E65 or N77???

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Any chance there'll be north american version of the N65 or N77 (or even N73) coming anytime soon? Meaning 850/900/1800/1900GSM + 850/1900UMTS. Seems like the only one right now is the N75 (and it's still "upcoming"), but it's a flip (I'm getting away from flips).

Or perhaps another bar style 3G Nokia running Symbian that will be for North American bands?

The 6300 looks promising, but no 3G.


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The e65 is an enterprise class device that is very similar to the e61 (qwerty vs. slider) that is already carried by cingular, doubt they'll release the e65. The n77 is a DVB-H device and would be useless in the states. Maybe you meant the n75? It should be out in the next three months, hopefully. I wouldn't get to excited about Nokia coming out with many 3G devices for the states any time soon.
 
Mainly because of the lack of standardization of the 3G bandwidth in North America. The n73 is a superb phone! Call quality is excellent albeit a little on the quiet side. The build quality of my n73 is very good, although she gets a little creaky. And all the rest of the users of the n73 will testify that the camera is fresh to death! Symbian is stable, and well developed for, it has apps equivalent or surpassing its wm5 counterparts so if you decide to get one you won't be disappointed, its a well rounded device! Take the plunge.
 
Actually it has more to do with their dispute with Qualcomm and their patent on the 850/1900/2100 UMTS chipsets. And it's getting uglier by the day too.

http://www.nokia.com/A4136001?newsid=1112696
 
That link is bogus as to the lack of 3G on AC&C , you post like you know what you are talking about, but, its BS!. Leave it to someone with 5,000+ post to come with some rhetoric and convolute the subject matter. The fact is that some of the N.A. carriers do not follow the global standard for the 3G wireless band because they have chosen not to do so! Blazer4ever has cingular ask him or her what 3G capable phone they have? Not many, the same ones that most of the world were introduced to a year ago. This is not because of a beef between NOKIA and QUALCOMM, but because of MONEY! Who makes the 3G+ chips for Verizon and Sprint who have 3.5G networks already deployed in market in the U.S. while the "largest network" squats on 2.5EDGE for the majority of the U.S.; QUALCOMM! While it is a issue of legality, it is not one of rationality, special interest and undemanding and unquestioning consumers are deciding the fate of GSM technology in N.A. And, sadly it is not confined to GSM, but local, national and global policy on a myriad of issues as well. We find ourselves left behind, scratching our heads, pointing at the "bad guy" and wondering why! Wake-t-f up.
 
What are you talking about? If you do just a LITTLE research, you'll find out both reasons are correct.

Since T-mobile is planning on rolling out their 3G on UMTS 1700, versus Cingular's 850/1900 UMTS bands. That alone is a lack of standardization, regardless of what the rest of the world is using. And Nokia can't release triband UMTS handsets since the technology is being fought over in court. The only option Nokia has for releasing NA 3G handsets is to make them 850/1900 UMTS only, in which case they'd have to go directly through Cingular, since a handset with those bands can't be released unlocked as a "world phone".

And NA carriers didn't specifically choose to not use the "world standard", they have to use the spectrum A) that's already in place, and B) that the FCC allows them to use. So if you want to complain about a lack of a world standard, grab some equipment and start building your own 2100 mhz network in the US and see if the FCC just sits quietly while you do it.
 
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