From the PureView club post:
About the Nokia N70 – I’m extremely happy I received it from friends in the Netherlands, especially for the Nokia Time Warp Series. Despite its age, it’s in a 100% mint condition – it looks like someone just found it as an unsold and untouched package in the back of a store. So I took the time to make a large amount of shots.
I’m not sure if the N70 was a very popular device in 2005/2006. It’s the first of the Nokia N-series, but I can’t remember seeing many people using it, in fact. It was announced together with two other “multimedia computers”, but I don’t think the N90 and N91 were very succesful either.
Nokia was the undisputed market leader and could afford to experiment. The big success of the N-series came with the Nokia N95 and N95 8GB no doubt, and in fact I’m still looking for all those in a mint condition like this N70… Here are the pictures to show what I mean.
You can read on in the full post.
In answer to Marc, the N70 was very popular, I saw them being used by everyone from geeks to normobs, and plenty of carriers stocked them back in 2005.
The N90 was a specialist camera-centric device, of course, I had one and found it a little fragile and finnicky, but then if we'd not had the N90 (or indeed the N70) then we wouldn't have had the N93 and, ultimately, the N82, N8 and 808.
The N91, the other Nseries device of its time, was a music-centric device with metal styling and a 'love it or hate it' design. Personally, I hated the weight and fiddly keypad, though I'll admit the audio quality was fabulous.
But it's the N70 which is the star here. Comments welcome, either here or on Marc's page, if you want to chime in with your own remembrances....