This rumor's got more holes than swiss, but stranger things have happened, so it'll be an interesting scoop to keep an eye on nonetheless. A tipster to
Boy Genius Report claims that Nokia is working on a "swiveling
E71-type handset" for -- get this -- Verizon, of all carriers, featuring a full QWERTY keyboard and running
Series 40. Judging from the mockup here, that sorta puts it in the same vein as the
Sidekick -- a form factor most carriers and manufacturers (especially Nokia) have avoided. Given that Espoo's still basically dipping its toes in the CDMA waters -- and the fact that a Verizon device running Series 40 proper seems implausible at best -- we're going to be shocked if this thing sees the light of day. Pleasantly surprised, yes, but still shocked.
Update: Since originally running this story, we've been contacted by a number of individuals who claim to have seen this phone in person;
Boy Genius Report also emphatically defends the rumors legitimacy, so we're more inclined to think it's real. (Of course, that doesn't make it any less crazy.)
posted Apr 13th 2009 12:09PM
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Forty-Ninth.
I can spell out a number in a possessive tense too.
That thing looks like an ATM.
Can you say "C-R-A-P-G-A-D-G-E-T"
great now nokia is back in the cdma scene
it would be nice to have a nokia phone on sprint !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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LOL wtf is tht??
"we're going to be shocked if this thing sees the light of day. Pleasantly surprised, yes, but still shocked."
Well, people have done "shocking" things....
Like mp3 players without buttons.
HAha! Agreed...
demand for low-end QWERTY phones is rising.. so this seems like an appropriate move by Nokia. Now all they have to do is release it in fruity colours and girls will be all over it.
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Wow, verizon crippling phones? That's amazing!
Seriously, put s60 on the thing. I hate you verizon
That hinge had better be really, really strong, cos it is going to be one MASSIVE weak point...
True and i don't see that form for a phone being comfortable to talk let alone type with if the screen is to the side. IMO
What do you mean by to the side? it's at an angle just to show the rotation
Yes but judging by the pic, if it swings down than the screen should end up on the side of the qwerty, no?
nope. It covers the screen and is swung up for typing. Like the sidekick....
Yo, dawg! We heard you like tracking, so we put a trackpad on yo trackpad!
I was gonna make a GPS tracking tie-in, but. . . i'm pretty sure that'd require a screen, and this thing seriously just looks like a pair of trackpads.
This has to be the worst looking phone ever!
more bad decision making by verizon .
First they said no to iPhone in 2006, then subsidized storm now this trash.
I hope I'm not called apple fanboy
For saying this no iphonekiller.!
You are a tool
Uh, guys, Nokia's sold Series 40 phones on Verizon before.
It's Series 60 that would be news.
Do you have an example?
Try the Nokia 3589i, but most, if not all, Nokias sold on Verizon will be Series 40.
And the Nokia 6256i was also running S40 I believe.
Okay, correction -- Verizon hasn't sold a Verizon device running Series 40 in any remotely modern form. Nokia now co-develops all of its Verizon device with ODMs, and these devices do not run Series 40.
Tying this back to the post, it doesn't seem plausible that a *new* Verizon device -- new as of 2009 -- would be running Series 40.
i think i saw my friends mom have something like this for t mobile or sumthin. idk i just know i saw sumthin like this before.
how did we get a blurrycam on a computer generated mockup, or is this image unrelated
I was thinking the same thing, but I guess it's a blown-up thumbnail from some internal presentation or something.
It looks laser-printed, too.
that looks like one ugly fragile phone.
why not make it a slider or even better a landscape clamshell (like a micro laptop). any form factor would be better than this. it looks like it's going to fall apart any second
Yes, i can tell you that this phone is indeed going to be marketed. I am sure you hear this kind of story all the time, but this is actually true. Someone at my school knows a person who tests phones for Verizon. This girl came to school one day and showed me a picture and described the phone as a Nokia with a touch screen* and a qwerty keyboard. This looks very similar to what she showed me, so i can assure you that this phone will be heading to market shortly. I can assure you also that this is a credible source, as he was also testing a touch-screen blackberry for verizon.
*touch screen: i am pretty sure she said touch screen
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oh my F***ing,,, I was creating a design exactly like that fack mother