Motorola and Nokia bring budget handsets to Verizon Wireless
By Will Park on Friday, January 25th, 2008 at 5:05 PM PST In Announcements, Devices, Motorola, Nokia, Verizon
Who says you gotta pony up the big bucks to stay on top of the latest trends? In the mobile world it’s “hot” to be thin and chic (not all that different from Los Angeles). It looks like Motorola (NYSE: MOT) and Nokia (NYSE: NOK) are bringing “stylish” handsets to the lower-end masses with their newest offerings for Verizon (NYSE: VZ) Wireless.
Motorola’s W755 RAZR-esque clamshell sports a thin-ish look to cut down on the embarrassing “brick-factor.” Unfortunately, Motorola also decided to cut down on the spec-sheet’s “performance” factor. With a 1.3 megapixel camera, touch-sensitive external controls, Bluetooth, and EVDO, the Motorola W755 isn’t going to be busting out of the low-end anytime soon – but at least it’ll be playing “in” with the cool group of handsets.
Nokia’s making a splash in the kiddie pool with their slightly less brick-ish pair of handsets. For a pair of low-enders, the Nokia 2605 and Nokia 7205 are higher up on the cool-o-meter than we’d expect. The Nokia 2605 offers only 1xRTT data, VGA camera, Bluetooth, and an external display that’s larger than the Motorola W755.
The Nokia 7205 turns up the performance-dial a couple notches with EVDO data, 2 megapixel camera, Bluetooth, 180MB internal storage, microSD card slot, and an external display – but is still firmly planted in the lower-range of Verizon’s lineup.
Pricing and availability aren’t available, but rest assured that these bad boys won’t make too big a dent in your wallet.
[Via: Phone Arena]
Finally something reasonable for CDMA and Verizon from Nokia!! Excellent! I think this year might finally be the year when things get better for Nokia in the US.
Pretty horrible if you ask me
Hopy, how so?
Ups, Topy, that is.
why in the world is nokia making things for verizon? CDMA is old, and nokia should be gsm only like the rest of the world……..