You can’t wait until Nokia North American E71 will show in stores? This is not a problem. Now this toy are availabe in Chicago flashgip store, complete with a QWERTY keyboard and US-friendly 3G. This Nokia costs $483 (plus tax) in addition to a roundtrip ticket to Chi-town.

Newly released Nokia E71 now has luxury edition. Created by Goldstriker- famous company from UK, which are making dresses in precious metals. The newest one - Nokia E71 comes plated with 24 carat gold. For me it looks bad, but some business mans, who aren’t thinking about style, who are thinking about that, how much does it costs, they will buy this Gold Plated Nokia E71. This phone costs 1100 USD or 690 Euros.

So all E61i owners can be happy. This new update fixes a lot of bugs from earlier version. I recomment to upload newest firmware to Your Nokie.

This changes were maded:

Messaging
* Reading of SMS time stamp information unified between regions
* SMS sending from SIM Toolkit - Profile 07 improved
* Unicode Handling with Turkish characters corrected
* Correction to fetching email from freemail server
* Intellisync: Slowness of searching a contact for the first time corrected

Others
* Operator name list updated
* Start-up settings updated
* Settings Wizard updated
* Start-up date changed to 1.1.2008
* Correction of DRMClock behaviour with NITZObserver with negative time zone values

Nokia’s latest E series phone with QWERTY keyboard. But we are very surprised: this phone is very slim (10mm thick) and have nice design like phone-computer. Now about system… It has WiFi, HSDPA, A-GPS and even a 3.2 megapixel camera and a front facing camera for video calls like as others E phones. The battery is better than E66- it can work on standby mode about 20 days, 10.5 hours of GSM talk or 4.5 hours of 3G talk. This phone is very similar like E66. E71 has 110MB space on it, but you can add mircoSD card. We will choose from two colors- “white steel” and “grey steel”. The E71 are arriving in the USA with full 3G bands. Unfortunately, the $500-ish pricetag isn’t quite alluring.

Hot news from E series world. Nokia E66 S60 slider goes official. It suports GSM, EDGE, WCDMA and HSDPA bands, the phone is slated for a Q3 release this year. So in this phone you will find 3.2 megapixel auto-focus camera, along with front camera for video calls, Wi-Fi, A-GPS, 3.6mbps web browsing and a 2.4-inch QVGA screen. Battery is nice: 14 days of standby, 7.5 hours of talk on GSM and 3.5 hours of talk on 3G. There is 110MB memory only, but you can add microSD card up to 8GB. You will choose from “grey steel” or “white steel”. Design of this phone is very slim and nice for our eyes. Nokia says that price will be under 500$. So we can just wait this product in shops.

While all the attention was focused on the Mobile World Congress, held last week in Barcelona, the company quietly Nokia event held in Sydney, Australia. They show a new image of a business smartphone Nokia E71, which will replace the market Nokia E61. The device is made in the same form factor - monoblock with integrated QWERTY-keyboard. We have mentioned in the news about this device, which first entered the Internet rumors.

At the presentation held in Sydney Nokia reported that the new Nokia E71 considerably less predecessor: its length is 57 mm and the thickness - only 10 mm. Of the characteristics referred to the support of third-generation networks (including HSDPA standard), Wi-Fi, maps microSDHC format, as well as the availability of the GPS receiver built, and 3.2 - Mp camera. The official announcement Nokia E71 will be held, most likely at CeBIT.