Expect the E71x to arrive in May.
There were a grand total of two Nseries/Eseries phones ever subsized by AT&T. About zero of them were actually successful. They were the N75 and E62, and both suffered from some major issues: the former had some lousy battery life and heat problems, while the latter looked like a bland, oversized calculator.
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The Nokia N-Gage Taco
This one gave me a pretty good laugh: Minyanville did a slideshow of the nine biggest “Consumer-Product Misfires”, and the Nokia N-Gage (the actual gaming device/phone, not the service) made the list thanks to some “huh?” engineering: you needed to remove the battery to insert a new game, and you had to turn it on its side to make a phone call. And it also looked like a taco.
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Rough seas ahead for Sony Ericsson.
Sony Ericsson has been on a losing streak. Seriously. Two quarters ago (Q3 2008), the conglomerate/duo announced that it lost 25 million euros (~$34 million USD). Last quarter (Q4 2008), the company lost 187 million euros. And now, SE is about to land it’s biggest loss in a long time: 340 million euros. And that’s on the low end.
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On second thought, maybe not.
It’s good to know that Nokia’s CDMA handsets keep getting progressively better. Better looking, that is. At this rate, Nokia will have quite a looker in 2012.
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A 6133 for $60, anyone?
Remember the 6133? No, of course you don’t. The 6133 was released more than 2 years ago to little fanfare alongside a couple of other suspiciously similar phones, the 6131 and 6126. All three phones featured the same “press-to-open” button which it seems was all the rage at the time.
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I have to admit, Nokia has done a pretty good job with the whole firmware-updating-thing – at least with the E66 and E71 phones. Today Nokia released 210.21.007 (E66) and 210.21.006 (E71), which are essentially the same update:
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Sad news for today: 1,700 Nokia employees are getting axed, thanks to the magic of cost-cutting and the global credit crisis. According to the press release, the lucky divisions being trimmed are sales, marketing, and technology management (which includes Devices research & development) – three divisions that you’d think Nokia would want to keep.
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In the past couple of days, the stock market has roared back to life – shares of Nokia stock have jumped over 20%. But according to several analysts, this isn’t the time to buy: more rough times are coming.
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In three words: XpressMusic QWERTY Slider
So says Netherlandish blog All About Phones. Apparently there’s a music-themed event coming later on today, with three new phones being announced: the Nokia 5730 XpressMusic, 5330 XpressMusic, and 5030 Xpress Radio (sense a trend here?). And while the 5330 closely resembles the Nokia 5630 XpressMusic phone, it’s not. Confused yet?
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