i will admit that i am a nokia diehard, but many consumers do not realize that through hype and product launches, certain companies truly have an impact on the globe. Nokia, as a i found through research, has a significant margin share of the industry. They are not covered often which is understandable. Nokia actually has the largest brand awareness of any company in the world, Coca-Cola is next in line... Nokia's presence in the US however is this, phones are like bricks. it all stems from the earlier nokias which everyone had. What has happened is that certain efficient strategies have to develop for competing companies. apple will sell phones, but is that a gauge of the smartphone industry. stats proved that cellphone purchases declined and then apple has the iphone launch...sales surge relative to the industry. means nothing, oh windows mobile is a dissappointment. yeah but when it comes out, it wil be standard for 8 years. chew on this, this topic will not be hit on as much as a new product leak. though it is the most important. I live in Chicago, IL. I buy high-end Nokia, i wont lie. The reason i fork over the unlocked , unsubsidized price is this. There was a time that a cell phone had longer range than our cordless phones. Now, it never leaves our side. information will always be the most valuable commodity and the medium in which you receive it shall have value as well. i believe that we need more focus put on buying a phone becasue it is an extension of your ability to communicate. accepting cheaply made plastic phones and toy apped phones ruins the industry. what i have learned from having a foreign product is that europeans appreciate time and effort, efficiency and "getting it done right". i apologize for how ignorant my country has been. im am sorry for my rant, but here goes, our duty in this world should not be to buy what is supplied but to truly hit the producers and say, "this is what i want and this is why i hate what you release", R and D should not be on data mining, it should not say "hey how do we get them to buy our product" I feel that these youth oriented companies should try and sell it, ask me why i feel the way i do, and let me be. They can then constructively voice the opinion of a potential consumer. Learn your market. Apple you are a disappointment, Motorola, you as well. innovative, yes, but sustainable, no. apple will be blown out of the water just as they were in the early 90's, not to mention making the wise decision to not use modems, because "you would replace it with a chip". way to go, 15 year mistake. iMpress me. Build quality and speed.

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Saddam Hussein were alive and well and lit the oil fields on fire once again....this recession we are in could have been THE greater depression....think massive price action on oil, it was at 140 over the summer, could have shot up 2x or 3x if something were to happen in the middle east. This would surely destroy industry. Not only would familes lose jobs they wouldnt even be able to get to the unemployment line. 9/11 was enough to wreak havoc on our market as well as the currency, at a time when were experiencing a recession. There is a thing called speculative attack. Surely the online stock gurus and finance guys know their cash flows, but a majority of them do not know economics, the study of the scarcity of resources. On a federal level, the macroeconomic scale comes more into play. The flow of money around the world is a very delicate system. If something were to happen where our country was backed into a corner and were unable to react, we, all long with the modern world, would be finished. Oil is gold. It is a speculative medium of exchange. Our country and financial system would not be able to grow if unpredictable terrorist leaders such as Saddam Hussein, would be able to profit off of our demise. People don't think or talk about this topic at all, because it sounds bad. "At War for Oil", it is about control. Sure we have the greatest military in the world, we have power, freedom and safety. They are taken for granted. Electric cars are a great idea, and it would be wonderful for the environment. But every smaller country will be behind in that energy race. Oil will still have an important impact in their economies as ours for some time. But the topic of concern is one that would never be let into the media's hands due to its complexity and nature....If oil was so high, our growth and currency would fall. Businesses would be unable to function due to financial losses. Our people would lose jobs. The most powerful country in the world would be vulnerable to attack, just as we were attacked 7 years ago. Currencies would rally against the dollar. The shit hits the fan though when you cant even fly the jets, fly the helicopters, drive the tanks or keep others off of our soil, because you have no fuel. It is made more and more expensive the more you buy it, just like going to the pump. Puttin out the fires in Kuwait during the Gulf war took over a year to the tune of about 6 billion barrels per day...gone. Every country would hurt. It would be WWIII, and our weapons would be rendered useless. It would be interesting to see if geopolitics, grand strategy, new world order, speculative attack, short run competition and game theory could be understood well enough to be translated to the american people, but then they wouldnt knwo who to vote for. Bombs away.

Yes, it still could be photoshop, but i believe it is similar in form factor to the e90 and the 9300 of the past. External touch screen has a glossy screen surrounding. Interior touch screen, most effectively used with the stylus, the D-pad has a more subdued dark grey. The back of the device is not shown. I would expect a high grade plastic to be used to complement the silver trim that is similar to the rop portion of the rear of the E51 and N85 or N96. This is on the belief that the back would be set down on a table and would only get scratched to oblivion if it were glossy. There could be a possibility to use the high quality light grey plastic that is found on the N96 on the inside and rear surface due to the phone folding. It would be necessary also due to the possible presence of a camera and a standard issue speaker phone. With an uneven rear side due to the presence of "rubberized rails" such as found on the 9300, a battery door could slide off width-wise. This would also give room for a receased speaker phone, which i found is very effective projecting sound into a flat object when it is stationary, a la E51. From a packaging standpoint, this would allow for the battery to be placed farther from the edge of the phone, benefitting in weight distribution. Externally, the way that the metal accents may look opposite, of the other side, but ideally this would aid in the structural integrity of the screens, button pads, battery, card slots, and camera. With screens being used and possibly super thin OLED, massive amounts of room is saved versus traditional keypads, and the devices are able to be created thinner and lighter. A USB port is expected. It is on record that USB will be used to recharge as well as for data transfers. I noticed that the lower picture does not show a speaker for holding it up to your ear on the screen we see alongside the qwerty key pad. Also, the D-pad button colors are of a different layout in the two pictures. If rotating both phones with their keypad to the bottom, the would be viewed as white-white on top, and green-red on the bottom. The bottom picture would view as white-white on top but red-green on the bottom. this would allow the ability to accept or reject calls or incoming information. and be able to continue to work on any other application you have open, without losing the utility of the white buttons associated with the respective function on the work screen. One problem found with the 9300 was as an incoming call or message is received, the entire screen interrupted what you were doing. As we can see with other devices a high resolution screen would allow for a small message to be viewed in the event of a notification and allow one to speak on the phone and refer to the content present on the inside screen. Nokia saw an advantage to the e90 as being able to work on something and be able to transition seamlessly to the inside screen. As for what looks like a qwerty touchscreen, it may be haptic or just a concept. But in both cases, would be limited in functionality of what can be put on that lower screen. There would be no reason to have anything in that format that would have an increased utility compared to using the front screen of the device. I do not think this will be a thin device but should be a more streamlined form factor than that of the E90. The stylus would be integrated somehow. This will still be an E series device. I think we can all agree that the communicator line is business oriented. Regardless, it won't be available soon. I am sure it is around the corner. I would not be surprised if this was $1,000+. And Engadget if you're reading, do you mind throwing me a pair of those Nokia bluetooth headphones from the black friday giveaway?

The wireless Patrick Bateman look. "Because I want...to...fit...in."

Planned obselescence.

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