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Unboxing The Nokia 6790 Surge For AT&T

By The Guru on August 10, 2009


Nokia 6790 Surge Review

I’ve just received the Nokia 6790 Surge for AT&T for review, and thought you may like to see what comes in the box. Unfortunately, the answer is precious little. Sure, you get the phone, that beautiful BP-4L 1500mAh battery, but, well, that’s about it. There is no microSD included, nor is there a USB cord or headphones. The typical paperwork we’re used to seeing with Nokia’s smartphones - literature on N-Gage, Ovi, and all that is notably missing, replaced with a few pamplets on AT&T’s various services.

Here’s the unboxing video:


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After booting up the phone, installing our Symbian-Guru theme, Antony Pranata’s Screenshot app, and Handy Taskman, I took a screenshot that really impressed me, right off the bat. You can see below, the phone, even with AT&T’s massive amount of branding, still manages a whopping 117MB of internal storage free, and a mind-numbing 78MB of free RAM! This dwarfs even Nokia’s current flagship, the N97, by quite a bit, and instantly lifts the Nokia 6790 Surge’s rating, in my book.

Nokia 6790 Surge

I’ll be doing a full review of this Symbian-powered smartphone over the next few days, including a comparison against the E71′s QWERTY keyboard. If you have any specific questions that you would like to see answered, please leave them in the comments, and I’ll make sure they get answered. Before you ask any specifications questions, please refer to our announcement post, which lists out the full specs list.

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  • Stephen

    Only cause they are slightly different, but also compare to the E63 keyboard.

    Not sure if it would violate the AT&T agreement, but see if you can get gizmo on there and working over the HSDPA connection. If that’s possible.

    Since it is a SMS friendly phone, see if conversations works from betalabs.

    Cheers!

  • Stephen

    Only cause they are slightly different, but also compare to the E63 keyboard.

    Not sure if it would violate the AT&T agreement, but see if you can get gizmo on there and working over the HSDPA connection. If that’s possible.

    Since it is a SMS friendly phone, see if conversations works from betalabs.

    Cheers!

  • ming387

    You should really be comparing this phone to the E75 and the other Xm phone with similar form factor – but not the E71.

  • ming387

    You should really be comparing this phone to the E75 and the other Xm phone with similar form factor – but not the E71.

  • ming387

    By the way, it’s a really good phone with a lot of potential due to it’s form factor. I’ve already installed Nokia Email and Ovi Map 3.0 on it and it runs really well. Trying to push Ovi Store in it as well. I was able to play street fighter on the qwerty and did some fireballs… lol

    Also trying to figure out the CPU speed on this. Will be testing some benchmark softwares on this phone and run them side by side with other nokia phones to get a gu-estimate of the cpu speed.

    Still cleaning up the AT&T crap-ware and folders.. the E71x trick cleans some apps but still plenty of crapware and folders that wun go away.

    Have fun with the Surge and share your findings. =)

  • ming387

    By the way, it’s a really good phone with a lot of potential due to it’s form factor. I’ve already installed Nokia Email and Ovi Map 3.0 on it and it runs really well. Trying to push Ovi Store in it as well. I was able to play street fighter on the qwerty and did some fireballs… lol

    Also trying to figure out the CPU speed on this. Will be testing some benchmark softwares on this phone and run them side by side with other nokia phones to get a gu-estimate of the cpu speed.

    Still cleaning up the AT&T crap-ware and folders.. the E71x trick cleans some apps but still plenty of crapware and folders that wun go away.

    Have fun with the Surge and share your findings. =)

  • naypalm

    Wow, the keyboard looks pretty big from the video, perfect for my huge thumbs! I’m curious as to how the 6790 fairs in a net speed test against the e71!

    That is unfortunate that AT&T takes away the usb cable and headphones. They must resell them as some sort of a “media package” ripoff.

  • naypalm

    Wow, the keyboard looks pretty big from the video, perfect for my huge thumbs! I’m curious as to how the 6790 fairs in a net speed test against the e71!

    That is unfortunate that AT&T takes away the usb cable and headphones. They must resell them as some sort of a “media package” ripoff.

  • Viipottaja

    Ming, what is the “E71x trick”? My good old N82 is falling a part – R.I.P. – and I am toying with the idea of getting an E71x as I think I am eligible for the “upgrade” with AT&T to bridge me over to e.g the N97 Mini or the Rover.

  • Viipottaja

    Ming, what is the “E71x trick”? My good old N82 is falling a part – R.I.P. – and I am toying with the idea of getting an E71x as I think I am eligible for the “upgrade” with AT&T to bridge me over to e.g the N97 Mini or the Rover.

  • ming387

    Visit http://nokiaexperts.com/nokia-e71x-tips-tricks-rid-demo-games-apps/

    This will help you get rid of a lot of those softwares that AT&T installed on the E71x… Those crap-ware eat up the phone’s internal (C Drive) memory and takes away room for you to install the softwares you reall need. =)

  • ming387

    Visit http://nokiaexperts.com/nokia-e71x-tips-tricks-rid-demo-games-apps/

    This will help you get rid of a lot of those softwares that AT&T installed on the E71x… Those crap-ware eat up the phone’s internal (C Drive) memory and takes away room for you to install the softwares you reall need. =)

  • http://www.symbian-guru.com/ TheGuru

    Yes, I’ve used that trick already this morning. Fortunately, with 117MB free, there’s not a pressing need to uninstall much from the C: drive. :)

  • http://www.symbian-guru.com TheGuru

    Yes, I’ve used that trick already this morning. Fortunately, with 117MB free, there’s not a pressing need to uninstall much from the C: drive. :)

  • ming387

    I posted my impression on the HoFo link below:

    http://www.howardforums.com/showpost.php?p=12915430&postcount=2

    Feel free to take a look and leave some comments as we wait for the guru’s impression.

    It’s my first review, so definitely appreciate some constructive feedback. =)

  • ming387

    I posted my impression on the HoFo link below:

    http://www.howardforums.com/showpost.php?p=12915430&postcount=2

    Feel free to take a look and leave some comments as we wait for the guru’s impression.

    It’s my first review, so definitely appreciate some constructive feedback. =)

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