14 DAY TRIAL // A new Nokia Eseries phone, that until now no one knew of, might soon be released by the Finnish producer. Taking a recently spotted image as authentic (and presenting a handset created by Nokia), we could say that a successor for E51 is close to be unveiled.
The handsets from Nokia's Eseries are widely known as being among the best business-orientated mobile phones on the market. Starting with the E60, E61 and E70 models, released back in 2005, the Eseries devices became very popular among business users and Nokia will surely keep on releasing new products from this family.
Now, about the image with the (supposed) new phone: the picture appeared over at Just Another Mobile Phone Blog, together with the question if the device presented in it is Nokia E52. There are no clear details to make us think this is indeed E52, but by the way the device looks, it is quite possible to be a real Nokia handset.
The phone has a pretty cool slider design and it seems to be a mix between E50, E51 and E65. We have the Symbian interface as well as the easy-recognizable Nokia keypad - details that make the phone almost authentic. What I don't get is why does the photo show the handset working on Cingular networks, since Cingular no longer exists and it changed its name to AT&T. Photoshop-made image? Could be. Another guess is that this is just a slider version of E50 that Nokia never released for who knows what reasons. However, the Cingular detail makes it pretty clear that the phone is not a Chinese-made one, as many Nokia wannabes are.
In the end, assuming this recently unveiled slider phone is only a fake, I can't help thinking that Nokia is most probably already working on a follower for the excellent E51. Which is kind of logically, since the Finnish company made successors for most of its well-received handsets.