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Nokia 5800 Cell Phone Review
 The Nokia 5800 XpressMusic is the first touchscreen phone made by Nokia and it was an exciting moment indeed when we first heard about it. As a quad-band GSM device with 3G connectivity on AT&T's network in the U.S., as well as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR, and aGPS on board, along with the powerful S60 operating system, we expected great things from the 5800. Alas, the 5th Edition version of the S60 operating system isn't as finger-friendly as it could be and the music player functionality, while good, won't blow you away. At $399, the 5800 does come unlocked without a 2-year contract to tie you down, but it's still pricey relative to other devices that match or exceed the 5800's features and capabilities.
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by Marianne Schultz
May 08, 2009
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Nokia N96 Cell Phone Review
 The N96 is the current top-of-the line N-series offering from Nokia and it boasts smartphone capabilities combined with multimedia super powers. With 3G connectivity, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR, aGPS, and 16GB of memory on board, it is certainly well equipped to live up to this reputation. To be even more well-rounded, the N96 has a 5-megapixel camera with an auto-focus lens and a dual-LED flash that promises to post impressive image testing results. Can the N96 do it all? Read on to find out...
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by Marianne Schultz
March 16, 2009
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Nokia N86 Cell Phone First Impressions Review
The Nokia N86 is the new top of the line slider cameraphone in Nokia's N-series, boasting an 8-megapixel camera with a wide-angle lens, dual-LED flash, and a mechanical shutter. It also includes 8GB of internal memory, a scratch-resistant glass OLED screen, GPS, and N-Gage gaming and controls, and will be fully compatible with the Ovi suite of services. The N86 is a quad-band GSM device and will be available in a variant compatible with 3G networks in Europe and the U.S. (AT&T only). It will be available at the end of Q2 at an estimated unlocked price of €375 (about $475), but no US carriers have yet announced plans to carry it.
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by Marianne Schultz
February 17, 2009
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Nokia N97 Cell Phone First Impressions Review
 The N97 is Nokia's flagship device in their N-series line-up. With an estimated retail price of €550 (about $690), it's an expensive, but powerful device; it features 32GB of internal memory, a 3.5" touchscreen, a full slide-out QWERTY keyboard, and a 5-megapixel camera, along with Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR, and aGPS. Slated for release in June of his year, it will be a quad-band GSM device with 3G connectivity compatible with networks in Europe and the U.S. (AT&T only). Nokia calls the N97 a mobile computer, touting it is a device that will enable "social location" to easily update social networks automatically. We don't know about all that, but the N97 sounds great on paper and closely-guarded prototypes were on hand at Mobile World Congress for us to size up - keep on reading to see our first impressions of this high-end device.
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by Marianne Schultz
February 18, 2009
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Nokia E75 Cell Phone First Impressions Review
The Nokia E-series line-up consists of business-oriented smartphones meant to keep the hard-working business user in touch and on time, with room for a little entertainment as well. The E75 was announced at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, and we looked at the pre-production model that was on display there to give you this first impressions review. Spec-wise, it's a quad-band GSM device that will have a version that works with 3G networks in Europe and the U.S. (AT&T only). The E75 also has Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR, aGPS, a 3.2-megapixel auto-focus camera, a front-facing camera for video calls, and a full suite of PIM and messaging capabilities. The E75 will be available in April and will sell for an estimated €375 (about $475).
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by Marianne Schultz
February 17, 2009
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Nokia 5310 Cell Phone Review
 The Nokia 5310 XpressMusic is a tiny device that promises to do double duty as your cell phone and digital music player, and includes the accessories to do this right out of the box. With a 2.0 megapixel camera and more Bluetooth profiles than you can shake a stick at, the Nokia 5310 sounds like a sweet device on paper, but does it do its own description justice? Read the full review to find out...
