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It is well known that Cingular Wireless (the new AT&T) is on tap to sell the N75, Nokia's answer to the Motorola RAZR and HTC Star Trek (aka the Cingular 3125). Originally scheduled for release in December 2006, the smartphone has been delayed.

According to Engadget mobile insider The Boy Genius, the N75 should finally ship next month. Apparently the delay was caused by Cingular's request that users only be able to stream music from itself and its partners Napster and Yahoo!

Cingular introduced its audio service, which supports downloads and purchases from a number of different music stores, last year. These include Napster and Yahoo! music with their flat-fee all-you-can-eat subscription services, as well as eMusic.

The cost of individual songs is 99 cents, far less than other carrier music offerings. But unlike Sprint and Verizon you can't download music over the air, only through the PC, so there's no immediate gratification if you buy a song from your phone.

This limitation will only be with the subsidized version from the carrier. So if Nokia decides to make an unlocked edition of the N75 available, and you’re willing to shell out a lot more money that you would to Cingular, then you'd be able to get around it.

Cingular also delivers 25 XM Radio channels for $9 per month, music videos, a MusicID service that automatically identifies a song playing in the background through audio-recognition technology, and a lot of additional music related services. With MusicID, when a song is recognized, users can go directly to Napster to purchase the track for loading onto the handset later. Should the track match a ringtone, you can buy and download that too.

When Cingular starts offering the N75, it'll be the operator's first 3G-enabled Nokia phone.

Introduced back in September 2006, the music-orientated smartphone is Nokia's smallest Nseries handset yet. The Symbian/S60 clamshell measures a mere 3.7 x 2.0 x 0.8 inches (95 x 52 x 20 millimeters) and weighs only 4.4 ounces (124 grams). It is about 6 millimeters wider than the RAZR.

On the outside of the N75 is a small reflective 160 x 128 pixel resolution display and media controls for a music application. Inside, the 3G-enabled quad-band GPRS/EDGE/HTMS/HSDPA phone sports a 2.4-inch 240 x 320 pixel resolution (QVGA) screen that is capable of displaying 16 million different colors.

There's a 2 megapixel camera, micoSD slot, 40 MB of memory, FM radio, and Bluetooth 2.0 with support for wireless headsets. It can handle a variety of audio file formats and record and playback video at 15fps and a 352 x 288 resolution.