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Nokia N96

nokia n96 240x300 Nokia N96The Nokia N96 is this company’s multimedia flagship smartphone. As its name suggests, it is the successor to the Nokia N95, and uses the same dual-slider design and includes many of the same features: Symbian S60, 3G, Wi-Fi, etc.

This is not a model that will probably catch the eyes of many in the U.S. these days. It doesn’t look as if there is much with it, but the N96 is a sleekly designed smartphone that offer some pleasant surprises… and some not so pleasant.

Design and Hardware

The N96 is an evolution of the dual-slider design Nokia released with the N95 two years ago. However, compared to the initial N95, the N96 is not as thick, though it’s wider. The slider is more taut, and there are fewer gaps in the build.

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Nokia E71x (AT&T)

att nokia e71x phone 3 300x274 Nokia E71x (AT&T)At $149.99 with a two-year contract, the Nokia E71x is AT&T’s best smartphone deal right now. A variant on the Editors’ Choice–winning unlocked E71, this handset is strikingly slim, classy-looking phone with excellent e-mail and Web support—all at half the price of competing handsets. AT&T subscribers looking for a phone that can act as a mobile office can’t go wrong with this Nokia.

The talented and attractive E71 is one of the phones I carry with me most often. It’s super-slim (only 0.4 inch thick) and incredibly slick, with a stainless-steel back and small, domed keys. The phone’s voice performance is superb; it feels fast; and it runs thousands of Symbian programs. It also syncs easily with your PC. AT&T’s version uses the same hardware (except that it’s black, whereas the E71 is silver), but makes some firmware and software changes, which I’ll focus on in this review. For more details, check out the E71 review.

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Nokia N97

nokia n97 300x218 Nokia N97An Overview of the Nokia N97
The Nokia N97 will be powered by Symbian S60 5th edition (S60v5), a new touch-enabled version of the operating system this company puts on its high-end models. It will be based on a 434 MHz processor and 128 MB of RAM.

This device is going to include a 3.5-inch, 640-by-360-pixel display that can be moved aside to revel its landscape-oriented keyboard. This will cause the screen to pivot up, making this phone look a bit like a small laptop.

The N97 will have no less than 32 GB of built-in storage, and that can be supplemented by up to 16 GB more on a microSD card.

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Nokia E63

nokia e63 300x291 Nokia E63When Nokia introduced the very thin and powerful Nokia E71 QWERTY smartphone, it probably had no clue that this would be such a popular model. So much so that they could keep it at a higher price point and release a sibling model, the E63, with a lower price and slightly reduced feature set.

The interesting thing is that the Nokia E63 doesn’t really feel like a cheaper device when you are using it. It’s that good.

Nevertheless, the soft-touch paint of the rear, and wide profile are pleasing in the hand. The E63 brought back memories of the Treo 680 that I used to own as it felt simply “hand-friendly.”

Keyboard: The QWERTY keyboard is the same that is used on the E71 — domed keys that offer great feedback and travel. Comapred though to the E71, the spacebar is smaller and there’s an extra two keys for common symbols.

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