Nokia 'called' to court in US

[Guest ClintEastman]

A team of US attorneys representing a California resident filed an amended class-action law suit against Nokia in the state's Superior Court on Friday. It contained allegations that some of Nokia's most popular mobile phones including the 32xx, 51xx, 61xx, 82xx and 88xx series carried a common design defect.

... My 5310 and 8850 are both sitting upstairs, unloved with busted screens. I hasten to add that this fact is quite similar in subject but completely unrelated.

Counsel alleged defect caused the phones' displays to fade or disappear with "substantial regularity" and that Nokia has been aware of the defect's existence since at least 1998.

The California resident Henry La purchased a Nokia 8290 -- the US equivalent of Nokia's 8210 -- in February 2001 and experienced display problems consistent with the allegations. La's legal counsel wants California's Superior Court to recognise La case as a class-action claiming that his phone was among the number of models Nokia released carrying the alleged defect.

If the class-action is successful the court may order Nokia to hand over millions of dollars worth of profits to compensate consumers and stop selling some of its mobile phone range.

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[Guest adam]

So it's saying that all the people who bought the same phone as everyone else will get money for it!?!

edit: Oooh Regular!!

[Guest Rob.P]

This'll help the MS v Symbian war, bit o mud in the competitors eye.

[Guest Monolithix [MVP]]

No publicity is bad publicity...

[Guest Mr_Protozoa]

People who buy Nokia's are defective too. How come they havn't been recalled.

If only people weren't happy to use substandard technology new and more exiting hardware would be developed much sooner. If it weren't for all the Nokia's in the country we'd all be using 3g by now!

Grrr.

[Guest spacemonkey]

I had a 6110 (and so did everyone I worked with) and they ALL exhibited the screen fade effect. We got bored of sending them back. Basically the screen would become invisible but then if you physically hit the phone it'd come back bright for maybe 20 minutes and then fade again.

It was standard procedure to see people all over the office hitting their phones against desks, heads, walls, basically anything closeby.

Stinking Nokia

[Guest SirGaz]

I heard a story (can't remember where) about the N-Gage being illegal as well. Apparently some small american company has the copyrights on any wireless gaming machine (I think it was the machine rather than the network). There was another company that they are currently suing who has built a wireless gaming platform and the article mentioned that Nokia may not release the N-Gage as a result.

I'll have a dig around and see if I can find the article again.