OK, so there I was, making sure that all the paraphernalia was sorted for Barcelona – registration documents to hand, briefings arranged, suits picked up from dry cleaners, Valentine’s presents purchased – and into the pre-Congress maelstrom comes this little announcement from Nokia that it will be embracing the Windows 7 operating system for its [...]
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Nokia Smartphones: Will half as much prove to be twice as good?
by Patrick Fairlie on December 8th, 2009
Last week, Jo Harlow head of Nokia’s Smartphone division announced that Nokia will be halving their smartphone portfolio in 2010. In the past, Nokia has always profited from having a large selection of handsets so this decision was surely made with much thought involved. But will halving the portfolio prove to be a winning strategy? [...]
Nokia unveiled the technical specifications of its new netbook, the Booklet 3G, at the Nokia World conference last week. Aside from a few grumbles about the choice of operating system (OS) and the lack of certain features and technical capabilities, I reckon the product is on a par with a host of laptops and netbooks [...]
In recent months, I’ve been looking at the flipside of the smartphone phenomenon. Smartphones accounted for 13% of all mobile device shipments in 2008 and, by 2015, such devices will likely represent around one-third of all annual new mobile phone sales, we believe. Giddying numbers. Especially for pressurised device vendors keen to stabilise their balance sheets [...]
It says something about the robustness of Nokia that, when the Finnish company unveiled a 90%-plus dip in profits for the first quarter of 2009, shareholders and analysts alike all breathed a collective sigh of relief that the results hadn’t been worse. Plus, with CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo expecting that the next quarter will see a stabilisation [...]
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