Shown here is the first official press photo of the Nokia N97 Mini from Be Geek. Looks like it will sport a mocha brown color of some kind.

Evidently absent is the directional pad on the left-hand side of the QWERTY keypad. There is also a mild keypad layout makeover along with the addition of directional keys on the right-hand side.

The Nokia N97 Mini is not that much smaller compared to the N97 as can be seen on the photos below.

Nothing is official yet, but rumored downgrades/upgrades include the following: smaller mass storage capacity (8GB or 16GB instead of 32GB), smaller screen (3-inch instead of 3.5-inch) and lastly, free internal memory (RAM) would supposedly tally up to 280MB on the N97 Mini as opposed to only 50MB on the N97.

[via Mobile Bulgaria and Engadget]