Swiveling Nokia handset passes through the FCC, headed to Verizon Wireless

Remember that funky swiveling Nokia handset that we told you about back in April. Well, it looks like it is more fact than fiction as it just hopped, skipped, and jumped its way through the FCC. The Nokia model RM-526 sports dual-band CDMA/EV-DO, Bluetooth 2.1+EDR, has the boxiest form factor ever and runs software version VN_2040T13_VZW_108. Notice anything familiar? Looks like our ninja was spot on and we may actually see this handset hit Big Red sometime this summer.

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Tags: CDMA, Nokia, QWERTY, S40, S60, swivel, verizon wireless

Comments

Zanel

Eww.
peter

1st! thats because i have nothing good to say
M

i want a e71. i hate moving parts on my phone.
Beeve

Cute tweener texter.
JoeTour

Where is the earpiece on that 1. ?
Otherwise its not a bad concept. Mimics The samsung cleo. Which has been quite succesfull in canada.
Nate

I wouldn’t put much stock in these mock-up pics. A lot of times these FCC pics are simply place holders that don’t mean much of anything.

I guess we’ll just have to wait and see what this thing actually looks like.
http://www.bgr.com Storm2Richie

@ JoeTOur-

here we go again bro lol
dante

This summer? I seriously doubt it.
djv

That looks like a terrible design.
B

that thing looks silly as hell
Johnson

A simple mock up does not give you a true-to-size view of the actual product. For all you know it could be 2 in. square or 10….To me this looks to be an endeavor into the netbook/net tablet as what looks to be a touch pad is neatly fitted below the screen.

Personally, I would never shove a square in any of my pockets but I would sport a nifty netbook/tablet made by Nokia. (Would also make a great entry level LTE device)
melmac

BGR ran that mockup before the FCC filing, so that image has been around for months. Good scoop BGR!!!! But it appears as if the mic/earpiece is on the front of the swivel, it’s one of the few things I can distinguish from the rendering besides the qwerty slide out and screen..
mb00

It’s so ugly. Do you guys think this’ll sell?
alex

ew. Hopefully the real device will have more screen real estate or be a little ‘prettier.’ As is it looks like someone took the e71 apart…used its screen, dpad, and keyboard(plus 2 extra bottom row keys…must be a small spacebar), and scattered them across two hinged slabs…
http://www.bgr.com Richie

hey joetour here we go again bro, with this posting lol
Paul M

Its going to be the new N98
JoeTour

@ richie
********** as always. Long live BGR!!
Anxiously waiting for the part 2 review on the….you guessed it. The Tour!
fetus

I want one to play with when I’m drunk.
http://www.bgr.com Richie

@ joetour

lol i knew it