Nokia E90 coming up
by Volker Weber
The E61i has won the battle against all other smartphones at vowe's magic flying circus. But there may be a new Sheriff in town soon. Nokia is going to send me the E90, which is the biggest honking smartphone on the market. At 210 g it weighs even more than the E61i (150 g), a Pearl is only 90 g. But it has very, very impressive specs, for instance two transflective displays with 800 x 352 and 240 x 320 pixels resolution, 3G with 3.6 Mbps HSDPA, GPS, 3.2 megapixel camera with flash and autofocus, and the list goes on ...
As usual, it will take a couple of weeks to deliver, but I am very much looking forward to it.
Comments
Ooh, Ooh, Ooh....! Can't wait to hear about this phone! Err, so Volker, any clues about European availability?
I got the E60 and have decided that I hate the S60 operating system. The E90 looks nice (I fondly remember the 9500 and 9300) but I fear that it's unusable due to the S60 software. A friend of mine has returned a N95 because of it's general slugishness...
Still interested in hearing what you have to say about the E60
John, T-Mobile Germany will have the E90 by end of this month.
jcf, the E61i is much faster than the 9300 ever was. And I expect the E90 to not be much different.
The E50, E60 and E65 do not meet my profile. The screen is way too small, fonts are tiny and they do not have a full keyboard. S60 is also very wasteful with screen estate on these phones. The E70 has a nice touch with the folding keyboard, but I'd rather have a larger screen.
I would not even consider the N95.
I think speed is a big issue too. I am fed up with waiting 3, 4 seconds and sometimes more to read a newly arrived text message or the detail on a contact.
I have an E61 which, on paper looks brilliant, but in reality takes some living with - mostly due to the speed of operation. I get the impression that the hardware is just not capable to deliver what S60 promises. I sometimes get "Error, memory full, please close some applications" when all I have open is the 'standby' and messaging apps - and I'm trying to read a message!!
This is my concern with the E90. I *hate* waiting for these things to keep up with *my* speed of operation. In recent years, the only phones i never had to 'wait for' were the 6310i and the 6320. Oh and a blackberry 8700g...but that's not a Nokia! The E90 is certainly feature loaded and I can't wait to get one, but this time I'm prepared to be a little disappointed :)
AB, That's interesting, I hope that T-Mobile UK are just as prepared! I'd love to let rip on an E90 with my ¢7.95 unlimited use 3G data connection!
I am really enjoying my e61i-but as a longtime communicator user/fan the e90 might be too much to resist. The fervor on this phone is crazy-i bid on one on ebay last night-it ended up going for usd 1135. Looks like i'm sticking with the e61i for a while!! Personally i do not know why nokia ditched series80...
That is simple. Series 80 only runs on Symbian 6 and 7. S60 runs on Symbian 8 and 9. Nokia would have needed to port Series 80 to Symbian 9, breaking all applications along the way. Standardizing on S60 just makes more sense. Plus, you will be enjoying the breadth of software for S60 3 Ed. and Symbian 9.
Having said that, the E6i1 is so good that a move to the E90 is very hard to justify.
From what I've seen, the E90's price will be about twice that of the E61i. Which ends up being pretty expensive. But that keyboard looks sooo nice, and the 800x352 screen just screams "Web" at me. Oh well, I guess I'll just stick to my E61.
John,
'... some living with ...' brilliant phrase.
Sums up my experience with most of the smart phones that I had in my hands so far.
- Nokia 7650
- Sepl 900 == Sony Ericsson 900
- Nokia 9300/9300i/9500
Since I'm in general not willing to shell out my own money I usually make do with what the company provides.
That means living with the quirks/sluggishness etc.
Most of the time I get used to them after a month or 2
However I think that I'd be less tolerant, if I had to put down my own money.
I have found that I'm very much accustomed to the Nokia way of arranging things and find it hard to adapt to the UI of other brands.
Looking forward to Volker's comments on the E90.
On paper it seems to be a device which might tempt me.
BTW: The the specs link above shows the following under 'Power Managment':
Battery|Talk time |Standby time |Capacity
BP-4L |Up to 5.8 hrs GSM |Up to 14 days GSM |1500 mAh
Wonder how the E90 is going to do on UMTS...
If you look at the E61i specs you see that it does not make much of a difference. Talk time on UMTS (WCDMA) is lower though.
These devices have a wide range of capabilities. Battery life depends on which ones you use. If you let it sit in standby, without data connection, it can survive for days if not weeks. If you put it in navigation mode, it will be dead in three hours flat.
I my normal (read: very extensive) use I wear the E61i down in two or three days. The Treos and the Samsung run one day shorter. I expect the E90 also to run one day shorter, if only for the large display.
The 8800 currently idles receiving emails only. Once a week I set all messages to read and check the battery. It shows 3 out of 4 bars then. Normally I would recharge it every three days. As I said, it depends on what you doing with the device.
@E61 users
FYI, if unknown. The blue key with arrow (left corner) + Ctrl key let you switch on/off Bluetooth on the fly and significantly decrease the battery consumption
I might by wrong, but i think the N95 is also running on S60 3rd Edition?!!
