Nokia N9, E7, C7, or whatever it's called gets caught on video
By Chris Ziegler 
posted June 28th 2010 6:48PM
posted June 28th 2010 6:48PM
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Wish it was maemo(meego is such a bleh name) :-(
@spartandre217 Its NOT the N9, its prolly the E7. Thats why its S^3. Nokia just discontinued the S^3 on their N Series. Not on other devices. This does look like a good mid-range smartphone though
E7. Future N Series will run MeeGo.
@statickeith
They said that the N8 was the last one running Symbian but you can count on nokia to f*** up and announce this as the N8-01 or some f*** like that.
Hope its the E7, the screen looks "sizable" though and the resolution could well be above 360*640
@statickeith and this looks sick. Screen is PROBABLY bigger than 3.5" and The text looks sharp enough to assume that the resolution is greater than nHD
@statickeith
I said the same thing on another article.
The screen is possibly a 4"-er and 640*360 couldnt be that sharp at that size
@statickeith I hope symbian doesn't take off. I dont think there is enough room for more then 2 OS's. Right now we have iPhone and Android, anything else just doesnt have the popularity to take off. WebOS is nice but who will develop for it? Windows 7? Way to late in the game. symbian sounds nerdy and wont take off well with average consumers.
@calvinw hehe, reading your comment back it sounds like you think Symbian is some new OS.
@calvinw
Are you being sarcastic or just plain stupid.
http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1372013
That says it owns 44.3% of the world market.
Fail
@spartandre217 I wouldnt make any assumptions like that until I hear an official word from Nokia coz this is just a prototype and I dont think the name has even been finalized yet. Sure it says N00 but they could rename it right?
And I hope they deal with the lag in web browsing and a few other things before they launch the N8 coz that was one of the main causes that people didnt like S60 on touchscreen devices
@statickeith
It actually says C00 but meh, could call its A$$ and we still wouldn't know what model it is.
@statickeith watch the video, when they enter the code into the call screen and bring up the device info it's listed as N 00, suggesting N series, and is running a software build from way back in April. My guess is this is a proto of a device they decided not to follow through with, given Nokia's comment that N8 will be the last Nseries device w symbian...or they skinned the hell out of MeeGo and made it terrible
@calvinw Symbian has been around BEFORE ALL those OS's. And it still owns more of the market. I know its an OS that is not meant for the high end smart phones. And thats why Nokia is introducing MeeGo which, from the demos, looks very promising
@spartandre217 Pretty thin for a nokia with keyboard slider.
@wsh03370
N8-01/ E7, i hope its the latter and no the former.
@calvinw
So you hope the OS that got 40% market share in smartphones doesn't take off.... that almost makes sense.
I looove looks of this thing. I so hope the N9 using MeeGo is as thin as this and got same 4 row keyboard.
Nokia MeeGo phones... please use the same aluminium design as N8 and N8-1/E7. Thank you
@wsh03370
Or it says N00 cause it uses the N8's OS build.
It could be on a very eraly proto stage and not wven coming out this year, it could very well be a E8/E9, for all we know.
@statickeith
http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/news/item/11732_The_changing_shape_of_Nseries.php
Who cares what it's called now? The fact there's a video of the phone itself is more exciting than rambling on and on about the freakin names
@Lucas
+1
@spartandre217
N8 prototype has exactly the same name. It's N8 qwerty. It even looks the same, minus the button.
@Engadget: this is NOT the N9 (!!), its the E7!!! for sure!
Even if it had DOS on it that looks like some quality hardware!
@statickeith
Well, it could also be the N8-01, as what he said was that the N8 series are the last N-Series Symbians. That could either mean only the N8-00, or the whole N8-0X series.
@dartox E7 won't have HDMI port.
This is not MeeGo system, so this one can't be the N series. It could be C series.
@Keanedi
PS: It looks so f***ing laggy!
@Keanedi
THe firmware clearly says april, we are in July in a couple days and this still may not come out til august or september.
Did the leaked iphones even work at all?
NO, therefore you should stfu and stop ragging on a f***ing proto.
@spartandre217
And since it says N00 its perhaps a software build for another phone.
@JonHolstein
Unlikely that its a software build from another phone running on this but hell what do I know.
Nokia has stated that the N series is soley meego after the release of the n8
Nokia SideKick?
Nokia Droid?
haha
The front and the back of the device says that it's C0-00. "C". Have you missed some reading classes?
@wazd Yeah, uh.. http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2010/05/10x0511nokian82306.jpg
@N900
And that kids is what we call a fail.
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@spartandre217 I always thought "C0" was just a prototype moniker. The pic I got was from the May article N8 Hands-on. Take a look at this pic from the June article N8 Preview http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2010/06/10x0614nokian8xv0z052.jpg
@N900
I meant to reply to the guy above you LOL. woops
@N900
The firmware screen hints at it being an N-series device though :-(
@spartandre217 im thinkin this may just be an old proto Nokia decided not to go through with, that would explain why it says N00 and why its runnin symbian. Plus the firmware is from April and is only on flash 4, not flash 10 like the N8
@spartandre217
The software build might be for a N-series device, in other words the N8, but the hardware might be meant to belong to another series.
@wsh03370
The flash version is flash lite 4.0 which is compatible with flash 10.1 video etc. I don't know whether they're gonna do full flash 10 anytime soon.
@wsh03370
The flash version is flash lite 4.0 which is compatible with flash 10.1 video etc. I don't know whether they're gonna do full flash 10 anytime soon.
@wazd
My money is on C8.
Looks nice enough, might pick one up while we wait for Meeego.
@dansus
Ill bet you. The c7 is the highest in the range...
So thin and QWERTY!? looks great for a prototype.
This is the Nokia E7, on the body you can see "C". So there is no indicator, which shows it as a Nokia N9.
The Nokia N9 will be a MeeGo OS-based phone. And this one looks like a Symbian OS 3 phone!
more iphone!!
N97 - Rev 2.
Maybe it can not be a PoS this time.
Browser looks terrible, but it's symbian - that is the norm.