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[Article] This is how you know Nokia's truly lost it.

Well we all know that this:

Elop went on to claim that the company’s flagship Lumia 900 has never been defeated by the iPhone or an Android smartphone, despite the dual-core and quad-core processors found in those devices.

is :

1) Rubbish, plenty of people won with Android

2) Its fixed anyway. They have their phones set up to win and even then, can't always.

I think the "Smoked by Windows phone" was an egotistical idea that massively backfired. Don't issue a challenge unless you research. Insular fools.
 
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Management/marketing claim that a technical limitation is for the customer's own good? Reminds me of Apple before iOS4 ("multitasking just reduces battery life") ;)

What's hilarious about this statement is it's been proven the new dual core processors are actually more energy efficient than the older single core counter parts.
 
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I've always seen most Nokia's as "feature phones" or "Advanced Feature phones" rather than "Smart" anyway.

Back in the day (before Android) I always considered Symbian to be a smart phone OS. It's predecessor EPOC was one of the original PDA OSs. Symbian is not looking quite so smart now though.

They're quite big in the firewall industry.

I also believe Nokia is quite big in the mobile phone infrastructure and switching industry as well. Competing with the likes of Huawei and ZTE.
 
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Nokia used to have one of the biggest share in mobile phones market as far as developing countries are concerned. In south east asia, everyone had a nokia cellphone. Thats good as nokia made technology available to the poor in cheap prices.
But those phones were actually very basic and cheap.
In terms of smartphones, i'll not even consider nokia's symbian. But that's just me. Nowadays, more and more people in south asia are buying android smartphones because of knowledge from internet and pals, power, freedom, and affordability..

I hope god gives an android in every human hand. It should become standard.

Long live google!
:)
 
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I was on symbian S60 Nokia 6650 before switching to Android.
I was on PalmOS, though a PDA rather than a phone since I never liked the candybar+thumboard style. But Hawkins was convinced that was the one true form-factor for the smartphone, so they never tried anything else until way too late.

If you want a prime example of how to throw away an early-mover advantage by a combination of inflexible thinking and spectacularly bad business decision making, the history of Palm is a great place to start!

Going back to Nokia, I can sympathize with their choice to go with MS. There were some similarities with Palm: Symbian had run its course, and their new platform (Maemo) was probably too late into a crowded market. Becoming just another android licensee, very late in the day, isn't an obviously winning strategy, especially when you used to be the market leader. So strike a deal with MS, take some financial support, become the dominant player in that pond and hope the pond can grow big enough to survive (and MS have deep pockets and are generally happy to play a long game). I don't know whether it's what I'd have done, but I do see a logic behind it.

But that doesn't mean I'd talk bovine excreta like Elop was doing here ;)
 
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