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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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