Nokia will unveil its first mainstream flip phone and a music player next week, but industry observers said on Thursday the products may not be as hot as the company hopes.
Nokia, the world’s top mobile phone maker plans events at its headquarters in Helsinki and in Asia, where it is expected to launch one or two fold-away phones, a music player without a phone keypad, a lightweight communicator model for business users and a small handset for third-generation wireless networks, mobile phone industry sources told Reuters.
But one industry source who has seen the new handsets said he did not expect any of them to set the industry on fire.
“The mobile operators want something from Nokia that really smokes. This isn’t it,” he said. One clamshell has a swiveling display, a feature already used by Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics.
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