Nokia 7020 garners FCC approval

by Chris Ziegler posted Jul 12th 2009 at 4:37PM

Here's one we know you've been waiting for with bated breath: the lowly Nokia 7020 clamshell has earned its FCC wings on its way to a Q4 release. The phone was always designed as a quadband EDGE device, so it's not clear whether the FCC filing is indicative of an intention on Nokia's part to actually offer the phone in the States -- there isn't any carrier branding and there aren't any carrier-customized buttons on the keypad, so this might just be a formality. Then again, it could make a respectable backup phone or a cheapo to take overseas if they do decide to offer it direct or through the flagship stores -- who doesn't like concealed displays and 2 megapixel cameras, after all?

Filed under: Handsets, Nokia, GSM, EDGE

Tags: 7020, clamshell, fcc, flip, nokia

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JimboJones @ Jul 12th 2009 7:22PM

One thing I never understood is why these low end phones have no 3.5mm jack. There are tons of people who don't need smartphones and pricy plans, I was looking for years for simple small cheap small cell phone with 3.5mm jack, I never found it.

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Anthony @ Jul 12th 2009 11:10PM

If HTC can't get their act together on high end phones, how's this POS from Nokia gonna manage? However, Nokia's probably the best single producer of phones w/ 3.5mm jacks around (the N series has had them for the past 4+ years).

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JimboJones @ Jul 12th 2009 11:54PM

Blackberry is by far the best with 3.5mm support. HTC said that they are going to add 3.5mm jack to all smartphones going forward. NOKIA is really not leader in this, why the heck they use 2.5mm jack on some phones? it confuses quite a lot of people.

My original comment was not about NOKIA only, but cheap cell phones in general. They can be great simple MP3 devices, yet most of them lack 3.5mm jack which cost pennies but add MP3 playback feature WTF ??!!

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Anthony @ Jul 13th 2009 9:57PM

For reasons no one seems to know- Nokia differentiate between the N & E series & a 3.5mm jack is one of the ways they do this. I still feel that if you go back & see who started doing it regularly first I think Nokia'd win. That said, they're totally behind the curve in software now so a headphone jack can't fix their other inadequacies.

I believe the later comment's accurate: SE has put out some nice feature phones w/ headphone jacks. Their W series isn't bad & is usually cheap.

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shinrajp @ Jul 13th 2009 12:16AM

There are free phones with mp3 capabilities. Sony Ericsson are popular at making music phones.

Why do they want the very low end phone such as to go phone to have good features when they want to make money from service plan?

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mike racelli @ Jul 13th 2009 9:00AM

No wonder i Keep reading articles about nokia losing market share, they are rehashing motorolas failed designs, this phone looks like a vi88/v195 2009 edition, way to bring back a failed pos design, plus didnt i see a nokia razr clone a few weeks ago posted, seriously, bring out your iphone clone you had demoed in a video your design team claimed wasnt coming out