Nokia E80

The Nokia E90 was launched at 3GSM in February 2007, the E80 is rumoured to be a more compact, feature reduced version of the E90, it has not as yet been announced (Feb 2007).

There are rumours of a Nokia E80 (and E90) as communicator format Eseries devices on the Telefon-Treff forums here and here, but the E80 (if it comes to fruition) has not formally announced yet.

Here's some food for thought from some very well informed commentators, much refers to the now released E90:

• Steve Litchfield - Possible S60 Communicator
• Rafe Blandford - "S80 development is stopping. I think we'll see an S60 communicator style device before too long"
• Michal Jerz - "Future Communicators will be S60 based", "The new Communicator is in prototype stage. Some developers who have good contacts with Nokia even had a chance to see it at the Smartphone show", "The new Communicator will be S60 3rd Edition (3.1 precisely) based. The internal screen will be VERY HUGE, and the external screen will be S60 as well - thanks to S60 3rd Edition's scalable UI. The keyboard will be large and comfortable, too", and the new Communicator has two screens. The PDA screen inside is really HUUUGE ... VGA or even higher. Because of the large screen, the device is considerably wider than old Commies ... The cover screen is normal S60 3rd Edition, probably 240x320 ... The Communicator is equipped with GPS ... available in March-April 2007
• Mobile Review forum - "The next 9x00 device WILL USE S60, instead of S80" also 3 devices include a Nokia 7710 style device with touch screen?
• Mobile Review forum - further rumours and details? - including E80 due to be announced after 3GSM replacing 9300i. This is the new "small Communicator/Smartphone"
• Shaun McGill - possible new Eseries device
• Nokia - Press briefing (PDF)
• Fony.sk - more rumour coverage

In summary it appears that there are protoypes of an S60 based communicator floating around, and some lucky folks got to see these at The Smartphone Show 2006. Given that the specifications appear to be similar in many ways to those of the Nokia N95 I would not expect the E80 or E90 to ship before the N95, perhaps Q2 2007. Many of the rumours are speculating about an 800x352 screen, which would be very nice and not unlike Nokia's experiments on the 7700, 7710, and 770.

There are plenty of other Specific Phones in the Series 60, Nokia Eseries, and Nokia Nseries ranges, some of which aren't Vapour Ware.