Comments on: Nokia CEO talks about Nokia’s future in US market and with 4G

By: charlie

charlie — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:12:38 +0000

Nokia does have a unique opportunity to talk about unlocked devices in the US; both RIM and Apple devices are so tied to their carriers. But given that GSM in the US means AT&T, it seems clear from their comments they would rather continue releasing one AT&T handset a year than declare war.

And for the life of me, I can’t understand why Nokia would blow $10 billion on takeovers and not find a company that can do visual voicemail.

But I love their snow tires.

By: christexaport

christexaport — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 01:18:10 +0000

the AWS spectrum was allocated over 2 years ago, under the engineering and equipment supplying eyes of Nokia-Siemens. Nokia can easily create devices with whatever bands they wish. They ignored the larger need of the AWS market for greater penetration of the old spectrum. Bad idea. They should’ve supported both and trumped up the advantages of unlocked devices over branded.

By: mingkee

mingkee — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 23:38:29 +0000

Stelera is also considered as carrier, and they use same WCDMA IV for HSPA service, even though they offer data only

By: rc

rc — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 22:00:37 +0000

Does Stelera offer voice services? I thought they were just mobile broadband..

By: jonathan p

jonathan p — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 21:39:00 +0000

the tmobile band just came out a few months ago. Now i am not a phone genius, but something tells me the phones that nokia is releasing has been in development for longer than that. I am sure it wouldn’t be cost effective to go buy millions of different chipsets because tmobile finally got into the high speed internet game.

By: mingkee

mingkee — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 20:03:05 +0000

still no WCDMA IV support on S60
there’s no reason to buy nokia phone for T-Mobile and Stelera