Nokia unveiled at the posh Pacific Plaza Towers in Fort Bonifacio last Wednesday the all-new, all-inclusive Nokia E90 Communicator. The latest E-series handset bristles with advanced technologies that will allow faster and better access to important information for greater productivity on the go.
The new E90 Communicator, which has a retail price of P45,360, promises to raise the “mobile office” experience to new heights. Fast and inexpensive connections over Wi-Fi and HSDPA-enhanced 3G networks accelerate the mobile use of data- and transmission-rich applications.
The interface to business and leisure apps and the Internet, the stunning Nokia S60 browser, with 16 million colors, is capable of displaying the full width of a Web page at once.
The Nokia E90 Communicator is now based on the S60 platform, making a wealth of additional mobile applications available to its users. It also has an integrated GPS and Nokia Maps application to provide help in finding routes and locating services.
The E90 is equipped with an FM radio, a music player, a video player and two cameras — a 3.2-megapixel auto-focus camera with flash and a second camera for videoconferencing.
At 210 grams, the E90 is actually 20 grams lighter than the 9500 Communicator, but 38 grams heavier than the 9300i. When viewed from the front, the E90 is about the height and thickness of the compact 9300/9300i while retaining the same width as the 9500 at 132 x 57 x 20mm.
Inside the E90 is a display with an impressive 800x352-pixel resolution in 16 million colors — up from 640x200 pixels on the earlier Communicators. The external display is now 240x320 pixels (up from 128x128), and pretty much all of the E90’s functions can be controlled from the front cover, rather than the 9500/9300/9300i, which allowed access to basic phone functions only. The 800-pixel wide display is ideal for no-compromise Web access, although it doesn’t have touch-screen support.
E-mail support includes standard SMTP/POP3 protocols, various push e-mail options, and instant messaging and it even comes with a text-to-speech reader.
Network support is quad-band GSM (850/900/1800/1900 MHz) plus 2100 MHz UMTS (3G), GPRS and EDGE. Significantly, the Nokia E90 does include HSDPA support allowing for download speeds of up to 3.6Mbit/second. On top of this the E90 comes with 802.11g Wi-Fi.
It includes a document editor called Quickoffice, which can view Microsoft Office documents, work with Zip files and PDFs, and there’s a comprehensive set of Personal Information Management tools. Because this is an S60 device, more applications can be added.
“The tipping point for widespread adoption of business mobility is upon us, and it will take new levels of performance, greater functionality and interoperability, and broad access to mobility solutions beyond the executive suite for customers and operators to realize the benefits of anytime, anywhere productivity and collaboration,” said William Hamilton-Whyte, general manager of Nokia Philippines.
“Now business users, and the operators and carriers that serve them, can demand a new standard of business devices combining both beauty and brains without compromise, and that is what the Nokia Eseries delivers,” he added.
”We’re making it easy for business professionals to get mobilized. Feedback from our customers shows that we are changing the way business is conducted in a mobile world. We are responding to the growing requirements of business customers with the new generation Nokia E90 Communicator that will exceed their expectations and deliver an uncompromised experience,” Hamilton-Whyte said.
Another further strength is the combination of the E90 Communicator with the Nokia Intellisync Mobile Suite 8.0 platform, which significantly enhances the potential for businesses to achieve new levels of productivity and competitive advantage.
These Nokia solutions also provide operators and carriers opportunities to grow their businesses with competitive new solutions for their business customers, which comprise one-third of operators’ revenues today.