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AT&T’s Nokia 6790 Surge, aka Mako, to launch mid-July?

By: |Jul 1st, 2009 at 07:59AM
Filed Under: AT&T, EDGE, GPRS, GSM, Handsets, HSDPA, Nokia, Rumors, Symbian
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A Qik video posted to YouTube shows off the many sides of the Nokia 6790 Surge, codenamed Mako, headed soon to AT&T. The unusually shaped handset has already been spec’d and exclusively photographed in detail of course, so the only real takeaway beyond the release name of the handset is the fact that it will allegedly drop around the middle of this month. The author of the video also claims the Surge will be well-priced, though he notes that pricing details are not yet finalized. Hit the jump if you...

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Nokia 6790 Mako Hands On!

By: |Jun 1st, 2009 at 12:12PM
Filed Under: AT&T, BG's Corner, EDGE, Exclusives, GPRS, GSM, Handsets, HSDPA, Nokia, Symbian, UMTS
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So check it… We just got our hands on Nokia’s 6790 (codenamed Mako) device — the freaky 3G sliding QWERTY headed for AT&T. There have been no live pictures of this bad boy so we went ahead and took a bunch. The phone itself is drastically different from what we’d expect from Nokia (just based on their design heritage) yet ridiculously lackluster. While most of you (us included) thought this would be a high-end device, our quick perusalĀ  dictates otherwise. It feels like it would f...