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The world's largest handset maker, Nokia on Monday launched new version of flagship N97 smartphone - N97 Mini - in the Indian market priced at Rs 30,939.
The N97 Mini features a tilting 3.2" touch display, qwerty keyboard and fully customisable homescreen. Though N97 Mini has less in-built memory than its big brother N97, but the selling point of the new version is 'lifecasting'.
The Finnish company has partnered with social networking site Facebook and people could update their location and status or Lifecast as called by Nokia, on the website through the device.
"More and more people today want to bring their physical and online worlds together via the Internet. The N97 Mini is designed for social Internet and to help navigate people and places.
"With Live feeds, personalised content, lifecasting with OVI, Ovi mail and Ovi store, the N97 mini provides web centricity to users in a compact case," Nokia India director-operator channels V Ramnath.
Globally, Nokia has sold about two million units of the original N97 within months of its launch. Nokia has been maintaining a market share of about 40 per cent world wide and is a leader in the Indian market with handsets in low to high range in the market.