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The video quality is pretty good for a cellphone. There are very few phones that do VGA video recording, and the ones that do, don't do it for more than 15 fps. The E90 grabs 24fps.

Eugenia,

For a 640x480 video, at a stream bitrate of ~2,400BPS (3,000 peak!), that's VERY aweful quality (for the price)

The bitrate is usually the same percentage for all phones. It's always mjpeg you see. Also, as you saw, picture quality is not bad, which means that video quality might get better with upcoming firmware upgrades.

Being unlocked is a feature btw. I would never, as long as I live, get a locked phone.

I would get a locked phone well before I paid over a $1000 for a phone. What I will pay for is small(but not too small) WiFi device for IM, mail, web, along with some PDAish media functionality, but I don't really want a phone to do that. The Nokia N800 looks interesting, but isn't quite there yet, and while the iPhone looks nice I want the iPhone without the phone, and maybe a slightly larger screen.

The E70 is not quad-band, so if you travel a lot, it's not a great solution. More over, the E70 runs an older version of the OS, and it's not supported via firmware upgrade anymore (it only had 2 firmware upgrades, its life was short). Changing from landscape to portrait was taking up to 3 seconds, while it's instantaneous between the two screens on the E90.

I have the Nokia e70. While I love the phone, I often get problems with the RAM. I hit the "Memory Full" message all the time for a lot of sites. Does the e90 have better RAM memory?

Yes, it is has 128 MBs of RAM instead of 64. I have heard about the "memory full" problem on the E70 btw. It was fixed on future upgrades for most of the other 3.0 phones, but the E70 only had few firmware upgrades.

What Eugenia said.. and the fact that it's harder to find I ordered one but the site hasn't shipped it yet and it's been 5 days. It's not easy to find cheap.

I don't have any HTC devices except the QTek 9100. However, AFAIK, there is no *stable* SSH client for Windows Mobile. There are 4-5 of them out there, but none working well. More over, there is no good, stable VoIP SIP client for WinMob either. So if you ware interested just in SSH and VoIP, the E90 is a better choice. If you are interested in lots and lots of apps and UI flexibility, then the WinMob is a better choice.

Recently announced HTC Kaiser seems to be much more interesting. Honestly, I am a big fan of Symbian and using Nokia N80 myself, but this time I must confess that Kaiser running Windows Mobile 6 is likely to be much more proffesional solution.
Also regarding SSH and VOiP: Windows Mobile 6 comes with VOiP integrated. Also, there are few more SSH applications for WM, some of them featuring port forwarding which none of the AFIK two available Symbian ssh clients can do.

http://www.codebrowser.org/index.php - zaTunnel and zaTelnet. haven't used them, but they seem to be actively developed so might be worth a try.

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I don't think so, but I think it has SyncML support.

Maybe take this aspect in future reviews into consideration?
Smart gadgets are no longer stand-alone devices, but (this is even more true for Symbian) are built to be interoperable with computers, so IMO this is an important feature, in particular for us Linux enthusiasts.

they are full compatible, I use my E65 (S60 3rd) to sync PIM with Evolution, works great with contacts (even with pictures both sides), calendar entries and task, better even than my old palm. I can also send .txt and recieve it as a note on the phone and send as a SMS, MMS or an EMAIL, is perfect the integration with linux and a bluetooth device (never tried with the cable).

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=260676

there are some instruction how to do that, however, the author says its only for contacts but works for everything .