Nokia Promises Larger US Presence
Will it really make a difference though?
I can't help but wonder what Nokia's motives really are for this increased 'presence?'
Up to this point, it appears that Nokia see's the U.S. market strictly as a body consisting of cheap consumers who rarely take a second thought as to a phone's features. That is, Americans only buy the phone that is the least expensive to go along with their 2-year renewed contract from AT&T or Verizon... To further illustrate this, take a look at the Nokia 6555 - this is Nokia's first impression on American soil about their joint efforts in order to capture the American market again. In my opinion, the 6555 is a bland piece of nothing which only succeeds in filling the quota for useless l...
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You ask why Nokia doesn't just make tri-band 3G. Two things:
1) just because you CAN do something doesn't necessarily mean that you should. If Nokia were to put 850/1900 3G chipsets in its phones, and then only a few phone geeks in the US actually bought them, money is being wasted. No successful company is going to throw money away just to appease a very small minority of customers.
2) tri-band 3G is...
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Don't blame the manufacturers about "giving" the US market ugly phones. It's the carriers. Like how Apple offered Verizon the iPhone but Verizon refused cause they didn't want to give Apple pretty much all the rights.
Nokia is a strong presence in Europe and Asia. I'm sure once the manufacturers get rights like Apple. They'll be able to bring out better phones for the US.
now that Broadcom has moved a step further in their injunction of Qualcom, Nokia is following up by coming back in to a market that used to be more hassle than it's worth.
Qith Qualcom smartening up (whether or not by their choice 😉 ) it frees up a lot more sandbox for other manufacturers to do their thing again like when the cellular industry hit its first bang in North America in the early 90's.
However, I don't completely agree with your second point. The TI OMAP 2420 (used in the E90, N82 & N95, among other phones) already has the option to implement triband 3G, it's just selectively disabled by Nokia. The same thing rings true with Freescale, their 369Mhz ARM11 chipset (used in phones like the N76, E51, etc) also has triband 3G available to be implemented into the chipset... What I'm trying to say here is that there is no need for "seperate chipsets" in order to achieve triband 3G, or even a potential 5-band 3G solution in the futu...
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But Nokia's 2008's lineup could be entirely different. This is where I am coming from on this whole issue - I am rather hopeful that Nokia will make a choice to implement CPU solutions which will inherently include triband 3G, effectively showing their interest in the US market... However, I am also quite doubtful that they'd do such a thing - as it would be too good to be true, IMHO.
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