Nokia might be
hemorrhaging smartphone marketshare to North America's meddling upstarts but it still dominates in total handsets sold worldwide. Today's news can only help that cause as Nokia taps into China's homegrown TD-SCDMA 3G marketplace for the first time. The Nokia 6788 does the honor via collaboration with China Mobile, China's (and the world's) largest mobile phone operator. The handset itself brings a 2.8-inch QVGA display, 5 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss lens and dual-LED flash, 4GB of memory plus microSD expansion, GPS, 3.5mm headset jack, and Bluetooth 2.0 EDR, all riding atop S60 3rd Edition -- not 5th as we're accustomed to seeing by now. Unfortunately, it won't start contributing to Nokia's sagging bottom-line until the end of December.
posted Oct 27th 2009 6:26AM
Good luck, Nokia, I truly wish you well.
I seriously doubt that. Without competition, we'd all continue using Nokia and Sony Ericsson smartphones as we have for years. -- Thomas
Nokia’s CEO has admitted they’ve dropped the ball, but without these “upstarts” Nokia would have been sailing along just fine in the stagnant waters the smartphone market used to be. Is it their fault for not innovating up to that point, sure; but it also wouldn’t have happened without these “upstarts”.
With dumb phone sales are on the decline year over year, this will
do very little for Nokia. Nokia is about to become the next Motorola.
It's good to remember that while Nokia made it's first lost ever since it started making mobile phones those came from Nokia Siemens Networks(EUR -1,107 write down) not from it's mobile phone division that is still profitable and still has the same market share as before. Nokias future is still far away from Moto even if it might seem grim looking from North America.
Plus we have already seen to next move in it's higher end phones with the introduction of Maemo coming to phones and next version that's totally build for mobile phones already in schedule in form of harmattan/maemo 6. With Maemo maturing and the typical Nokia strategy starts to play with them building phones with different HW for everyone with Maemo in it's not hard to see them coming strong... thought this needs to happen fast if they want to keep that upperhand they got with the world 4th most known brand.
Thought Nokia should have done MUCH better with iphone and Android. I hope Kallasvuo gets sacked and new guy comes that actually understand that the services comes second and the HW and OS needs to be build first. Kallasvuo made the right decissions at the end with Symbian and maemo, but it should have happened before.
Huge potential in here no doubt. China is already N series land as it now days buys more N series phones than even Europe.
With Nokias 40% market share in smartphones it would be fun to see if even fraction of people would buy this phone from those 500 million peoples and how it would change those percentages in Nokias smartphone share :)
*Yawn* you took the words RIGHT out of my mouth. It seems like Nokia has been remaking the N95 in different shells for what seems like ages now. It's so sad to see them trailing behind everyone in innovation.
Nokia is in trouble worldwide, compare the situation 2 years ago to now, then probably a Nokia would be a the most desirable phone in the market, now its certainly not Nokia. You don't lose market share in a day, first you lose mind share and then market share. Nokia has already lost the former, people don't look up to Nokia to come up with the most exciting or innovative devices. Just look at the device above for example, look at their current devices including the Maemo. They don't get it.
It's pretty much an N96 with a new face.
"With dumb phone sales are on the decline year over year, this will
do very little for Nokia."
Err... it's a smartphone. You can tell because it's a 6 series running S60v3.
Who is this Carl Zeiss fella thats got his name on all these cameras
I see. 'Haemorrhaging smartshare' as in 'increasing or maintaining sales in all key markets they compete in'. You might want to look at the regional figures as the growth in the smartphone market is largely coming from the US where Nokia have nothing of note.
You may also want to consider Nokia's strategy - the transition to smartphones will not be to high end devices like the iPhone, it'll be to mid tier devices like the 5 and 6 series phones made by Nokia. Nokia understand this so instead of pouring all their resources into the high end market to beat the iPhone they're concentrating on maintaining their mass market share.
All of you predicting Nokia's demise should really take a basic course in economics and marketing. Nokia fell asleep badly at the high end but their strategy is clear and the biggest threat to the strategy comes not from Apple or Android but from Samsung, HTC and LG.
Nokia's market share hasn't drop... why is everyone talking about this situation as Nokia's doom... they for sure are not growing or maybe even losing market share in smartphones, and that had to happen... How many new smartphone brands and models have come to the market in the last 2 years? this has to happen, it's not posible to maintain everything as it was 2 or 3 years back...
...I'd like to see Nokia responding better... but they are really taking their time... however, to talk about Nokia's doom, is still naive...
Nokia still makes some decent non-touchscreen phones.
Symbian is not so bad on a non-touchscreen phone.
Not all people want a touch screen. At all. Especially since bigger screens & resolutions consume more battery and nowadays batteries are still not very good.
@James
Carl Zeiss is one of the oldest optical lens manufactures located in Germany. Company is named after their founder. They license their lenses to almost all camera manufacturer except Nikon, Canon and Pentax. They entered the cameraphone market with Nokia N90. Trivia: Their lenses were used in 2k resolution cameras used to film 'Slumdog Millionaire'. They were specially optimised cine lenses for filming in Mumbai.
^manufacturers