Nokia Unveils "World's Thinnest" QWERTY Smartphone 266
Barence writes "Nokia has revamped its E-series of business-oriented smartphones with two new models, including the 'world's thinnest' QWERTY device. The GPS-enabled E71 is the slimmer successor to the Nokia E61, with a thickness of only 1cm. It's HSDPA-enabled, offers switchable home screens, and gives a claimed 'two full days of heavy, heavy use.' The E66, on the other hand, is a slide-phone with a conventional numerical keypad and a built-in accelerometer. At the same event, Nokia also gave a tantalizing hint about its plans for an iPhone rival, with its senior vice president saying, 'we will have touchscreen devices coming this year.'"
Re:Looks good (Score:4, Informative)
here is an image of what the phone looked like:
http://www.mobileburn.com/media/nokia/9300/9300_open-IMG_9425.jpg [mobileburn.com]
also there is this old
http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/09/08/0214240&tid=215 [slashdot.org]
Really? World's Thinnest QWERTY? (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Great... (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Looks good (Score:4, Informative)
The E70 [wikipedia.org] looks pretty good. I had its predecessor (the 6822 [wikipedia.org]) for a while and quite liked even that.
There's also a good review here [thebestpag...iverse.net].
I do happen to think the iPhone is great, but if you want a good keyboard, it's probably not what you want, and I found that the fold out keyboard seemed easier for me to use than most on mobiles.
Re:Why Why Why? (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Why Why Why? (Score:2, Informative)
http://www.sonyericsson.com/cws/products/mobilephones/seethephone/x1?cc=is&lc=is [sonyericsson.com]
Re:But (Score:3, Informative)
http://nokia-9210-software.epocware.com/InterKey.html [epocware.com] , it is very old but proves that it can be done on Symbian.
http://www.soft32.com/download_159680.html [soft32.com]
"PopOnTop Keyboard 1.05
Pop the keyboard on top at the click of a side button. Keyboard layouts from Qwerty to Dvorak, full screen or part, large keys or small, upright or sideways - even design your own!"
I bet there are better solutions but it is really hard to find "Dvorak" in mobile phone thanks to that guy named Dvorak.
That is the bonus of being able to install anything you like unlike some other device claims to be smart
Re:Why Why Why? (Score:1, Informative)
Re:Looks good (Score:3, Informative)
Re:I've said it before and I'll say it again... (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Is the built in GPS a real GPS? (Score:3, Informative)
Calling cell tower approximation (what Google Maps uses on phones with no real GPS) any kind of "GPS" would clearly be false advertising and just calling for trouble.
This is not Nokias first GPS model either, they routinely seem to put GPS on their new models. What really interests me how good is it. If initial fix takes minutes it is basically useless for quick "was the address I'm going to on this block or the next one"-type of usage. N95 (at least the early firmwares, I'm not sure if the newer ones have A-GPS) was terrible in this respect and keeping the GPS always on was not an option either because of the increased battery drain.
Re:I've said it before and I'll say it again... (Score:2, Informative)
Re:It sure ain't no iPhone. (Score:2, Informative)
Nice flame. You forgot to mention that the iPhone has only 5% of the worldwide smartphone market, and that represents only a small fraction of the mobile phone market.
Is it a good phone? Sure. Is it a way better phone than anything Nokia sells? No.
Are Nokia getting "a little desperate"? laugh.
Nokia have three times the annual revenue that Apple do, and a similar profit margin. Apple should be thanking Nokia for the skill and talent they've employed to create a market for Apple to move into.
I'm looking forward to seeing Nokia's offerings towards the end of the year. I'll also have a play with a new iPhone.
You see, I do think differently, and better. I think beyond the shiny marketing message rammed down my throat.
Re:Touch Screen != Success (Score:3, Informative)
Most wireless phones in the Nokia's N series beat the iPhone feature by feature, it's just that Nokia's marketing department in the US seems incapable of getting this across to anyone.
Re:Looks good (Score:3, Informative)
http://www.pocketputty.net/ [pocketputty.net]
Re:Great... (Score:3, Informative)
This comes to the basic fact that WiFi if implemented freely and openly (let alone WiMax) could be the end of mobile phone service for most metropolitan users. Imagine a world without channels in the spectrum just one open cloud from top to bottom, imagine multi-spectrum chipsets and antennas that could be peer to peer nodes relaying from phone to tower etc until it reaches the nearest fiber. Imagine each peer buying an selling service as needed from any other node on the network, each peer interaction based on a system of free market a micro payments for the bridging service. Once again oligopoly cripples technology for pricing.