A couple of weeks ago AT&T announced it would start carrying Nokia's E71x smartphone "in the coming weeks." An
unconfirmed report may have narrowed that time frame down—to just two weeks away on May 4.
According to AT&T, the E71x will go for only $100 with a two-year contract and after a mail-in rebate. Until AT&T picks up the Nokia E71x , you’ll have to pay full price, between $300 and $400, for the Symbian/S60 business phone, as it's only available unlocked and not through a wireless carrier.
The E71x, which at .39 inches thick is one of the slimmest QWERTY smartphones on the market, is a quad-band GSM (850/900/1800/1900), HSDPA (850/1900) 3G world phone that you can use to make calls and access data almost anywhere in the world. It integrates Wi-Fi, GPS and Bluetooth 2.0 with support for wireless stereo headsets.
Additional features include support for microSDH storage expansion cards and a 3.2 megapixel camera with, like many other Nokia devices, a Carl Zeiss lens.
There's also a 320 x 240-pixel resolution QVGA display above the keyboard.
The E71 is Nokia's follow up to the E61 and E62, which AT&T offered back in its Cingular days.
