Nokia E90

Phone Preview: Nokia E90 Communicator

The E90 was announced way back when at the 3GSM conference, along with the E61i NokiaBerry and E65 slider. Even though it's tagged with the hip new Eseries model numbers, the E90 is still the same palm-top computer that it's always been, at least form-factor-wise. A phone on the outside, with a integrated keyboard and widescreen inside.

This newest Communicator has some pretty badass features though. Quad-band and 3G/WCDMA, WLAN/wi-fi, 3.2 megapixel camera, Symbian 9.2, HSDPA, integrated GPS, Bluetooth 2.0. Even that crappy FM radio is present. It's like Nokia just crammed in all their technologies from different phones into one handy little device.

The dual screens both support up to 16 million colors. While the outer phone screen is a standard 240x320 pixel display, the inner one has a 800x352 pixel resolution. Uh, a little wider than standard widescreen. Then again, I'm not exactly sure how well the E90 would fare with a Dvix/Xvid widescreen movie of that size. I have yet to find a phone that plays Xvid/Divx with a half decent amount of FPS.

Mr. E90's camera is indeed 3.2 megapixel, with flash and autofocus. Like many other higher-end models, there's a second crap camera for video calling.

There's also HSDPA on here, offering download speeds of up to 3.8 megabits per second. In the States, it looks like the ongoing battle between HSDPA and EV-DO will continue be ongoing.

The last notable feature of the E90 is the battery - the E90 uses a 1500 mAh BP-4L, which is not that impressive when you find out that it's good for only 5 hours of talk time.

The E90 is kind of smallish. It does have that annoying "brick" factor when used as a phone though.