Nokia to Announce New Handset Naming Scheme

Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia is reportedly getting ready to announce a new naming scheme at the upcoming Nokia World '09 conference at the beginning of September. While the company's current branding does not offer too many details on the devices included in a certain series, the upcoming one might shed a little more light on them.

According to Mobile Review (via UnwiredView) the recently spotted Cseries and Xseries that Nokia has trademarked will come to the scene along with the revamping of the company's nomenclature for its mobile phones. The main idea behind the upcoming naming scheme is to make it understandable for the average users out there.

According to the news, each and every phone that will be launched from now on should be included in one of the company's series. The categorization will be made according to certain functionalities present within each device, just as some of the currently available handsets included in one of the company's series feature.

The Xseries, for example, will supposedly include mobile phones that come to the market with a 3.5 mm headphone jack, hot-swappable memory cards and FM radio functionality, as well as with the possibility to connect remote controllers. Thus, the handsets should come with all that is necessary to make them fit into an entertainment/music device line.

In addition, each of the mobile phones included in a series will come with a certain model numbering, something that should hint towards the handsets' position in the low to high-end line. For what it's worth, this should eliminate the confusion that the current naming of Nokia handsets leads to, especially when it comes to devices that come only with model numbers, and no N or E letter.

Since Nokia World '09 is not that far into the future, we should be able to learn quite soon what are the company's plans in this direction, so stay tuned to learn more details on this.