Nokia E90 is coming...at a price

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I have done something for which I am sure I will be kicking myself when I wake up in the morning and return to my senses. I completed an online overnight order for the Nokia E90 that finally arrived stateside to wirelessimports.com!! The preorder I have through mobileplanet.com was not to be fulfilled until that store received their first E90 shipment in mid-July. I am so excited to be receiving this device before the iPhone debuts this Friday, but am doing so at a VERY HIGH premium. The retail price at mobileplanet.com is offered at $980 for a mid-July release, but to get the device now from wirelessimports.com costs $1400. Yeah, yeah, yeah…I have already gone through the “Oh my God”, “How stupid can you be”, “WTF” and “Are you kidding me” statements inside my head over and over again! But this is a chance to claim victory over those iPhone lemmings and if it means taking a substantial chunk out of my finances then so be it! And to think that I was almost tempted by the iPhone in the midst of my waiting patiently for the Nokia E90 mid-July release…that was a close one!! After this purchase I think that it is really time to put away the cards and focus on my debt management…SERIOUSLY!!!

Sitting here anticipating my Nokia E90 I just got to thinking about how far I have come in my phone ownership history. From a basic greenscreen LG to a feature-packed Treo 680 I have gone haywire in going from phone to phone, and there have been some issues along the way. One big issue has been Mac iSync support, for not every device played nice with app right out of the box. Third party syncing apps could sometimes make seamless integration and functionality much harder to come by and there was even a moment when I considered moving to PC. But out of all these factors there is one that still puts a chill down my spine and irritates me to no end: the Motorola brand.

At the time I started my own cellular service through Ntelos with the Moto V60i I was clueless and had no specific taste for a phone. Anything that could dial out and accept calls was fine with me and I accepted that. I had so few friends that I didn't even bother to fill out the contacts and I never even opened the calendar application. This was a time when I accepted mediocrity and in my own ignorance thought that the Nokia 6255i was a technical marvel. A couple years later I started out with Cingular and was introduced to the Motorola SLVR and then the Sony Ericsson W810i. I initially went after the SLVR for the built-in iTunes feature, but was under whelmed by the music experience. Eventually I began to dislike entire phone and sold it to a coworker and bought the W810i. Since having a short stint with the equally unimpressive Moto RAZR and KRZR, I have noticed that I have become more resistant to this particular brand. I guess that subconsciously I became bored, jaded and no longer interested in any other product that Motorola had to offer. In my mind Motorola has become a communications company of overrated handsets with mediocre features and a tired interface that is cursed by the same old vertical font. I give it credit for going with the Linux OS to revive the graphic user interface but it is too little too late at this point for me. I understand that we all have our individual reasons for buying phones and portability seems to be a leading factor, but to this day I still cannot understand how that RAZR has become so iconic in the American market. I would be lying if I claimed to be unimpressed with those RAZR commercials of the past, but my eyes were opened to the truth of the hype when I finally purchased one. After two days it was quickly returned to the store and the RAZR was out of sight and out of mind from that moment on and not to forget that I had a similar experience with the SLVR and KRZR!

Anyway I am interested to see how the unveiling of the iPhone will go at the MacArthur Center mall in Downtown Norfolk, so I will be there before 6pm to witness the festivities! The whole time I may be capturing this moment on the DVD-like quality video camera of my new Nokia E90 Communicator…oh how ironic!!