Nokia N76 Announced!!!!

@TechnoCat:
You raise some good points, but out of those carriers, only T-Mobile would be the one who would even consider having a 3G S60 phone. However, Nokia will still have to clear a whole new hurdle: AWS.

It also sounds like you need to try an unlocked S60 phone for yourself, becuase every single one I've tried had zero issues on Cingular. The blame would technically lie in the software modifications which Cingular is wanting to make.
 
Tech Specs in a nutshell:

* WCDMA 2100
* EGSM 850/900/1800/1900 MHz
* Volume: 70 cc
* Weight: 115 g
* Dimensions: 106.5 x 52 x 13.7 mm
* Main display: 2.4″ QVGA (240 x 320 pixels) TFT : 16m colors
* Cover display: 1.36″ color display (160 x 128 pixels) TFT : 262k colors
* Symbian OS version 9.2
* Camera: 2-megapixel camera, 20x digital zoom, max res: 1600 x 1200 px, LED Flash
* QVGA video capture with up to 15fps playback, 4x digital zoom
* Music player with equalizer and playlist feature (supports MP3, WAV, MIDI, AAC, eAAC, eAAC+, M4A, and WMA)
* Real Player, FM Radio
* 26MB internal memory, expandable microSD slot

Link to official n-series page
Link to my blog article
 
Mea Culpa! Dude I couldnt have said it better myself.

The N75 is a pure beauty! Nokia should just pull the rug out from Cingular and deliver the N75 retail in their US stores and abroad cash in before its too late! This was THE ONE S60 device to bring me back into the fold EVEN though it doesnt have WiFi ... and yet still the delay.

According to my coffers they've got just under 2 mths then I'll just goto HTC for that Cavalier or Samsung for the i600 (which has WiFi; not the blackjack ppl). N95 is nice but its still to big for my active lifestyle and kids that want to playfight by tackling me.
 
Technocat, you're focusing on American companies. Look abroad. I've used Nokia S60 from the 6620 and on, and I've always found that with the Cingular firmware, things went wacky, and then when you unbrand it, things are right again.

Even with non-s60. Look at the 6230. One of Nokia's greatest handsets ever, and the Cingular firmware, even after several revisions, was buggy as hell. The unbranded, though, from the get-go, never had problems.

The 6682 with Cingular's firmware shouldn't have been released when it was. I know, I bought one literally the day they were available to order. The ones that were unbranded from the factory never had near the stability or memory issues that the branded ones did.

What's more important to me is the sheer number of unbranded handsets that are being used on Cingular's network. I've had the N80 and now the N73 and E62 and no problems whatsoever. The E62 I got with Cingular (who crippled the java permissions, among other things) and now that the unbranded firmware is available the reports are in and they state that it's quicker and no stupid restrictions without the branding.

Look at the 6126. Cingular tested it for how long, and decided not to carry it. Other carriers world-wide carry it with no problems, and even T-mobile has launched it and it's fine. That tells me that there's something wrong with Cingular's branding.

Furthermore, there's more to Cingular's branding than "just a few Cingular Mall links." They restrict things like network selection and java apps, implant their own branding over the icons in the menus, and tons of other stuff.

I agree that if it was merely a few hard-links, that it would be Nokia's fault. But saying that Cingular's branding is just a few links here and there is daft.
 
Oh yeah something else about the N76!

Musical talent
Nokia Nseries music fans will appreciate the dedicated quick cover keys on the Nokia N76, which let you quickly and easily control the device's music features from the outside of the folded device, for instant tunes wherever you are. Holding up to 1500* tracks the Nokia N76 works with industry standard 3.5 mm headphones and supports the popular Windows Media DRM for optimal use.
 
I think I saw it inside a Wolf/Ritz camera store once and you could get the unlocked/unbranded one for a lower price with a new contract with tmo.
 
I had seen the N90 advertised in the US, too. CompUSA was selling it at some stores, and I think it was also T-Mobile they signed you up with. I'd be willing to extend my T-Mobile contract for an N76 if someone imported them semi-legally. It adds about everything that's missing on my EF81.
 
