Apple Pushes Past RIM To Become Fourth Largest Phone Maker
Nokia
Why should Nokia operate at a loss if they can sell their awesome and far more advanced (than anything we have in the US today) phones in Europe and Asia where consumers first pick a phone by going to an electronics store and paying a full market price (typically between $500 to $800 USD equivalent) and then picking a service provider/carrier and plan.
A smart company like Nokia goes to where they make the most money and that would be in Europe and Asia and NOT in the US. Sadly, United States is years behind Europe and Asia in communications âšī¸
Our networks aren't the fastest in the world, I think mainly because of how friggen huge the country is, but our electronics are amazing, despite the incredibly strict and very un-intelligent legislation holding us back.
I guess Japan does have a little of an advantage with the banana vending machines though...
So, years behind? YES, most definitely!
Yes the Asian carriers are killing all the world in bandwidth, the europeans do a better job of it, all over, and we maybe able to match their speeds only in some areas here and there. But phones, well OS's on phones, basically its all the same, which is different from the past.
Just look on any major .eu carrier's url, most of what you see is Android, iPhone, WebOs and Symbian and depending where BB. For the most part in that order. Very different then just a few years ago. I know people come out with a good argument, well they sell more smartphone's then the rest, well that is both true and untrue, if you count all phones with symbian installed, yes, its true. But a good percentage of those phones, are not being used as...
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Nokia's N series is being destroyed by (for lack of a better word) comparable iPhone and Android handsets.
check their balance records or go to www.nokia.com and read their financial quarter results. The average price of a handset sold this past quarter was $137 and that includes N series devices and Vertu
the best selling phone in India (Nokia 1280) sells for $27 yes TWENTY-SEVEN dollars! to a market that is almost 1Billion people.
http://www.infibeam.com/Mobiles/#make=Nokia&store=Mo ... »
evrodude said:...
Nokia is NOT dead! They just do NOT want to make phones for the US market where consumers are used to either low cost or free phones given away by carriers if a consumer signs a contract.
Why should Nokia operate at a loss if they can sell their awesome and far more advanced (than anything we have in the US today) phones in Europe and Asia where consumers first pick a phone by going to an electronics store and paying a full market price (typically between $500 to $800 USD equivalent) and then picking a service provider/carrier and plan.
A smart company like Nokia goes to where they make the most money and that would be in Europe and Asia and NOT in the US. Sadly, United States is years behind Europe a
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