Nokia E7 specs, release date on January 13th and price $679?

The Nokia E7 showed up on Amazon in all of its glory and with equally glorious price tag. You can have all the sweetness of full QWERTY and Symbian^3 for $679 which means it will probably be around £500 when it makes the transition over to the UK. Information from the Nokia blog shows that the handset is expected to arrive on January 13th. The mysterious distributor is receiving 2,000 blue and 2,000 silver-colored units and while the date looks official, it could still be changed by Nokia. Even if not, it would most probably be a couple of days more before the Nokia E7 is available to the public.

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Compare Screen Faceoff: S-AMOLED vs. LCD in Windows Phone 7

Two phone Phone Windows 7 is used for comparison in the video below is the Samsung Omnia and LG Optimus 7 7, the first and the second using two Super AMOLED is the LCD screen. Through this video you can see more clearly the strengths of the S-LCD is AMOLED compared with the contrast and brightness, better, darker than black. However, S-AMOLED conspicuous weakness when showing shades of a color change, this one do better than LCD. CisforCoder warned that the actual S-AMOLED screen of the Samsung is only 16 bits rather than 24 bits, this explains why the image can be displayed on the LCD of the LG better not so good on the S- Samsung's AMOLED.

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Samsung Transform review

If you were hoping the Samsung Transform smartphone was the poor man's version of the flagship Samsung Epic 4G Galaxy S phone on Sprint, I'm here to tell you it's not quite there. The Transform is currently $100 cheaper than the Epic 4G with contract, and it avoids Sprint's WiMAX tax where you pay $10 extra/month whether you want or can receive that 4G signal. But the Transform's features are decidedly entry to mid-level and it's nowhere near as fast in terms of data speed and CPU. What the Transform does bring to the table are a very solid build, a decent QWERTY hardware keyboard and Android 2.1. Unfortunately, Sprint ID is here too, and it bogs down the phone more than the nominally slower and cheaper Sanyo Zio.

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