Published by Steve Litchfield at
You'll have seen my previous 'retro' article, looking at pimping the Nokia E61i, an early 2007 device that can now be picked up for pocket money but which still has a unique form factor. The same applies, but 'in spades', to the Nokia E90, released only a few months after the E61i but sporting the full Communicator form and also S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 1, plus SDHC support. Like the E61i, it too had a few performance bottlenecks, so how did I get on pimping the Nokia E90 to 2010 standards and might it possibly challenge the mighty (ahem) N97?
"The Nokia E90's unique selling point is, of course, (and like the E61i) its form factor. Here we have twin screens, with the internal one hitting 4" (the same as the very top end superphones of today), plus decent qwerty keyboard, loud stereo speakers, surprisingly good 3mp camera with VGA video recording, graphics acceleration, 80MB of free RAM, oodles of free space on disk C:, SDHC support and so on. It's still a compelling device, when you look at it like that."