Nokia confirms US phone ‘problem’

img src="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/45343000/gif/_45343195_breaking_226x170.gif" align="left" width="226" height="170" alt="breaking news" border="0" vspace="4" hspace="4"p class="first"bNokia is investigating reports of problems with its touchscreen 5800 phone in the US, just days after the mobile was launched./bpThe device has been removed from sale at two flagship stores in the US.pThe problem is with connections to US 3G networks, BBC News has learned.pA spokeswoman for Nokia said: "A small number of devices are not connecting with 3G networks and we are looking through that right now."pShe said the phone continued to be sold in "certain network areas".pAt the New York and Chicago flagship stores only the European version of the Nokia 5800 is on sale.pSales agents at the New York store are telling customers the phone has a "little issue"and they are "not being sold at all while the problems are looked into".pNokia launched the 5800 Xpress Music phone in the US last Friday and the device has been described as the firm's response to the iPhone.pThe European version of the 5800, which cannot access 3G networks in the US, is still being sold and is unaffected by the problem.pppppppphrpThis article is from the a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk"BBC News website/a. #169; British Broadcasting Corporation/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/bbcnewstechnologyfullfeed?a=nYogRWQX3tI:Pi0ozHrfvKU:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/bbcnewstechnologyfullfeed?i=nYogRWQX3tI:Pi0ozHrfvKU:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/bbcnewstechnologyfullfeed?a=nYogRWQX3tI:Pi0ozHrfvKU:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/bbcnewstechnologyfullfeed?i=nYogRWQX3tI:Pi0ozHrfvKU:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/bbcnewstechnologyfullfeed?a=nYogRWQX3tI:Pi0ozHrfvKU:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/bbcnewstechnologyfullfeed?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/bbcnewstechnologyfullfeed/~4/nYogRWQX3tI" height="1" width="1"/

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