14 DAY TRIAL // The E71, one of the two new Eseries smartphones that Nokia has recently started selling, will be soon available across Canada. While lots of users might expect the handset to be picked by Rogers, the largest Canadian mobile carrier, it seems that the only operator to offer the E71 will be Fido. Of course, Fido is Rogers' subsidiary, but it's still a different carrier, with its own customers.
For the moment, Fido has not come up with any details regarding the new Eseries handset, but if we're to believe MobileSyrup, which quotes a Nokia insider, the E71 will be available for Canadian users starting November. The smartphone's price is not known yet, but it's worth noting that, in the US, Nokia is selling it for 500 USD free of contact. This would mean about 530 CAD, on the same no-contract agreement conditions.
Launched globally together with the E65 slider, the E71 is one of Nokia's thinnest handsets as well as one of the thinnest smartphones on the market (its dimensions are 114 x 57 x 10 millimeters, at 127 grams).
The features of Nokia E71 include: Symbian S60 3rd Edition, a full QWERTY keyboard, a 2.36 inch TFT landscape display with 16 million colors and 240 x 320 pixels, quad-band GSM and dual-band HSDPA connectivity, Wi-Fi, GPS/A-GPS and Nokia Maps, full HTML browser, push email, document viewer/editor, Music and Video players, Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP, Push to talk, a 3.15 Megapixel camera, 110MB of internal memory and so on.
Fido's current line-up of handsets built by Nokia includes only four models: 3500, 5200, 6555 and 6001. The E71 would surely be a nice addition to the Canadian carrier's offering, and it would also be one of its most advanced mobile devices.
Hopefully, the E71 will indeed be available across Canada starting November (or even earlier), regardless of who will sell it.