Motorola & Nokia Summer Kickoff
At the Digital Experience event in New York on Monday, Nokia was showing off their recently-announced Nseries phones. We first covered these phones in our live report from the Nseries launch event.
Even though the current three models are all 3G phones for Europe and Asia, Nokia has various plans to bring each model to the US - in some form - sooner or later.
The first will be the N90, the high-end camera phone with a Carl Zeiss lens. Just as we remembered from our first encounter in Amsterdam, the N90 is huge - one of the largest clamshell phones out there - but it is redeemed by an amazing display, solid build quality, and extensive feature set.
The N90 isn't expected to be officially released by a major carrier here, so there won't be a US-specific version. But the Euro version is compatible with T-Mobile's network, and Nokia will be selling it on its US web site in a month or so.
The N90 is now being shown off in a new color. While the first versions were silver-and-black, the new color is a lighter silver color, with a slight lavender tint.
The N70 will be the next Nseries phone to market. It's pretty much just a re-styled and upgraded version of the 6680, which makes it not very different from the 6682 that will launch soon with Cingular. The N70's 2 megapixel camera is the most obvious improvement over the 6680 series.
Nokia is working on a U.S. version of the N70, though. It could be the first Nseries phone to launch with a major US carrier, although we got the impression the deal wasn't quite sealed yet.
The N91 will be the last of the bunch to hit the market, which isn't too surprising given its advanced features like a hard drive and Wi-Fi. The current prototypes continue to feel very prototype-ish, which is not unusual, but some aspects of the phone - like the sliding keypad cover and tiny keys - feel cheap and uncomfortable, and aren't likely to improve much before release.
Nokia does plan to bring "something like" the N91 to the U.S. early next year, although they continue to be very coy about what specific form such a phone might take.
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