Posted on Wednesday, March 28, 2007
By
Noah Kravitz, Cell Phone Editor
Nokia's newest US handset is the XpressMusic 5300, a
T-Mobile exclusive slider featuring a 2mp camera and music player with dedicated controls and a unique rubberized housing.
I actually just got a 5300 to review for the site, so I bypassed it at Nokia's booth to get some time with the E90, instead. The E90 is an interesting device. It runs Symbian OS 9 Series 60, and all S60 programs can be accessed from either the internal or external displays. The internal display is a beast, capable of rendering the full width of a standard webpage at 16 million colors across its 800 pixels of real estate.
Like most Nokia devices, the E90 feels very solid and comfortable in hand and its QWERTY keyboard is about as roomy and tactile as you'll find on a cell phone, but all of this comes at the expense of saddling its user with a pretty hefty 132 x 57 x 20 mm package that weighs in at 210g. Rocking HSDPA along with WiFi and quad-band GSM, and featuring a 3.2mp camera, the E90 is Nokia's most full featured handset to date. But definitely isn't what you'd call "svelte." I wonder if they could have shaved some size and weight off of the thing by doing away with the external keypad - the dual S60-capable displays somehow felt a bit like overkill when I actually played with the E90.
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