Nokia's 7205 Intrigue for Verizon now available

Right on schedule, the Nokia 7205 Intrigue for Verizon Wireless is online and ready for purchase. Price is exactly in-line with expectations as well, at $180 with a two-year contract, plus a handy $50 rebate to bring it down to $130. Design-wise the flip phone is already a long ways ahead of the frumpy Nokia 6205, at a mere 0.55-inches thick, but there's nothing much here to get Nokia's GSM customers jealous -- other than that subsidized price, of course. The handset has a 2 megapixel camera, A2DP Bluetooth, a fancy new homescreen (including Habitat Mode), PMOLED display on the back cover, and a microSD slot.

[Thanks, Mark V.]

[fernando Posted Mar 23rd 2009 1:44PM]

the outer display looks hot...

[LessThanDug Posted Mar 23rd 2009 5:50PM]

except for those gay bullshit touch controls. Stupid Verizon. Yes, I know that it looks better but am I the only one who likes to have actual buttons there?? I'm going to assume that S40 is gone here, and Verizon put their usual software on it in S40's place. What a shame. It's a sharp looking phone, with an awkward design with the way the folds fit together. Usually, the front flip would be flipped the opposite way so that part sticking out would be similar to the 6650 fold design. Then again, it is called the Intrigue and it is a 7000 series. Hope this sells fairly well for Nokia. I hate to see them cave in to carrier demands, but it would be nice to see Verizon move some phones off the shelves for Nokia.

[fernando Posted Mar 23rd 2009 7:23PM]

wait what

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 23rd 2009 9:11PM]

I have to agree with Fernando on Doug's comment.

[nDy Posted Mar 23rd 2009 11:59PM]

It doesn't look like an Nokia device to me