Hard to believe we had to wait until 2007, but here we are, finally able to say Symbian, 3G, and US all in the same sentence. Even after last week's
misfire launch of the N75, Nokia's uber-hot flip phone made its way into our grubby hands under
more legitimate circumstances than last time. Knowing how slim HTC made the Star Trek, it's hard to call the N75 anything but a little chunky, but besides having, you know, 3G, it's got a few other things going for it: we really dug the classy black, copper-flecked finish, but crack it open and it's got a very spacious keypad and large bright screen (littered with Cingular app-swag). We took a ton of shots of this thing, including some size comparison's to Nokia's other Cingular handset, the E62, as well as the aforementioned Star Trek. Launch is thankfully still scheduled for sometime in May (i.e. this month) -- we can almost taste it.
Update: We just got an official launch date! The N75 will go on sale tomorrow (Friday, May 4th) for the price of $200 (with two year agreement and with $50 mail in rebate).
posted May 3rd 2007 at 1:26PM
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Mike @ May 3rd 2007 2:20PM
Why isn't this being branded under AT&T?
Matt @ May 3rd 2007 3:00PM
Because Nokia manufactured like 17,500 of them with the Cingular branded logo for launch, which had to get shipped back and reprogrammed for the Windows Media DRM crap, delaying the launch for months (and pushing the phone into near-vaporware-status), so now they have all these "new" 6-month-old handsets that will ship on launch tomorrow. I would suspect the phones being mfr'd now will have the at&t logo. Personally I think the splat and Cingy font is more attractive than that lower-case bubbly font at&t chose to "appear to the youth." Meh.
Al @ May 3rd 2007 3:44PM
Buy it on Amazon for $50 with contract and use the savings for a new (Cingular free) shell as soon as they hit ebay
paul @ May 3rd 2007 6:09PM
why does cingular (att) have to change the keypad to their liking. just leave the phone in its original state.
Check the original keypad:
http://www.gsmarena.com/nokia_n75-pictures-1715.php
Cingular is known to screw around with the OS too. I would rather pay full price for the phone than use a phone with all the junk that cingular installs on the phone.
MinceyFresh @ May 3rd 2007 7:54PM
Aarg, and suddenly the N75 mysteriously disappears from Yahoo! Go 2.0's compatibility list! What is wrong with this world???
carlo @ May 3rd 2007 10:49PM
I just saw one today in Mya's (R&B singer) latest music video... the way it closes up as a camera seems kind of cool.
tnkgrl @ May 6th 2007 7:51AM
Here's my experience with the N75 so far: http://tnkgrl.wordpress.com/tag/n75/