So I was dreaming of a new cellphone since my Motorola K1 is getting old now. I had a quick look at GSMArena.

Nokia:
Now Nokia and I have up and down relationship but most of my phones have been Nokias. And the one thing I must admit is that Nokias are reliable. I never had a problem with, the only problem I had with the N70 is that I felt it was so slow, other than that I cannot complain at all. They are durable and reliable phones that deliver on what they promise. I sometimes feel sorry for them since they are basically the Microsoft of the cellphone world and as such suffer unfair criticism at times. I too have been guilty of that, but as said, it was mainly because of my N70.

Nokia N78
This little phone looks brilliant! It is typical on the N-Series Nokia in that it comes with a ton of features bundled into a decent size phone. Here’s some of the awesome features in it:

1. Stereo speakers
2. ARM 11 369 MHz processor
3. HSDPA, 3.6 Mbps
4. Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g, UPnP technology
5. Symbian OS, S60 rel. 3.2
6. WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML, RSS feeds
7. 3.15 MP, 2048×1536 pixels Carl Zeiss optics
8. secondary CIF videocall camera
9. Built-in GPS receiver
10. A-GPS support
11. FM transmitter

Thats a great list of features as far as I’m concerned!

Unfortunately I cannot find an exact local release date yet but I have sent emails to Vodacom, MTN, Cell C and Virgin Mobile as well ofcourse to Nokia themselves. As soon as I have any feedback I will post it.