Nokia has unveiled today a new platform called Series 90. The first device of this new family is the Nokia 7700:

The phone has a huge 640 x 320 screen with 64K colors and touch panel. There is no more keyboard but the device supports handwriting recognition (and a virtual keyboard). The phone is 165cc (133.7 x 79.5 x 21.5 mm) for 183 g. The 7700 has 25 MB of internal user storage memory and comes with a 64 MB MMC card (up to 128 MB supported). Like on the Sendo device, the MMC card is now hot-swappable.

Like the 6600, the phone is powered by Symbian OS v7.0s. With the integrated Opera 6.0, this is probably the best device for wireless web access so far.

The business user will like the integrated Word, Spreadsheet and Presentation viewer applications (all of them support the corresponding Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint format).

Other features include:
  Triband GSM / GPRS / EDGE support
  VGA camera
  USB and Bluetooth,
  FM Radio,
  Skinnable UI,
  MIDP 2.0 with JSR 120, 135 and 82
  html 4.01, xhtml 1.0 and 1.1, WML 1.3, SSL 3.0 / TLS 1.0, ECMAScript, JavaScript, CSS and Wap CSS
  Macromedia Flash 5 support
  3GPP-SMIL, MMS, email
  MP3, AAC, AMR, WAV, AU, Midi, Real Audio
  3GP and MP4 video (H263 and MPEG4 encoding)
  GIF, JPEG, PNG, TIFF,...
  SyncML 1.1.1
  OMA DRM 1.0

Shipment is expected to begin in Europe, Africa and Asia Pacific during Q2-2004.