Nokia World 2009 started Wednesday in Stuttgart, Germany, and kick things off, the Finnish cell phone manufacturer, introduced several new phones, including Nokia N97 Mini.

As little brother, Nokia N97, a smartphone is not really all that much less than the N97. Mini least 4,4 cm in height by 2 inches wide, 0.5 inches (compared with 4,6 N97’s inches 2.1 inches 0.6 inches) and has a 3.2-inch touch screen tilt. It still offers a full sliding QWERTY keyboard without directional keypad, but judging by the press shots, it looks like Nokia did not do anything about the rickety accommodation space.

Nevertheless, the big news about the mini Nokia N97 is not so much about the physical design, but what lies beneath. Mini will run a new program, which adds a GUI improvements, including more home-screen widgets and flick the scroll, and includes more social networking tools.

One of these tools will Lifecasting with Ovi, which allows users to post their location and status updates directly from the N97 Mini. In addition, the device will come loaded with the new version of Ovi maps on which you can access content from Lonely Planet, Michelin and Wcities.

Other key S60 5th Edition phone includes a 5 megapixel camera, 8 GB internal memory with MicroSD expansion slot, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. Unfortunately, today announced version does not support North American 3G bands, but we suspect, Nokia will launch version of the NAM as it is with the N97 and some of its other smartphones.

Mini Nokia N97, is expected to ship in October for an estimated retail price of 450 euros (about $ 640 U.S.). In addition, Nokia announced that it will release a software update and make Lifecasting with Ovi available for N97 in October as well. Other announcements from Nokia World 09 include Nokia X3 and X6 and new services.

Just yesterday, Microsoft announced that the first batch of Windows Mobile 6.5 smartphone will begin October 6 and Wednesday, we learned the identity of one of these models: Touch2 HTC.

Touch2 will include new opportunities WM 6.5, such as update Internet Explorer Mobile supports Flash, Windows Marketplace for mobile devices, and my Microsoft’s Phone backup service. In a series of Touch company HTC, smart phone will also use the company’s TouchFlo 3D-interface and include touch Zoom bar, which we first saw on the HTC Touch Pro2 and Diamond2 Touch.

Other features HTC Touch 2 includes a 2.8-inch QVGA touch screen, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, and Quad-roaming group of the world. The device has a 3.2-megapixel camera, 512MB RAM ROM/256MB and MicroSD expansion slot.

Touch2 HTC will be available to some customers, 6 October, although the company was very vague about where the markets. He added that the smartphone will be released in the broader European and Asian markets in early Q4, but the price was not mentioned at this time.