Nokia announced several smartphones for the last several months and Nokia 6260 is the only clamshell among them. In fact the model doesn't differ from other smartphones of the company run by Symbian 7.0 s (Feature Pack 1), for instance Nokia 7610. The differences in functionality are caused by marketing considerations but not technical reasons. First, the company considered clamshell form-factor attractive for users and giving some status to the owner. This reasoning was true two years ago but today there are too many models in this form-factor and thus it lost its leadership. The company realized this fact and decided to create not a plain clamshell but a model with a turning screen. By the way, this solution allowed to refuse an external display that is much necessary for a clamshell for comfort use.



Link: Mobile Review