Nokia E71 sneaks into the wild once again

Nokia's having a bit of trouble keeping its E71 QWERTY business phone under wraps, with that initial sighting in January, and now another couple in-the-wild shots to keep us interested. If anything this serves confirm those previous shots, but it's nice to see some autofocus on this 3.2 megapixel puppy. If our powers of badly-translated Chinese deduction are correct, the third picture of the set could be the E66, but we're not jumping to any conclusions just yet.

[Thanks, Jonty]

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 24th 2008 10:08AM]

I can't wait! I haven't waited for and wanted a phone so badly since my 7610. Bring it already!

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 24th 2008 11:02AM]

I would say that they're doing a pretty stellar job of keeping it hidden, actually. Two 'sightings' in the span of nearly five months? It sure would be nice to see one without the chrome though, since that's so-gen-one-iphone.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 24th 2008 4:13PM]

Looks like it took a lot of chrome cues from the E51, not the iPhone
Pictures/review here
http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/reviews/item/Nokia_E51.php

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 24th 2008 11:16AM]

Is it me or that page is not loading? I tried even the original one without the Google translator an it tried to load for over an hour. I had to kill it. Tried several browsers too. I just want to see the photos.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 24th 2008 11:31AM]

US 3G PLZ

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 24th 2008 11:32AM]

One killer phone. If it has the battery life of the E61i I'm so in for this......

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 24th 2008 1:30PM]

i just noticed the same thing.. i was looking at that 'o' symbol.. oakley?? then i realized it was the lens of a sony ericsson phone!!!

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 24th 2008 12:58PM]

funny that he is using a sony phone to take the pic

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 24th 2008 1:24PM]

Nice eye evilpaul. Let's see some 3G love from Nokia on this one. I'm gonna be honest here. It doesn't look very wide at all. In fact, if the supposed dimensions of this are correct, its narrower than a Blackjack II. I don't know about the rest of you, but i'm not down with that at all. I liked the fact that the E61i's keyboard was so spacious.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 24th 2008 2:17PM]

Huh? That's the first thing I noticed. The SE logo.

I currently have both an E61i and a BlackJack II. Although I definitely prefer the E61i keyboard, the BlackJack isn't as bad as it seems. My only complaint with it is OS-driven and it's the lack of keyboard shortcuts for foreign characters and for quickly scrolling through pages (vertically) or words (horizontally), which is all available in the E61i.

What does concern me about making the E71 narrower than the E61i is not so much keyboard size as it is screen size. The 2.8" screen is one of my favorite features of the Nokia.

That being said, if I had the choice of E61i-size or BJ-size keyboard on the E71, I'd definitely go the wider way. Wider is better, said Pontiac.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 25th 2008 1:12PM]

is it me, or does the phone look a bit thick on the bottom? Where are the ports?

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 26th 2008 12:10PM]

it's supposed to be 11mm thin, but the bottom looks a bit wierd indeed.
%"%&% cant they just release this and E66 already. Damnit!

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 24th 2008 3:56PM]

This thing is really really good looking!! Just bare a while;-)

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 24th 2008 11:06PM]

You would think it would be an update to the E70 butterfly phone.

But, noooooooooooooooooooooooo

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 25th 2008 12:52AM]

i know nokia won't do this... but it would be so awesome if they debuted their s60 touch with this phone... i mean, the ui is very straightfoward and business-like, just like this phone... i think it would be a great option

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 25th 2008 3:48AM]

I actually saw one of these yesterday in the bus here in Finland. One smooth looking phone.