However it looks like things are about to change, and Nokia might be making an official announcement (or maybe even an official release) some time this week. On May 8, 2008 specifically.

The latest reports about the Nokia E71 have us looking at May 8 as the possible launch date from Nokia, partly due to it making appearances in various Dutch online web stores recently.

Apparently, the Nokia E71 is even listed with official specs, which says it will have the following dimensions: 112 x 57 x 10 mm. If this is true, Nokia has outdone itself this time, ably cramming a lot of high-end features in a body that’s only 10mm thin.

If you recall, we confirmed that the Nokia E71 will have a 3.2 megapixel auto-focus camera, GPS navigation, built-in WiFi and HSDPA network support. Knowing that it’s only 10mm thin is truly mind-boggling, and if May 8 is really the official launch date, we expect more minds to be boggled by this upcoming number in Nokia’s business handset lineup.

We’ll keep an eye out on this news story for you and will make sure to give the latest updates pronto.

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The Nokia E77 was first leaked earlier this year, with a lone spy shot with a small list of reasonable specs: 3.5G HSDPA connectivity, 3.2 megapixel main camera, built-in GPS and Wi-Fi connectivity.

And now we have additional details about this new phone, specifically about its form and the camera module that it sports. The Nokia E71, if the rumors hold true, will have an autofocus lens with the LED-flash complemented camera on its back. It will stand at 11mm thick, which is slightly thinner than the E61i, but equally usable, I’m sure. A microSD card slot, GPS, WiFi, Bluetooth, and HSDPA, of course, are all in the details.

Along with these spy shots of the Nokia E77, we also found another handset entirely, and judging from its size, it looks like another QWERTY-keyboard equipped Nokia business phone. The placement of the camera is different and the back cover has a shiny finish to it, differentiating it from the Nokia E71 or E61i.

Rumors hail this phone as the Nokia E66, which ought to have about the same specs as the E71 (mentioned above – 3.2 megapixel cam with autofocus, GPS, Wi-Fi and HSDPA connectivity, expandable memory), but of course, this is still unofficial.

We’ll keep more details about the Nokia E71 and Nokia E66 coming as they become available.

Mobile 01 Via Engadget

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According to the interview given to E24.se news portal by Antti Vasara, General Manager of Mobile Devices Business Unit, Nokia E90 will start shipping in small quantities first in Finland, then Indonesia and will eventually reach Sweden this August.

When the rest of us will see this powerhouse of a cellphone is still not clear, since, according to Mr. Vasara, Nokia E90 Communicator is a pretty complicated piece of equipment and hard to produce in large quantities at first.

Other interesting bits of information that Mr. Vasara revealed in the interview were:

• Nokia is not too enthusiastic about touchscreens, since all their tests had shown that users prefer keyboard and joystick for an input device. But they are ready for touchscreens if they see the demand
• consumers don’t like to learn using new shapes/form factors on mobile phones. That’s why Nokia E70 isn’t selling well
• but Nokia will be launching entirely new type of mobile next year

Looks like Nokia is taking a wait and see approach with the iPhone and LG Prada touchscreen phones and will have an answer if the sales of these handsets take off.

Can’t wait to see what this Nokia’s “entirely new type of mobile phone” will be.

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A flagship Nokia E90 communicator has been approved by FCC last Friday.

E90 is the first communicator to be included into the Nokia  ESeries business smartphone line-up and it comes stuffed with almost everything that Nokia could think off. Like QWERTY keyboard, big 800×320px internal screen, GPS navigation, 3.2 Mpx camera, WLAN and HSDPA connectivity, office productivity applications, VoIP and video calling, Intellysinc Mobile suite and many other cool things.

Nokia E90 is expected to go on sale in Q2 of this year and should cost somewhere around $1000 before subsidies.

Another 3GSM goodie to be approved by FCC is the “worlds thinnest phone”, Samsung U100 Ultra Edition 5.9. Samsung U100 is a triband (900/1800/1900) EDGE/GPRS phone that comes with 3 megapixel camera, multimedia player, Bluetooth connectivity and is only 5.9 mm thin.

It should go on sale also sometime in Q2 2007.

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And even though it does not have a fancy touchscreen user interfaces, Nokia E90 Communicator will stand tall at least among business users.

Full sized QWERTY keyboard, huge 800!x320 pixel resolution 16 million color screen, WLAN and HSDPA connectivity, POP3, IMAP, SMTP and push e-mail support, VoIP, videocalling, QuickOffice Tools and Editors, Nokia Office Tools with Intellicync mobile suite that come as a part of Nokia E90 communicator, will allow you accomplish many tasks previously reserved for the laptop. While 3.2 megapixel camera, FM radio and Media player should satisfy most of your entertainment needs. Nokia Communicator E90 also comes with built in GPS navigation and Nokia maps app.

