It's official at last. The most-leaked device in recent Nokia history finally sees the light of day. The E90 has been announced. In this article, I look at its ancestry, its specifications and who it's aimed at. [NB. Photos arriving imminently.]
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At last, a successor to S80.
I will miss a lot of S80s features but I have used S60 phones too and if this baby is as good as the hype, we will finally have as good a successor the the Psion 5mx as we can have at the moment, excluding keyboard. (I'm not a fan of touch screens!)
Now when can I get one? 😊
Cant wait for this release, definately my next phone (as long as Nokia have enabled SIP) else i will stick with my E60.
don't laugh - biggest qustion - does it vibrate?
Yes, it vibrates! 😊
Wow! Great pics.
Finally Symbian has come through with a 5mx replacement.
All the harsh words are now retracted.
The Psion dream of mobile computing is fianlly realised!
Again don't laugh - as of today (now) I am down to my very last 5mx. The last Revo that I have has a charging problem (just found out today too). I certanly hope this is the last time I need to install Money and DCP!
What a relief.
I wonder what the price will be ..?
The E90 is something... The great problem is the price! Is possible to buy a good Core2 Duo Laptop and a good phone.
As a long term user of the 9500, my dream phone has at last come in. The video calling camera is on the right surface, it has 3G and WLAN... I can't wait to get one. I'll miss the hard drive from my N91, but with 2GB flash cards now, perhaps it won't matter.
One thing I want to know, does the external screen take advantage of S60's scalable UI to give you access to S60 proper and all your applications, or is it another simulated S40 jobby like the older communicators?
My-Symbian has a very long E90 review with pictures, screenshots and samples, check it out my-symbian.com/s60v3/e90_review.php
UnregisteredAz wrote:My-Symbian has a very long E90 review with pictures, screenshots and samples, check it out my-symbian.com/s60v3/e90_review.php
Already a detailed review🙄
sovind wrote:Finally Symbian has come through with a 5mx replacement.Symbian didn't do the 5mx (Psion did) & they aren't doing the E90, either (Nokia does).
"One thing I want to know, does the external screen take advantage of S60's scalable UI to give you access to S60 proper and all your applications, or is it another simulated S40 jobby like the older communicators?"
According to Steve's review, the external screen now gives you full seamless access to your S60 applications. The external screen is a full 240x320 one, so you could use the E90 without ever opening it if you wanted.
Looks like the E90 has plenty of RAM, according to my-symbian's review:
"The total operating memory (RAM) capacity is 128 MB of which.... almost 80 MB is free!"
Hopefully they'll start putting 128mb into other S60 models from now on.
Small update: according to Nokia's press release "The unsubsidised retail price of the Nokia E90 Communicator will be around €750-800."
That's around the same price as previous communicators launched for, I think, and seems okay considering how much is packed into the device (for example one full size QVGA screen and an even bigger widescreen inside). Definitely not for casual users.
"Is possible to buy a good Core2 Duo Laptop and a good phone."
Yes, but you can't fit them in your pocket. 😊
The one and only reason why smartphones cost so much is their small size. If you don't want a pocket-sized device, it's always far cheaper to buy laptops and separate dumbphones.
I understand your point. But next generation of UMPC have Core 2 Duo processors, all windows software, and the price is lower than that E90, and can be on pocket! Those days, the convergence between functions and price is almost the same... Only two ways to choose. Better have some choice then none🙄
Will we finally see Outlook category sync?
"I understand your point. But next generation of UMPC have Core 2 Duo processors, all windows software, and the price is lower than that E90, and can be on pocket!"
They are amazing devices, but they're not pocket-sized. Most people would find carrying a UMPC very cumbersome, and prefer to have something smaller but less powerful.
Here's a UMPC:
http://www.pencomputing.com/images/umpc_update_q1.jpg
and here's the E90:
http://nds3.nokia.com/pressphotos/public/global/devices/e90_communicator/06_e90_lowres.jpg
It's not a huge difference if you're using it at home, but the smaller size makes a big difference if you're on the move.
