As with all 'flagship' devices that are announced, there's been the usual lengthy delay before the Nokia E90 is available in stores, during which people's expectations rise and rise, hailing the device as salvation from smartphone hell. The E90 Communicator is a capable document handler and, with the default Quickoffice 3.85 and other applications, will almost always let you view whatever you've been sent. Moreover, it's easy to create new documents, to get a rough draft of an idea down, with that large display. With the keyboard being rather stiff, writing anything lengthy is going to be a bit of chore though.

Working on the Web is a bit more hit and miss, with the more dynamic and interactive sites (e.g. Google Documents) being simply too much for the S60 browser, and more traditional content (including banking and shopping) working superbly. It's possible that there may be minor additions to Web's capabilities for the final E90 firmware and, of course, web sites themselves are also hopefully working to improve their compatibility with different mobile solutions, but we don't expect the situation outlined above to change markedly.

So... is it possible to take a Nokia E90 on the road with you instead of a laptop? Certainly, for a day or two, but much longer than this and there will probably be too many caveats and things you'll have to start batching up 'to do' when you get back home, to your PC or Mac.

technical specifications:

General & Hardware:

• Date Announced 2007, 1Q
• Network Technology HSDPA/ UMTS / GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
• Hardware/Processor 330 Mhz ARM processor
• Dimensions (mm) 132 x 57 x 20
• Weight (g) 210
• Available colours Red, Mocha
• Screen Size 800 x 352 (External: 240 x 320)
• Screen Color TFT 16 Million colors
• Type Others
• Navigation Key 5 way Navigation Key
• Antenna Fixed Internal
• Internal(MB) 128
• Memory Slot microSD (T-Flash), up to 2GB, Hotswap
• Battery Type Li - Ion 1500 mAh
• Stand-by (hrs) 330
• TalkTime(min) 300

Entertainment

• Polyphonic MP3 Yes
• FM Radio Yes
• TV Receiver Null
• Video Record Yes, 30 fps
• Video Support H.263, H.264/AVC, MPEG-4, RealVideo 7,8,9/10
• Audio Support AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, MP3, MP4, M4A, WMA, AMR (NB-AMR), MIDI Tones (poly 64), Mobile XMF, RealAudio 7,8,10, SP-MIDI, True tones (WB-AMR)
• Voice Support Recording, Speaker

Messaging

• SMS Yes
• MMS Yes
• EMS No
• Email Yes
• Push-To-Talk Yes

Connectivity

• HSDPA Yes
• WIFI/WLAN 802.11b/g
• 3G Yes
• EDGE Yes
• GPRS Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots)
• Bluetooth Yes, version 2.0 (A2DP)
• USB Port Yes
• Infrared (IrDA) Yes

Software

• Platform / OS Symbian 9.2 - Series 60 user interface, 3rd Edition Feature Pack 1
• Java (J2ME) Yes ,MIDP 2.0, CLDC 1.1
• WAP Yes Ver 2.0
• Browser XHTML, HTML
• Other Application GPS SiRFStar III, Document viewer(Excel,Word, Powerpoint, PDF), Zip

Personals

• Themes Yes
• Caller ID Photo ID, Video ID
• ProfileID Yes
• Camera Specifications
• Lens Type CMOS, 3.2 Megapixel
• Digital zoom 20x
• Max. Resolution 2048x1536 (Secondary : 320 x 240)
• Flash Yes
• Night Mode Yes
• Multi Shot Yes

Extra Features

• Auto Focus, Red-Eye Reduction, Self Timer
• Photo Format
• Video Yes, 30 fps
• Video Format MPEG-4, H.263 (640 x 480)