Nokia (finally) gets E61 out the door

A whole six months after Nokia announced their E61 QWERTY S60 smartphone to the world, they're finally "shipping" the phone, and say it is gradually becoming available across the globe. No word on when exactly we'll get to hunker down with a retail version of the device in the US, but Nokia did mention that the E70 will follow later this month. We're sure you've heard plenty of the WCDMA 3G data, WiFi, QVGA screen, and miniSD this device includes, but it sounds so much sweeter with the knowledge that the phone is on its way... to somebody.

[(Unverified) Posted May 3rd 2006 9:39PM]

most likely will be here in the US at the launch of the chicago store?

[(Unverified) Posted May 3rd 2006 10:16PM]

Cool now WHERE THE HELL IS THE N80?!

[totalfixation Posted May 4th 2006 3:09AM]

Does this really have Wifi? because when i look on the nokia's website it doesnt mention anything about wifi.

[xbit Posted May 4th 2006 4:02AM]

#2 It's already shipping in the UK :)

#3 All of the E-series phones have WiFi, including the E60

[(Unverified) Posted May 4th 2006 2:18PM]

Why Nokia not make the 9300i?

[(Unverified) Posted May 4th 2006 7:48PM]

The E61 doesn't have a camera which is probably a good thing othewise we'd be complaining it wasn't 12 MP *snicker*.

Check out this hands-on review (http://www.dlmag.com/1230/nokia-e61-hands-on-at-ctia.html) and video (http://www.dlmag.com/video.php?type=flvid&fileid=nokia-browser&width=480&height=270).

There's been no mention of the device's CPU speed although it looks snappy in the video. In many of the hands-on photos the screen looks very dim indoors which will spell certain doom outdoors unless it's reflective display (old school BlackBerry) will compensate.

[(Unverified) Posted May 5th 2006 1:07PM]

To #7:

See page 4 of this PDF:

https://gullfoss2.fcc.gov/prod/oet/forms/blobs/retrieve.cgi?attachment_id=619285&native_or_pdf=pdf

Look above the BT/WLAN Antenna and you will see a Samsung memory IC... and above that you will see something that says "OMAP (tm)". The second row of numbers you will see says "1710C2776" which means that it is the OMAP 1710 chip below:

http://focus.ti.com/general/docs/wtbu/wtbuproductcontent.tsp?templateId=6123&navigationId=12484&contentId=4699

Thus, the E-Series phones have a 220 MHz dual-core processor in them.