Last time we checked, Nokia was cooling on the whole idea of CDMA (WCDMA -- the backbone of UMTS -- excepted, of course) thanks to a rather nasty
series of spats with the boys and girls at licensor Qualcomm; cooling so much, in fact, that they'd resorted to
turning to Pantech to bail them out and get some Nokia-branded EV-DO devices in the pipeline. So what's this all about? We wish we had more for you, but the FCC's being stingy with details; the picture above is the only one we have, but from the width to height ratio, we'd venture that there might just be a QWERTY keypad lurking on the other side of it. True, it's not branded as an Eseries or Nseries device (slapping either of those labels on a CDMA handset would be nothing short of blasphemy, after all) but seeing how Nokia has all but forsaken the Verizons and Sprints of the world, it'd be a beautiful thing to see this one come out of the gate with a packed spec sheet.
posted Mar 3rd 2007 4:33PM
I thought Nokia stopped making CDMA phones? (I hope this has a QWERTY keypad because I am on Bell and their phones blow)
looks like this is a CDMA2000 device w/o EVDO according to the test report
your on the bell, i think they still do make them. What about the LARGEST CDMA NETWORK, Verizon, they have nokias.
Most (if not all) of the Nokias currently sold by Verizon are rebranded Pantechs. I think the Pantech deal was a terrible one for Nokia--sure, they're keeping their brand in the VZW stores, but nothing that the brand represents. Nokia, to me, means that it will have the same charging plug on the bottom that Nokia has used for 10+ years. It means that the interface will be visually simple, feature-packed, easy to navigate, with an extremely hierarchial menu structure. Real Nokia hardware is similarly no-nonsense: bulky and not great looking, but tough as nails and fairly modular. The Pantechs are using regular Pantech plugs, and the VZW red interface. Ick.
Oh, and this phone looks like Series 40: a 128x160 screen, with CDMA 1X (no EVDO). Too bad it isn't S60, or I'd definitely get it. The only other tidbit from the test report is that it has a camera. I'm surprised it isn't called the 7088i -- all the past CDMA phones have had the i.
Here's another page about it.
http://www.nokiaport.de/forum/thread.php?threadid=233
It appears to have a crappy display, a VGA camera, a numeric pad, and absolutely nothing special.
I hope that site's wrong.
It's CDMA 800 only. Without the 1900 band at all, it's clearly not for the US or Canada. Based on the model number, it must be for China, and my guess is China only.