06 September 2007

Nokia Exx? Nokia E51?
Rumour or more?

Thanks to the user agent profile on the Nokia web site we know there is another Eseries device under heavy development that should be released soon.

First of all I Have top say that I don’t think its rumour, mainly because we got information from two different sources; the first one is from the Nokia itself, the xml profile named as NE51-1r100.xml and the second one is the photo of the Exx prototype leaked few days ago and spotted over at numerous forums and blogs already.

If we can believe to mentioned profile that can be found at Nokia server, phone is based on the Symbian OS v9.2 and runs S60 3rd Edition v3.1 with addition of the Feature Pack 1 of course.

Furthermore it has a typical S60 QVGA screen and offers wide range opf connectivity, EDGE, WCDMA, HSDPA and WiFi after all.

It looks like the E50 successor although for me personally it has the same lines as the E90 and it reminds on that model more than on the E50 and it seems that smooth E90 design will be applied on most of the upcoming Eseries models.

However, the most interesting is the mine navigation keys layout and number of the shortcuts positioned around the d-pad. Beside the large and dominating delete key in the middle, it has the key shortcuts to the calendar, contacts and messaging application with, which is expectable for one business oriented phone.

The last one is more interesting, the home key from the left sided of the d-pad which supposed to be equivalent for the menu key or it will run Safari browsers!? Not sure either.. ..