Setting aside the
naming confusion, this Nokia prototype procured by Negri Electronics just keeps attracting our attention. Though we saw plenty of it in an
earlier video, this latest rendezvous between Finnish hardware and camera lens includes a few familiar suspects to offer us the best size comparison we've had so far. Squaring up against a 3.5-inch iPhone 4, the QWERTY slider from Nokia seems barely any larger from the front though quite a bit thicker from the side -- an expansion justified by its inclusion of a physical keyboard. It does a lot better when compared to the EVO 4G and the departing iPhone 3GS, looking only marginally chunkier than those keyboard-less devices. Don't take our word for it though -- skip past the break and see for yourself.
P.S. -- The UI on this device looks to us a lot more like
Symbian^3 than the S60 the narrator believes it's running, leading us to think that this is most likely a keyboard-equipped variant of the N8.
[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]
posted July 1st 2010 6:42AM
@audi2009
Yes
@audi2009 Considering you have at the moment the most up to date Android device I wouldn't count on it. Unless features like the camera and HD-out are significant to you.
@audi2009
OMG no...
A huge step down. Why would you switch to a platform with no application developer support? Even the site " Symbian Guru" just threw in the towel... Symbian is slowly dying.
@audi2009
Keyboard: Plus
Battery life: Plus
Screen Size: Plus
Build Quality: Plus
S^3: Small minus
Performance: Plus
Camera: Plus
Apps: Minus
You decide.
This E7 looks great. As usual with Nokia the Eseries is really the best.
I laughed quite a lot during the video.
"It's Symbian S60" -> yes but with HDMI, several home screen and accelerated UI.... OOPS it's Symbian^3.
"Nseries" -> With no carl zeiss optics....
"It may be a Cserie device" -> with that build quality ?!
N9? S60?
That is most likely the E7 or N8-01 QWERTY running Symbian^3.
@Rewes
It could be a temporary thing while they get MeeGo ready. They do have basically the same hardware on the N8-00
@angelusp
Unless you throw it around like an ape would, it won't break. Believe me, my N97 (which has basically the same mechanism) feels solid as hell, even when open, more so than some regular sliders I've seen
Wow, this design is fantastic. Love the look.
Amazing device that Nokia N9!!!;)
I'm sorry... but that thing is just fugly. When I first spotted a picture of this phone a while ago, I truly thought it was at least 1-3 years old.
You're not going to hold onto market share that way Nokia. Boooo!
Great stuff. Now they only need to fix the interface. Hope the keyboard is any good ...
Non-spring Qwerty makers everywhere: Look, listen and learn.