Nokia N97 Mini Dropped By Orange

Nokia E71 3g Media Player, UK : 3G Operator 3 UK can now offer Spotify for Symbian on a number of Nokia mobile phones and one Sony Ericsson. To get the Spotify for Symbian App head over to 3’s Planet 3 where it can be downloaded by contract mobile phone customers. Once downloaded, Spotify for Symbian, will open up access to the Spotify music library of six million music tracks. Download straight to your 3 mobile phone for under ten pounds a month.

In October 2009, 3 UK announced that the HTC Hero would come with free Spotify - more here. Then in November this year Nokia announced that Spotify had launched its Symbian application for Nokia - more here.The new service for 3 UK obviously ties in with the Nokia announcement

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Nokia N97

Nokia N96

Nokia N95

Nokia N95 8GB

Nokia E63

Nokia E71

Nokia 5800

Nokia 6220 classic

Nokia N86

The Nokia N97 Mini, which received rave reviews from experts and early adopters alike, looks like it has been dropped by Orange.

The phone expierenced a price cut on the Orange site and is now out of stock and industry sources tell us the phone will be dropped from Orange's network.

The reason is thought to be that Nokia N97 Mini has achieved a high level of returns, although we haven’t heard of any problems here at 3G.co.uk or on our 3G Forum.

Our review of the Nokia N97 Mini summarized that “The Nokia N97 Mini keeps the best features of the original model – the quality QWERTY keyboard and the five-megapixel camera – and packs the powerful software into a slender chassis.”

The Nokia N97 Mini has a 3.2 inch touch-screen display, 5.2 megapixel camera , QWERTY keypad and 8GB of internal memory.

Orange could have been unlucky in getting a high-level of Nokia N97 Mini returns , or it could be due to reasons other than the phone itself (such as bad value contracts) so the device may yet return to the network.