Nokia E90

The E90 is Nokia's attempt to recreate the Series 80 form factor and feature set using the Series 60 platform:

• Amazing internal screen and browser
• Citrix client works (although a bit crashy) at 800x352
• HSDPA and Wi-Fi
• Built-in GPS
• Moderately decent keyboard overall, with top row preserving the original Communicator layout

• Worst. Directional pad. Ever. - useless and poorly positioned. The Blackberry Pearl is vastly superior in terms of navigation.
• Camera takes forever to startup. Unless you're taking pictures of rocks, it's not really that useful.
• Hinges are a pain to use, and trying to hit the menu buttons on the top right rocks the entire device
• Wi-Fi setup is still a pain (won't work with my hidden SSID WPA network)
• Series 60 software is a poor fit for the form factor:
  • Manages to still waste screen real estate when reading e-mail
  • Return key doesn't work in all input fields
  • softkeys are mapped to the two menu buttons, etc., etc.
  • Has annoying little pauses every now and then when it remembers it's a Series 60

• Mobileburn review (8 pages, including a sample picture gallery)
• GSMarena review (5 pages' worth)
• Short review
• Another gallery
• My-Symbian Review - wherein we note that people are still asking for fax support.
• Gizmodo
• Engadget Gallery, another.

Product Codes:

  0544357 EMEA Portugal Mocca
  0544485 APAC Singapore (Simplified Chinese)

Video encoding settings:

MP4 800x352, 30FPS (1920 kbps)
May need to crop 80 pixels off the top & bottom
AAC 48k Sampling 192 kbps stereo