After an endless wait, Nokia has finally unveiled a new N-series phone that is finally ready to compete with the iPhone with its touchscreen and a full QWERTY keyboard.

Nokia N97 is successor to the N96 is the first ever touch-enabled N-series device that runs on the Symbian S60 5th edition. According to Nokia’s official press release, the Nokia N97 is the world’s most advance mobile computer specially designed to meet the needs of Internet-savvy consumers.

Nokia N97 Tech Specifications

The Nokia N97 competes with the iPhone neck to neck in features and functionality. Here is a look at some of its specifications.

• 3.5 inch TFT touchscreen display
• 360 x 640 screen resolution
• QWERTY keyboard with haptics
• 32GB of internal storage memory
• 5MP camera with Zeiss lens
• GPS with Nokia Maps 3.0 app
• Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and Infrared
• Accelerometer and proximity sensor
• microSD supporting upto 16GB external memory

Its like picking out every single flaw found in the iPhone and making a device that includes a fix for everything.

The focus in Nokia N97 is the new desktop widgets feature which allows user to syndicate data in real-time through various social networks. Widgets made by third-party developers shall be readily available for download via the Downloads app in Symbian OS.

The N97 also features the quick contacts feature which we already witnessed in the XpressMusic 5800, also known as the Nokia Tube. The QWERTY keybaord accessible through the 30° flip mechanism gives it a little Xperia look but after all what Nokia N97 has to offer, a bit of plagiarism shall definitely be allowed.

Take a look at the official promo for Nokia N97.

It shall be available in the European and Asian markets in Q2 of 2009 with a price tag of $700.

Nokia N97 Photos

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A couple of days ago the world witnessed one of the worst terrorist attacks of all times where over two hundred people were held hostage in the legendary Taj Mahal Hotel in Mumbai, India and over hundreds were killed in the aftermath.

One of the interesting observation regarding this incident was the fact that the terrorists used BlackBerry smartphones to monitor the world’s response in real-time after all the cables to the hotel were cut down.

Even though iPhone was launched in India earlier in August this year, it still doesn’t seem to have become an integral part of the mobile communication system.

Blackberry still leads the market share with over twice the percentage of the iPhone and is still known to be more user-friendly and feature enrich.

Apple needs to focus more on usability then merely on eye-candy and touch effects. As the technology evolves, it will surely bring new horrors and disasters like it always has.

After all, terrorists make use of technology too.

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A few months ago, a Mac version of uTorrent, the lightweight BitTorrent client was leaked on the BitTorrent network. The version was still in alpha and had a lot of stability issues and bugs. But that did make us believe that a Mac version would be arriving soon.

BitTorrent today has made further progress on the Mac platform, and have released a version of the popular thin client.

The version is still in Beta though, and as the download page says:

This is beta software, and may contain serious bugs. We think its stable enough to share and hope your feedback will help us improve it.

Beta version are meant to have bugs, and that’s why software is released as beta so real-time bugs could be discovered. But another interesting issue here is that it only supports Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard running on Intel x86 processors.

Nevertheless, uTorrent is the most popular BitTorrent client for the PC due to fact that it packs a huge amount of features in a single executable which is only 243kB and takes about 6MB of RAM. So even a beta version wouldn’t stop torrent lovers to trying it out on their Macs.

Be sure to check back later for a review on the product and any potential bugs we might encounter.

Direct Download Link

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The new iPhone 2.2 firmware, which released a couple of days ago brings new eye-candy to the iPhone such as a Safari re-design, new notification icon for EDGE and other unique features such as Google Street View and Podcasts.

I was able to get my hands on the new firmware and managed to unlock and jailbreak it right away.

The method I will be sharing for unlocking the iPhone 2.2 firmware only works for iPhone 2G, however in one of my future posts I will be sharing a method to only jailbreak iPhone 3G for 2.2 firmware as the software unlock is still not close to reality.

All you have to do is download the new Pwned iPhone 2.2 firmware and restore it to your iPhone using iTunes. Here are the steps in detail.

1. Download the Pwned iPhone 2.2 Firmware for iPhone 2G created using Pwnage tool (links provided at end of the post).
2. Extract the parts such that you get a file named iPhone1,1_2.2_5G77_Custom_Restore.ipsw (245MB).
3. Connect your iPhone to your PC via USB cable and open iTunes 8 (Cancel if its asks you to update your iPhone to the latest firmware).
4. Make a backup of all the contacts, music, videos and other media on your iPhone.
5. Hold shift and click Restore and locate the Pwned iPhone 2.2 Firmware.
6. Wait till its all done and enjoy an unlocked and jailbroken iPhone 2G on Firmware 2.2.

The benefit of this method is that you don’t need to use any utility such as Pwnage or QuickPwn and works perfectly with iTunes on Mac or PC. Plus the jailbreak comes with Cydia and Installer both.

Download the iPhone 2.2 for 2G using the Rapidshare links below.

http://tinyurl.com/unlock-iphone-22-sizlo-1
http://tinyurl.com/unlock-iphone-22-sizlo-2
http://tinyurl.com/unlock-iphone-22-sizlo-3b

We know Rapidshare can be quite annoying for new users so make sure to use our list of free rapidshare premium link generators.

If you have any questions, please post in the comments below.

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Getting back to Sizlopedia after a 20-day long hiatus requires for me to give some authentic alibi but apart from my exams I can assure that I have been busy working on something truly new and amazing.

Basically I have been busy all this time setting up and developing my new blog, Listphobia.com which promises to deliver some of the best list collections from around the web.

The idea came to my mind after I strictly observed the niche of some successful blogs over popular social networks such as StumbleUpon and Digg and finally decided to start a blog of my own. I paired up with some of my university colleagues, thought of a unique domain name and launched the blog almost a fortnight ago.

The idea for a blog like Listphobia is not new perhaps but what makes it difference is the manner in which the content is collected and presented. Listphobia has already made it to the frontpage of Digg once and is also getting constant peak traffic from StumbleUpon which makes it a pure hit.

In a matter of only 15 days of its initial launch, the blog has managed to attract a visitor loyalty of over 170,000 unique visitors with almost 270,000 pageviews. Here are some of the most famous lists from Listphobia so far:

A list of the top luxurious concept cars of the future (link)

A list of the most stylish Mac girls with Macs and iPods (link)

A list of some of the most amazing and unusual houses of the world (link)

For more interesting and amazing lists, check out the blog.

Don’t forget to give us your feedback on this, Sizlopedia and Listphobia together will make sure you get the best content from around the web, all at one place.

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