Nokia is working on a sidekick-like phone with a strange new ‘swivel’ form factor, according to leaked documents. Don’t get too excited though, from what we’ve seen this won’t be a full-blown Nseries smartphone, instead running the lower-powered Symbian S40.
Nokia is, according to a tipster, working on a new mobile for US carrier Verizon that seems to be a Sidekick-style device aimed at the text-addicted teen market.
The new phone is so fresh there isn’t even a development codename to slap on it, and it has yet to be photographed, but as you can see from this mock up by phone fansite Boy Genius Report, it’s quite a departure for Nokia.
The design seems to feature a square form factor that swivels open at one corner, rather like a make-up mirror, to reveal a QWERTY keypad.
Nokia already has a couple of phones, such as the E71, with top quality QWERTY keypads, but the E and Nseries are aimed rather higher up the mobile food chain.
This little fella is destined for younger, more nimble, fingers and will be running Nokia’s Symbian S40 operating system rather than the smartphone-powering S60.
Sidekick-style phones have never really taken off here in the UK, so it is anyone’s guess if this experiment will make it outside the US market.
TBC | £tbc | Nokia (via Boy Genius)
