14 DAY TRIAL // Nokia N78, the yet unreleased new N-series handset first announced in February at the MWC 2008, was recently approved by FCC and will almost certainly be released in the US via AT&T.
No details about when exactly that will happen, but it could be next month or, in the worst case, somewhere in the second half of 2008.
Announced together with Nokia N96, the Nseries flagship, Nokia N78 is a good-looking candybar that resembles N77, the handsets that it succeeds, and also has some similarities with Nokia N82. Not that this is a bad thing.
Weighing 101.8 grams and measuring 113 x 49 x 15.1 millimeters, the N78 will bring users, as expected from a Neries phone, a wide range of advanced features. The handset runs on Symbian OS S60 3.2 and offers quad-band GSM and dual-band 3G/UMTS connectivity, GPRS, HSCSD, EDGE, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g, built-in GPS receiver, A-GPS, Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP, miniUSB 2.0, email, Internet browser and Instant Messaging. Furthermore, the phone comes with a 2.4 inch TFT display (16 million colors and 240 x 320 pixels) and a 3.15 Megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics, flash, auto focus, geotagging and video recording. The music features of N78 are also among its highlights, including Media player with MP3, M4A, AAC, eAAC+ and WMA support, stereo FM radio, FM transmitter, stereo speakers and 3.5 mm audio output jack.
There is no info about how much Nokia N78 will cost at AT&T. Anyway, it looks like AT&T is getting all the cool new phones lately. Sony Ericsson K850 is in the carrier's plans for an approaching release, Motorola Z9 was also spotted, and something tells me that when Nokia N96 hits the US, it will be via AT&T. Well, it wouldn't be a surprise ? after all, AT&T is the largest mobile carrier in North America.