Posted by Scott Laird
Wed, 12 Apr 2006 14:04:10 GMT
All About Symbian claims that the Nokia N80 is shipping somewhere in the world, but they’re not exactly sure where. Presumably somewhere in Europe.
The N80 is a nifty little phone, with 802.11g, bluetooth, a 3 MP camera, and a 352x416 display, all bundled into a relatively compact package. It’s reasonably well-known that the N80 has some SIP abilities, but from reading the online manual, it looks like SIP on the N80 is really intended for UMTS video calling, not end-user VoIP calling.
Tags nokia, nokian80, phones | 2 comments
Posted by Scott Laird
Wed, 15 Mar 2006 18:53:23 GMT
It looks like the Nokia E-series phones are going to ship in Europe within the next couple weeks. It’s not clear when they’ll ship in the US, but it won’t be this month. Probably May or June.
I’m still planning on picking up either a N80 or an E70 as soon as they’re available in the US. It looks like they’ll be able to take 2 GB flash cards, and that pushes my earlier favorite, the N91, out of the competition. The N91’s 4 GB hard drive made it really attractive in a world of 512MB flash cards, but its lower-resolution screen and months of delays make it a lot less attractive then the newer N80 and E70 designs. Frankly, I just wish that one of them would ship–my T616 is getting really long in the tooth, and I’m getting fed up with the Palm T|X that I’ve been using for months.
Tags nokia, nokiae70, nokian80, phones | 3 comments
Posted by Scott Laird
Mon, 06 Feb 2006 20:23:00 GMT
The FCC was polite enough to post the users manual for Nokia’s upcoming E70 phone on their web site, and it makes for fascinating reading. The manual doesn’t go into a lot of details about features, but there are a few fun tidbits hiding in there. First, the phone clearly supports SIP-based VoIP services. There’s a SIP configuration section in the setup menus. The manual explicitly states that the phone will attempt to make 911 calls via the cellular network whenever possible; I’m not sure what this implies about other calls–is there a way to explicitly choose which network is used for each call, or is it implicit somehow?
Surprisingly, the N80’s manual also lists a section for configuring SIP settings, but I didn’t see any details in the manual on actually making SIP calls.
Page 67 has another surprise: the phone includes an RSS reader of some sort. The manual explains how to subscribe to blog feeds.
There are a few more E70 documents on the FCC’s website, including internal and external pictures.
My current phone contract has expired, and I’m just waiting for the right phone to come along. I’ve been tempted to order a 6682 and be done with it, but the N80, N91, and E70 are all approved by the FCC now, and I’d be much happier with any of them then I’d be with the 6682, so I’m willing to wait another month or two. A couple shopping sites online claim that the N80 will ship at the end of February, but I don’t know how believable they are. No matter how you slice it, though, the US models of these three phones are getting closer, and Nokia is clearly making an effort to promote them in the US market.
Mind you, I doubt that T-Mobile or Cingular will actually be shipping any of these phones any time in the next month or two (or three, or four).
Tags nokia, nokiae70, nokian80, nokian91, phones | 15 comments
