[digg-me]Greeting from all of us here at Mobonoid, here’s wishing you a spectacular New Year. The year 2008 was something of a mixed bag, while we did not see earth shattering technologies, it did throw out some really well balanced devices (Read E71 and N85). On the whole it was the year that the technologies consolidated and innovation seemed to take a pause, at least from what the consumer could see.

However in reality, it was probably as fast as it ever has been for phones have long inception cycles and what we see announced today probably was in the pipeline since a year. Just when we thought 2008 would have no more surprises, Nokia dropped the N97, unexpected to say the least. The device wasn’t unexpected, but the timing was, for Nokia World hadn’t been a platform for device announcements before.

2008 seemed slow and from all indications it seems that 2009 might just be the opposite. After having sufferred somewhat of a hit on the ‘touch’ front, Nokia seems all geared up to strike back. The 5800 is already shipping, the N97 is coming and so are other touch device for sure. Nokia clearly recognises that useful or not, touch sure seems to have enamoured people and if that’s what they want – it will give to them. We will most probably see a complete touch based device and a few other T9 and QWERTY touch devices as that’s clearly the way to go.

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