Some lucky folks get to to play with phones not yet available to the public like the Nokia N97 and the Nokia N86 then upload their photos to Flickr. I’m sure you want to preview the image quality before these devices hit the sales floor. I’ll show you how to find these photos, but hope I don’t get anyone in trouble by sharing this information.

Sample Nokia N97 Photo by James Nash (click for more)

We will be using Google to find these photos. It’s simple. Ready? Just search this:

• site:flickr.com “Taken with a Nokia N97″

You can replace the device to whatever upcoming phone you want to check out and you might get lucky.

When you are at a photo page, scroll down and look for the camera information on the right column. It looks like this:

Some photos show up as being “taken with a Nokia” without a model number or name. I suspect those are very early prototypes. Let us know if you find anything interesting!