Sony Ericsson and Motorola aren’t the only ones having issues with their upcoming products, and chopping models right before they ship. While Motorola cancelled the RAZR3, Sony Ericsson has axed Paris and BeiBei models that were coming soon, Nokia has also axed an unannounced model that could’ve been one of the most unique designs we’ve seen out of them yet. It seems phone companies are going to a consolidation period, which I can’t say is a bad thing. Model glut can make choosing a phone confusing and frustrating.
Nokia’s unnamed handset (pictured) is colored purple and looks like it was carved of a chunk of crystal. The problem is (and probably why it got canned), it looks a lot like those handsets from Nokia’s Prism line, and would have featured a 5-megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics.
Why Nokia cancelled such an unique looking and feature-filled product is fairly clear: model clutter. It practically duplicates a lot of the same functionality found on Nokia’s other current phone lines, and it would follow that demand for it might not have been very high. There are only so many “fashion-conscious” cell phone users to go around. Odds are its the last we’ll hear of this model.
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