Diaries of a Nokia Fan Boy

Well this is certainly an interesting piece of news. While most Nokia phones have an RM number, the RX number would indicate a somewhat different beast. Since the phone does look a little like an internet tablet one could mistake it for such, however the earpiece and SIM card would indicate the ability to make phone calls, presumably more than just for Skype. And the Carl Zeiss 5MP camera isn’t likely to be found on anything other than N-series.

On the other hand, if you look at the keyboard you will notice a missing D-pad. Of course this would be more of a surprise if we hadn’t seen the D-pad-less N97 Mini earlier this month. The fact is, however, that the keyboard simply looks more like one found on the earlier HTC models than the N97 keyboard Nokia spent so much time developing. This model’s keyboard doesn’t have any separation between the keys, the keys themselves have more depth, and the only thing that is similar on the layout is that the space is on the right side and both are QWERTY keyboards. Even the Fn, Sym, and Shift keys are placed on opposite ends. Looking at the keyboards alone makes it difficult to believe that the same company developed both devices, much less that the devices are from different lines.

So what is this, then? Could be a new E-series. Of course the looks tend to resemble the N-series much more, even if the N97 is still so fresh to market. But it could very well be a new tablet, since we haven’t seen a new tablet in quite a while, however the SIM card slot on back makes chances of that happening pretty slim.

What do you think it is?

-Nokia FanBoy

via: MobileBulgaria (read)

Nokia RX-51

Nokia RX-51 - in box