We already knew of the specs of the Nokia E7 from multiple leaks a few months back, but just so you know, a brief recall (updates in colour):

- Codename: RM-626 (unconfirmed) - Model No: E7-00 - Hybrid design (touchscreen and QWERTY) - 4-row QWERTY slide-out tilting keyboard (similar to N97) - Screen resolution: 640 X 360 (what?? i'm disappointed) - Capacitive display - 4 inches AMOLED (with multitouch gesture support) - 1 Ghz Processor (ARM) with graphics support (unconfirmed) - 256 MB RAM - 1024 MB ROM - 16 GB internal memory with microSD expansion - 3.5 mm audio jack - 8 MP camera with LED flash (No Carl-Zeiss) - HD video recording at 2.5Mbps (true?) - HDMI output (updated!) - Bluetooth 2.0 (what?? again disappointed!) - Microsoft Office Communicator Suite - Frequency: Quad band - Stereo Speakers - Symbian^3 OS with OSS browser - Max thickness: 13.8mm - 2 Softkeys - Anodised Aluminium chassis (similar to N8) - 1200 mAh removable battery

Now, something new has emerged online, a supposed roadmap of the E7 release (in UK to be particular), and according to the info, the E7 will come just in time for the Christmas holidays (December). Juicy news indeed! Especially for me, considering that it will most probably be my next phone after my current E72.

UPDATES: will come as I get more stuffs in the near future :)

Latest info: The E7 will be announced next week at the Nokia World event, presumably on the 14 Sept!

And thankfully, Wired has done a very nice writeup on this sleeping giant. I know this sounds bad, but I hope to see the Krakatau come alive one day!

Flashback, to 1883

Krakatau (aka Krakatoa) had been rumbling and sending up puffs of ash since May 1883. The eruption turned deadly on the afternoon of Aug. 26, with the first explosion coming at 1 p.m. A column of black ash soon rose 17 miles into the sky above the Sunda Strait between Java and Sumatra.

The earth around and under the volcano continued to move, sending a tsunami out around 5 p.m. Others would follow.

Explosions continued at night, and lightning jumped between the ash column and the island. St. Elmo’s Fire played on a ship’s yardarms and rigging 25 miles away, ash fell on its deck, and explosions deafened its crew.

Just after 10 a.m. on the morning of Aug. 27 came the final, cataclysmic explosion with 26 times the power of the biggest H-bomb test. As Krakatau’s underground magma chamber emptied, the sea rushed in, at first sucking ships toward it in an inbound current. Then the 2,600-foot-high volcanic cone collapsed into the center, leaving little of the island above water and sending out a truly colossal tsunami.

The effects?

Hundred-foot tidal waves (up to 130 feet in some places) scoured nearby coasts, obliterating hundreds of villages and taking more than 36,000 lives. Much reduced, the sea wave swept past the Cape of Good Hope into the Atlantic Ocean and even caused a measurable ripple in the English Channel.

The noise was heard at Alice Springs in the middle of Australia. Four hours after the massive explosion, 3,000 miles away on the island of Rodrigues in the western Indian Ocean, it was recorded as the “roar of heavy guns.” The sound was audible over 1/13 the surface of the globe, according to the Guinness Book of World Records. The shock wave registered on a barometer in London.

The final eruption also threw pumice an estimated 34 to 50 miles into the sky. Dust fell more than 3,000 miles away 10 days later. Islands of pumice floated on the oceans for months. Sulfur in the ash reacted with atmospheric ozone to scatter sunlight, causing vivid red sunsets around the world. Global temperatures dropped, and climate disruptions lasted five years.

[Extracted from Wired.com. Image shows Anak Krakatau exploding in 2007]

What I love about this phone is that, it looks just like the E72! Now for some important specs:

- Dimensions (width x height x depth): 57 x 117 x 11 millimetres (73.4 cc) - GSM 850/900/1800/1900 & WCDMA 2100MHz; GPRS, EDGE, HSPA - Display: 3.5" Capacitive screen (AMOLED) with 360 × 640 pixel resolution - Viewable Display-Size: 1.62" x 2.88" (41.18 x 73.21 millimetres) - Pixel-Pitch: 222 pixel/inch (0.11439 millimetre/pixel) - Symbian^3 OS - Removable 1200 mAh Li-Ion Battery - Camera: 8MP (CMOS) with dual LED (No Carl Zeiss) & 0.3MP secondary camera - Supports 720p HD video recording at 25fps - Composite video out - 8GB internal storage with microSD support (up to 32GB) - Bluetooth 3.0 - Micro USB, support for USB-out function - GPS - WiFi b/g/n rumoured - CPU: 680 Mhz ARM11; 256 MB RAM; GPU: PowerVR SGX530 (rumoured!) - Stereo Speakers, 3.5mm audio out, mono microphone and recording - Estimated announcement: Sept 2010 - Price: estimated around €300 Euro before subsidies and taxes

On a side note, Eldar has a preview too!

Images from zol.com

What worries me is that, this might just affect the sales of N8!

I'm not sure how many of you had actually seen the original video, since Nokia has already removed all that were online (which of course tells that the content is legit!). Maybe you could still hunt over Youtube.

Well The Nokia Blog has done some cool analysis over the video, and compiled these screenshots to discuss their points. Check them out below.

Homescreen & Widget Updates

Contacts and Social Networks

Applications & Ovi Store

My favourite is the last screenshot. Why? Just observe; you'd notice that there are 2 layers of UI windows, the top being semi-transparent and showing the recently "minimised" previous window in the background. Cool eh?

On a side note, the UI is also quite similar to the Symbian^4 UI (image leaked a few months back):