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The Nokia Mural has been on sale for less than a week, and AT&T just pulled it off the shelves

Categories: AT&T, Nokia
By: , IntoMobile
Friday, September 11th, 2009 at 1:16 AM

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.” 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 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.

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Stefan Constantinescu

Stefan Constantinescu (@WhatTheBit on Twitter) has loved technology since as far back as he can remember. It started with computers, but in the past few years his passion has turned to mobile devices. As a mobile phone enthusiast who lives and breathes devices that connect to the internet, he knows he is not alone with this radical fascination of all things wireless. He is strongly opinionated and enjoys a good debate so leave comments in his posts and he’ll get back to you! Stefan began blogging as a hobby in the fall of 2006 and joined IntoMobile in the summer of 2007. Later he got a job at Nokia in March 2008, but as of June 2009 he has rejoined the IntoMobile team. He is currently based out of Helsinki, Finland.

  • Mika

    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.

  • Mika

    “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