Nokia's first TD-SCDMA-based 6788 ready for China Mobile's 500 million subscribers

Nokia might be hemorrhaging smartphone marketshare to North America's meddling upstarts but it still dominates in total handsets sold worldwide. Today's news can only help that cause as Nokia taps into China's homegrown TD-SCDMA 3G marketplace for the first time. The Nokia 6788 does the honor via collaboration with China Mobile, China's (and the world's) largest mobile phone operator. The handset itself brings a 2.8-inch QVGA display, 5 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss lens and dual-LED flash, 4GB of memory plus microSD expansion, GPS, 3.5mm headset jack, and Bluetooth 2.0 EDR, all riding atop S60 3rd Edition -- not 5th as we're accustomed to seeing by now. Unfortunately, it won't start contributing to Nokia's sagging bottom-line until the end of December.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 27th 2009 8:35AM]

Typical of Nokia's arrogance to think that chinese people would gobble up such an outdated handset with an outdated software.
If they need to unload their unsold overpriced and obsolete phones and hope that chinese people would be uninformed and unsophisticated enough to swallow them they will be sorely disappointed.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 27th 2009 9:04AM]

Seriously... ur kidding right... who do you think is sterotyping... you or nokia?

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 27th 2009 12:44PM]

Out of date software? Outdated handset?

Did somebody get out of bed on the wrong side this morning?

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 27th 2009 9:36PM]

They will if they want China Mobile's coverage. Me? Screw TD, I'm going with Unicom where my Sharp 903 works just fine.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 27th 2009 10:42AM]

All those power manufacturers may now go for China's TD-SCDMA, because of China Mobile's tremendous subscribers. man, 500million..........

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 27th 2009 1:11PM]

that's a N85 not so outdated?