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Filed under: Handsets, Nokia, GSM

Looking through the pictures in this place, you might not suspect that the sticker prices for these bad boys range from just €90 ($117) all the way down to a jaw-droppingly low €25 (about $32), but they do, which raises a question: why must they be targeting emerging markets alone? Nokia has a history of going after emerging economies with the occasional barrage of models, and the latest round ups the game with features we’d be totally cool with seeing on your average “mature market” handset — goodies like integrated flashlights, sturdy lanyards, and a vaguely-defined “Nokia Life Tools” service that delivers relevant information in a graphical interface to phones via SMS (the logic being that GPRS isn’t continuously available where these phones are plan to be used). The most expensive device of the lot will be the 5130 XpressMusic, the first music-centric Nokia destined for low-income areas of the world with an integrated FM radio, 2-megapixel cam, and a 3.5mm headphone jack. Next up we’ve got the fancy 7100 Supernova, joining Nokia’s fashion-friendly line in a couple tasty colors with a 1.3-megapixel cam. If we skip all the way to the bottom, we have the lowly 1202, a rugged-looking little monochrome beast with an extended battery, a five-user phonebook to make it easy to pass around the whole family, and extra-loud ringtones — and at 25 euros, it’s Nokia’s lowest-cost phone ever. Why do we want one really badly? Are we crazy? Look for all six of these to start filtering around the globe between at this time and early 2009.

Nokia rolls deep on the cheap, cooks up six models originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Tue, 04 Nov 2008 14:40:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Filed under: Handsets, Sony Ericsson

As you might have noticed, there’s already plenty of Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1s out in the wild by this point, but there’s apparently not Truly as many as SE would like, and it’s laying the blame on some slightly mysterious manufacturing delays. According to IDG News, Sweden, Germany and the U.K. have been hardest hit by the delays, but Sony Ericsson isn’t about to get much more specific than that about the matter, saying clearly that a lack of “certain materials” is causing the shortages. The company has said, however, that more phones should be shipping into Sweden in the next few days, with the U.K. and Germany set to get additional shipments in the next few weeks. It also says that planned launches in other countries like Switzerland, France, and Singapore, to name a few, won’t be affected by the delays, and that the phone is still on track to be released in the US sometime in November.

[Via the::unwired]

Manufacturing delays said to be slowing XPERIA X1 sales originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Tue, 04 Nov 2008 13:04:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Filed under: Handsets, Motorola

Unless our eyes are Makesome remarkable deceiving (and trust us, they’ve been known to work unwanted miracles before), this in this place ROKR EM35 is a colored version of the VE66 we spotted lat. last month. Very, very little details are given — just that it’s rockin’ a 320 x 240 resolution display, a 3.5-millimeter headphone jack, a built-in multimedia player / music shortcut keys and the FastScroll navigation keys. Hit the read link for a few more looks.

[Thanks, Antony P.]

Is Motorola’s ROKR EM35 the VE66? originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Tue, 04 Nov 2008 12:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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