And all of this in a pretty decently sized 132 x 57 x 20 mm, 140 cc package weighting 210 g.

Full specs for NOkia E90 Communicator are:

• GSM quad-band (850/900/1800/1900)
• WCDMA 2100
• Volume: 140 cc
• Weight: 210 g
• Dimensions: 132 x 57 x 20 mm
• Inner: Active matrix color display (800 x 352 pixels), 16 million true colors
• Outer: Active matrix color display (240 x 320 pixels), 16 million true colors
• S60 Platform 3.1 Edition
• Symbian OS Version 9.2
• Javaâ„¢ MIDP 2.0
• 3.2 megapixel camera with flash and autofocus
• QCIF camera for video calling
• Supports POP3, IMAP4, and SMTP
• Support for push email with filtering, including Nokia Intellisync Wireless Email
• View, open, and edit email attachments with Quickoffice (documents, spreadsheets, and presentations), Zip Manager, and Adobe Acrobat Reader
• Remote contact look-up
• Instant messaging
• Text-to-speech message reader
• MMS and SMS
• Video calling
• FM radio
• Music player (MP3, AAC)
• Media player
• Up to 128 MB free memory for user data and applications
• Extendible up to 2GB with microSD memory card
• Quickoffice tools with editors
• Maps application for location-based services
• Nokia Office Tools 1.1 (including Active notes)
• VoIP 2.1
• Download! application for add-on application download
• Support for Nokia Intellisync Mobile Suite
• WorldMate, Wireless Presenter, and Global Race – Raging Thunder – available for download via Downloads! application
• Mini USB, USB 2.0 full-speed
• Bluetooth wireless technology 2.0
• 2.5mm Nokia A/V connector with ECI
• Infrared (up to 115 kbps)
• Web browser (x)HTML
• JavaScript 1.3 and 1.5 supported
• Flash Lite 2.0 supported
• WLAN 802.11g
• HSDPA up to 3.6Mbit/s enabled
• WCDMA 2100 MHz with simultaneous voice and packet data
• GPRS/EGPRS (Class A, MSC 32)
• 3GPP rel 5
• Dual transfer mode MSC11, SAIC rel v1
• Voice dialing
• Voice commands for menu short cuts, keypad lock, and profiles
• Voice recording for making notes or recording conversations
• Internet Call release 2.1 for making VoIP (voice over IP) calls
• Text-to-speech message reader
• Enhanced voice commands with speaker-independent name dialing (SIND), and voice aid for eyes-free control of core functions
• Integrated handsfree speaker
• Push to talk (PoC)
• Nokia Team Suite
• Calendar attachment support
• Meeting requests to calendar
• Calendar plug-in for 3rd party email solutions
• Contacts with images
• Nokia Active Notes application
• Integrated GPS
• Support for Nokia Intellisync file sync and device management
• Stereo FM radio
• Up to 5 hrs talk time and 14 days on stanby

Nokia ESeries E90 Communicator will cost somewhere around €750-800 and go on sale in Q2.

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And most of what we heard was true. Key features of Nokia E65 include:

• Quad-band ( EGSM 850/900/1800/1900) and WCDMA 2100, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity,
• Active-matrix QVGA color display (240 x 320 pixels) with color support for up to 16 million colors
• 2 megapixel camera
• Up to 50 MB user memory
• MicroSD memory card support
• Volume: 74 cc
• Weight: 115 g
• Dimensions: 105 x 49 x 15.5 mm

According to Nokia, ESeries E65 phone is:

…slim slider, contains the mobile business capabilities of a Nokia ESeries device in an exquisite package with top notch materials. Nokia E65 has been designed for easy access to the most frequently used applications from the One Touch keys on the front cover. Users can make conference calls, access their contacts database, mute and unmute calls, and access an application of choice through ‘My Own’ key with just one push of a button. Active Standby, the capability to customize the phone display to show and provide quick access to user-defined applications, together with One Touch keys, simplifies connecting to business and personal applications and switching between tasks. Furthermore, Nokia E65 can be integrated with leading corporate telephony systems ¬- with Nokia Intellisync Call Connect for Cisco, Nokia Intellisync Call Connect for Alcatel and Avaya one-X Mobile Edition for Nokia solutions. The Nokia E65 device also supports the most used corporate and consumer email solutions.

It will cost €400 and is on sale in select markets already.

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Nokia E61i is a quadband GSM/EDGE (850/900/1800/1900), WCDMA 3GPP phone with full size QWERTY keyboard, dedicated e-mail keys, MP3 player, 2 megapixel camera, various business and productivity applications inside.

