Hard blow for Nokia in the United States: The ITC launches a investigation in connection with its model Nokia N75, following the deposit of complaint for violation of patents on the 3G by the IntelDigital company.

Decidemment, nothing turns does not turn correctly for Nokia on the American market. Whereas the Finnish giant is the number one of the sales of mobile telephony, North America remains obstinately closed on the Nokia telephones which saw its sales there moving back whereas they increase significantly everywhere in the world.

Stronghold of Motorola, Research in Motion or Palm, the American market is sulky the Nokia telephones, even with its attempts at seduction with the terminaux ones of convérgeants, like N95, unanimously recognized.

And the investigation that vien of launching the ITC (International Trade Comission) against the N75 model is not made to improve the things. The InterDigital company indeed deposited a complaint against Nokia for violation of several patents related to the 3G in the components present in the model of Nokia.

Still and always of the questions of licences

The ITC has 45 days to check its assertions, while manufacturing it of mobiles announces already that it goes vigorously déffendre its product vis-a-vis the complaint of the IntelDigital company deposited last month. These patents would belong to the heart of the technology 3G and the plaintiff in advertisement of the royalties.

Nokia estime of sound with dimensions that the companies should avoid launching out judicial actions in the case of the essential standard patents, with the risk to slow down the processes of industrial standardization and innovations. It is not the first time that Nokia must face the complaints of the IntelDigital company. The Finnish company had to yield to him 253 million dollars in 2006, at the end of ue argument concerning the patents on products 2G.

Nokia has seemingly taken a more direct route in offering two of its latest flip-style phones to U.S. consumers by selling them direct. The Nokia N-Series models — the N75 (also recently released on AT&T) and N76 — are now available via Nokia stores independent of a carrier contract.

The N75 (pictured at left) is a clamshell 3G smartphone that offers the Symbian operating system with the S60 interface in a small, flip form shape. It features a 2.4-inch, QVGA, color display and a 2 megapixel camera with integrated flash

The N76 is a Motorola RAZR-like model that has a similar flip form factor, and a heavy emphasis on music and multimedia. It also features photo and video capabilities with a 2.4 inch color display and a 2 megapixel camera with integrated flash, and an external display that allows for calling and other multimedia controls.

The suggested retail price for Nokia N75 is $430, and the N76 goes for $500 (without contracts).

Both devices are now available for purchase at online sites, including www.nseries.com, at the Nokia Flagship Stores in New York City and Chicago, and at independent retailers nationwide.

 Nokia’s N75 Review Roundup includes summaries from all main cell phone expert reviewers as they become available, company specification sheet, owners manual, Cell Phone Tracker’s unique review conclusion thermometer, and sample photos taken with the Nokia N75.

Nokia N75 Features Include:

• 2 megapixel camera with Integrated LED Flash
• Bluetooth
• Music Player
• Video Capture
• miniSD slot

Mobile Tech Review - 5/16/2007 - has reviewed the Nokia N75 and they write, “In general, we love Nokia S60 phones. While the N75 doesn’t earn our outright love, it still gets a positive nod. The good features outweigh the bad, and indeed there are many good features like the fantastic display, easy to use S60 interface and software, good music playback quality and features, Cingular Video support, excellent voice quality and good call volume, strong speakerphone and 2MP camera. It’s a smartphone that’s easy to use and sync and it has good multimedia skills. And it speaks to Americans’ love of the flip phone, though it doesn’t appeal to a high sense of fashion. But the rose has a few thorns: lack of the faster HSPDA standard which road warriors may crave, short battery life and that darned Pop Port headset connector with no headset or headset adapter in the box. I mean c’mon Cingular: folks can’t even use the FM radio without that headset. Our other quibbles are smaller and have to do with Cingular’s choices such as putting the WAP browser closer at hand than the real HTML web browser, disabling manual network selection and 3G vs. GSM manual selection and marketing this smartphone which competes with the Cingular 3125 as a music phone instead.

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