Given
Nokia Siemens' commitment to getting the technology rolled out with carrier partners on the double and the fact that
Nokia's tie-up with Qualcomm for S60-optimized HSPA and
LTE chipsets will bear fruit in 2010 -- not to mention the fact that multiple carriers will be deploying LTE over the next two years -- it only stands to reason that Espoo would have LTE devices in the pipe sooner rather than later. Indeed, the company has now gone on record saying that it'll have "data intensive" LTE gadgets launched next year, though they've failed to go into the nitty gritty details of what kind of devices those might be. That could very well be where this new rumor comes into play, though:
TheStreet.com is claiming that there's chatter of a Verizon / Nokia partnership that would see a serious full touchscreen multimedia phone launched to help inaugurate Big Red's LTE airwaves -- and considering that Nokia has ramped up its Verizon-branded product portfolio over the past year and
publicly cheered on the carrier for choosing LTE over
WiMAX or
UMB, it's not all that difficult to believe. If the rumored device
comes in a brown pleather wallet, count us in.
[Via
Phone Scoop, thanks papari]
Read - Nokia bringing LTE in 2010
Read - Verizon partnership?
posted Mar 5th 2009 2:21PM
yay yay yay yay yay yay yay yay yay yay yay yay!
s60 lovin, verizon, please oh pretty please?
wow, if this happens, i will never buy nokia phones ever again. Verizon has the tendency to cripple the phone as much as they can. At&t all the way
They will probably cripple them even more now that all nokia phones will come with Skype embedded.
If this really happens and Nokia holds its ground against the carriers I'll buy the N97 as soon as it comes out , and forget all about touchFLO and Touch Wiz
@ KilgoreTrout
All Nokia phones do not come with skype you might want to rethink that.
If you want skype you can install it on your N87 even if they dont ship with it. But then skype mobile still charges you for the voice calls, better get Fring.