Nokia's bringing some new,
unsurprising, E series hotness to the States in the form of the new E66 slider. Featuring GSM, EDGE, WCDMA and HSDPA bands galore, the phone is slated for a Q3 release this year. Features include a 3.2 megapixel auto-focus camera, along with a front-facing cam for video calls, WiFi, A-GPS, 3.6mbps web browsing and a 2.4-inch QVGA screen. What really sets it apart from its E series forebears is the 13.6mm thickness, and some rather sexy new styling. Nokia's also worked in a sort of business / pleasure switch to change profile from your work email and documents to your personal accounts and such -- you can also swap to landscape mode by turning the device. Battery life is certainly no slouch, with 14 days of standby, and 7.5 hours of talk on GSM, or 3.5 hours of talk on 3G. There's only 110MB of internal memory, but you can supplement that with an 8GB microSD card. The phone comes in "grey steel" or "white steel" (what, no blue steel?), but brace yourself for the pricepoint: Nokia's quoting this at "under $500," and probably won't have any carriers Stateside subsidizing it in the short term. Quite a hefty price for a QVGA phone with little built-in storage, but some Nokia fanboy is certainly going to get a kick out of it.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Haikibutsu @ Jun 16th 2008 1:15AM
The new GUI looks a lot better. I'll be honest, i hate simplistic UIs.
Mark Anderson @ Jun 16th 2008 8:08AM
*Sigh*
I wish Nokia would stop their silly squabbles with the US carriers and allow subsidies.
Shahryar @ Jun 17th 2008 8:00AM
I don't mind the runaround method to save money on a new phone.
In late April, My wife was out of Contract on T-mobile and I wanted to get her a new phone for her Bday in April. I bought my wife a Nokia N82 for her Bday - $469 shipped from MacMall. I took advantage of a deal on slickdeals to "renew" her T-mobile contract to get a new 1 year contract, no activation fee, and a free BlackBerry Pearl 8100 after rebate. I sold that Pearl on ebay for $189. after ebay/paypal fees, I pocketed $160ish. Putting that towards the N82, you could say I got it for $300 w/ a 1 year contract.
(I put the "renew" in quotes because I actually started a new contract under my dad's name and brought in the out of contract number to replace the new temp number assigned. So it's not really a renew, but I'm pretty sure you get a better deal for signing a new contract rather than renewing so I'd go with that).
I probably could have gotten the N82 for cheaper if I was more patient. And now, I think you can get the Curve 8320 or Pearl 8120 for free with contract so those are better phones that would fetch more on ebay.
Hope this helps.
Richy @ Jun 16th 2008 9:47AM
Gah, when are Nokia going to stop wasteing so much screen real-estate with the S60 UI? I know who my operator is... I give them lots of cash each month. I don't need it on the top of each screen in big friendly letters.
Rich @ Jun 16th 2008 10:26AM
You do realise that this kind of UI decision is mandated by the carriers?
Al @ Jun 16th 2008 11:04AM
How will you know if you are roaming?
numbsock @ Jun 16th 2008 10:08AM
:D~~
Kipz @ Jun 16th 2008 11:02AM
Finally. This bad boy is mine and i can imagine this will be as much of a hot as E65 was.
J.L Mo @ Jun 16th 2008 11:12AM
Weeee! Hopefully it will be available soon..... it's not like we wouldnt have waited for this for like 5 motnhs already :) Oh and phone that looks better non black... that's wierd.
Johan S @ Jun 16th 2008 12:15PM
Too bad it's merely QVGA.