We’ve had news from Vodafone about new dates for the Nokia N97; if you are waiting for the Nokia N97 on Vodafone, it will be available for pre-order from 12th June, and will go on sale on 26th June, slightly ahead of the “July” date the Vodafone website has previously been advertising.

So, that’s 3UK, Vodafone and O2 (via Carphone Warehouse’s White Nokia N97 exclusive) confirmed, and we believe it will be released on T-Mobile and Orange on the 26th June too.

We know that the 3UK version will ship with their “Skype on 3″ application, and the planned Skype application support (which caused controversy earlier this year) is not due to be released as part of the firmware until later this year; at which point we suspect some operators will either released heavily customised firmwares (ie removing this application), or will simply not make the new firmware available.  In other news, there have been lots of rumours that the Nokia N97 will ship in the UK without a stylus, but we understand that it will ship with one in the box for generic models, and we would suspect most networks will leave it in the box too.

Of course, with Apple’s iPhone announcement next week, people may want to think twice before placing that pre-order…

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