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Upcoming Nokia N97 Firmware 2.0 shown on video, packed with new features

Despite lackluster reviews from blogers and hatred all over the web, Nokia isn’t ready to abandon the N97 and I applaud them for this. Symbianworld.org got a…

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Despite lackluster reviews from blogers and hatred all over the web, Nokia isn’t ready to abandon the N97 and I applaud them for this. Symbianworld.org got a chance to get some Firmware 2.0 walk-through and shot a 7 minutes video for all of us. Looks like Nokia did a pretty good job all around by adding kinetic scrolling across the OS, new widgets, better album art/info in the media player among other new features. Best of all, the firmware is actually smaller that the present one so you’ll get even more free memory.

Source: Symbianworld via Engadget

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