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Nokia hopes to launch 6-12 new phones for North America in 2008

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Published on: 11 January, 2008 by PhoneArena Team

Nokia hopes to launch 6-12 new phones for North America in 2008

Being a global leader in the cell phone market, last year Nokia was at number 4 in the US. Aside from appointing M. Louison president for North America (last July), its new strategy for getting a bigger piece of the pie (only 11% in Q3) includes the release of 6-12 new cell phones in 2008. Nokia said that even though CDMA is a much smaller business for the company, this year there will be specific phones customized not only for the major GSM carriers, but for Verizon and Sprint (and other CDMA service providers) also . A part of the phones will be available in the first half of the year and the rest will come in the second pushing Nokia fullsteam into 2009.

source: Reuters

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anonymous @ 11 January, 2008 11:31:24 AM

ABOUT TIME

Great!!! Hope to see great Nokia phones in CDMA. Hopefully the E90 will be in CDMA......I hope, and pray, and beg, and...... cry....... :

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anonymous @ 11 January, 2008 12:23:25 PM

CDMA don't deserve E90.

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jvillan @ 11 January, 2008 02:57:50 PM

will we? ever?

will we ever get the n95 8g?

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anonymous @ 11 January, 2008 04:01:31 PM

i doubt it as verizon has yet to release a nokia phone with symbian. But perhaps they will change their ways

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PHug @ 11 January, 2008 04:17:12 PM

I would hate to see what Verizon does to a great phone like the N95.

I would buy a un-branded, un-crippled version of the N95 on Sprint for full retail

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Nick @ 12 January, 2008 02:49:35 PM

Verizon will have their any software any device in full swing by the end of the year and you should be able to buy the phone direct from Nokia nd activate it on VZW.

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Nick @ 12 January, 2008 02:50:48 PM

And that assumes Nokia will sell a CDMA version that they've submitted for certification.

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LordObento @ 12 January, 2008 06:41:38 PM

Get Serious

All VZW ever had and will have for Nokia phones is those free candy bar phones and those clunky flip phones. Look back at what VZW had when Nokia was making phones.

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Doug @ 13 January, 2008 01:59:21 AM

Let's be like Apple... sorta

I think its time that Nokia starts to do what Apple did with AT&T and force its will upon it. Try and get it to release a phone with no branding what-so-ever, except maybe a logo on the front of it and have it locked to that carrier, and that's it. I'm sick of this carrier crap especially if features like A2DP are going to be removed (N75) to get their programming to work. I'm all for seeing more Nokia phones on the GSM networks here. Especially S60 feature packed phones, like the N95/N82 or even the S40 6500 Slide and E-series.

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nosferatus @ 14 January, 2008 06:52:46 AM

......update to 6255i!.

I hope nokia make updates to this great cell phone (NOKIA 6255i).

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