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New Nokia Phone

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the we-never-get-cool-phones-here dept.

John writes: "infoSync has posted the official information about the two new Nokia phones which is going to be unveiled today. Quote: 'The Nokia 7650 will be the world's first 2.5G Symbian OS mobile phone with advanced messaging and imaging capabilities ...' It looks like ICQ on the mobile phone is closer than ever!" Includes a built-in camera and various comments about this not coming to North America anytime soon.

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  1. Nokia and Symbian by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    Nokia 7650 Home Page (with specs, etc.)

    Symbian Press Release

  2. Re:Very slick by RedX · · Score: 5, Informative
    For some darn reason they always do that, North American GSM seems to be low priority for GSM phone builders.

    Perhaps because the marketshare for GSM in the US is so far very low? Because CDMA and TDMA carriers currently offer vastly larger coverage areas than their GSM rivals, and there are plenty of CDMA and TDMA handsets that also offer analog roaming, GSM service is limited to pretty much only people that will be staying in and traveling between large metro areas. This will hopefully start to change once AT&T gets further along with their national GSM roll-out this should start to change. Of course, we start to get into a chicken vs. egg argument when you consider that more people (definitely me) would jump on the GSM bandwagon if some of these sweet Nokia handsets were available in the US.