24 hours until Nokia’s 3GSM Press Conference: What we know so far

The Nokia E90 is going to be the most popular device at the Nokia booth. Engadget was nice enough to get the first pictures sent to them by a secret source. The "press shot" that came a few hours later was nothing but a photoshop job by a member on the Mobile Review forum.

Michael Jerz, the owner and operator of My-Symbian has officially stated that he has signed an NDA, reviewed the E90, and that he will publish his findings the second Nokia unveils it. Keep an eye out on his site.

Steve Litchfield has been a sly fox as well. In his latest post over at All About Symbian he states:

So many things we’ve not been allowed to talk about but which will be announced at 10am GMT on Monday… Watch this space for analysis, photos from the launch events and more… Rafe’s in the thick of things in Barcelona – wish him good health and plenty of bandwidth!

Definitely keep an eye out on his site too.

The guy he mentions, Rafe, is going to be uploading everything he possibly can on his Flickr page. I suggest you add this RSS feed in to your reader. He is an awesome guy and will do his best to answer any questions you have about the new devices. While I’m talking about Rafe I should mention that you should watch his Nokia N95 review on youtube.

Series 60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 2 is going to be demoed at 3GSM. I sincerely hope Nokia lends the guys over at All About Symbian a prototype device with the new OS so we can get a thorough review. Time will tell on that one. We have conformation that it will be demoed on a Nokia 6290.

More information, including screenshots of S60v3FP2 are at this blog post by Jouni Juntunen, an official Nokia employee handling marketing. Another Nokia employee, Phil Schwarzmann, has interviewed Mikko Röntynen, Head of S60 Platform Marketing at Nokia about the new OS. It is a quick 14 minute (audio) interview, but something I definitely recommend you check out.

The Nokia E61i is going to be released. All we know so far is that it is essentially an E61 but with a 2 MP camera and some slight cosmetic changes. I found some pictures of the dummy phone, posted them here.

The E65 is going to be the first E series slider. We have pictures of the red version, as well as the black/brown version. I prefer the brown/black version myself. That cluster of keys at the bottom of the screen however looks painful.

Not to be out done by the E series alone, Reuters of all people tells us that there will be a Nokia N77 at the show. It is supposed to be a cheap DVB-H device. By cheap I mean coming in at under 300 euros. No pictures of this device have surfaced.

That’s Nokia’s press conference in a nutshell folks. At least this is all the information we have thus far.

The link to the webcast isn’t up yet, but I have information on the right hand side with more information as to when this will be taking place. I’ve added a few extra time zones to help you guys out.

Hopefully in a week or two I should be getting a package in the mail
from Nokia. They want me to check out a (as in single) device they
released at CES. I’ll let you guys wait and guess what that device is.
Little recap: At CES Nokia launched the N76, N93i and N800.

As always I will do my best to cover this event, expect a lot of blog posts over the coming week. If you feel that there is something I should cover feel free to drop me a line!

(image above was found on Flickr)