TELECOM Digest OnLine - Sorted: Nokia Draws Bead on iPod People

Nokia Draws Bead on iPod People

Monty Solomon (monty@roscom.com)
Fri, 29 Apr 2005 01:19:56 -0400

Reuters
11:28 AM Apr. 28, 2005 PT

Nokia expects to sell 25 million smartphones this year -- handsets
offering limited PC-type functions like e-mail -- more than doubling
the 12 million it sold in 2004, according to a forecast by company
CEO Jorma Ollila.

He also said at a company event in Amsterdam that the company
expects to ship 100 million camera phones in 2005, and that Nokia
would sell 40 million phones with MP3 digital music players this
year, compared with 10 million in 2004.

By comparison, Apple said it sold 5.3 million iPods in the first
three months of 2005 while Canon was the top seller of digital
cameras in 2004, with 17 percent of the global market of 74 million
units, according to research firm IDC.

Nokia unveiled its N91 multimedia phone, which will have a 4-gigabyte
hard drive that can store thousands of music files. The phone, which
will also run on high-speed 3G and wireless LAN networks, is due out
by the end of the year.

Nokia said its other new phones, the N90 and the N70, will have
two-megapixel cameras with high-quality Carl Zeiss lenses. The N90
will be in shops in the second quarter at a price of around 600 euros
($784), while the N70, also a 3G phone, will hit the shelves in the
third quarter. Apple's original iPod retails for about 319 euros in
Europe while Canon's cameras start at less than half the cost of the
N90.

The company launched the new N-series sub-brand to make the new phone
lineup stand out as luxuries specifically designed for high quality
photos, video and music.

http://www.wired.com/news/gizmos/0,1452,67380,00.html

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