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by Marianne Schultz
September 23, 2008
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Nokia Announces First Touchscreen Music Phone
 Nokia announced its first touchscreen music phone today, the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic. The quad-band GSM, 3G-enabled phone will sport a 3.2-inch display with tactile feedback, a 3.2-megapixel camera, aGPS, WiFi, and Bluetooth (including the A2DP profile), among others - all features that aim it squarely at Apple's iPhone 3G.
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by Marianne Schultz
October 02, 2008
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Nokia E71 Cell Phone Review
 The Nokia E71 has been on the minds of many a Nokia fan boy ever since initial shots were first leaked. A diminutive device that packs a full QWERTY keyboard, 3.2 megapixel camera, GPS, Symbian S60 software, support for AT&T's 3G network while still holding a rather large battery the phone's spec sheet is enough to make anyone salivate. Does the E71 live up to its potential? Is it finally the business oriented device with multimedia capabilities to match Nokia's N-Series? You'll find out if you read our review.
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by Alfredo Padilla
August 04, 2008
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Nokia N78 Cell Phone Review
 The Nokia N78 packs much of the positive of its predecessor, the N73, into a smaller and arguably more stylish package. The addition of GPS and support for AT&T's 3G data network will get many excited about this handset. Sitting in the middle of Nokia's smart phone lineup the N78 is not as capable as its big brothers like the N82 or N95, but it nonetheless brings a lot to the table. You should plan on bringing a lot of bills to the table if you want it, however, as the N78 is retailing for $520 unlocked from Nokia. Is the phone worth the price? Read our review to find out.
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by Alfredo Padilla
August 04, 2008
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Nokia E66 Cell Phone Review
 The Nokia E66 is the latest in Nokia's business oriented E-Series devices. Available in the third quarter of 2008 for north of $500 as an unlocked handset the E66 is an extremely capable device. It's solidly built and the form factor is slim and professionally attractive. The organizer and email features, which are probably the most important for business users, have been improved over previous E-Series devices and provide you with powerful business tools. Will it hold up under heavy use, however? Read the review to find out.
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by Alfredo Padilla
June 26, 2008
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Nokia 6555 Cell Phone Review
 The Nokia 6555 is a low-end offering for AT&T that offers an intriguing mix of the very good, very bad, and in-between. For the former you have controls and a keypad that are very comfortable and responsive. In the middle you have poor battery life and camera quality, and for the last is a stable and fairly fully-featured software suite. Of course at the price of nothing with a two-year contract, after a $50 mail-in rebate, you'd expect the Nokia 6555 to make a few compromises. Whether those you can live with those compromises is up to you, but you might want to read the rest of the review to find out exactly what you'll be living with.
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by Alfredo Padilla
February 29, 2008
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Nokia N82 Cell Phone Review
 The Nokia N82 is the latest do everything handset from the Finnish cell phone giant. Like many of its other high end handsets the N82 isn't available from any U.S. carriers, instead you'll have to purchase the phone from an importer or directly from Nokia when they make it available. The N82 packs a lot of technology into a reasonably small candybar form factor. You'll be getting a five megapixel camera with Xenon flash, a smart phone running Symbian Series 60, Wi-Fi and GPS functionality. Most of these features are well integrated and easy to use. That's not to say that the Nokia N82 doesn't have its bad points as well.
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by Alfredo Padilla
February 05, 2008
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Nokia N81 8GB Cell Phone Review
 The Nokia N81 with 8GB of storage is Nokia's newest N-Series device. The N81 is targeted as a multimedia device, with excellent music features, a large amount of storage and support for Nokia's new music store and N-Gage gaming platform, although neither has launched in the U.S. yet. We found the N81 lived up to the hype as far as music and gaming goes, but it fell short in a lot of other areas. The 2 megapixel camera was one of the worse we've ever seen on a mobile device, the controls were cramped and prone to errors and the handset felt heavy and not very durable. Throw in the fact that it's only available as an unlocked phone for $629 from Nokia USA and these negatives really start to grate on you.
