What’s the connection between Kylie Minogue and Nokia?
No, the Finnish mobile giant hasn’t started wearing hotpants and banging out G.A.Y.-friendly floor fillers, nor has the diminutive diva started transmitting in the 3G spectrum.
No, the real answer is- despite repeated attempts, neither of them can seem to ‘break’ America.
Although the earlier S40 phones do fairly well, US carriers seem wary of the open nature of S60 smartphones, and these have never really taken off, stateside.
Nokia currently has around 40% of global mobile sales, but accounts for only 10% of the US market. In part this is due to the company’s lack of CDMA handsets, a situation that looks likely to improve.
In an interview with Helsinki newspaper Helsingin Sanomat, Nokia designer Alastair Curtis said that the company had been cooperating with several US operators and that “a lot of new products” were in the works, including CDMA handsets and existing models tailored to US carriers.
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