Photos of Nokia E51 next to Nextel I335

Left to right, Nextel IDEN i335, Nokia e51, and Motorola v9m. Compare the thin devices. The one on the right is the thinnest, and it's a flip!Farthest is the Nextel, Closest is the Moto V9m. Again, the Moto flip RAZR2 is the thinnest.

Here is the box the Nokia e51 comes in with the device itself on top of the box.
Not much to see on this angle. This is the top of the device.
Here is how large the Nokia e51 is next to some other well known devices.



The bottom sports the charging jack with the small pin, the mini-USB data connector, and the standard 3.5mm headset jack.

comparison pictures of n95 and n82

Nextel ic902 PowerSource iDEN / Sprint PCS EvDO Phone

Size of Nextel ic902 compared to Motorola K1m. You can see front display, 2mp camera, and LED flash.From this angle, you can see the camera, push to talk button, 2.5mm headset jack (covered), microSD slot (covered in the side of the lid portion), and speakerphone button, and the stop/hangup button.
This is with both flips open. Nice, large, QVGA screen.
You can see here in the side of the open flip that there is a camera button as well as 3 media player buttons. On the side of the body besides the keypad is the mini-USB data/charging connector.
Looks like it has stereo speakers, though I haven't been able to verify. Keypad is spacious, and has good tactile feedback.

Initial thoughts.

All I can say, nice. I'm trying to use this phone as a day to day phone to see how it works. Relatively compact.

* Has a button to auto open the spring loaded flip.
* QVGA internal screen with many colors
* Color external screen
* VoiceSignal voice recognition!!! :)
* External antenna with pretty good reception, can see when CDMA service is available but no Nextel.
* Holster is nice
* Charges via mini-USB
* Fast EvDO network
* On the fly group network creation for iDEN
* Bluetooth
* MicroSD slot
* 2.5mm headset jack
* 2mp camera with ok flash
* music controls external so can use as mp3 player
* interface is now using Sprint Java interface, not the iDEN interface
* works well with Google Maps, Hosted GMail app, GMail app, and
* Sprint Navigation works well, but EATS BATTERY. Uses TeleNav service.
* Works with Sprint TV and other native Sprint services

Negatives:
* Battery life has been questionable, I'm going to order the extended battery to see how it works there
* Speakerphone is muffled. Far end complains can barely hear or sounds muffled
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Nokia N82 - Good N95 evolution?

Positives:
* 5mp camera, EXCELLENT xenon flash
* Much snappier camera experience than N95
* Orientation sensor senses vertical or horizontal orientation
* Include 2gig memory card
* RF seems just a tad worse than the N95. The N95 and Motorola V9 are my RF champions
* Keypad looks small and hard to press, but is very good because there is a good distance around the buttons and they stick up nice and far
* New battery, B6m I believe, which is bigger, but battery life is yet to be determined
* still has WiFi
* TruPhone SIP still works
* Mail4Exchange still works (download N95 version, installs fine)
* MicroUSB connector for data transfer

Negatives:
* Keypad buttons are a bit small
* Radio is only a quad-band EDGE/GPRS/GSM and only does WCDMA 2100 (ideally would do quad band edge 850/900/1800/1900 and tri-band 3g 850/1900/2100.)
* Large size
* Finger prints easily
* Still needs the small pin Nokia charger (why not charge over USB?)
* MicroUSB, not MiniUSB

Nextel i335... Long Live iDen !!!

Size comparison. Left to right, Moto K1m, Moto iDEN i335, Motorola ic902 PowerSource.From the other angle, left to right, Motorola ic902, Motorola i335, Motorola K1m KRZR
You can see the nice large keypad. It is rubber covered.
On the backside, the whole rubberized cover comes off in one piece. You can also see the PTT Push To Talk button as well as the volume up/down and the 2.5mm/Mini-USB headset jack covered by the plug cover.

The Nextel i335 iDEN phone is, well, old school. A small low resolution 130x130 screen with what appears 4096 colors. You can see the large pixels, and it is an odd resolution, so it appears many of the prompts and screens are missing the bottoms of the boxes and such.

