Nokia announces 2135 CDMA candybar

The phone itself isn't much of a looker, and the feature list is smaller than the phone itself -- but pretty much any time Nokia announces a CDMA handset for US consumption is a landmark event, so excuse us while we play this up a bit. The just-announced 2135 is a basic candybar ("popularly priced" is the terminology Nokia's throwing around here) with a 400-entry phonebook, 3.5 hours of talk time, 11 days of standby, integrated speakerphone, voice recorder, and that's about it. Heck, we probably wouldn't even bother mentioning it if it were a GSM release, but Nokia's tumultuous relationship with Qualcomm makes this a pretty big deal. No word on whether Sprint or Verizon (or someone else) will be picking it up around here, but expect it to be available in the next month or two.

Nokia announces 2135 CDMA candybar

[Mark Larson Posted Oct 15th 2007 3:57PM]

So is this not a rebranded Pantech like the rest of the recent Nokias?

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 15th 2007 4:04PM]

Most likely no one else will offer it than those Nokia flagship stores in US ;)

[fernando Posted Oct 15th 2007 4:10PM]

lol, cdma

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 15th 2007 5:30PM]

At least its not crappy old GSM.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 16th 2007 7:34AM]

So does this mean that Nokia is not completely abandoning the CDMA market after all?

Heck any interest at all from Nokia in the CDMA market is definitely a big deal!

I could see Virgin, leap, or maybe Metro PCS rocking this little phone.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 17th 2007 9:37PM]

it is coming to metropcs,
the nokia 2125 has been or is being discontinued very soon (next week or 2)
the 2135 has been in the online system for a couple months already while corporate is trying it out