Nokia E75 starts shipping
Published by Tzer2 at 12:32 UTC, April 6th 2009
According to a Nokia press release, the E75 QWERTY sliderphone is now making its way into shops, and may even be available already in some areas. As mentioned in previous stories, the E75 features Symbian S60 3rd Edition FP2, a 2.4 inch QVGA screen, side-sliding QWERTY keyboard, GPS, 3.2 megapixel autofocus camera, 3.5G HSDPA and Wi-Fi support. It's also the first Eseries device to be compatible with the N-Gage platform. The full release is below.
Email the way you want it - Nokia E75 begins shipping
April 06, 2009
Espoo, Finland - The Nokia E75 has arrived in stores, bringing the company's best efficiency and productivity solution to the market. The new arrival is the first device to ship with the new email user interface, offering full desktop email functionality, and complete integration of Nokia's email and messaging services.
Made from the quality materials one expects from Nokia Eseries, the Nokia E75 has a slide out QWERTY keyboard and efficient three-step email setup. This simplicity is achieved with the integration of Nokia Messaging, which ships with a device for the first time in the Nokia E75. Nokia Messaging is a service that opens up the world's leading consumer email accounts - including Yahoo! Mail®, Gmail and Windows Live Hotmail - and is joined by Nokia's corporate email clients, Mail for Exchange and IBM Lotus Notes Traveler, which provide direct access to over 90 percent of the world's corporate inboxes as well.
The richer email experience in the Nokia E75 brings all of the owner's accounts into one simple to access and easy to use UI, which supports the most common features for desktop email including expanding views, one click reply and sub-folder and HTML support. Added to the enhanced email functionality, upgraded personal information management features such as the ability to create and respond to meeting requests, and contacts lookup and auto-complete, also make their debut in the Nokia E75.
The Nokia E75 also integrates tightly to other Ovi services and ships with Ovi Files, for storing files online, Nokia Maps, which works with the onboard A-GPS, and Nokia's games service N-Gage which is supported for the first time in a Nokia Eseries device.
Categories: Hardware, Events
Platforms: Series 60, N-Gage, S60 3rd Edition, N-Gage
News Discussion
(Regarding the off button, speaking as someone who has used both types, it doesn't make much difference IMHO but to each their own.)
Oh, and at machimshin, the red button should still let you change profile if you press it on the standby screen, well it does on my cheap Nokia 1650 at least
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Originally Posted by Mobile Observer
Full QWERTY with small screen = lame
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For Nokia to call this the next communicator is a misunderstanding I'm sure. Or a bad joke.
Their implication perhaps was that the real next communicator is yet to come...?
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The E75 is perhaps more like the "gullwing" devices such as the E70, basically "normal" phones with QWERTY optionally available when needed.
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Originally Posted by Tzer2
Maybe I misrepresented their remarks. I don't think Nokia quite said the E75 was "the next communicator", they said it was in the spirit of the 9300, which was a cut-down alternative to the 9500 Communicator.
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| The E75 is perhaps more like the "gullwing" devices such as the E70, basically "normal" phones with QWERTY optionally available when needed. |
I just bought an E90 week ago from ebay, it is very nice piece of hardware, but Iam missing few features from my E71, and Iam very interested how the successor of E90 will look.
I had a chance to hold a dummy E75, and I was impressed with the keyboard - it has a nice tactical feedback, its just "clicky" unlike the E90, which keyboard is quite stiff, and I have to use keypad tones as tactical feedback.
| I mean, I bought the E70 in 2006 and its screen had a higher screen resolution for gods sake, and it was cheaper! |
From what I can make out, the E70 launched for about the same price as the E75, at least in terms of Euros. The Euro's current strength makes new phones priced in Euros seem expensive to outsiders.
To me the E75 is more geared towards the phone end of things than the 9300 was. That makes sense where phone function predominate. The 9300/9500 were a smaller niche (arguably) as they were closer to the mobile office end of the spectrum.
For the higher end users (and 9500) the N97 will probably be a better match or other forthcoming Eseries devices.
The screen size / resolution issue is a tricky one. For its physical size I can't really see the point in having a higher resolution screen. Again that's for the majority of users. I do think some higher resolution devices (5800 and N97 aside) would be welcome.
And yes personally I would associate the E75 with the E70 (though I think it has broader appeal).
And yes power button still changes profiles.
Just saw MGS screenshot, and I found surprisingly MGS is no longer in the PC web showroom...
Maybe they just simply forgot it...
However, MGS for N-Gage isn't available in some countries (America, Italy and other places) because someone else owns the exclusive distribution rights for MGS phone games there.
It could be that you live in one of those countries.
I changed location from US to UK and I can see MGS in showroom now.
You are really a professional N-Gager! :)