Not at CTIA: Nokia unveils 4 phones for the emerging market

At the Growing Together 2008 Conference in South Africa today Nokia released 4 devices. Is that a Prism? For the entry market?! Find out after the jump along with the other 3 devices.

The Nokia 5000 is a 90 Euro device with a 1.3 megapixel camera, 240×320 resolution 65k color 2 inch screen, dual band (one version to be 900/1800, the other 850/1900), 700 mAh battery all in a 11.1 mm thin package scheduled to come out in the second quarter of this year.

The Nokia 2680 Slide will cost 75 Euros when it comes out in the third quarter of this year. It has a VGA camera, again dual band with 2 versions like the Nokia 5000, 128×160 resolution screen, 860 mAh battery and it is a hair under 15 mm thin.



The Nokia 7070 Prism is the cheapest fashion phone I've ever seen out of Nokia coming in at only 50 Euros when it hits stores in the third quarter of this year. You'll get a dual band device, 128×160 resolution screen, 16 mm thin device, but with a ton of style. It looks like a clamshell version of the 7500.


The Nokia 1680 Classic is the 2680 in a monoblock form factor, but it is coming out in Q2.

For more detailed information about these 4 devices the PDF datasheets are avilable here along with more press quality [read: high resolution] photos.

[via IntoMobile]

Nokia 7070 Prism tags itself as the Low Priced Value Phone

Although stylish in looks and form, the Nokia 7070 Prism yet sets its prices down to earth. The Nokia 7070 Prism phone was unveiled along with the other 3 Nokia phones, namely Nokia 5000, Nokia 2680 Slide and Nokia 1680 Classic which come with a low price tag too.

The geometric patterns on its clamshell body set the phone apart from all other mobile phones. The sleek phone although low on price, does not sacrifice on the features.

The phone supports MP3 Ringtones, hands-free speaker and voice recorder functions. The lightweight phone weighs only 78 grams and supports GPRS, email and attractive themes and wallpapers.

Nokia 7070 prism has an internal memory of 11MB and provides a talk-time of 5 hours along with an amazing standby time of 20 days. The phone may miss out on multimedia player or camera functions, but for a basic phone these many features are quite satisfactory. The Nokia 7070 Prism is expected to ship in the third quarter of 2008 and its price is expected to be around US $80 which is just a mere €50.

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