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The E90 is Nokia's attempt to recreate the Series 80 form factor and feature set using the Series 60 platform:
Good Points:
- Amazing internal screen and browser
- Citrix client works (although a bit crashy) at 800x352
- HSDPA and Wi-Fi
- Built-in GPS
- Moderately decent keyboard overall, with top row preserving the original Communicator layout
Bad Points:
- Worst. Directional pad. Ever. - useless and poorly positioned. The Blackberry Pearl is vastly superior in terms of navigation.
- Camera takes forever to startup. Unless you're taking pictures of rocks, it's not really that useful.
- Hinges are a pain to use, and trying to hit the menu buttons on the top right rocks the entire device
- Wi-Fi setup is still a pain (won't work with my hidden SSID WPA network)
- Series 60 software is a poor fit for the form factor:
- Manages to still waste screen real estate when reading e-mail
- Return key doesn't work in all input fields
- softkeys are mapped to the two menu buttons, etc., etc.
- Has annoying little pauses every now and then when it remembers it's a Series 60
Resources:
- Mobileburn review (8 pages, including a sample picture gallery)
- GSMarena review (5 pages' worth)
- Short review
- Another gallery
- My-Symbian Review - wherein we note that people are still asking for fax support.
- Gizmodo
- Engadget Gallery, another.
Product Codes:
0544357 EMEA Portugal Mocca 0544485 APAC Singapore (Simplified Chinese)
Video encoding settings:
MP4 800x352, 30FPS (1920 kbps) May need to crop 80 pixels off the top & bottom AAC 48k Sampling 192 kbps stereo