Hard to believe we had to wait until 2007, but here we are, finally able to say Symbian, 3G, and US all in the same sentence. Even after last week's
misfire launch of the N75, Nokia's uber-hot flip phone made its way into our grubby hands under
more legitimate circumstances than last time. Knowing how slim HTC made the Star Trek, it's hard to call the N75 anything but a little chunky, but besides having, you know, 3G, it's got a few other things going for it: we really dug the classy black, copper-flecked finish, but crack it open and it's got a very spacious keypad and large bright screen (littered with Cingular app-swag). We took a ton of shots of this thing, including some size comparison's to Nokia's other Cingular handset, the E62, as well as the aforementioned Star Trek. Launch is thankfully still scheduled for sometime in May (i.e. this month) -- we can almost taste it.
Update: We just got an official launch date! The N75 will go on sale tomorrow (Friday, May 4th) for the price of $200 (with two year agreement and with $50 mail in rebate).
posted May 3rd 2007 1:26PM
What a crappy lookin phone.
Thought Cingular rebranded to AT&T anyway?
You crazy? I've been looking forward to this phone for months now! It's beautiful, functional, and it's a Nokia N series, so it's well made. I love my Nokia N80, but if these were out when I was purchasing a new phone, I would have gone with the N75, it's slimmer, though lacks wifi, a 3 megapixel camera, and the higher resolution screen of the N80.
Ugh...When are they finally going to axe that hideous Cingular branding?
I think it looks great.
to photographer: focus on subject, not desk please.
Any possibility of extracting the theme and posting it?
Would love to use it on my N80 :-)
I have been playing with this phone for a couple of weeks now. Not a bad phone at all. Great looking screens. I'm not sure if I would pay $200 for it, but regardless, it's a great little phone that has a great size and heft to it. Also, it seems to play most music files. No iTunes music, but most of my collection is playable. Word to the wise: sometimes it will not play a music file that is in your playlist. Great phone otherwise.
Cheers!
are we in 1999?
Mahoosive.
It's a little hefty, but when you consider that it is only a little thicker than the 3125, but it has both the Symbian smartphone OS as well as 3G, so it is not a bad deal for $200. I think Amazon has it for $49 after all their discounts, too.
I dont understand why this phone is such a big hype?! I've seen better phones, held better, and had better. I simply dont understand the crave for this.
Now the crave for the Blackberry Curve is something completely different or the crave for the iPhone, those are understandable. Seems like another flip phone. Nothing more than the samsung A707 (model right? ) by Cingular.
I agree with MrMean.
Design-wise this is the ugliest phone I've seen in 5 years. The screen is nice and I think the OS rocks but for gawdsake put it in a phone design I won't be embarrassed to take out of my pocket!
Really? I rather like it actually, and I'm pretty picky... I don't think the phone looks good when opened, and it looks very old-skool in its bigass keypad, but the exterior is nicely subdued compared to gaudy-ass Katana or some Samsung phones.
What are some 'better' phone designs... the RAZR?
"Ugh...When are they finally going to axe that hideous Cingular branding?"
The first batch will be Cingular branded, the alternative was to ship them back to Nokia to be rebranded then shipped back to AT&T's warehouse. That would delay intro for probably two months.
"I dont understand why this phone is such a big hype?! I've seen better phones, held better, and had better. I simply dont understand the crave for this.
Now the crave for the Blackberry Curve is something completely different or the crave for the iPhone, those are understandable. Seems like another flip phone. Nothing more than the samsung A707 (model right? ) by Cingular."
This is a smartphone, it runs Symbian OS, which is similar to Windows Mobile if you're not familiar. This means the ability to load 3rd party programs that do far more far more responisively than regular Java apps. Essentially the N75 has more in common with the Samsung BlackJack that the Samsung SYNC, although neither of those phones have a 2Mp camera with flash.
I don't understand the obsession with an ever-slimmer phone. Making a phone slim makes and engineer have to trade off something in the design...either a battery with reduced life, a crappier camera, a crappier screen, or reduced structural strength. As long as it fits in your pocket, who cares if it's a 1/10th of an inch slimmer than other phones.
phone branding... when will the horror end?
i mean think about it - no one likes that cing branding. no one! so why on earth do it? there may be some people who either don't notice it or are so used to having a bazillion brand logos on everything that they don't mind, but those people would not mind not having the logos either.
the cingular branding is particularly offensive. barf.
Here's my experience with the N75 so far: http://tnkgrl.wordpress.com/tag/n75/