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Not. What the hell was Nokia thinking designing this? I thought they were done making goofy looking phones in the 90's. What an embarassment. There's no reason why anybody wouldn't choose an Impression or a Zenon over this even if it is a smartphone. The idea for this phone is something Nokia should have in its product line, but the execution is way off.]]>Jul 13th 2009 10:36AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2009/07/13/nokias-surge-official-on-atandt-ships-july-19-for-79-99/http://mobile.engadget.com/2009/07/13/nokias-surge-official-on-atandt-ships-july-19-for-79-99/Jul 13th 2009 11:24AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2009/07/13/nokias-surge-official-on-atandt-ships-july-19-for-79-99/http://mobile.engadget.com/2009/07/13/nokias-surge-official-on-atandt-ships-july-19-for-79-99/Jul 13th 2009 12:14PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2009/07/13/nokias-surge-official-on-atandt-ships-july-19-for-79-99/http://mobile.engadget.com/2009/07/13/nokias-surge-official-on-atandt-ships-july-19-for-79-99/Jul 13th 2009 12:07PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2009/07/13/nokias-surge-official-on-atandt-ships-july-19-for-79-99/http://mobile.engadget.com/2009/07/13/nokias-surge-official-on-atandt-ships-july-19-for-79-99/
1) It had a FULL qwerty keyboard (ie. one with a number row), instead of the non-full qwerty keyboard (despite engadget double-speak)

2) It ran Maemo (or even Android)

3) Tilt screen

4) 4.1" 800x480 screen

5) Had Quadband GSM/GPRS/EDGE and Quintband UMTS (Euro, AT&T/NAM, T-Mo-USA)

6) dual SIM cards

(getting slightly more fanciful with each one)

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Now if they ditched the data plan and just had it as a s60 feature phone like the 6650, then I bet it would sell well. I might still just get it under my son's account, and then use it with my sim and the cheaper family data plans :)]]>Jul 13th 2009 12:44PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2009/07/13/nokias-surge-official-on-atandt-ships-july-19-for-79-99/http://mobile.engadget.com/2009/07/13/nokias-surge-official-on-atandt-ships-july-19-for-79-99/
"Designed in the U.S.[...]" said David Petts, etc

it figures, lol.

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it doesnt look anything like a "real" nokia

i actually kinda like it. im gonna check it out on launch day.

but i still think its ridiculous to have a USA design team.

i think we almost all will agree... ...can we just get the real f'n nokia phones from nokia proper?!]]>Jul 16th 2009 7:31PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2009/07/13/nokias-surge-official-on-atandt-ships-july-19-for-79-99/http://mobile.engadget.com/2009/07/13/nokias-surge-official-on-atandt-ships-july-19-for-79-99/Jul 14th 2009 10:06PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2009/07/13/nokias-surge-official-on-atandt-ships-july-19-for-79-99/http://mobile.engadget.com/2009/07/13/nokias-surge-official-on-atandt-ships-july-19-for-79-99/Jul 14th 2009 10:09PM