Nokia E90 communicator first look

Designed for the business phone market and similar to the Nokia 9500 and 9300 the Nokia E90 Communicator is about to be announced.

We have found a few unofficial shots and specifiactions so you can check it out before the official announcement.

Built on the Symbian S60 platform and boasting a 3.2 megapixel camera as well as a huge display, possibly 800x352 pixels the E90 looks to be a very well equipped phone.

Other features include HSDPA, WifFi, internal and external screens and a host of business applications.

Via Engadget

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Review: Nokia E90 Communicator

The Communicator legacy lives on today with the release of Nokia's new E90, complete with the side-folding design and QWERTY keyboard that fans of the series have come to love. With an interesting dual-hinge design, the Nokia E90 can be folded open 180 degrees like the 9300, but without the unsightly hinge.

Dropping the Series 80 operating system, the Nokia E90 Communicator now sports S60, bringing with it compatibility with a vast range of software titles. The advent of S60 on a Communicator also means that the external screen and keypad of the E90 can be used to access any feature of the phone, where in previous generations the external controls could only access the 'dumb' features of the device. The external screen is a decent QVGA resolution unit, with the internal display sporting a fantastic 800x352 pixel resolution.

E90 Carries Nokia Communicator Line into the Future

Ten years ago Nokia announced its first Communicator, one of the first mobile devices to ever be considered a smartphone. A few years later, in 2001, it introduced the 9200 series, the first to run on the Symbian OS. This device looked like a typical (if large) cell phone closed and a mini laptop open. It's been close to three years since the mobile phone giant introduced - the 9500 and 9300 - its most recent smartphones with that form factor, however.

At 3GSM this week Nokia resurrected the communicator category with the introduction of the drool-worthy E90, which is now a part of the business-centric Eseries. It also introduced two additional new members of the Eseries, the E65 and the E61i.

The E90 appears to pack it all ... and then some.

While the E90 is a Symbian smartphone like past communicators, Nokia ditches the S80 interface for the far more popular S60 platform with this device.

Nokia E90 - does the keyboard live up to expectations?

Oh dear.  Initial reports on the Nokia E90 are trickling in, and like a warm rivulet of liquid down your inner thigh it's not particularly great news.  A bone of contention - and demonstrating just how subjective smartphones really are - is the keyboard.  My Symbian readily heap praise on it:

"Only good words can be said about the keyboard. It has the same height as the keyboard of the 9500 and the same width as the keyboard of the 9300(i). And, just like with the dimensions of the device, it's a PERFECT combination. What's more, in contrast to 9500's and 9300's flat keys, the keys in the E90 are slightly convex and shaped in the way that makes you clearly feel where each key begins or ends"

This, however, stands distinctly at odds with The Register's hands-on report, where they find the keyboard to be too small to touch-type on and perhaps too broad to comfortably thumb-type with: "Alas, unless you have very small fingers indeed, you're going to be disappointed."

It gets worse, as their reviewer finds that accuracy when using the thumbs is sub E70 or E61.  So far I've seen plenty of excited links to the My Symbian review - people really are happy to see a return of the Communicator styling, and there's no denying that the handset is a powerhouse - but very few second-opinions on the keyboard, and my worry would be that after the initial flurry of excited buying there'll be plenty of letdown-complaining that won't help Nokia one bit.

The E90 Communicator - Previewed!

Rafe Blandford looks in detail at the Nokia E90 Communicator. A legend reborn? It's undoubtedly feature packed and technically impressive - but is there still a market for the qwerty clamshell form factor? Rafe and Steve include plenty of hands-on observations, photos and screenshots of this, Nokia's upcoming flagship.

The E90 is Nokia's new top end enterprise-focussed device. However, as with the multimedia-focussed N95, Nokia have packed in an impressive number of features. The connectivity options include quad band EGSM, 3G connectivity (WCDMA and HSDPA), WiFi (802.11g), Bluetooth (including stereo audio support), infrared and USB (2.0 full-speed). There is also a 2.5mm audio jack for headsets, a FM Radio, a 3.2 megapixel camera with auto-focus and DVD-quality recording, and an integrated GPS chipset.

Local Teens Posting Personal Information On MySpace

Eyewitness News Everywhere uncovers a growing trend on the internet that affects your family's safety. We found local teens putting personal information about themselves on their MySpace pages.

MySpace.com- It is easily one of the most popular online destinations around, especially with teenagers. But what is your teenager putting on his or her page? And who's looking at it? John Simi is an internet safety expert for Shelby County Schools. He's done his own investigation, and found shocking information on MySpace.

Simi said, “A child needs to think very, very seriously about what information they put on there, and they need to know there are other people out there other than their 10 or 12, 15 friends, who are looking at that information. Kids do not think anyone but their peer group are looking at these things, they put on there things about where they're going after work or where they're going after practice, or where they're going to meet up on Friday night."

Eyewitness News Everywhere did its own investigation.