We'd never discount the possibility of someone being awfully talented in Photoshop here, but we've got to say, the image shown above looks pretty convincing. As you can glean from the logo in the upper right, this here is a
purported E63, and according to some technical tidbits scrounged out of a lengthy Nokia XML file, it just might be a legitimate piece of hardware. Early reports show it as having a 320 x 240 resolution display, WiFi, Bluetooth, Symbian S60, a microSD card slot, 3.5-millimeter headphone jack and UMTS / HSDPA. Furthermore, it's bruited that we could eventually see three versions of the phone for varying markets: the E63-1 for Europe, the E63-2 for suits who can't have cameras on their handsets and the E63-3 for the Americas. We'll be keeping an ear to the ground for more, but till then, you can go ahead and start working up justifications as to why this will be totally necessary in your mobile arsenal in a few months.
[Via
Boy Genius Report]
posted Oct 22nd 2008 12:28PM
oh nice, a E71 with a 3.5mm jack. Im sold.
Makes me wonder why they didn't have it in there in the first place.
The only differences are the placement of the mic, thickness, 3.5mm headphone jack, replacement of metal with plastic, and loss of GPS.
I was ready for fork out almost $500 for this beauty...until I tried to type on it. The bottom row is off one letter. Doesn't seem like a big deal in pictures, but go to a Best Buy and see one in person. Try typing on it and you'll probably see right away that the letters are just not where you'd expect them to be. I just don't understand why they made such a big mistake. Otherwise, the E71 is awesome, but a QWERTY device with a mis-aligned keyboard is kinda pointless to me.
Thought you haven't tried this phone as it's not even announced yet. I haven't had problems typing with my E71 especially when one handed writing is so easy.
E63 will be budget version of E71 with no metal and not as thin as E71(10mm) + 3.5 jack. Not sure if this will sell considering that E71 have been absolute hit seller (out selling iphone easily actually) in Europe and it's already rather cheap and easily able to get free with contract.