A few Nokia rumours floating around
By Stefan Constantinescu on Friday, March 23rd, 2007 at 12:32 PM PST In Devices
It all started with this one guy who made a comment on my "Nokia N81 exists" post:
I have seen it today in a Nokia (NYSE: NOK) meeting… It was company confidential so I have not pics, but to my taste it is too big.. There was other interesting ones as:
- 6267,
- the three versions of the 6110 (yes, three different versions, and I am not talking about colors, one of them including TV-OUT, the known navigator and a very interesting slider one…),
- the new fashion ones, the 7700 and 7500 (both looked like a Vertu)
- an affordable version of the sirocco, the 8600 luna
- 5700.. and many more (up to 20 new upcoming phones…)
Everyone went bananas and demanded more detail. He complied:
n81 is as large as n91,
6267 is a new version of the 6131 including 3g, 2mpix camera, 8x
zoom, bluetooth stereo and dedicated music keys in the external keypad.6110. I knew only the navigator, but there are two more versions..
one is monoblock and it is named CLASSIC, and the other one is named
SLIDE, as is own name says it is slider and to my taste the best of the
three.New fashion ones are monoblock format, both are black and they have "organic screens" …(!) [organic screens = OLED technology]
8600 will be the entry level in the premium category. It is very similar to the sirocco, in black, but cheaper..
5700 it is the update of the 3250..
After these they took us to a showroom where there was many more
upcoming phones, but some of them were dummies and others had no
numeric names so I could not identify them, but I was very impressed
about them, we have a promising 2007…I forgot… the 8600 is slide-up as you say…
Regards!
Earlier today on the Mobile Review forums a very trusted member called "Badger" had this to say:
Keep your eyes peeled for some very thin phones… especially the premium one… umm brushed steel! 6300 was only the beginning!
Also expect to see some more old school names reused with the addition of tag lines… think 6xxx Classic and more from the navigator and sport ranges.
n81 has an 8gb flash drive and looks like an n80, might even be two versions. one with flash and one with a removable card.
e60 replacement is also due soon, think its quite simple
Forum ramblings? Crazy talk? I’ll let you decide.
I’m glad to hear that the 5700 is (rumored of course) to be Series 60.
But what really interests me is the n81 rumor. I’d love to see something in an N80 form factor (or n95 of course) that was more music focused.
Good post!
-olly
Stefan.. you have an email…
I saw a thinner one that 6300 but was not premium category.. (you can believe or not… time will tell)
always selling Nokia: I didn’t get your email. Try again.
I am waiting to see the 5700 and N81…
Although, I think Nokia should have a new series for fasion phones… like how N series is for multimedia and E series is for business. The four digits name is kinda boring now… They doesn’t tell anything about the phone unlike how N9x, N7x, and E6x tells us a lot more.