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by Alfredo Padilla
December 27, 2007
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Nokia N95 With US 3G Support Cell Phone Review
 Nokia's original N95 had one major Achilles heel: It didn't support the 3G data frequencies used by US cell phone networks, which relegated this feature-packed phone to accessing the Internet over a slow EDGE connection. That's rather like buying a Ferrari, only to find that the transmission is broken and won't let you drive over 35. Nokia addressed this issue with this new version of the N95: the N95 with US 3G support, which can work with AT&T's fast UMTS 3G data network. Apart from the updated radio, they also made a number of cosmetic changes, and added more memory. Although these changes may seem minor, they make a big difference. The 3G data connection is much faster, and makes the N95 with US 3G support a much more flexible phone; you can now realistically use features like the 5 megapixel camera to upload high res images and video to the Internet.
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by Richard Baguley
December 17, 2007
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Nokia E90 cell phone review
 If you're a compulsive e-mailer and Web browser on the road, the Nokia E90 is worth checking out. Looking like a laptop that's been shrunk in the wash, the E90 has two screens: one 2-incher on the outside and a massive 4-incher on the inside. Under the hood is the Symbian operating system, which includes a great Web browser and a huge selection of available programs. Wi-Fi and quad-band GSM (so it will work around the world) are supported, but the E90 will be stuck on EDGE networks in the U.S., which provides a slower connection speed than 3G.
The E90 is unlocked, which means it's expensive. We received ours from Dynamism.com, which sells the handset for $1,199. You might be able to find a better price from other resellers if you shop around, but it's never going to be a cheap alternative. It does provide plenty of performance for the sizeable price, however, and could mostly replace a laptop on the road.
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by Mark Brezinski
September 17, 2007
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Nokia N95 Cell Phone Review
 The Nokia N95 is the latest flagship for Nokia's consumer oriented N-Series smart phones. Running an updated version of Symbian Series 60, the Nokian N95 offers all of the flexibility and power that people have come to expect from Series 60 phones. Nokia's approach with the N95 seems to be to pack every feature imaginable. As such the N95 is one of the first phones with a 5 megapixel camera, has built in GPS, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.0 with EDR and supports high speed data via HSDPA, albeit not in the U.S. Of course all this doesn't come free as the Nokia N95 retails for $750 and is currently only available in the U.S. from Nokia's flagship stores in New York and Chicago.
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by Alfredo Padilla
May 08, 2007
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Nokia N73 Review
 The Nokia N73 is part of Nokia's consumer oriented N-Series of smart phones running Symbian Series 60. Nokia has not had much success in getting carriers to pick up its N-Series devices in the United States, thus the phone is only available unlocked, which means that the price ($429.99 from Nokia USA) will give some pause. Still, if you can get past the price tag you will find a very well featured handset that provides a wide range of functionality. The feature that will stand out the most is the 3.2 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics. In our tests we found the camera to be one of the best we had found on a mobile phone, although it still lags behind even low end point and shoots.
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by Alfredo Padilla
May 04, 2007
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Nokia N75 Review
 The Nokia N75 is the first N-Series smart phone from Nokia to be sold by a U.S. carrier; it is available on AT&T (Cingular) for $199.99 (including a $50 mail-in rebate) with a 2 year contract, or $399 without contract. So it arrives with high expectations, but fails to meet them in many areas. While the audio quality of the N75 is good, the quality of the built-in camera is very poor. Nokia has been known as one of the better phone camera manufacturers, but our tests showed that the N75's camera falls short in just about every key area; the images are low in resolution, have inaccurate color and had lots of noise in low light. The second major drawback of the N75 is the battery life. The N75's talk time of 2 hours and 23 minutes is one of the worst we have seen, and it's music playback and browsing times (at 5 hours 36 minutes and 2 hours 42 minutes) are not much better. These combined with limited RAM (which means that many applications are slow to respond) make the N75 a disappointment.
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by Alfredo Padilla
June 14, 2007
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