BARCELONA, Spain – Both the Nokia E75 and the E55 come with new or updated form-factors and materials. Valtteri Eroma is a driving force in making such design decisions as he heads the design team for all Eseries products.

I asked him to tell us about Eseries design, Nokia’s innovations in phone keyboards, and some special aspects of the E55.

To hear what he said, check out the video below.

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Nokia E63 launches in the US

USA – Nokia has just delivered word that the E63 is now available in the US, hot on the heels of announcing the 5630 XpressMusic earlier today. The more extroverted sibling of the E71, the E63 is making its Stateside debut in Nokia’s flagship stores in New York and Chicago, and via other online retailers for just $279.

Click through for more details and hands-on videos of the E63 in action.
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Nokia E63 in the flesh

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Nokia E63 triggers double-take

ESPOO, Finland – Deja vu kicks in when you first lay eyes on the new E63, which comes as little surprise considering it has been built on the same well-postured backbone as its sibling the E71. But despite sharing the same skin (although the E63’s has a pinch more colour in its cheeks), these Eseries devices are far from twins.

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Symbian news and BONUS: Senior phone

ESPOO, Finland – Picked up on a few items today. I’m supposed to be on mid-sumer holiday, but came across a few particularly interesting bits that I thought I should share.

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E71 and E66 launch: round up

LONDON, England – Engadget’s reaction to the introduction of the new E71 was simply “one of the thinnest phones we’ve ever seen exit the doors of the Finnish giant”. Whilst Cnet said both the E66 and E77 “bring with them a modernized look and a fresh set of features”. Information Week reckons the new phones look “classy” whilst Symbian Guru acknowledged what everyone else was thinking when it wrote “Nokia has finally officially announced what has been quite possibly the most-publicized-without-being-acknowledged-officially handset in the history of the mobile phone industry”. All in all then, yesterday was a pretty good day. Soren Petersen was confident taking the stage for yesterday’s launch and so he should have been. The new devices look cracking. Not even a tricky question from the Irish Times regarding the iPhone could throw him.

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Video: Talking design with E71 and E66 creators

LONDON, England – Eseries devices have undergone a serious design evolution since the introduction of the E51 and E65, a pair of phones that in essence acted as springboards for the bolder steel-clad designs embodied in the new E66 and E71 handsets unveiled earlier today.

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Video: E66 and E71 in cheese-o-vision

LONDON, England – Earlier today I managed to get some playtime with the new faces of Eseries, the E66 and E71. In the flesh they really do feel like an evolution for Eseries in terms of design and the materials used – something I spoke to Valtteri Eroma (Head of Eseries design) and Benoit Rouger (Senior Industrial Designer) earlier on (I’m cutting together the video interview right now).

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Video: The new faces of Eseries

LONDON, England – We’re live from Millbank Tower where Soren Petersen is telling us about two new devices – the E71 and E66. We haven’t had them in our hands yet, but already they’re sounding very tasty. Email and messaging get a big boost with full email support for 1,000s of email services supported out of the box, ridiculously easy email set up and a neat little feature for people who only want to use one device for home and work.