Is the Nokia E75 going to be announced at MWC?
I LOVE my Nokia E71 and think the Eseries offer fantastic value for the price. There are rumors floating around about a Nokia E75 coming soon with a probable announcement at Mobile World Congress in a couple weeks. Crave posted some good photos and details of this latest Eseries device that looks pretty appealing. The form factor is similar to what we see in the Windows Mobile world with a slide-up display that reveals a landscape-oriented keyboard. On the front you have a standard phone keypad and then the display switches to landscape to use the larger QWERTY keyboard. While I appreciate the larger keyboard, I am so happy with the form factor and slimness of the E71 that I think I’ll be skipping the E75 myself.
The rumored E75 may have a 3.2 megapixel camera (let’s hope it is better than the worthless purple-tinted model on my E71), 2.4 inch QVGA display, 3.5mm headset jack (all Nokia devices should use this from now on), microSD expansion card, WiFi, Bluetooth, and a GPS receiver. Stay tuned to MWC news and be on the lookout for this device.
7 Comments to Is the Nokia E75 going to be announced at MWC?
As I mentioned on twitter, don’t forget that Nokia has been incredibly lax (or so it seems) with Eseries leaks. The E71 was leaked MONTHS before its announcement, with BGR doing a full hands-on video review roughly 4 months before the official acknowledgement. The E66 was similarly leaked, and Nokia itself sent out review units of the E63 a day ahead of the actual announcement.
I would love to see the E75 announced at MWC, cause that means it would hopefully be available soon, and as long as there’s a NAM variant, it’ll quickly be replacing my E71.
So you think it is a better form factor than the E71? I tend to go back to my forward facing QWERTY devices (prefer my Treo Pro over my Fuze). I am not sure I am willing to give up the slimness of the E71 for something like the E75.
I’ll wait for a E71 replacement with a higher res OLED screen, N-series video performance, better camera, higher microSD capacity and possibly 3.5 audio jack. I wouldn’t mind it being a few mm wider either. Hopefully, it won,t be more than two years…
That said, this phone is the one I would have picked up if it was out when I bought my E71. Just because it’s what I thought I wanted back then. It’s a form factoer that’s getting popular and Nokia needs one. I wonder if it’s weird having the display off center in horizontal mode? Now that I have the E71 though, I’m hooked!
If they can make this about the same thickness of the E66, or even a little more. I really like the E71, but the buttons are too small to do any real typing. The E75 looks to be a real winner, as long as they can keep it reasonably trim.
Brad, I want to see an E71 with a usable camera, 3.5mm audio jack, and maybe a higher resolution display too.
Micah, I can actually type very quickly on my E71 keyboard. Then again, as the MoTR guy say, I have “magic” thumbs 
DeelashFebruary 7, 2009
The only thing missing from the e71 is firmware over the air.In other words, an e71 with FP2 is to be preferred to the e75.
Sorry to turn this into an E71 discussion, but having your data survive firmware updates would help! Hmmm I guess that E71x is looking pretty nice now!
February 5, 2009