April 28, 2005

Nokia’s iPod/CannonCam

by Guy Brighton

01_n91_lowres_f1Nokia have unveiled a new premium phone that includes an MP3 music player that it said will outsell Apple’s iPod and another with a camera phone that it forecast will surpass Canon, the world’s top
digital camera maker.

The world’s leading mobile phone maker expects its new luxury
"Nseries" handsets, which feature built-in hard drives and high-quality
camera lenses, to boost sales by differentiating it and increasing its
industry-leading margins. 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.

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, reported Reuters.

Nokia’s N91 multimedia phone 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. The 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.

 

Nokia
Reuters Article

Article categories: Electronics & Gadgets, Entertainment, Luxury, Music, Telecom, Web & Technology

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