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Just days following its announcement, the FCC saw fit to grant Nokia’s low-end C5 all the regulatory approval it needs (well, not all, but some) to start hitting shelves stateside. Whether it’ll actually be sold in any official capacity in North America is another story altogether — but the prospect of a sub-$200 unlocked smartphone from any top-tier manufacturer is a difficult one to ignore; in any contest, this isn’t the model you’ll be seeing in American stores since it’s quadband GSM with 900 / 2100MHz 3G only. While you wait for manufacturing to ramp up, there’s a 91-page manual included with the filing for you to flip through, so you may as well get started.

Nokia C5 wastes no time getting FCC blessing originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Sat, 06 Mar 2010 15:20:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Say you’re Nokia. Well, you can’t be Nokia since Nokia’s an inanimate concept; say you’re Nokia CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo. What’d be a good show to use as a backdrop for a new low-end line of smartphones, none of which are likely to generate a ton of buzz? Why, the monstrous fairgrounds of CeBIT, of course! There’s a bit of creative wording in the official Nokia Conversations newsletter that would seem to indicate the long-rumored Cseries is finally ready to bow:

“Of course, we don’t comment on rumours or leaks, but we are looking forward to C BIT for the next series of Nokia announcements. Right we’re off to pack our rucksacks and lederhosen, C you there.”

Get it? All those “C” references? Yeah, looks like a lock. We don’t know what phones will be shown off, but the most likely candidates are the C5 and C6, the latter of which could have some legs as an E72 alternative. Speaking of the C6, it was just approved by the FCC this week, complete with 850, 1900, and 2100MHz 3G — so don’t you worry, AT&T folks, this’ll work just fine for you when it launches. Stay tuned, because CeBIT is just days away.

Nokia C6 gets FCC approval, launching at CeBIT? originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:18:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

We’ve got enough rumor momentum going at this time so that we don’t really doubt the existence of the Nokia Nuron for T-Mobile — but if you’re the particularly skeptical type, you might like to take a glance at Cell Phone Signal’s new press shots of the handset. As you can clearly see, this is a dead ringer for the 5230 it’s been wrought from, the only difference being that it’ll without doubt swap out the Euro 3G for some AWS bands that T-Mobile USA knows how to use. We’ll admit, we’re concerned from the outset that T-Mobile’s plan to make the grave error of trying to price this thing at $99 or higher — but if the marketing wizards go for broke and price it down between, say, $30 and $50, we could see this being a serious low-end blockbuster. Is that crazy? Is it even a plausible scenario? Time will tell — we’ve only got another month and change to wait if the latest stream of intel is accurate.

Nokia Nuron for T-Mobile looking more official than ever in press shots originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:22:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.