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Analysts Expect Nokia to Launch Super-Slim RAZR Rivals

6:20 am on May 15, 2006 | Category: Cell Phones, Mobile Devices

The worldâ€™s biggest cell phone maker, Nokia, will reportedly start selling a number of slim new mobile phones next year, in an effort to compete with the Motorola RAZR, and other super-slim handsets.

Analysis firm, Lehman Brothers, expects the new models to be unveiled before the end of this year, and available to consumers in the first half of 2007.

Such a move will be very logical for the Finnish handset maker, due to the runaway success of slim phones already released by rivals, Motorola and Samsung.

Forrester Research analyst, Charles Golvin, however, warns that Nokia is now only one of many companies trying to capitalize on this popular style.

“It does strike me as eerily similar to what happened with flip phones, where they are once again playing catch-up with a market trend,” says Golvin. “More important is the acceptance they get in the market for their own innovations, in particular the N series devices.”

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