Surprisingly, there are many pluses to this phone, which I was inclined to not like. Positives include:

* thin design (for a Nextel)
* rubber coating on back plate and button pad
* large dial buttons
* charges via mini-USB charger!!! :)
* internal antenna (first iDEN phone with internal antenna?)
* battery lasts long
* battery charges FAST
* feels very durable, easy to use
* standard 2.5mm headset jack
* bluetooth
* reception is either better than or equal to a Nextel i850 pure iDEN phone (was holding onto a signal where i850 had no service or cutting in and out in Alameda, CA.. seems to refresh network faster as well).
Rubber covers that really seal out dust!

Negatives:
* no voice dialing
* low resolution/small screen
* slow iDEN data network
* screen scratches very easily
* no holster included

Shipping with 2 Batteries and Keyboards

This is what I feel is a thumboard or keyboard with a good layout. Notice that the BlackBerries use a very similar layout. This is a HTC TyTN2 AT&T Tilt
This is an HTC Mogul, which has a very similar layout. This makes transitioning from device to device quick and easy.

The new trend in phones, include 2 batteries to take care of short battery life. This is a Samsung i760...

One battery is 1040 mah and the other 1500 mah.


The AT&T Motorola Q9 world also includes two batteries.

QWERTY Keyboard Thumboards

Visual comparison of different QWERTY slider phones. Samsung i760, Sprint HTC Mogul xv6800, AT&T Tilt HTC TyTN2, and Nokia N810 Internet Tablet.

Keyboard on the Nokia N810 internet table up close. Note that they key layout is somewhat funky, but very useable. The and bottom alpha row (starting with the Z under the A, instead of under the S key like most other keyboards) is off by one character, but overall, useable, and the key is nice. Keys need more click, somewhat mushy.

This is the Samsung i760 keyboard. Somewhat cramped, and only 3 rows with the funky space bar and key layout as well. Hard to hit the top row as it's too close to the slider, but the keys have a good tactile feedback and feel.

Here is the Motorola Q9 world. It comes from AT&T shipped with two batteries. One is 1800mah (the thick one) and the thin one is a bit over 1100mah.

Here is a Motorola Q9m (Verizon) next to a Moto Q9 world. You can see the keyboard layouts are completely different. The Q9m only comes with one battery. Seems to have slightly better voice quality. The Q9m uses a standard mini-USB charging/data port, while the Q9 world uses a funky new micro-USB which doesn't make sense in a device of this size since there's plenty of space for a standard mini-USB jack.

Size Comparisons

This set of pictures will attempt to show the difference of size of devices. We have some of everything here. AT&T Tilt/HTC TyTN2/Kaiser, Moto Q9m, Moto Q9 world, BlackBerry 8830, Samsung BlackJack 2 II, HTC Mogul, Motorola KRZR K1m, Samsung i760, Nokia N95-3 RM160, Sony Ericsson K850i, Apple iPhone 8g, BlackBerry 8320 UMA, Nokia N810 internet tablet, Motorola V9m. Slide open QWERTY keyboards can be seem above.
Here is the relative thickness of the devices. Left to right: Mogul, V9m K850i, TyTN2, BB 8320, Nokia N95, iPhone, N810, BlackJack2, i760, K1m, Q9m, 8830, Q9 world.


Notice most devices are running the mini-USB jack. The exception here is the left device which has a micro-USB even though it has space for a mini-usb. Left to right: Moto Q9 world, BlackBerry 8830, BB 8320, Moto Q9m, Moto KRZR.
Keyboard comparison. The new Moto Q9 keyboard are very spacious, easy to type on, good tactile feedback. Bad key layout (no backspace key), and the key layout if funky (shift key on right side of keyboard).
One more pic of all the slides.

Windows Mobile 6 Standard Edition aka, Smartphone

Currently looking at the Samsung BlackJack 2 on AT&T (BJ2), Motorola Q9m on Verizon, and Motorola Q9 on GSM AT&T.

Also using the AT&T Tilt/HTC Kaiser/HTC TyTN2 and HTC Advantage/Athena and Samsung i760 in Windows Mobile 6 Professional (aka phone edition).

Finally, non-smart phone, Motorola V9m on Sprint PCS and Sony Ericsson K850i on Cingular/AT&T.

On the BlackBerry front, There is the 8320 Curve with UMA on TMobile and the 8830 world edition on Sprint PCS with both CDMA, EVDO and GSM support.