Nokia continues to hemorrhage Smartphone market share to RIM and Apple
By Thomas Ricker 
posted March 11th 2009 6:38AM
posted March 11th 2009 6:38AM
posted March 11th 2009 6:38AM
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I have always been a Nokia fan, ever since my first mobile phone I used in high school. The 5100 series. Later on, I stupidly went to Motorola, had a few of their phones throughout college, only because they "looked" cooler, but I found functionality beat coolness. I went back to Nokia, had a few more of their models, up to the E51. Which was my last Nokia phone. I love their phones, I hate their operating system. Nokia World Store in fantastic. Very similar to an Apple Store and Nintendo World Store experience.
I was very much considering an E71 series phone. Except after I realised it was the same phone as I have now [at the time, the E51], except a different form-factor. OS wise, it's the same. I decided it was time I got a BlackBerry and I don't regret it.
Yes there are a few things here and there I miss about my Nokia. And when I had the Nokia, there were things I missed from Motorola, but now I got my Berry, BlackBerry Bold, I can't say I miss my old Nokia's. Maybe when they offer a newer, and better OS, I'll switch back, but until then no.
Even the keyboard on the Nokias aren't that great. The Q-W-Z aren't supposed to be exactly below each other, I type rather naturally on the RIM keyboard. And don't get me started on these virtual keyboards the Storm and iPhones have.
that is a disturbing image.
Maybe Engadget should report the whole thing...
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The iPhone is 4th behind WM Whose 3rd.
@Ike Turner
The link you gave refers to smartphone OSes. This story is about the actual manufacturers that make the phones.You can see that HTC is on here. RIM and Apple just apparently make both the hardware and the software.
Nokia have good intentions, but don't really have a clue how to do it.
Case in point, applications for N series smartphones. I remember having to go to websites which offered an application, pay over the odds (sometimes $30 per app) and then having to download it, add it to your phone, navigate to find it, accept the license, accept again..oh, it keeps crashing.
Slag Apple off all you like, but their way of addings apps is so much smoother, hell even installer/cydia did it better before Apple leapt on the bandwagon.
Proof once again that iphone, has revolutionized smartphone industry. In just 1.5 years has already killed motorola,sony, n now nokia is on the chopping block. Palm might be next if pre doesnt sell 1 million in first week. I was right when i said nokia should stick to lowend cells, just look at their release of new xpress music phones,,,Now that is pathetic,,,keep nokia on other side of pond please, dont bring usa cell technology down with you, the plague...ive spoken n silenced everyone.
I love how engadget yanked that blood splatter image from a brush website without paying for it. Notice the white watermark slash near the globe icon they forgot to shop out.
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Support your local graphic designer / blood brush maker.
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Smartphones from a cocaine addict's point of view.
Nokia's problems started with distributing cheaply made phones, charging higher prices for them and not backing them up to the consumers, hell not even listening to them.
The had the formula for success in the early days and deviated from the formula in chasing higher profits. They have tried to go back however others are in the game now and life is not as easy.
HTC the Korean Companies, Apple et al are not going to give up hard won turf to Motorola and Nokia and rightfully so as they have worked hard to gain their market position.
I went to Nokia store in NYC Monday to check what they have and try their new touchscreen phone. And I was disappointed, I got greeted by customer service with uniforms that look like security uniform (first I thought he was a security personnel). and when tried the the touchscreen phone I just said I am buying the Iphone. I have 2 nokia phones, N95 and mid-range XpressMusic. N95 is great but lacks the sexiness, and the other one is just like a cheap made phone. The symbian OS is good with keys but I don't think they can pull a good touchscreen on it. the iphone took them by surprise, and they should step up their game if they want to stay where they are. I forget, did I mention that they are toooo expensive. I heard the new N97 my cost around $1000.
This from Gartner, which has plenty of experience in hemorrhaging.
This is great what Nokia is doing, and i see somebody mentioned it before. They figured if iPhone is being called a smarthphone that means all S40 phones can be too. So they keep coming out and selling them like hotcakes but nobody realizes that they are capturing "smartphone" share. Then one day when S40 crosses the line into smartphone you'll see their piece of pie get bigger over night. Just like they are the biggest laptop, digi. cam. digi, voice recorder etc. manufacturer.
I do have to say that they should come out with sexy phone more often and instead of increasing MP on their cams just make the lenses and chips better, 5mp is enough.
I don't think Nokia is going anywhere they are such a big player in Finland that if they start to go under govt. will give them money to buy HTC, Motorola, BenQ and a small African nation just for fun.
I personally think the N96 was nokia was a big mistake. While they did need a follow-up to their flagship, the N95, the N96 was definitely unremarkable, and with any luck the N97 will help them bounce back. True enough the N95 (or the 8GB counterpart) was and maybe still is a hard phone to replace.
I've personally tried replacing it with newer line including the iPhone (ugh, big mistake) and the Touch HD (what?! no blackberry client??) but I find myself coming back to my N95 8GB.
What's still missing from Nokia's upcoming line-up so far is the N82 or the N73 of the previous years, something that is launched beside the flagship which caters to the middle tier. This strategy seems to have worked for Nokia so far anyway. The E Series of course has its own huge place in the market, but the E71 is doing fine on that front.
It's really hard to see anything much from quarterly statistics, or so I think anyway.
I still using E65... I can call and and send SMS... I don't need anything else from phone
for that time when it came out it was a good mobile phone, only kinda slow...
if iPhone or any other touch phone would be a little bit smaller then i consider buying one... i like Noka because of that, they make normal size phones...
I've got an iPhone now.
Not going to lie, it's fast as hell and there are tons of ridiculous apps available for it, and it's screen is super-sexy, but I'm sick of the restrictions on it.
I plan on buying the N97 ASAP.
I think nokia's problem is that they don't get things right the first time.
Each of my last nokia phones has had an issue that needed warranty attention.
While the phones are great, fast enough for me, and plenty easy to work with (apps, downloads), they need to do more testing before they hit the markets.
My n73 bricked during an update
n78 had gps problems and camera zoom broke
Now my e71 (favorite so far) has a vibrating speaker, what the hell does it take to get the speaker right?
Soon, i'll be on a 5800, which i've used, and is plain old amazing. I'm just waiting this time till it's first firmware update, and they have all the bugs worked out. (not that i know of any).
The handwriting recognition is the selling point for me. Unbelieveable how good it works.
What I wouldn't do for a CDMA version of this phone. :(