CES 2010: Here’s what I would like to see from Nokia

Posted on Wednesday, Jan 6, 2010 by Matthew Miller

8 Comments » File Under:AT&T, CES, T-Mobile;

CES_2010 Nokia announced the Ovi Store for AT&T, along with carrier billing, and I will be seeing them tonight at the Digital Experience event with OPK giving a keynote on Friday morning. I have no idea what Nokia will be announcing (if anything) here at CES and figure the keynote is more about cheerleading for Nokia than actual product announcements, especially with Mobile World Congress one month away. That said, here is my wish list for announcements from Nokia here at CES 2010:

The N900 is coming to T-Mobile USA as a subsidized device
The Ovi Store is launching this week on the N900 with lots of prime apps
The Nokia E72 is coming to AT&T in early 2010
T-Mobile USA will get one or more Nokia devices
The X6 will launch with AT&T or T-Mobile
Nokia Music is coming to the US

I know all of these above are asking a lot, but shoot I would be happy with one of them. I can’t think of much else at the moment, but ask what you all would like to see from Nokia here at CES. Anyone expecting any new devices to be revealed?

steven_marly
January 6, 2010

I actually don’t want to see the N900 officially on T-mobile. It’s not quite ready for general consumers, and may creative a negative image towards Nokia in the US. We’ve seen a UK dealership take off the N97 and a Sony model due to buggy performance. Not a great marketing point.

Woody
January 6, 2010

How is the N900 not ready for general consumers? Not for nothing, but the cell-phone side of things is pretty solid IMHO. The app store needs work, but with Ovi spinning up and T-Mobil adoption not happening for at least a few months at best, I think it will do well.

One thing I’d like to add to the list is an Ovi ap update for the N900 to bring it up to the other Nokia phones with Ovi mapping. (Turn-by-turn and actually speaking directions…)

Matthew
January 6, 2010

Yes Woody! Updated Ovi Maps is a big deal and if they get Ovi Maps 3 out on the N900 it would be a rocking in-car GPS system.

yeah
January 7, 2010

“We’ve seen a UK dealership take off the N97 and a Sony model due to buggy performance. Not a great marketing point.” It’s just an award for Nokia. N97 is a bugged phone, the worst that Nokia ever made!

aamir
January 7, 2010

did anyone see the announcement by palm ceo that the new palm pre plus is the first phone in the world to provide wifi hotspot function and full flash support… shameful lies…

Arnav
January 7, 2010

everyone at nokia should be shown palm’s ces keynote..get off ur *** and invite the devs to show ur product and dev for ur product..and most imp of all communicate with your customers!!! noki has seriously lost me as a customer..why? ‘cuz of horrible lack of communication from nokia. i mean how hard is it to make a statement on their blog that we r committed to support?? or may be they r committed to stick me a whole new product rather than software update! summary: typical nokia