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D-pad on the keyboard scrapped? Check

0.3 inches shaved off the screen size? Check

Internal storage reduced (though microSD-replacability almost entire)? Check

Some other minor things gone on that are so minor we can’t even be bothered listing them? Check, check, check…

So, it seems like there’s less reasons to be mildly, if even barely, if even at all interested in the new Nokia N97 Mini than there are reasons to join the Young Conservatives. However, we think it’s actually rather marvellous that nothing has really been done to the N97 as it’s made its way into this new mini format. Because, apart from its almost obscenely obese size, there was nothing wrong with the N97 in the first place. Far from it, in fact. It was a cracker of a phone. Just a cracker of a phone with a weight problem. But now it’s a cracker of a phone, still with a full-QWERTY keyboard, that feels absolutely magic in your hand. Not just good, not just ‘oh I guess this feels alright for a big phone’, but actually magic. It just plain fits.

So there we have it. The N97 was a phone that managed to shift millions of units in no time at all even though it was an ugly heifer. The super cool n’ slim Nokia N97 is, well, destined to sell even more millions of units because it’s a very long way from being a cow indeed.

Check out this Nokia N97 mini review or these Nokia N97 Mini deals if you don’t believe us. Or just stare goggle-eyed at this lovely little video instead. Mmm, animationy….

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