The world's largest cell phone maker Nokia will uncover its new N-series, including a N73 camera phone, at an event in Berlin next week, says Reuters.
Nokia plans to take a more stylish step with these phones. "With the current N-series models, we've done some back-to-back tests with models from competing vendors. Nokia's size, weight, bulk is significantly bigger, while the key features such as the camera match up," said one source at a large telecom operators who declined to be named.
"Nokia missed the slim phones trend just as they missed clamshells a few years ago. But this is not that kind of a megatrend as clamshells were," said Nordea analyst Karri Rinta.
Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics rushed their own slim models to the market while Nokia was preparing its new N-Series phones.
"The models they will announce on April 25th won't be there either. Toward the end of the year, the N-series will become more realistic in their form factor. They're heading in the right direction, but the competition will move too," said one source at a large telecom operators who declined to be named.
First rumours of the Nokia N73 appeared in late March. They were all rumours of course, until the first images of the N70 successor were leaked. The Nokia N73 will run on Symbian 9.1 and Series 60 3rd Edition and will feature a QVGA display, a 3.2 mega pixel camera with Carl Zeiss lens and auto focus, Bluetooth 2.0, stereo speakers, memory card expansion and 3G.
Nokia said the N70 camera phone was the best-selling 3G phone in the first quarter, accounting for about 10 percent of the worldwide 3G markets on its own.
The N-Series phones, however, take a different route, stretching the technical limits of the traditional handset. The chief of the multimedia division, Anssi Vanjoki, won't call them mobile phones, preferring the phrase "small computers."
Some analysts think that is a mistake.
"It takes away the sexiness. If you make them computers, that makes them boring," said Gartner analyst Carolina Milanesi.
"Nokia is closer to the computer, but they need to make them more appealing from the design point of view."
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