After much leaking of information, Nokia’s N96 slider cellphone is now official. It’s a quad-band, US 3G-enabled (WCDMA) phone with a 2.8-inch screen, 16GB of built-in memory, a 5-megapixel Carl-Zeiss Tessar lens, A-GPS and 802.11 b/g Wi-Fi. The media-player functions of the phone get their own dedicated slide-out keypad, as we knew. It’s due out [...]
Nokia today fulfilled a promise from earlier this month with two new Nseries devices both aimed at driving down the cost of getting into full smartphones. The N85 as flagship appears set to replace the N81 and upgrades the camera from two to five megapixels, also adding GPS both for mapping and for geotagging shots. [...]
Nokia’s 3610 Fold is its latest clamshell cell phone, which it quietly announced this morning. Sporting a monochrome external display and 2" QVGA internal display, the 3610 Fold’s quad-band GSM (850/900/1800/1900MHz) compatibility means that worldwide coverage should not be an issue. The 3610 Fold brings a 1.3 megapixel camera to the mix, and its microSD [...]
For those invited to private launch parties in New York and Chicago last Thursday, you’ve probably been playing with your shiny new US E71 all weekend. For everyone else, today’s the day. The Americas version of the handset — which includes GSM 850/900/1800/1900 and HSDPA 850/1900 support — is finally on sale to the general [...]
T-Mobile UK has launched the Nokia 6650, a clamshell smartphone that was announced at CeBIT in Germany earlier this year. This smartphone sports a 2 megapixel camera and 2.5mm headset port. The Nokia 6650 is powered by Nokia’s S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 2 user interface and offers up three softkeys beneath the external display, [...]
Today we spotted the new Nokia 3608 clamshell for the Chinese market. While we are missing a few details and have only one photo, we did get this off of a public Nokia web server, so we have no doubt about the source of the information. We can also say with some certainty that this [...]
Those of you who’ve been patiently waiting for your fancy new smartphone (you know, one that lacks any real buttons) will be happy to know that the Nokia N78 has been released in the US for $560. We pasted all the spec info after the jump in case you’re in need of a refresher, but [...]
Today seems to be the day when we get the lowdown on a variety of new phone models. After the glut of Sony Ericsson models we saw this morning, let’s welcome some new Nokia handsets to the scene. The Nokia E71 comprises of a full size QWERTY keyboard, and weighs in at 126g. It is [...]
Today Nokia officially announced two new additions to its E series business-focused devices, the E66 slider and the E71 bar-phone with full QWERTY keyboard. They share a large number of features. Both have quad-band GSM/EDGE radios and several 3G profiles, with each coming in a 3.6Mbps WCDMA/HSDPA 850/1900 North American variant. Bluetooth 2.0+EDR with stereo [...]
Nokia today quietly unveiled the 1580, a starter candybar phone for CDMA carriers, most of which operate in the US. The phone sits just above Nokia’s most basic phones with an FM radio as its most advanced feature; the phone also supports using its micro USB connection both to charge and to supply legacy 1xRTT [...]
