The Nokia Mural has been on sale for less than a week, and AT&T just pulled it off the shelves
By Stefan Constantinescu on Friday, September 11th, 2009 at 1:16 AM PST In AT&T, Nokia
The Nokia Mural, a really low end cheap clam shell phone that doesn’t even run S60, has been pulled off the shelves according to The Boy Genius Report who cites that the 3G feature inside the Mural has been “inadvertently turned off during production at Nokia (NYSE: NOK).” Are you serious? Nokia doesn’t even know how to make dumb phones that work in the Americas now? How are they supposed to increase their market share in the land of White Castle (as an expat living in Finland, I desperately miss White Castle) when they can’t even get 3G working? All current Nokia Murals in AT&T (NYSE: T) stores are being returned to AT&T’s main distribution warehouse where they’re going to be flashed with a new firmware. I would hate to be that guy, who sits on his ass all day, 8 hours a day, flashing firmware because Nokia screwed something up. No word as to when the Mural will go on sale again.
It’s not really Nokia’s fault. 3G networks in the US are ridiculous at best. US 3G netwoks and 3G technology is from the stone age in general. It’s ridiculous that if you eg, try to use your phone at home then in one room you get hood signal, but in another room no signal at all. And it’s not only 3G which has problems, GSM has same problems there. When US mobile networks are so poor you can’t really blame eg. Nokia if you have connectivity problems.
I did live in US when I was stydying there and my experience is that US mobile networks really are as bad as people say. I’m now back in Finland and the difference is HUGE.
I wonder how US ever was able to go to moon when they can’t make proper mobile communication network on earth.
“It’s ridiculous that if you eg, try to use your phone at home then in one room you get hood signal”
typofix:
hood = good