Up close and personal with the new Nokia E90

[Rafe]

Perhaps the clearest photos yet of the new, tweaked Nokia E90, with the lower profile keyboard, have emerged at the Swedish site Daily Mobile. Scroll down its page for the all-important revealing side shot. Apparently the keyboard is retro-fittable for existing owners complaining of screen damage caused by key contacts - although comments so far indicate that the new keyboard is even harder in operation... (Thanks to kaduflyer)

Read on in the full article.

[shadamehr]

I just wish the new D-Pad of the new stock/Black N82, was fittable to existing N82 users with the pathetic current d-pad, that has ZERO resistance, ZERO tactile feedback, and is a nightmare to press properly.

Now if Nokia tell me I can take it to a service centre and have the new, raised up d-pad fitted free, I'd be a happy man.

Sorry for going slightly model based o/t, but it's a similar theme.

[tomsky]

Is the casing more shiny as well?

I'm not sure I could be bothered with the hassle of sending mine off for modification. I solved the problem by putting some slightly raised stickers on the top bezel of the screen. As long as I don't "click" the hinges too much, the screen is fine. Why faff when you can re-engineer?

Tom

[davidmaxwaterma]

Originally Posted by Rafe

with the lower profile keyboard

I don't see any difference to the keyboard in my e90.

Could you post a photo of one without the low profile, perhaps with some indication of what the differences are? Are they subtle, or obvious?

Thanks.

Max.

I posted my pictures of the new keyboard here:
http://pdaplus.hu/content/view/2186/72/

the old ones can be found here:
http://pdaplus.hu/content/view/2012/72/
(one pic is from the german site where the first pictures were posted from the new keyboard)

please, note, that this is an original v1 E90 (purchased through T-mobile in 08/2007) and the keyboard was changed in Hungary at an official Nokia shop. it took me 5 weeks to get it fixed and I returned the E90 4 times to the service point. there is still only change UNOFFICIALLY of the keyboards and Nokia service points in Hungary do not change them! I was only lucky (if you can say this with 5 weeks waiting).

you can use the pictures if you would like with the link of the site Hungarian pdaplus.hu noted (we link AAS in news and the forum as well).

[davidmaxwaterma]

Originally Posted by seboka

I posted my pictures of the new keyboard here:

OK, so now I can see both, but I don't really see the difference - well not for sure...could you describe what how I can tell from these photos?

if you check on the pictures, which are taken from the side, you can see, that the keys are lower. using the keys everyday for about 2 month now I can state, that the keys are softer (more convenient for me) and typing is better than on the old "hard" and higher keyboard. the change is positive, I definitely like it.

[davidmaxwaterma]

Originally Posted by seboka

if you check on the pictures, which are taken from the side, you can see, that the keys are lower. using the keys everyday for about 2 month now I can state, that the keys are softer (more convenient for me) and typing is better than on the old "hard" and higher keyboard. the change is positive, I definitely like it.

I'm looking specifically at this one :

http://pdaplus.hu/images/seboka/E90/1rot-n.jpg

and this one :

http://pdaplus.hu/images/seboka/E90_01.jpg

and there seems to be no difference to me. I'm specifically looking at the difference in height between the 1/Q/A/Z keys and the light/soft/tab/shift/ctrl keys. On my E90, there is a noticable difference in height, but in both those pictures, they look the same height, which is even more confusing.

My keys look more like they do on the shot of the other end :

http://pdaplus.hu/images/seboka/E90/IMG_9653_small.jpg

but there isn't a corresponding shot of the newer version.

Am I looking in the wrong place?

Are the new keys are the same level as the light/soft/tab/shift/ctrl keys?

this is a picture from a German forum http://www.telefon-treff.de/ - first posted about the new keyboard:
http://pdaplus.hu/images/seboka/E90/1rot-n.jpg
more photos from that site:
http://pdaplus.hu/content/view/1967/57/

this is my device with the new - flat - keyboard:
http://pdaplus.hu/images/seboka/E90_01.jpg

this is my device with the old keyboard:
http://pdaplus.hu/images/seboka/E90/IMG_9653_small.jpg

if you need more photos, let me know and I can post some, but takes some time...

I do not want to piggyback on AAS forum with these posts, let me know if this is against forum rules.

Does anyone know whether NOKIA will honor the E90 Keyboard "oil" problem?
How does just changing the Skin clean (replace) the Display?
My product code is 054441 (which I think is India) and I wanted to get fixed in the US , but they refused.
Does anyone have a solution? My warranty runs out in August. Ugh.