Nokia teases major new product launching tomorrow
By Nilay Patel 
posted December 1st 2008 11:56AM
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It is a shame Nokia always have poor distribution in the US and their prices are normally sky high and unsubsidized. As good as N-series phones typically are... they cannot compete with the $180 G1 or the $200 Storm / iPhone.
To bad we'll be playing GTA IV on PC instead of caring.
it will be a full internet experience (HSUPA). Remember the Nokia - Ericsson deal which stopped. Maybe now with Option.
I don't think you know what HSUPA is. I would rejoice if it actually is a phone with HSUPA, but I think few others would care.
Shit this announcement has just gave me a browner !
Go for it Nokia GO FOR IT !
I have longed for the day Nokia would actually produce a smartphone to compete with the iPhone and such.
Give us some 480x800 res, 3'' + touch screen, 3G+, wifi, SD slot, and a nice camera and I'm sold !
(yes this basically is a Touch HD but hey Symbian >> WinMo)
Oh and by the way, if this phone sucks I'll kick their ass one by one if I have to.
Don't forget a 3.5mm jack.
It gave you a browner? Ew.
Could the new device be a new internet tablet - N9XX?
To quote Engadget:
"Come on, you didn't think Nokia's only response to the G1, iPhone, and Storm would be the N9XX, did you?"
Hehe if the guys in Finland indeed are going to release an internet tablet with the N9XX-tag, please low rank me!
I really don't think they can keep the lid on S60 devices very well, makes me wonder if perhaps it could be Android based. My friend at Nokia has had sight of three upcoming S60 devices which this doesn't seem to fit into but did relate to the leaked roadmap of a month or so ago.
Nokia? It's a joke. They have some stupid open source platform? and the phone which has interface like old man?
How can company that owns 40% of all phones sold and same amount of the smartphone market be joke?
They have renewed the whole portfolio again and again. While the last generation phones have been a bit meh the next jump from them has always been major and that's why they have been on dominant position now for over 8 years.
are you talking about those 40% sells to developing country? LOL.
like CHINA? LOL...
it's funny. Another iphone killer joke.
Get a life, people. It's gonna be a joke. like creative.
Obs it's really easy tofind out : the guy who said that is american and Nokia isn't..
If you're not with US you are against US..
More seriously, Nokia ruled and re-invented the cell-phone world (with very accessible 3210 for exemple, which was owned by like 20% of the population in europe lol) at a time when americans had 1 cell phone for 100 inhabitants.
The USA discovered Nokia like 3 years ago, and they were already in declined.
(Oh and I'm pretty sure if you ask people in the street of Houston for exemple, 50% will say the iPhone is the first device to bring html surfing into a cellphone)
Lol American preaching about develobing cell phone countries :D Only countrie that still buys Motorola. So first people complain that Nokia is too expensive and no you people say that only develobed countries buy them. Would have wanted to see how Amercans would have bought N95 when it came out and costed over 700 euros and was bought over 15 million people in Europe and Asia.
By the way DYNC China owns like half of the USA's debt so be nice with the guy :)
Also the world is not composed of the USA and the 3rd world.
There is also Europe, Japan, or south america and the Middle East.
USA count for barely 350 Millions human beings, so that leaves more than 6 billions non-american living on earth did you know?
Actually do you even know the difference between a billion and a million?
It nice to be naive enough to be proud of your entire country but pay some respect for the rest of us.
come up with a touch communicator and ill be happy. the E90 price will go down
Absolutely. This goes both ways. Many of non nerds will probally think in Europe that 5800 was the TS phone that brought the TS to the mainstream. Past 2 years have been Nokia's biggest growth in smartphone market share AND yes they have declined 5% in this year on smartphone market, but hopefully this announcment with 5800 that is already selling out brings them back to 50%.
Thought Nokia have had some dissapointing releases this year so we will see.
Honestly saying, the US cell phone market is pretty undeveloped (i have lived in US and Asia). In US, the carriers determine the cell phones that the consumers will have to get rather than giving a choice to consumers to actually choose what cell phones they want. Also, the cell phones plans here are in a sky rocket high price compared to Asia. It turns out that in Asia, you buy a pay a higher price for the phone and less for the plans. In US, you pay for the expensive plan and cheaper phones. As it turns out, people in Asia pays much less for obtaining a cell phone. (For example, a plan for i phone in hong kong, i believe costs like 30 US, compared to 70 here, when you add the numbers up, you pay 40 more per month and 480 more per year, and when you add all the numbers up, it's much expensive to own a cell phone in US). When you get the perspective, it all makes perfect sense seeing unsubsidized phone selling for 600+ USD.
this is not asia, there laws are enforced.
lol No kia
do they know that they dont have the "it" factor like apple?
I dont get it. it is like ugly betty teasing us with short shorts = no body cares.
I am willing to bet it's about their music service going live worldwide
I for one hope that whatever announcement nokia has to make will result in a phone that arrive in the market by the end of Q1 2009. according to the leaked nokia roadmap, there was supposed to be a 5mpix touch-enabled device prototype reaching availability around week 48 or 49 of 2008. If the device being announced tomorrow is indeed the 5mpix touch-enabled phone, nokia definitely earned themselves a chunk of my wallet. flame away :-P
Truthfully, if they do an iBite phone, it's gotta have the price to compete. Nokia phones are just toooo expensive. All my phones were nokia up to the E61, then came the iPhone. Now I upgraded to the 3G. You just cant' beat the price for what the phone does. I believe PRICE is what stops U.S. cell companies to have a relationship with nokia, also the time for a new nokia phone to hit the U.S.. -I mean I remember Waiting and waiting for the E61 to reach NYC.. And when it did, The price was crazy!
And please don't use the "Price for an unlocked phone" debate...
Hopefully this new device will be worthy of having the ridiculous price tags attached to most nokia high end phones.
N97
qwerty, touch, camera everything!
http://www.symbian-freak.com/news/008/11/nokia_n97_to_be_released_today.htm
countdown is now over, still no link :(
Oh man, I love the iPhone, but I can't wait to see a device using the powerful new ARM Cortex-A8 processors, and potentially the new PowerVR SGX generation of graphics accelerators. Nokia uses T.I. chips in their phones, so lets all pray this baby uses one of the OMAP 3000 series with a Cortex-A8 chip.
Looking the Wikipedia page for Imagination, the makers of PowerVR graphics, I found this:
Texas Instruments OMAP3430 ( SGX530 + Cortex-A8)
- Nokia N series Touchscreen (2009)
Oh man, if this is true, this thing is going to rock! I don't have significant experience with Nokia N-series devices, but hopefully they have spent some serious resources optimizing their software and improving the usability of the user interface to try to compete with Apple. If they have, this thing could potentially be the first real iPhone challenger..