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Nokia's 5070 and 7088 for dudes and debutantes, respectively
The XpressMusic 5700 isn't Nokia's only new phone for the day. Our Finnish friends also unveiled their 5070 "fun and function" phone for the young'ns and 7088 L'Amour for you trust funders. The 5070 packs an FM radio and stereo headset with a focus on messaging and personalization for "today's socially networked mobile consumer." That, and a low price tag of just €100 when these drop in Q2. The L'Amour 7088 brings some feminine styling (read: pink) to a CMDA slider destined for faux-fur lovers who think that a 128 x 160 pixel display passes as "extra-large" -- hey, that's what the press release says. Expect the 7088 to hit select markets in Q2 as well.Read -- Nokia 5070Read -- Nokia 7088
Funny lookin' Nokia -- the 7088, perhaps?
Pretty much every detail surrounding this bizarre slider is distinctly un-Nokia. First, it's allegedly the 7088, a CDMA phone recently approved by the FCC. Thanks to a recent series of spats with Qualcomm, the popular belief held that Nokia was all but abandoning in-house CDMA handset development, but the 7088 is straight-up 100 percent Espoo. Second, it's frickin' weird. The front has a strange, pudgy appearance (which admittedly jibes with the ID label diagram in the FCC's archives for the 7088) with distinctly L'Amour-esque accents, despite the fact that it's said to sport a meager 160 x 128 display -- pretty crappy for a phone bearing L'Amour credentials. Ah, well; whatever Nokia wants to call this thing, we reckon there'll be more than a few CDMA users across the globe celebrating its arrival.[Via Slashphone]
Nokia's CDMA 7088 rocks the FCC
Last time we checked, Nokia was cooling on the whole idea of CDMA (WCDMA -- the backbone of UMTS -- excepted, of course) thanks to a rather nasty series of spats with the boys and girls at licensor Qualcomm; cooling so much, in fact, that they'd resorted to turning to Pantech to bail them out and get some Nokia-branded EV-DO devices in the pipeline. So what's this all about? We wish we had more for you, but the FCC's being stingy with details; the picture above is the only one we have, but from the width to height ratio, we'd venture that there might just be a QWERTY keypad lurking on the other side of it. True, it's not branded as an Eseries or Nseries device (slapping either of those labels on a CDMA handset would be nothing short of blasphemy, after all) but seeing how Nokia has all but forsaken the Verizons and Sprints of the world, it'd be a beautiful thing to see this one come out of the gate with a packed spec sheet.
