Finland’s Nokia might be the largest handset maker on the planet, accounting for about 40 percent of all mobile phones on the planet—including vast numbers of entry level phones all around the world— but the company has been struggling in the lucrative United States market, where it has fallen to about a 10 percent market share. But Nokia is not giving up: according to Finnish daily newspaper Helsingin Sanomat, Nokia will be rolling a number f new handsets in conjunction with U.S. mobile operators in the coming months, including CDMA handsets for use on Sprint’s and Verizon’s mobile networks.
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Nokia Intros "L’Amour" Fashion Phones
Is your mobile phone an extension of your personality, an expression of your unique style? And plastic, fake chrome, and gunmetal grey don’t really do anything for you?
Well, phone maker Nokia wants to ring you up with it’s new L’Amour Collection of three new phones aimed at the style- and fashion-conscious set. Each phone, expected to be available in Europe in early 2006, might be light on features compared with 3G smartphones, but that’s not the point: these phones are intended to combine natural materials, colors, styling, and details with craft aesthetics, cultural and ethnic influences, and attention to detail. The L’Amour Collection is aimed at trend-forward individuals for whom mobile phones are not just a means to be heard,seen.
- The Nokia 7380, expected to be priced at


