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Device, which does not exist yet

hartti | 25 August, 2006 20:28

I am used to see various gadget sites and technology-oriented blogs leak information about products not yet published / launched. However, I was more than a little surprised when a colleague of mine handed me Wall Street Journal from yesterday (Thursday, August 24) and pointed an article about Nokia E62 smart phone on the front page of the Marketplace section.

 

Unfortunately for most of us (not having the paper version at hand) the article on wsj.com web site requires paid subscription. I am not going to quote any lines from the article, but a short summary is that the tone was positive, and both good and bad features were pointed out in comparison to other phones in that market segment (Treo, Blackberry, Q).

 

Similar stories / reviews about this North American mini-qwerty-keyboard device have since popped up on MSNBC, Telecommunications Industry News, and Gearlog to name a few. More complete (and more recent) listing of online news articles about E62 can be found through Google News search.

 


The funny part is that last time I checked, Nokia has not yet announced the device. Although it has been already for sometime the well-known secret of enterprise smart phone products. After all, the application for FCC approval is public information and those documents were submitted already in April...

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Re: Device, which does not exist yet

Sebhelyesfarku | 26/08/2006, 16:16

The real funny thing would be to publish user reviews from users don't exist yet...

Re: Device, which does not exist yet

DarlaM | 28/08/2006, 03:56

I think the US residents have been keeping an alert watchful eye for this device since March of this year. Not that it would matter because according to the specs WiFi and 3G are stripped from the device and people are already equipped with e61's.

http://darlamack.blogs.com/darlamack/2006/08/nokia_e62_final.html

Re: Device, which does not exist yet

hartti | 28/08/2006, 19:37

hartti Good point of people being equipped with E61. I just recently bumped into a page offering E61 for $150 with T-Mobile activation through J&R
http://www.jr.com/JRProductPage.process?Product=4123316&JRSource=nsa&nsa=1

Of course you can get E61 also from Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000G2ZYD0

and eBay and ...

Hartti

Re: Device, which does not exist yet

balagopalks | 28/08/2006, 10:34

balagopalks Well, me too came across a similar case earlier regarding Nokia 6638 which is said to be a Symbian OS based CDMA phone. There are several sites mentioning about 6638 since more than a year back, but I have heard later that 6638 was never released in public.
http://www.phoneyworld.com/handsets/overview.aspx?phone=nokia_6638
http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/28/the-nokia-6638/
http://www.phonescoop.com/news/item.php?n=1185
http://www.mobiletracker.net/archives/2005/04/27/nokia-6638
http://news.mobile9.com/2005/05/nokia-6638

Nice to read about E62. Its a reality that Nokia dominates the Smart phone market, but I am looking forward for some Nokia device to become a competition for MotoRazr V3 series. I personally feel its time for Nokia to bring some very slim, feature rich devices!

Regards
Gopal

Re: Device, which does not exist yet

rafeblandford | 30/08/2006, 14:57

You can read the column from Mossberg here:
http://ptech.wsj.com/archive/ptech-20060824.html

I've rounded up a few other bits of E62 coverage here:
http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/news/item/4220_Coming_Soon_The_Nokia_E62.php

Re: Device, which does not exist yet

nfinland | 07/09/2006, 14:07

Now the E62 is available in Canada: http://www.about-nokia.com/blog/index.php?itemid=334

Re: Device, which does not exist yet

hartti | 07/09/2006, 20:38

hartti Good catch Nicolas, I had not seen that press release before!

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