Gizmodo: N75

Sling Steps Outside With SlingPlayer Mobile for Symbian S60

Jason Chen — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 06:30:33 EDT

SlingPlayer mobile, the app that lets you watch all your TV shows on your cellphone streamed from your SlingBox, has just launched in the US for $29, Canada for $34, and the UK for £19. It's the same basic functionality—although this has streaming support over 3G and/or Wi-Fi and landscape fullscreen support—but now supporting Nokia N95, N75, and E65. Good news for N95 users as well, as Sling's going to provide the client free to all owners. Now there's absolutely no excuse to cry spoiler alert when people talk about Heroes the next morning if you can watch it while you drive to work. [Slingmedia]

SlingPlayer Mobile for Symbian S60 Looking for Guinea Pigs

Matt Buchanan — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 16:29:23 EDT

Sling Media's now taking applications for beta testers for SlingPlayer Mobile for Symbian S60 phones—Nokia models N75, N95, and E65, specifically. The beta's US only and will run for four weeks, and you'll be expected to keep your lips sealed about confidential information (that'll happen). Oh, and obviously, "Unlimited data plan is a MUST." If you're on AT&T, that should make for a fun itemized bunker buster at the end of the month. [Beta Signup via GigaOM]

Nokia N75 Priced and Released

Jason Chen — Fri, 04 May 2007 14:20:56 EDT

We were a little off with our prediction, but the Nokia N75 has just been priced at $199.99. It technically should be on the AT&T store soon, but we're not seeing it right now.

We'll update this post when it is. In the meantime, read our review here.– Jason Chen

Product Page [Cingular via Slashphone]

Nokia N75 Review and Gallery: Hands on the First Official N-Series Phone

Brian Lam — Thu, 03 May 2007 20:00:22 EDT

This morning, I woke up to find a virginal Nokia N75, still in its shrink-wrap, delivered to my waiting arms, waiting to be unpacked, clicked through and reviewed. A refresher for those of you who haven't been paying attention: The series 60 Symbian phone is notable because it's the first N-series Nokia to be picked up by a US carrier. It takes advantage of Cingy's UMTS 850 / 1900 to rock 3G speeds, and it's packed with the N-series multimedia goodness like the 2MP camera, 352 x 288 pixel video cam. It's a potent handset, and you should be glad it's here in the US and not yet another business oriented smart phone.

Like its bigger brother, there are endless lists of features worth knowing about: In fact, it has most of the main features the N95 does, minus the more potent camera and GPS, and video podcasts (UPDATE: can download the app, along with the map application without GPS.) But the N75 has 3G network speeds, and a somehow snappier feeling OS. And it's subsidized at $200 after $50 rebate, with a two-year contract, so it's about a quarter the price of the N95 flagship.

Before you dive into the gallery tour below, you'll be happy to know this: Even though carriers have traditionally been pretty scared of the openness and power of the N-series Nokia phones, Cingular hasn't neutered the N75's smartphone-ness.
Here's a gallery of the hardware, screenshots, and even some sample shots taken with the camera phone.

And here's a complete rundown of what the powerful phone has to offer:

Sure, the menus are tarted up with Cingular branded stores and many of the powerful apps, like the Office doc readers, are really trial ware. But you can go ahead and install your J2ME and S60 apps, like the Google Maps, GMail, Shozu, and Opera browser we did. And you can transfer to and browse the file system over Bluetooth.

The music section, which the N95 doesn't have, is particularly interesting. There's a pay-per-month service for identifying music (á la Sony Ericsson's Free TrackID). And a link to the Yahoo Unlimited Music Store, which didn't work (despite the link on the phone, you can only sideload). UPDATE: To purchase music, you have to sideload from a PC. This is strange considering you can access the store from the phone itself. But that's so you can check out the store and mark them so that next time you're on your PC, you can mark them and DL.

