Nokia announces 5 new phones and more
As expected, Nokia announced a slew of new products products today.
Charlie, the illegitimate child between the 6600 and 3660 was released and named the 6630. You couldn't tell from the spy photos but it's absolutely tiny — smaller than the 6600 or the 7610. Not bad for a 3G phone. It's tri-band GSM, EDGE and W-CDMA, so you can stay connected from pretty much anywhere, as quickly as possible. Plus it has Bluetooth, and, as expected, the same 1 megapixel camera from the 7610. To save all those big pictures, it comes with a full size MMC card slot, but we bet it's under the battery. Sounds pretty sweet, now if only it weren't so ugly.
For those of us who are pickier about style but still want a smartphone, Nokia also announced the 6260. It has all the same features of the 6600 — Series 60 v2, a VGA camera, Bluetooth — but repackages it in a handsome little clamshell that has a twist and fold screen. It also adds Push-to-Talk, which just about every carrier on Earth will be pushing this Fall if they aren't already. It will come in two tri-band versions, one for Europe and Asia, the other for the Americas, and is due out this Fall.
A second folder (WHAT? Two clamshells from Nokia??), the 6170 has pretty much the same features as 6260, but it's not a smartphone. The 6170 also trades out the twist and fold screen for a simple clamshell with an external display. It sounds like the 6255 is finally coming for GSM users, but under a different name.
The last two phones are entry level models that you probably don't care about. What you DO care about is the new Bluetooth keyboard that Nokia announced. We know there are other Bluetooth folding keyboards that have finally started
shipping recently. Nokia's is made to work with all modern Series 60 phones. As soon as we see a picture, we'll know whether Nokia is making one itself or just repranding one of the other new models.
UPDATE: We just got sent a pic of that new Bluetooth keyboard in action with what looks like their new 6260 handset. [Thanks, TheZodiac]