Also, I don't think the battery life on a pocket-sized duo processor UMPC running Windows is any good, Windows (the desktop one) wasn't designed to be mobile and neither were those processors.
But I'd love to get a next gen UMPC for under 750 euros, can you tell me where they sell them at that price?
Does it have a touchscreen?
It's not as good as the Psion Series 5mx and it doesn't run embedded Linux like it should but I hope they get these onto the High Street yesterday! The Series 80 devices had CPU clock speeds about half of what a power user would want. If you want longer battery life, switch to a superior black and white screen, but don't slow down the core CPU.
@Jeb's: According to the only site where it's been extensively played with it's clocked as fast as the N95...
HMH wrote:Does it have a touchscreen?
No. Read the MySymbian.com review for more details.
Why now fax?
Here in Asia, the fax reigns supreme for the "real" business people i.e. for the real trade of goods and services. The 9300i has been selling very well because of it.
IMO a big mistake by Nokia, unless it's in the E90(f)
sovind wrote:Why now fax?Here in Asia, the fax reigns supreme for the "real" business people i.e. for the real trade of goods and services. The 9300i has been selling very well because of it.
IMO a big mistake by Nokia, unless it's in the E90(f)
you can use install scanr.
Greetings - It is my understanding that stateside many cellular companies do not want to provide CSD - FAX (Circuit Switch Data) feature due to switch technologies changes. It appears to be very difficult to get the CSD features from Cingular or TMobile in the USA. Thanks - FLG>>>
Maybe it's just me but I really don't go for the whole digital convergence thing in a big way. A few years ago I was right there with it and thought it was the best idea going, however just recently I've been moving further and further away from this ideal. I would much rather have 3 or 4 devices that did specalised jobs, rather than 1 device that did everything only reasonably well. My real dream machine would be a Nokia PDA in the old Series 5 or Revo form factor WITHOUT a phone attached... I know it'll never happen, but I just can't reconcile myself to the idea of talking to the house brick that is the Communicator.
Maybe once Bluetooth technology matures a little and we can have good quality light headsets, with dialing capability the whole DC thing will start to make a bit more sense, until then I think I'll stick to buying suits with 4 pockets...
(Oh and is it just me or does the S60 interface look just a little lost on the larger screen? Things like active standby were designed to make use of a small screen, surely they could have come up with a hybridised desktop/menu system instead of just a simple port?)
Really impressive device. I do like the convergence of almost everything in one device. This new E90 comes very close to a complete laptop replacement.
I'm very tempted, but missing fax support is a definite showstopper for me. Any updates on this? N/A?
FAX:
IMHO, with all due respect, I think the 9300 and 9500 series phones were bigger sellers in Asia than the US, so I think Cingular and T-Mobile had little influence in the specs of the E90.
I suspect the real reason the E90 is faxless is that the S60 arcitecture doesn't have the feature built-in (yet - I hope)
I guess the E90 can't be called a communicator anymore.
I think it has to be understood, the majority of Communicator users that I have observed so far are far from tech savvy i.e. there is hardly any third party apps in them, other than what came preinstalled with the phone - legal or otherwise.
To these users, the Communicator is a tool and they have better things to do than to play around with the phone's functions. As an example, I know a small transport company that had about 30 one tonners going from Laos all the way to south of Malaysia. You wanted any thing any where, they could get it there for you. They had about 100 9300 as they could view the purchase orders, the addresses, the bank-in slips for payment confirmations etc. I was shocked - they were the most virtual operation I had ever seen.
Food for thought Nokia.
How ironic that the last message I was reading deplored the lack of built-in FAX functionality for the E90, and the ad right below that comment was for an EFax product where you can FAX directly from your phone...
I read somewhere that this phone isn't going to be available until the fall, and that it is not going to be sold in the US. Puhlease, T-Mobile, get smart and offer the E90 in the States!
The whole and painful truth about E90 is that it finally buried all our hopes for communicators to replace our ER5 handheld computers!
E90 is just an amazing feature packed S60 phone brick with extended inner screen and keyboard.
Phone finally swallowed computer!!! Amen!
this question might sound strange but does anyone know if it has a 3D graphics chip like the n95?
