CDMA Nokia with EV-DO passes the FCC

The Dark Age of Nokia's CDMA relations may be finally drawing to a close. After a series of forgettable rebranded Pantechs (seriously Nokia, what the crap was up with that?), we were encouraged last year by the introduction of the rather low-end 2135 candybar, an honest-to-goodness Nokia that seemed to indicate Nokia / Qualcomm relations might -- might be warming. This device features EV-DO data and Bluetooth, but that's about all we can gather from the few FCC docs that aren't protected by the confidentiality clause at the moment; we don't know who it might be headed for, whether it runs S40 or S60, or any other juicy little bits of information that would make the Nokia faithful on Verizon and Sprint drool. We'll pass along details as we get 'em, of course.

[Brodie @ Jan 10th 2008 3:20PM]

Looks like a taser to me...

[Grant @ Jan 10th 2008 9:06PM]

i was just thinking the same.

[Frankenstein Black @ Jan 10th 2008 4:44PM]

MEH!!

[xbit @ Jan 10th 2008 6:53PM]

S60? On Verizon? You guys crack me up. :)

[Matt @ Jan 10th 2008 7:08PM]

If hell will freeze over and this will happen, then the UI will be SO crippled that it will never feel like a true S60 phone. But then again.. Verizon would never get anything that they would not be able to cripple so why bother with getting S60 device and "customize" beyond recognition when they can get cheap piece of crap phones and overlay with the same shitty interface saving them the cost.

[Matt @ Jan 10th 2008 7:04PM]

Looks like a LOW end device.

[MacsAre1 @ Jan 10th 2008 8:12PM]

S60 pleeeease! They almost did it once before, and now with Verizon's change of heart to allow any device on their network, it would be a sure buy for me even if it were not out on Verizon's network! Just hope my RAZR holds out until it comes out.