If you are doing lot’s of e-mail on the go and don’t mind a bigger form factor ESeries Nokia E61i might be the right device for you.

Full specs for Nokia E61i include:

• Quad-band GSM/EDGE coverage for international usage (850/900/1800/1900) with WCDMA 3GPP Release 99
• 2.8â€? QVGA landscape active-matrix color display supporting up to 16 million colors (320 x 240 pixels) with an active area of 56.9 x 42.7 mm
• Display contrast and brightness control
• S60 platform 3rd Edition 9.1a
• QWERTY keyboard with backlight
• Email key and LED indicator for new email
• One Touch keys, Naviâ„¢ key, power key that can be used as profile key, MyOwn key, and phonebook key
• Volume keys and voice key combine voice recording, voice dialing, and Push to talk functionality
• 2 megapixel camera for taking pictures
• Video recording
• Email: supports POP/IMAP and SMTP protocols
• Supports Nokia Intellisync Wireless Email 8.0 and a variety of third-party email clients: Mail for Exchange 1.5 (delivered via Nokia Downloads! Application), Visto Mobile v5.5, RIM BlackBerry Connect v2.1, and Good Mobile Messaging (email clients are dependent on operator variant)
• View and open email attachments Quickoffice, ZIP Manager, and Adobe Acrobat Reader
• MMS and SMS
• Instant messaging client
• Music player supporting MP3 and AAC formats
• Video and audio streaming via 3GPP and RealMedia
• Forward lock digital rights management (DRM)
• 60 MB of internal user memory
• Hot swappable microSD memory card support up to 2 GB
• Java MIDP 2.0 games and applications
• WCDMA PS (packet switched data) with maximum upload and download rate of 384 kbps
• GPRS/EGPRS (Class B, MSC 32)
• GSM CSD (circuit-switched data) up to 14.4 kbps
• HSCSD (high-speed circuit-switched data) up to 43.2 kbps
• Dual transfer mode MSC11, SAIC (single antenna interference cancellation) release v2
• Integrated WLAN (IEEE 802.11g, 802.11e*, 802.11i** standards)
• Email data roaming
• Integrated infrared module (up to 115 kbps)
• USB 2.0 full speed supported through Pop-PortTM interface
• Bluetooth 1.2 specification
• HTML and XHTML browsers, Nokia Web browser with Mini Map
• Remote and local (peer-to-peer) synchronization via Bluetooth, IR, cable, or WLAN
• Calendar, to-do lists, notes, and contacts
• Nokia Team Suite application for facilitating conference calls and initiating Push to talk sessions with team members
• In-device search tool
• File manager
• Nokia PC Suite 6.82
• Voice dialing
• Voice commands for menu short cuts, keypad lock, and profiles
• Voice recording for making notes or recording conversations
• Internet Call release 2.0 for making VoIP (voice over IP) calls (service agreement required)
• Text-to-speech message reader
• Enhanced voice commands with speaker-independent name dialing (SIND), and voice aid for eyes-free control of core functions
• Integrated handsfree speaker
• Integrated Nokia Mobile VPN (virtual private network)
• Volume: 97 cc
• Weight: 150 g
• Dimensions: 117 x 70 x 13.9 (/11.5) mm

ESeries Nokia 61i will cost €400 in Q2 2007

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And, according to ring Nokia it has some impressive things inside – like two fully functional screens, one of the with 800×320! px resolution, 3.2 mpx camera, built-in GPS and HSDPA support.

Except for touchscreen, Nokia E90 Communicator looks like a good rival to Samsung UltraSmart F700 to me.

Well, it shoud be announced next week during 3GSM, so we will know all the details soon.

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First comes YouTube video with live demonstartion of Nokia E65:

And then there’s a new E65 dummy phone photos from RPAS Telecom dummy phone shop:

As the official introduction of Nokia E65 smartphone nears, the leaks about it increase. My guess is that we will see offcial announcement of this phone in two to four weeks.

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Now it’s Nokia E65 E-series business slider, targeting the same market segment as Samsung D900 and up-coming Samsung V960 slider phones. Recently leaked, fresh photos and some specs, courtesy of Terminal.hu, show that Nokia E65 will be one cool slider:

And here’s what we managed to find out about Nokia E65:

Dimensions: 106mm (L)x 47mm (W)x 14mm (T)
Weight: 140 g
Quad Band (850/900/1800/1900 MHz)
GPRS, EDGE, Wi-Fi, BlueTooth, IrDA connectivity

No HSDPA
2 Megapixel Camera
70 MB Internal Memory
MicroSD card slot
Expected retail price: 340 Euro

While all of these specs are speculative for now, the E65 smartphone looks like a finished product already and should be launched in February, during 3GSM Conference in Barselona.

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