Nokia clearly wasn’t telling porkies when it said the 5800 XpressMusic was just the first in a long line of touched up handsets.

The Nseries is the latest range to be visited by the tactile fairy and the N97 is the result: a tilting touchscreen handset with full Qwerty tapper underneath.

The 3.5-inch display has a widescreen aspect ratio, making it great for playing back movies. There’s a whopping 32GB of internal storage, plus a microSD slot so if you slip in a 16GB card the storage tops out at a colossal 48GB.

Wi-Fi, HSDPA and GPS are all present and correct and the battery promises a mammoth 1.5 days music playback, so you needn’t worry about its entertainment capabilities sucking up all the juice.

The camera is slightly disappointing as it only stretches to the now pretty standard 5-megapixel, but other than that it’s a killer hardware line up. It’ll hit the streets sometime in the first half of next year for €550 – around £460 – before operator subsidies kick in.