3GSM: Nokia Announces E61i, E65, E90, N77

We were beginning to wonder what's keeping Nokia! At 3GSM Barcelona, Nokia has just announced the E61i business smartphone, E65 slider, the E90 communicator, and the N77 mobile TV handset.

The E61i is the much-speculated upgrade to the E61 smartphone which maintains the quad-band GSM, UMTS and WiFi. It also adds in a new 2 megapixel camera, and new NAVI and One Touch keys.

The E65 slider, also found earlier, is also a quad-band GSM, UMTS and WiFi device with the new NAVI and One Touch keys.

Both of these devices run Series 60 3rd Edition and support Intellisync Mobile Suite 8.0. While the E65 is already out in certain markets, the E61i is coming soon around Q2 2007, and is expected to cost around Rs. 23,000 (without taxes, estimated).

The E90 communicator we saw earlier has also been officially announced. The features list stays the same with quad-band GSM, WiFi, HSDPA, a built-in GPS module (yeah!), an FM radio tuner (hah), a wide 800x352 res screen, an external QVGA screen, a 3.2 megapixel camera, a secondary QCIF camera for video calls (not VGA?), Bluetooth 2.0, up to 128mb internal memory and a microSD memory card slot. The E90 runs Series 60 UI, abandoning Series 80 which was used in the earlier devices. S60 also runs on the outer device, so all the features of the phone are accessible from the inside. The E90 is expected around Q3 2007 for around Rs. 43,000, estimated.

The Nokia N77 is a multimedia device that includes support for DVB-H mobile broadcast technology for watching TV on the go. The design is a direct upgrade of the N73, maintaining a 2.4-inch QVGA display, GSM, EDGE and UMTS support and FM radio, but the camera goes down to 2 megapixels. The N77 should be out by around Q2 for around Rs. 21,200.