T-Mobile Cancels Nokia Nuron 2 Close to Release Date

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Pocketnow reports that the Nokia Nuron 2 originally planned for T-Mobile USA has been cancelled. This is the second time this week we see the word ?cancelled? next to a US carrier. The first one being the Nokia X7 with AT&T. The Nuron 2 is internationally known as the Nokia C5-03, a Symbian^1 smartphone.
Pocketnow?s source claims the Nokia Nuron 2 was scheduled to sell on February 4th. They didn?t say why T-Mobile decided to cancel this model so close to its release date.

http://thenokiablog.com/2011/01/22/tmobile-cancels-nokia-nuron-2/
 
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was it T-Mobile who did the canceling for sure. Nokia axed the X7 on AT&T. Wonder if Nokia will do any smartphones on a USA carrier this year. Perhaps they'll wait until they have more updates to symbian (at a level where S^4) and Meego is on a couple of handsets.
 
I didn't even realize that this was supposed to be the Nuron 2 or that there was ever any intent to sell it in the States. It would make a fine pay-go smartphone but American pricing models don't leave tremendous room for the sort of niche this phone is designed to fill.
 
Wow, the bad news for this company never seems to end.

The rumblings around the financial news sites is that their Q4 numbers, on the shareholder call coming up, are not very good. At all.

I'm thinking that's why they came out with that announcement about how one in five phones in emerging markets are KIRFs, and how that's hurting their bottom line.
 
the nuron was an experiment. but with $150 android phones out there, and soon to be $100 android, this phone just does not measure up. even s3 does not measure up to that.
 
Sad to say I would heartily recommend the Optimus T over this if someone wanted a low end phone. I was pretty amused to find a low-end LG phone that actually performs better than a ton of high-end android phones. Definitely one of the better phones in T-Mo's lineup
 
I'm wondering if there is a conflict between what carriers want and what Nokia wants. I do like the phones. But the software to update and get apps goes through OVI, at least on an unlocked phone. Nokia is trying to run its own chat, email, and social apps and store your backups. If you register your phone, you need the IMEI, serial number and carrier. I found an unwanted (unabled) extension in Firefox that Nokia installed without asking or telling. It had to do with syncing and who knows what Nokia was doing with the info. Someone from Mozillazine supplied the method of getting rid of it, and you had to delete entries from the registry.
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its probably that the phone choice is just too fierce, even for tmobile here with all the android phones they carry and cheaper by the day. who knows, maybe not. but if you were in the room trying to decide on the nuron 2 compared to the android phones, how would you pitch it? what would be the "you must carry this phone because" line be? tough sell i think.
 
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