Nokia’s E7 to be introduced next week at Nokia World expo

9th September, 2010 by adina
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Nokia’s preparations for the first in-house Nokia World expo may include the first mainstream touchscreen phone in the Eseries, according to leaks recently revealed. The E7 is a touchscreen QWERTY device and is expected to show at the event scheduled for September 14th. More details have not been provided, but the device may be a Symbian^3-based slider with reminiscences of the N9, which used MeeGo.

The event in London should also confirm that the N8 is at last shipping, after seven months from its introduction. There are also expectations for other new smartphones to arrive but they were not mentioned.

Nokia is trying to modernize its smartphone line which is aging rapidly and therefore is insisting on the successes of its E7 and N8 phones. The share of the company is breaking down both in smartphones and cellphone arena, as a consequence of Google’s Android and Apple’s iPhone taking away its customers. Even these days, most of Nokia’s smartphones do not use touch and are using an updated version of Symbian S60 that is only modified for finger input. Another serious problem for the company has been its frequent delays in shipping phones near their unveiling dates, most deliveries reaching half a year delays. Meanwhile, their features are already implemented by other companies.

Symbian^3 and MeeGo will bring multi-touch for Nokia’s phones more than three years later than Apple’s first phone with this feature. They would, however, provide more recent technology for web browsing and would eliminate those elements of interface that have held back the old Symbian S60.


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