Here's a list of the mountain of functions the phone has:
Main Menu
Video Download (Browser linked to Real player, UPDATED:~~free~~ subscription clips, goes full screen)
Messaging (SMS, TXT)
Call Log
MEdia Net (Browser)
Mall (Buy media crap)
Music (Cingular's interesting music app menu — see below)
My Stuff (Media Gallery for images, music and vids)
Address book
Games and Apps
IM & EMail (Email: Bellsouth, AT&T, Yahoo, AOL, AIM, MSN. Chat: AIM, MSN, Yahoo, with logging)

Tools
Notes
Clock
Camera
Voice Recorder
Calendar
Web Browser
Tutorial
Flash Player
Calculator
Adobe PDF Reader
Quick Office (Trialware for office format reader)
Zip Utility
Converter
Help
About
Radio
Realplayer

Settings
Speed Dial
Voice Mail
Transfer (From one symbian phone to another)
Profiles
Config
Voice Command
3d Tones
Themes
Voice Aid
Infrared
Bluetooth
Data Cable Modes
File Manager
App Manager
Memory Manager
Connection Manager
Speech
Msg Reader
Dev. Manager
Sync

Music
Music (files, playback)
Music ID (Subscription, $4 a month)
MobiRadio (Subscription)
Shop Music (Seems useless — will go to Yahoo! Unlimited, but you have to sideload from a PC.)
Music Videos (Cingular's store)
Billboard (More Cingular's content)
Community (Cingular's)
Music Apps (store)

Games and Apps (this is where your j2me and S60 apps show up after you've installed them)
Lifeblog (uploads all your images and text to a typepad blog, over the network)
Ebay Trial (Ebay app)
Lumines
Tetris
3d Pool
MobiTV
And all the other apps I installed.

The speakers are tooth-sized, but super loud. And the camera needs a lens cover, because when it get dirty, shots end up looking terrible. But clean 2mp shots are great, if not a little grainy compared with a full digicam. Best results occur when you're using the shot mode, white balance, or flash. ~~The video/image modes are annoying to switch between~~ (UPDATED: Actually, there is a dedicated button to switch modes next to the shutter). And I like the sequence/time lapse mode. (See the samples in my gallery.)
UPDATE: I forgot to mention the external screen — can be used as a music player screen (using the dedicated buttons, or a viewfinder for the video and photo camera. (It's a decent 160 x 128, at 1.6 inches wide, diagonally.) You can actually control the music player and do everything but make playlists from the external controls, which are called quick cover.

Overall, good job Cingular for not messing up a good thing. I highly recommend this phone. – Brian Lam

N75 [Nokia]

N75 Pricing: $100 or $150?

Jason Chen — Wed, 02 May 2007 21:40:40 EDT

We know that the Nokia N75 is going to hit AT&T very soon now, but a tipster just dropped in a note about how much it's going to cost. He says the AT&T store cost is a little north of $300, so you can probably expect about $100 or $150 to be the price you'll pay with a two-year contract agreement. Not too bad a price, actually. – Jason Chen

Thanks tipster!

Nokia N75 Hitting AT&T "Imminently?"

Adam Frucci — Wed, 02 May 2007 13:40:00 EDT

We've been waiting for the Nokia N75 to hit ~~Cingular~~AT&T for months, but it looks like our long, painful wait may be coming to an end. Reports have it that the phone's launch is "imminent."

What do AT&T customers have to look forward to when the phone launches? Well, it's AT&T's first 3G Nokia offering, sporting a 2MP camera and music-playing capabilities as well as a Symbian-based OS. It looks to be a pretty solid device, so although there's no word on price don't expect to get this one for $29.95 with a two-year contract. –Adam Frucci

Mobility Site [via Boy Genius Report]

Nokia N75 Hitting Cingular This Month?

Louis Ramirez — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 16:45:00 EST

Nokia has done a good job of keeping their N75 under the radar, but the Boy Genius is putting the spotlight right back on the Symbian-based phone reporting that it could make its debut as early as this month. The N75 would be Cingular's first 3G Nokia phone toting around a 2MP lens and MP3-playing capabilities. No word on pricing, but BGR has a full unboxing gallery to keep you at bay till Cingular makes it official. – Louis Ramirez

Cingular Nokia N75 in the Concrete Jungle [BGR]

Nokia N75 Multimedia Smartphone Due on Cingular Any Day Now

Gizloco — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 14:50:09 EST

"Sources" say the Nokia N75 is about to hit Cingular in the next few days. While this should please people who use cellphones as a status symbol, us gadget geeks have known about its existence for a few months now. The specs remain as impressive as when we first heard about it (based on Symbian Series 60, 3G friendly and 2-megapixel camera, along with the other standard cellphone goodies), so it actually might be a case where the phone looks good and performs well, too, which is kind of a rarity nowadays.

While price and exact release date haven't been announced, it's a good bet to assume that this won't be a cheap $99 job, what with its fancy pants OS and all. I guess it hinges on how comfortable you are with using what amounts to a smartphone on a regular cellphone's body. We judge not here. – Nicholas Deleon

Cingular Preps Nokia N75 for Take-off [CrunchGear]