(Image ganked from Engadget)
As seen on MobileWhack, the Nokia E61 was just approved by the FCC.
I've wanted this phone since it was announced last year. I've tried replacing my Nokia 3650 three times, and kept coming back to it. The Motorola V330 and the RAZR were great little phones, but the operating system sucked the nuts. The iPAQ 6315 was neat as a PocketPC, but sucked as a phone. It would crash often while just trying to answer the phone.
The E61 is known as the 'blackberry killer'. It's a wider and taller phone than most, with a full 320x240 display, 802.11 and quad-band connectivity, and proper push email. Better yet, it's still running Series 60 software on Symbian OS 9.1, which means a whole hell of a lot of existing applications will work with it, and it's a great development platform for new stuff. Hell, there's even a Perl implementation for it.
The countdown begins.
