DoCoMo cancels Nokia E71 due to Nokia’s pullback from Japan
By Dusan Belic on Friday, December 5th, 2008 at 3:52 AM PST In Announcements, Devices, DoCoMo, Nokia
Guess you’ve all heard Nokia is leaving Japan, leaving only its luxury handset division Vertu behind. Well, due to such decision by the Finnish giant, the leading Japanese mobile operator, NTT DoCoMo (NYSE: DCM), announced that it has cancelled its planned launch of the Nokia (NYSE: NOK) E71.
In November, DoCoMo announced Nokia’s QWERTY keyboard-equipped smartphone along with 21 other handsets. The E71 was scheduled for launch sometime between February and March 2009.
One thing we wonder though, maybe this is part of Nokia’s strategy to push its handsets through its MVNO operation in Japan, only, if they ever enter such venture. Guess the time will tell…
