Nokia Fever

We don’t typically post FCC filings we can’t identify or link to a product we’re expecting, but this odd Nokia filing caught our eye. It’s got a CDMA radio with EV-DO and Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR, which means it’s likely headed to Verizon considering how chummy those two have gotten over the past couple years — nothing unusual there. What is odd, though… Continue reading

Filed under: Features, Nokia, Verizon Wireless, EV-DO, CDMA

We’ve got to give Nokia credit: they managed, against all odds, to come up with a truly unique form factor in creating the Twist for Verizon — a combination of shape, design, and mechanism that had never quite been seen before. Thing is, it’s the year… Continue reading

Filed under: Handsets, Nokia, Verizon Wireless

Not that there was any doubt, but Nokia’s gone official with its Verizon-bound 7705 Twist, just shy of one month after its KIRF counterpart hit the market. Espoo’s released a handful of glamor shots to celebrate, and although the hardware is still crazy enough to thoroughly pique our interests… Continue reading

Filed under: Nokia, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA, UMTS, HSUPA, LTE

Nokia makes out its just-announced RD-3 data modem to be the dream of every road warrior: global GSM / EDGE, global HSPA, global LTE — a twenty-plus year heritage of technologies in the GSM family tree compressed into a… Continue reading

Filed under: Handsets, Nokia, Verizon Wireless, CDMA

It’s no Twist, but the latest Verizon-branded Nokia leak suggests that the newfound love between the two companies is showing no signs of slowing down — good news for a carrier shunned by some manufacturers for its CDMA ways. The alleged 2705 “Shade” would replace the 2605… Continue reading

Filed under: Handsets, Software, HTC, Nokia, Samsung, Verizon Wireless, Bell Mobility, Symbian, Windows Mobile, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA, UMTS

Here’s some of the other stuff that happened in the wide world of mobile for Thursday, July 16th, 2009:

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Filed under: Handsets, Nokia, Verizon Wireless, EV-DO, CDMA

Here’s what we know: a Nokia RM-526 (all Nokia handsets receive internal RM codes in addition to their consumer-friendly marketing model numbers) just passed the FCC, and the outline of the device pictured in the FCC ID label documentation makes it look a little… shall… Continue reading

Filed under: Handsets, Nokia, Verizon Wireless, EV-DO, CDMA

This rumor’s got more holes than swiss, but stranger things have happened, so it’ll be an interesting scoop to keep an eye on nonetheless. A tipster to Boy Genius Report claims that Nokia is working on a “swiveling E71-type handset” for — get this –… Continue reading

Filed under: Handsets, Nokia, Verizon Wireless, EV-DO, CDMA

This rumor’s got more holes than swiss, but stranger things have happened, so it’ll be an interesting scoop to keep an eye on nonetheless. A tipster to Boy Genius Report claims that Nokia is working on a “swiveling E71-type handset” for — get this –… Continue reading