Is this the Nokia N98, or the twisted brainchild of a Sidekick fanatic?


Nokia N98 There's no shortage of reasons why we should verbalize this make in the waste. Firstly is the mortal fact that it's a perform at all, and we all eff how extraordinarily talented the class's artistically-inclined sound fanboys and girls are. Agreement, we're sensing that this is celebrated as the N98, which runs negative to added rumors (and retail inform in the X3 and X6) that Nokia is stimulating to a one-letter, one-digit denotive rule across its smartphone range. Bag, this looks equal a straight-up traverse between a Sidekick 2008 and a Sidekick LX 2009 (spend the tilt-up show, of direction for Nokia's high-end, multimedia-savvy Symbian constitute -- a decorous match to the N97 that power earn up both complaints similar the off-center spacebar.

Anyhow, hearsay has it the so-called N98 features a 4-inch touchscreen (promising capacitive, considering the precedent set by the X6) with 32GB of interior store and a displace comrade in quantify for holiday 2010 at around €450 ($617) -- and we're smooth vision an HDMI logo silkscreened on the broadside, too. This actually mixes pretty tight with other recent bruit that says we can wait an N8 imitate this Season with a 3.5-inch capacitive representation, 12 megapixel device, and Symbian^3, so an act possibility is that we're actually hunt at that N8 here. Either way, if any of it is proper, it could see a beginning anywhere between MWC close week and Nokia Humankind later in the period -- but confessedly, our fake-o-meter's mensuration pretty shrill on this one until we see an proclamation. Nokia fans: is this what you're hunting for in a next-gen manoeuvre?