Published by Rafe Blandford at 14:05 BST, May 6th 2008
Nokia today announced the launch of the Nokia 6122c, an S60 phone available exclusively for China Mobile. This follows on from the announcement of the Nokia 6124c (Vodafone) and Nokia 6650 (T-Mobile). The 6122c is effectively the 6120 in a new shell. It runs S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 1, has a 2.0 megapixel camera, FM Radio, microSD card slot and a dedicated China Mobile Internet key.
China Mobile (China Mobile Communications Corporation - CMCC) has over 400 million subscribers. It is the world's biggest mobile operator (by number of subscribers) and therefore the announcement of the 6122c represents a significant win for Nokia and S60.
This also reinforces S60's position as a favourite of operators. A number of operators have chosen to use S60 as a preferred platform in order to help deliver new services and reduce time to market and testing costs for new phones. The partnership with operators has allowed S60 to enter the mid market and attain sales volumes that have left competing open software platforms some way behind.
Note: This is the 6124 not the 6122. The difference (as fars as we know) is in the branding.
We'll swap the pictures once we find some higher resolution shots of the 6122
Here's an extract from the press release:
"The Nokia 6122c is another S60 device exclusively available for CMCC, demonstrating the continued collaboration between Nokia and CMCC," says Michael Hsu, Vice President, China Mobile Account, Nokia Operator Channel. "As a world leading mobile phone manufacturer, we highly value collaboration with CMCC. Together we will strive to forge long-term development of the domestic mobile telecom industry."
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Categories: Hardware
Platforms: S60 3rd Edition
Your first reference to the Voda 6124 says "6124c" - the 'c' is wrong. (It would mean the Vodafone/Vodacom device was Chinese.)@Bchliu
Probably this is 2.5G only - Nokia have launched any TD-SCDMA devices yet. As far as I know China Mobile are still only testing with a limited number of special handsets.ttfn, Tony
If Nokia had one of the first contracts to supply handsets with this technology they would surely shout about it in their press release (http://www.nokia.com/A4136001?newsid=1216230).
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Does this coincide with China's crappy home grown 3G? Just wondering if this phone being China exclusive is targeted towards their crappy. |
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