Nokia's new 8000 series handset

by Peter Rojas, posted Mar 15th 2005 at 2:45PM

Not sure if this bad boy is sheathed in stainless steel, brushed aluminum, titanium or some other trendy metal, but some pics have surfaced of a new Nokia handset which slides open to reveal a keypad. No details on its specs or when this phone might come out or even what it's called, but it appears it'll be part of the 8000 series (esp. since it looks like it's a descendent of Nokia's 8910 handset).

[Thanks, antonio and David]

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phi @ Dec 19th 2005 12:12AM

looks more like a descendent of the 8890. The 8910s popped out of their casings rather than having a slider

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Reed Wiedower @ Dec 19th 2005 12:12AM

Actually, you mean the 8810, pictured here: http://www.nokia.com/nokia/0,8764,140,00.html

I loved my old 8810, but the awful analog and the shoddy reception eventually made me upgrade. The design though, was always the best, and still puts to shame anything Nokia has come up with since. Hopefully this new 8xxx model will up the ante with bluetooth, etc. Now if only it had a camera in it...

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gerbick @ Dec 19th 2005 12:12AM

I had an old 8860... kept it until it died. I'd definitely get this, provided they fix the antennae issues from the 8860.

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Andrew @ Dec 19th 2005 12:12AM

Looks like a couple of Nokias that we used to have here (Europe) forget the models. One was brushed and the other was polished. The polished ones are a finger print disaster. They came with a special cloth for clenaing them. The other major problem with both was the buttons were extreamly dificult to press, esp for cubby busniess man fingers ;-)

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