The E62 in North America
<< The E62 isnt nearly as cool as the E61 (no WCDMA, no WiFi), but the price looks pretty good. >>
Supplementing the E61 in EMEA and Asia, the quad-band (850/900/1800/1900) E62 worldphone should provide a nice boost to the Enterprise Division. It's too bad that there is no WLAN, but with a USB 2.0 full-speed Mini-USB connector and Bluetooth 2.0 +EDR this is a heck of a device relative to Cingular's asking price. It may be enough to flip me from Verizon to Cingular, and its a nice lift for Symbian OS v9.1 and S60-3E in North America. I'd like to see T-Mobile USA pick it up.
>> Cingular, Nokia Introduce Nokia E62
Nokia PR
CTIA Wireless IT & Entertainment(Los Angeles, CA)
September 12, 2006
biz.yahoo.com
New, Cingular Exclusive Comes With Broad Messaging Capabilities, Outstanding Browsing Experience, Superb Voice Quality
Cingular Wireless and Nokia (NYSE:NOK) today introduced the Nokia E62 device, a robust, sleek device built specifically for wireless email whose attractive price promises to take superior mobile email access beyond the executive suite and into the hands of the everyday wireless user.
The Nokia E62 device will be available exclusively from Cingular in the U.S. for as low as $149.99. Measuring barely half an inch thick, it features a full QWERTY keyboard with large backlit keys for easy typing, and a sizeable, high-resolution 16 million color screen measuring 320 x 240 pixels.
Whether they're business people or consumers, Nokia E62 device users will have a variety of popular secure email platforms from which to choose. These include Good Mobile Messaging, Cingular Xpress Mail, BlackBerry Connect, Mail for Exchange (direct push corporate email from Microsoft Exchange), the Nokia push solution via Intellisync Mobile Suite from Nokia, and standard clients such as POP3, IMAP and SMTP. In addition, the device includes a pre-loaded instant messaging application.
Beyond email, customers can view, edit and create documents, spreadsheets and presentations. They also can surf the Internet with ease using the device's robust S60 browser, developed by Nokia. This gives them access to a treasure trove of Web content via Cingular's MEdia Net.
"The Nokia E62 device is a game changer that will bring the power of wireless email to just about everyone who wants to experience it," said Kent Mathy, president of the Business Markets Group, Cingular's business-to-business organization. "Nokia has built a rock-solid device with an ultra-thin, modern form factor, support for several popular business and personal wireless email platforms, a great Web browsing experience and unsurpassed Nokia voice quality - all at a great price."
"Nokia and Cingular understand that the user is king in the mobile device world, whether choosing a device for business or personal use," said Mary McDowell, executive vice president and general manager, Nokia Enterprise Solutions. "That's why Nokia E62 offers the most comprehensive features and solutions to manage the complexities of our customers' work and personal lives -- giving new meaning to 'smart and stylish'. Offering the industry's broadest choice of email options, and being IT-ready for any business environment globally, Nokia E62 delivers on the promises of the entire range of Nokia Eseries devices. We are very excited about the opportunity to provide this offering to the US market with Cingular and truly take mobile email to the masses."
The Nokia E62 device boasts exceptional Nokia voice quality with approximately five hours talk time. In addition to a crystal-clear connection, users get such features as speakerphone, six-way conference calling, voice dialing, voice commands for menu shortcuts, and a dedicated voice key for easy use of voice recording.
Cingular customers can use the Nokia E62 device whether they are taking it to the other side of town, across the country or halfway around the world. In the United States, Nokia E62 is powered by Cingular's ALLOVER network, the nation's largest digital wireless voice and data network that has the fewest dropped calls of any national carrier. The nationwide ALLOVER wireless data network, powered by EDGE, is the largest national high-speed wireless data network in the United States with availability in 13,000 cities and towns and along some 40,000 miles of major highways. When abroad, customers can use the Nokia E62 device in more than 180 countries for voice and over 100 countries for data.
"With Nokia E62, Cingular and Nokia have brought everything together - applications, sleek design, and price all on the nation's largest national high speed wireless data network - to make it even easier for consumers and business customers to experience what is today the key application in wireless data, namely, email," Mathy said. "Once customers experience the power and convenience of wireless email, they are naturally inclined to try and use the broad array of other wireless data capabilities we make available."
Nokia E62 will be available beginning September 29, 2006 in Cingular Wireless retail stores nationwide, select national retailers, on www.cingular.com and through Cingular's B2B direct sales organization.
For more information on Nokia E62, please go to cingular.com <<
>> Rogers Wireless Scores Nokia E62 First
James Alan Miller
September 8, 2006
pdastreet.com
Canada's Rogers Wireless today became the first North American mobile operator to deliver Nokia's new E62 smartphone to customers. The Canadian carrier beat out Cingular Wireless, who is expected to start delivering the BlackBerry/Q/Treo competitor in the U.S. later this month.
The E62 falls into what is known generally as communicator territory, meaning it is a compact smartphone designed for one-handed use with a QWERTY thumb-keyboard. Rogers is pricing the device at $250 (Canadian) with a three-year service contract. Data plans start at about $45.
Reportedly, when Cingular eventually drops the E62, it may go for even less - as little as $99 with service - than Motorola's Q, which is being offered for $199 by Verizon right now.
Although the E62 supports a number of different wireless e-mail options, including Nokia Intellisync, Good's GoodLink, DataViz's RoadSync for Microsoft Exchange and RIM's BlackBerry Connect service, Roger's is only going to deliver one over-the-air push option, MyMail (powered by Visto), out-of-the-box. Cingular's XpressMail service is Visto-run as well.
Nonetheless, "As the first carrier in North America to offer the E62," said Rogers senior VP John Boynton, "Rogers business customers will be able to save time by having access to the latest in mobile innovation and e-mail connectivity."
The E62, which is targeted at consumers and business, also offers a built-in MP3 player, video player and gallery to view images, plus game applications. Something that won't appeal to the general public is the lack of a camera, however.
For the past few months, Nokia has been shipping a sister smartphone to the E62, the E61, in Europe and Asia. The only real difference between the two is that the E61 includes Wi-Fi and high-speed UMTS cellular-broadband technology, and the E62 does not.
Otherwise, the E62 is the same Symbian 9.1, S60 3rd Edition and quad-band (850/900/1800/1900) GSM/GPRS smartphone. It does support the less speedy but far more widely available EDGE network data standard.
The E62 also has a four-way joystick, 235 MHz processor, wide 2.8-inch 320 x 240-pixel resolution and 16 million color screen, 90 MB of internal memory, Bluetooth, miniSD slot for up to 2GB of extra memory and USB connectivity.
It weighs around 5 ounces and measures 4.61 x 2.76 x 0.63 inches; slightly larger than a Q, but smaller than a Treo.
The QWERTY thumb-keyboard appears to be a little different than the E61's, adding a My Own button, which is a user-configurable shortcut key, and there's both a mini USB port and 2.5 millimeter headset jack.
It features Nokia's newest Web browser, which promises superior page rendering, zooming and narrow page layouts for a PC-like viewing experience.
Although Nokia is both the largest mobile phone, shipping 78 million handsets last quarter alone, and smartphone company in the world, it has had trouble breaking into the North American market; where RIM's BlackBerry devices now command upwards of a 40 percent share, Palm's Treos continue to do well - in spite of recent trouble - and Windows Mobile-based devices from the likes of Motorola (with the Q) and others - mostly built by OEM HTC - are growing in popularity.
The E62 is seen by many as Finnish phone giant’s chance to finally stake its claim here. <<
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