I suspect somebody at 2K is a big Nirvana fan. 2/20/67 is the birth date of Kurt Cobain.

As a Nokia fan, I'm very disappointed. My plans for 2009: hold on to my N82 until Sept. If by that time Nokia hasn't announced a 8MP with xenon flash (and preferably a touchscreen interface), I go for a SE Idou. Nokia can continue releasing N95 clones all the way to bankruptcy, for all I care.

If geeks had girlfriends, these are the flowers that they would give them on Valentine's day. Nothing says "I love you" like flowers that actually say "I love you" :D.

Not very informative. A photo in a poorly-lit environment would have told us more, such as:
1) the quality of the sensor (after all, even the crappy 5800XM camera can take decent pictures, provided there's enough light)
2) whether this new handset has a xenon flash (good), or the usual dual led (awful)

For a few gold coins, Dr. Mario will write you prescriptions for medical psychedelic mushrooms.

Ah, but the North Face ones have only the thumb and index finger with electro-conductive tips. These have also the middle finger. Apple's innovation here consists in giving you the middle finger :D.

Currently, the N96 has two reasons to exist:
1) 16GB onboard + 16GB microSD, for those who can't live with less than 32GB of storage;
2) DVB-H, if your carrier supports it.
I don't expect it to hang around much longer after the N97 goes on sale, however.

To summarize the the WCDMA quagmire, to the best of my knowledge:
In Europe, we use the 2100 band, and we recently started using the 900 band too in rural areas. Phones that use the 2100 only like the iPhone are mostly OK at the moment, but they'll start running into trouble in a few years as use of the 900 band becomes more widespread.
In the U.S., AT&T uses the 1900 and 850 bands, while T-mobile uses (I believe) the 2100 and 1700 ones.
So you see that to make everybody happy, one would need (at least) a 5-band WCDMA chip, which currently doesn't exists. What Nokia usually does is to manufacture two versions of their handsets, one 2100/1900/900 for Europe, and another 2100/1900/850 for North America (AT&T and Rogers, but not T-Mobile).
The handset previewed is a prototype of the European version of the N97; the North American version will be released after the European one will go on sale.

This effectively kills the N96, for everybody except for the (very) small niche of people who care about DVB-H.

Here in Europe they've been available for over a week, at about 50 euros + VAT. I got one for my Nokia N82 yesterday.
Finally I have enough space to hold my music (about 7GB), video podcasts (even at 320x240 and MP4-encoded, these take a lot of space; for example, each episode of MSNBC's Meet the Press is over 250MB), and pre-loaded maps of all Europe and NA (1.3GB and 1GB, respectively), with room to spare!