Nokia hints at new C-Series handsets, official announcement at CeBIT?
Nokia, as part of its Conversations blog, is circulating an email newsletter which hints at some new handsets. The sidebar story mentions the rumored C-Series devices, discusses the upcoming deliberately misspelled “C BIT” conference and tells its fans that Nokia will “C you there”. Don’t start dreaming of a 12 megapixel, Symbian S^3 powered flagship quite yet as the C-Series is expected to be comprised of entry level handsets. Indeed, the first handset in the lineup is rumored to be the C5, a numeric keypad-toting candybar, and the C6, which is rumored to be a front-facing QWERTY handset that recently passed through the FCC with AT&T 3G on board. Hopefully, this shameless self-promotion was just a teaser and when CeBIT starts next Tuesday will we see Nokia handsets from both ends of the spectrum get the official nod.
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How do they refuse to change much when they just partnered with Intel to bring a brand new mobile operating system (Meego) to their high end phones?
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Why don’t any carriers pick up these Nokia “flagship” devices?
All carriers do, except US carriers. They have next gen features that are common today, but caused fear in the US telecoms, like VOIP/SIP clients, ability to sideload media to use as ringtones, and built in navigation software. They encroached on their service decks back 5 years ago, and the carriers demanded they allow them to cripple the devices, which Nokia refused to do.
Nokia stood up for consumers and access to technology, the US carriers conspired to keep our market dumb and three steps behind the industry, and now most Americans think Apple and Android are breaking new ground, when actually they’re recycling tech Nokia debuted half a decade ago. While we’re wowed by cute UIs and media prowess, the rest of the world looks at app frameworks, battery efficiency, and resource management.
So thank those US carriers for marginalizing our market. They’re finally seeing what Nokia was doing, and Nokia will be all over US carriers over the next 18 months, alongside many other MeeGo and Symbian vendors.
These comments are *so* American-centric. A large portion of people “overseas” (including some Canadians) uses Nokia if they have a smartphone, considering they hold a 50%+ hold on the global market with maybe a 2% presence in the US smartphone market. Just because no carrier you know offers a high-end Nokia device, doesn’t mean *no* carrier offers a Nokia.
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P.S. The N900 has a lot of potential, and is probably the one non-Android phone that I’d consider buying, if it wasn’t so overpriced and underpolished. Maybe its successor will be better…
I use an N900 as not my primary device, but primary computer. The calls of unpolished are greatly exaggerated. This thing eats Android’s lunch, and has received 4 firmware upgrades of improvements in just 4 mos. of existence, the magic of REAL open source.
Android is great too, but not in the same class as Maemo/MeeGo, which is FULL Linux, with the same app frameworks and parts as a desktop distro. Android was designed by removing those tested and standard parts, and putting immature, proprietary parts in its place, negating the benefit of having a Linux core at all. Android is best suited for a smartphone. MeeGo is for computers that do whatever you decide they should, with full desktop power in your pocket.
Good news, Nokia needs to start gaining ground in the American market.
while no one would argue that idea, it won’t be via the Cseries. These devices will be popular in the emerging markets where pricing is more sensitive, and will be the lowest priced smartphones in the world.
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@Michael B
The entire world is America-centric. That ain’t goin’ away even with Obama running around trying to tear the place up so get used to it. If it ain’t here it just ain’t!
Once again Christexaport, you speak the truth, unfortunately it won’t be heard (read) by nearly enough people who need to hear it. Waiting on the N900 here in Canada, rumoured that WIND mobile will be carrying it.
New devices are being announced now see C5
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Why does Kelly Hodgkins title most of her articles in question format?