Nokia Surge comes to AT&T

July 16th, 2009

The Nokia Surge, a socially supercharged smartphone, will be available online and at AT&T stores as of the 19th of July. The Surge is a QWERTY silder aimed at the social network jet-set coming with JuiceCaster which allows the user to share images and vids from the Surge on the usual SM sites such as Flickr and Facebook. A mere US$80 will get you one of these suckers along with a two-year shackle after a rebate and a $50 promotion card. But what else can the Nokia Surge do? Here are the details on the unit

* GSM 850/900/1800/1900
* HSDPA 850/1900
* 2.4 inch 320×240 red display
* Full QWERTY slider keyboard
* 2.5 mm audio jack
* 128 MB internal storage
* microSD slot allowing up to 8 GB of expansion memory
* Bluetooth v2.0
* 2 MP camera for stills and action
* Symbian OS, S60 rel. 3.2
* Handles SMS, MMS, Email, IM
* Stereo radio
* 97.5 x 57.9 x 15.5 mm
* 123.9 g
* Handles MPEG4/3GP and MP3/WAV/AAC files
* Standby up to 400 hours
* 4 hours of 3G talktime and 4 hours 50 mins on 2G

Not bad for US$80 and plus the design is pretty nice too. It looks a bit weird when the keyboard is tucked away, like you’ve got an extra bit stuck on the side of your cellphone. But with the keyboard out the shapes all nicely gel together. And of course you know how much we like QWERTY sliders at Our Picks, so we tried to track down a hands-on video review but with no luck. Here’s the closest we got with Mobile Gazette’s video preview of the Nokia Surge.

So if any of you social networking types out there have had a play with the Nokia Surge, let us all know what you think of it.

Nokia Surge comes to AT&T

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