New Nokia Communicator E90 Rumored Specs
Stefan over at RingNokia has compiled all the specs from Michal Jerz’s blog regarding the rumored new Communicator device, the E90. I’ll spare the full text, but there’s a link at the bottom of this post. The basic run-down is it’s the same form factor, only the front screen is now full-on s60, it’s running s60v3 FP1, and it’s beautiful.
I for one am freakin excited, but I have my reservations. Given the past history of the Communicators line, I’m VERY doubtful that this will even have the 850 GSM band, much less the 850/1900 UMTS bands we crave so much over here. That drives me crazy. It’s already proven that there’s a Quad-GSM/Tri-UMTS chip, HTC’s put it in a couple of devices now. Why can’t Nokia get their hands on these new chips as well? Why is the US market so stupidly dependent on our Carriers to tell us what phones we get, and why aren’t there any manufacturers with balls enough to tell them to screw off?
But I’m going into an entirely different can of worms. In any case, look for this to be announced sometime in the next 60 days or do, with a launch in the first half of next year. It’ll cost your first born son, and many will pay.
Link to Stefan’s Post
Link to Stefan’s Earlier Post
Everyone’s problems would be solved when the FCC agrees with other countries in the world and use the 900/1800 bands with 2100 W-CDMA.
Other Facts:
North America is not first on Nokia’s priority list. Nokia focuses on Europe and the fast-growing, developing-country markets. Rumbling under this decision is the legal battle between Nokia and Qualcomm. Qualcomm owns most of the patents involved in CDMA, and Nokia and Qualcomm have been feuding over licensing. Getting out of CDMA means Nokia will have to pay Qualcomm less money. Nokia spokesman Keith Nowak have said that Nokia couldn’t figure out how to make money in CDMA, and what they see as unreasonable licensing fees could have played a role there.
Nokia isn´t the only company that is “abondoning” U.S. Sony Ericsson’s only CDMA phones are exclusively for Japan. NEC, Panasonic, Sagem, and Alcatel also don’t dare play in that market.
A global GSM focus makes North Americans seem pretty unimportant. In the GSM world U.S has 4.3% of global users. And the carrier-centricity of North America makes the US and Canada unusually hard to sell in to. No wonder so many companies don’t even try.