Nokia E73 and E85
The gentleman from Russia has done it again. Eldar Murtazin of Mobile-Review has just dropped word, through his Nokia E75 review, that Nokia has been working on at least three devices that have a side-sliding QWERTY keyboards. These are the Nokia 5730 XpressMusic, Nokia E73, and Nokia E85. The Nokia 5730 XpressMusic, I suspect, will be announced on Nokia’s upcoming online music event. And I believe the Nokia E73 is the same QWERTY keyboard-equipped candybar that we saw last year as the Nokia E72 in a leaked Nokia promo vid. However, the last one, the Nokia E85, is a phone that I’ve never heard of until now.

According to Eldar, the Nokia E85, like the E73 and 5730 XpressMusic, will have a side-sliding QWERTY keyboard. His exact words:

Other than that, Eldar revealed nothing else about this mysterious new handset. Perhaps if we take another look at Nokia’s leaked smartphone roadmap which enumerates some upcoming devices, we’ll have a better idea of what the Nokia E85 is (or what it could be).

Could it be the Nokia Madeleine, which is described in Nokia’s leaked smartphone roadmap as having a Side-sliding QWERTY keyboard, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, FM Radio, VoIP, GPS, 3.2MP camera,…