Nokia has announced its first TD-SCDMA handset, the 6788, which it expects to launch in the China market by the end of December 2009 in partnership with China Mobile.
Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, President and CEO of Nokia, introduced the 6788 at a recent event to celebrate 10 years of operations at the company's product development center in Beijing. The handset will target the high-end market, offering a 5-megapixel camera and running on Nokia's Symbian platform, Kallasvuo detailed.
Lu Xiangdong, vice president of China Mobile, commented that he hopes cooperation between China Mobile and Nokia will help boost the development of China's TD-SCDMA market.
Kallasvuo pointed out that China represents Nokia's biggest market, and that the company will support all 3G standards in the market. Nokia's product development center in Beijing currently houses teams working on GSM, WCDMA, TD-SCDMA and CDMA products for worldwide markets and has already rolled out 16 3G products in the China market, Kallasvuo detailed.
Colin Giles, president of Nokia China, disclosed that the product development center has developed products reaching global cumulative sales of more than one billion units in its 10 years of operation.
Nokia recorded sales of 30.5 million handsets in the China market in the third quarter of 2009 accounting for 28% of its global sales, and making China its largest single market.
Although Nokia is the leading handset vendor both globally and in the China market, its pace of deployment in the TD-SCDMA segment has lagged behind Samsung Electronics, LG Electronics (LGE) and Motorola due to delays in its chip development.
With Sony Ericsson having said it will finally launch TD-SCDMA models in 2010, all of the top-five handset vendors have joined the TD-SCDMA camp.
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