Update 17:56: This also meshes with what Phone Scoop said, and from the pictures of the N70 that they have, the phone being sold is going to be the N70-5. (You can tell because the colours are reversed.) The N70-5 should be on sale in China already.
We suspect that the Nokia N70 is going to be released in the US direct-to-consumers, similarly to how the Nokia N90 was recently launched.
That seems to be the only possible justification (apart from ... largesse) for Nokia's plan to send out Nokia N70s to bloggers in their revolutionary USA marketing exercise which started with the N90 blog; and this new move seems to confirm that Nokia's primary goal in this exercise is to generate buzz about all N-series products in the US.
We're even tempted to say that Nokia might be trying to gain enough momentum to release it's high-end phones without carrier support - but then again the N80 has already been spotted with a Cingular logo - so surely that's not the case.
The Nokia N70 will be a decent upgrade from the Nokia 6682, with the addition of radio and a 2MP camera (just make sure you don't need GSM 850); but keep in mind that the upcoming models have both higher resolution screens, and WiFi support.
