The FCC site today includes one Nokia phone, which is yet announced. This clamshell phone appears to be headed to AT&T. The phone in question has chrome accents and comes with a camera, external display and most important of all, support for the AT&T 3G network.
FCC documents also indicate the presene of Bluetooth, GPS, dedicated navigation key, external music key as well as push-to-talk. No idea yet about the model number of date of availability. We will tell you as soon as we get some info.
Here’s news about one really low-end clamshell phone, the Nokia 7020. This mobile phone has got its FCC approval and is queued up for release in the last quarter of 2009. This phone has EDGE connectivity, so the FCC approval may be indicative of this thingy going to the US, though we don’t know for sure so far.
There is yet no info about the official carrier for this phone. It could even have been intended to sell cheaply at some overseas outlet or through Nokia’s flagship stores. Anyway, what we do know is that this device has a concealed display and a 2MP camera, which is really not that bad at all, right?
We have always been mad after the Casio G’zOne line of rugged phones for Verizon Wireless. The Casio EXILIM C721 was exhibited at the CES 2009, so we were just waiting to hear more about this multimedia clamshell phone. This is the very first 5.1MP camera phone with a 3x optical zoom to be introduced by a US carrier.
Casio EXILIM C721
Though it looks very much like the usual camera phone, it is actually very rugged and water resistant as well. The general form factor and the camera, though hyped so much, are not too impressive. What strikes us the most, though, is how tough the phone really is.
Casio EXILIM C721
Check out the two-part video below on how well this beauty performs under the sternest of conditions.
The FCC site has one more inclusion today, that of the new Casio G’zOne mobile phone. The G’zOne, according to FCC documentation, is supposed to carry CDMA EVDO Rev.A and Bluetooth networks.
As far as we can see from the info in the files, this also seems like a clamshell phone, just like the previous G’zOne phones. So far, Verizon Wireless had been the official carrier for all Casio G’zOne mobile phones, but neither Verizon nor Casio has yet come up with any info on this one.
