browser, comprehensive RSS feed support and runtime technologies including Flash, WRT (widget).
Introduces the social location (So-Lo) concept; the N97 has software that allows you to automatically update and share your location with friends and popular social networks.
'N-Gage compatible' device, which indicates that the N-Gage platform will be touch enabled by the release date of the N97.

The devices being demoed at Nokia World are running an early version of the software. In the six months leading up to the release date it is likely to evolve considerably.

Hardware:

Physical dimensions: 117.2 x 55.3 x 15.9 mm (18.25 mm at camera area), and weighs approximately 150g.
Tilt form factor with horizontal slide to reveal full QWERTY keyboard. The upper half of the device slides away from the bottom half and moves upwards in a diagonal direction. The slide is impressively smooth and when closed feels very solid in the hand (so much so its not immediately apparent it is a horizontal slide device).
There are three keys on the front of the device: send and end keys and a home/menu key. On the left side of the device there is a slider lock and a microUSB port, on the top of the device is the power and 3.5mm audio jack and on the right hand side are the volume keys and the camera capture key.
3.5 inch, 360 x 640 (nHD) resolution resistive touch TFT screen with 16 million colours. The device can be driven using finger touch or stylus, or from the QWERTY keyboard.
Haptic feedback for screen touches. This is provided via general vibra feedback, as on the Nokia 5800.
5 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics and dual LED flash. The camera is covered by a sliding lens cover similar to that found on the N85 and N79.

The camera is also used to record videos at VGA at 30 frames per seconds, but I've seen a demo of it recording and playing video back in a 16:9 resolution mode (also as on the 5800). The usual Share online application is present for uploading images and video to online services such as Flickr and Share on Ovi (available services likely to be expanded before launch).
Integrated A-GPS and compass sensor (magnetometer) means that the N97 'intuitively knows where it is' and this is used by Nokia Maps, and for social location; also embeds location information into images and video.
3.5 mm audio jack (also used for TV-Out) and built in stereo speakers. Music playback time of one and half days (36 hours). There's also an FM radio and FM transmitter.
microUSB jack (USB 2.0 HiSpeed) and supports charging over USB
32GB of internal flash memory
microSD card slot with support for SDHC cards upto 16GB in size (giving total potential memory of 48 GB)
WiFi, 3.5G (tri-band HSDPA - 900, 1900 and 2100 Mhz), quad-band GSM and Bluetooth connectivity (various profiles including HID, SAP, A2DP and AVRCP).
1500 mAh battery (BP-4L - the same monster as that used in the E71, E90, 6650 and N800).
There is no stylus built into the phone, but one will be included in the box.
The Nokia N97 is expected to ship in the first half of 2009 (presumably in June) with an estimated price of 550 Euro before taxes and subsidies.

The N97 (117.2 x 55.3 x 15.9 mm) is larger than the 5800 (111 x 51.7 x 15.5 mm). Compared to the iPhone (112 x 56.9 x 12.5 mm) is a little taller, but slightly mm narrower. Quite impressive given the incluion of a QWERTY keyboard. N78 also shown.

Press release extract:

Nokia today unveiled the Nokia N97, the world’s most advanced mobile computer, which will transform the way people connect to the Internet and to each other. Designed for the needs of Internet-savvy consumers, the Nokia N97 combines a large 3.5” touch display with a full QWERTY keyboard, providing an ‘always open’ window to favorite social networking sites and Internet destinations. Nokia’s flagship Nseries device introduces leading technology – including multiple sensors, memory, processing power and connection speeds – for people to create a personal Internet and share their ‘social location.’
“From the desktop to the laptop and now to your pocket, the Nokia N97 is the most powerful, multi-sensory mobile computer in existence,” said Jonas Geust, Vice President, heading Nokia Nseries. “Together with the Ovi services announced today, the Nokia N97 mobile computer adjusts to the world around us, helping stay connected to the people and things that matter most. With the Nokia N97, Nseries leads the charge in helping to transform the Internet into your Internet”.

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