Too much chrome and too "razr-ish"...as ugly as this thing is...i might actually still get it when it comes out

I'm starting to get annoyed with my N80's thickness and the slider...figured a nice clamshell like the N75(even though it doesn't have wifi ) would be a good fix...then news of the E65 is leaked with pics...a 14mm slider with wifi...alright i could live with that, but that slider part might annoy me still.

Two days later, Nokia reveals the N76 which basically might mean death to the N75...nice that it's about 14mm thick, but it looks like a razr(nice phone, just not a smart one) and has excess chrome and a white plastic keypad...kinda tacky IMO. decisions, decisions...

What would be perfect is a clamshell with the specs of the N95 and in black...perfect.
 
Tmobile is using Nokia equipment to deploy their 3G network. Cingular has plenty of Nokia equipment in their basestations, but used mostly Lucent and Ericsson cabinets for their 3G rollout.



I have heard from a reliable source that the problem is with the UMTS chip in the N75. Of course that does not make sense if you say the N75 unbranded model was working in Vegas. Do you know if it was running on Cingular's 3G network or was just GSM?
 
Nokia's saying the first quarter of this year, and one website I saw mentioned March, so not too much longer! This will be an amazingly fast release for Nokia if they can actually keep on track. Maybe the iPhone's lit a fire under their butt.
 
Not to put it too crassly, Well, Duh!
The topic is really Nokia and American companies. It isn't Nokia and, for example, Orange. Orange doesn't subsize the same way, for example, and uses different bands.

And in case you're wondering, I actually have an Orange phone. Lots of travel in Europe merited a phone account there. Until about 18 months ago, I maintained an Orange, T-Mobile (Deutch Telecomm) and Cingular phone, and often carried at least two of the three. You?

It's pretty simple to me. Cingular is the only American company to have any Series 60 phones currently.

The big problem Cingular is confronted with by fan boys is that they shouldn't announce, or allow their name in other announcements, that they are looking at using a phone. Y'all cry rivers of crocodile tears because of these delays, without acknowledging that no other U.S. carrier is doing as much as Cingular to get Nokia and Series 60 back here and without simply putting your money where your mouth is and settling for something Nokia actually brought out.

Is Cingular's branding the problem? Well, I agree that they crippled the Siemens S56 by removing too many features for DRM purposes, for example, although they took a lighter tough on more recent releases... for example, merely removing options from the RAZR, some of which can be seems-edited back in. But even so, basic phones, WinCE (excepting if you cross-tie ththe disk gpio, I state from unhappy experience), Windows and Linux all tolerate this kind of crap just fine. Even Palm-OS (pre Garnet) does. If Series 60 doesn't, it's crap. And that's Nokia's fault, not Cingular's.

The O.S. should have been designed to handle the changes the largest carriers make, especially if aiming at their markets.
 
However, my point is that, for instance, with the N80. Cingular wouldn't touch it. It was released unbranded rather successfully, as well as being branded by other companies and still selling well enough to warrant an Internet Edition to be created.

The unbranded 6682 sold well and performed well, next to the Cingular branded model.

My point is that Cingular is the wild card here, and that's why the finger is pointed at them. Once again, you would present that Cingular's branding merely consists of a few hardlinks here and there and a label slapped on the housing. That's far from true.
 
I have to say that your right on point in this post and the earlier post. At one point my wife had a branded 6230 and I had an unbranded 6230 and the performance difference was night and day....I was also one of the first to get the Cingular branded 6682s and mine was part of the recall! I sold it without opting to send it back and have never owned a branded phone yet. Clearly Nokia isnt the problem here...take a factory direct phone and plop your sim in it and it's always smooth and ready to go (aside from FW releases to fix bugs obviously) I recently had the opportunity to play around with a branded E62, and coming from an E61 i noticed significant menu lag. I somehow doubt Nokia is to blame for this when Cingular loads up each phone with their apps and programs. I think it's obvious that Cingular isnt as bad as the robotic feeling of every Verizon phone but they are certainly far from perfect.
 
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