When Nokia talks about the future it's generally a good idea to pay attention. After all, even with
diminishing market share, a split
Maemo and
Symbian smartphone strategy, and
less than stellar financials, the company remains the world's leading supplier of handsets with a proven ability to innovate. So take notice when Nokia's head of corporate strategy, Heikki Norta, describes what life will be like in 2015 in a video littered with high-tech devices driven by finger-based UIs. Of course, five years is generally only enough time for the nascent technologies we see today to mature enough for mass market acceptance -- in other words, readers of
Engadget won't find anything mind-blowing in a presentation laced with liberal doses of
augmented reality, pervasive
connectivity,
dual-display clamshells, and as always:
micro projectors and
laser keyboards. Beyond hardware and software, Nokia sees itself at the heart of a global network aggregating data from hundreds of millions of intelligent devices for an unprecedented level of knowledge sharing that enables services such as highly
localized traffic reports and
weather trends. Fun stuff and certainly worth a few minutes to ponder on your own. Still, it's difficult to get too excited by the vision from a company that was not only
totally caught off guard by consumer trends at the margin-rich (read: money making) end of its devices portfolio, but also
so slow to respond in any meaningful way.
posted Nov 11th 2009 7:15AM
better speak about the future than about their present financial situation I guess...
NOKIA DISTRACTING PEOPLE
The present financial situation where their handset division is still very profitable?
Funny thing is that cell phones made 660 million euros profit last quarter and they improved smartphones average price by 6% compared to last Q.
Not saying it matters that Nokia Siemens Network made all the - last quarter, but their mobile phone business is still doing good(not saying they are even close to the 2008 and 2009 huge profits thought) and N900 with the huge preorders it's not going to hurt Nokias smartphone sales, that btw got up to 40% again in last Q.
Be a gadget site not a business site please. Better read too if it's about gadgets ;) Thought i guess this isn't bad way to get posters.
"Be a gadget site not a business site please. Better read too if it's about gadgets ;) Thought i guess this isn't bad way to get posters."
Watch it there Pdexter, you don't wanna get the banhammer like everyone else in that Google article earlier.
http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/10/hey-google-failing-to-spellcheck-android-2-0-can-have-undesir/
Thomas Ricker Just Loves to post news about Nokia .. :)
FYI
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What a perfectly unbiased article you just showed us, bro!
Oh why oh why do they have this second hand hand videoed crappy video, as there's the original in youtube, without all the camera shaking and cuts in the voice.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2A8fSRZ32Y&feature=player_embedded#at=13
Pure blog journo - unbiased and not leading the reader
Dude, where you get your credentials, mail order?
Wow, so much Nokia hate in one article, what did Nokia ever do to you?
The only uncalled for parts of the article were the last two sentences. The rest was pretty damn positive.
I'd also like to know why you seem to rag on Nokia so much. They're not doing great, but is that any excuse for this kind of article?
I saw a lot of articles showing that virtually Apple is the king of the Hill about cellphone (showing a small note saying that he is king only in USA and only in the quite undefined smartphone market). Ok, Apple is doing well and is selling million of units, but Nokia is still selling *billions* of units... and still some people say that Nokia is some sort of underdog.
And frankly, Apple fanboys don't like to stay in a second position and they loves to say that their devices are the most popular device ever, where clearly it is not true.
The same as Ipod, considered almost the invent of the century, where no less than 1% of the population own one, while the el-cheapo mp3 pendrives are quite popular almost in every single country of the world.
I believe they weren't invited to some release party of some kind or something and they've been a bit ticked off ever since.
Supported the first Engadget show. Nothing major really.
They've released N900 yesterday, for starters. How do you think that Apple fanboi will feel once someone shows him what can be done with pretty much similar hardware (and even better at most areas), not to mention cheaper, that on 3GS cannot be even dreamed of? To drop his fanboyism? Naaah, they will put hands on their ears, go la-la-la-iDon't-hear-you, and say that Nokia sucks while Jobsy is the one and only innovator... How else could they explain to themselves that they've thrown some serious money on some underpowered gadget?
So true, especially when the fact is that Nokia's mobile devices division is doing really well.
It's only NSN dragging the profits down. And not only NSN, but also SE is hurting from the chinese network infrastructure providers such as Huawei and ZTE. But that has nothing to do with mobile handsets. Nothing.
Engadget's strategy: Nokia posts are usually boring and yanks care very little about them. So a little negative tone makes all the nokia fanboys come out and bash engadget..hence more ad revenue! ;)
I guess this was a good idea since their over-saturating market strategy has cost them plenty and they need some inspirational theology to keep their investors on the leash. Innovative? Bullshit. They just make everything under the sun to keep techies hungry for the 'NEW'. All that PR shyte in the video is ripe with crap. By the way, the internet does all that and more. And when you need info, just go onto social networking sites like twitter or youtube and you'll get what you're asking for. Dah!
Typical Engadget content: iPod-dock this, iPhone accessory that, Apple blah blah, Nokia sucks.
You just Said what I really felt about Engadget.
Apple Faboys... more like Fanballs or Fanbutts...
Apple Fanboys... more like Fanballs or Fanbutts...
lol... nokia wanna do people like bots... Remind names? LAME...
I bet that the Nokia fanboys are going to forgive you for the last two lines after the N900 review.
They sponsored the Engadget show.
Seems like they(Nokia) are paying/Sponsoring to make them(Nokia) look bad.
I'm not gonna sit here and bitch and moan about how you guys hate on Nokia all day long, bla bla bla. That accomplishes nothing. What I can tell you is that I'm glad that you're willing to count Nokia out. Just makes the words "In your face" sound way better when the reviews roll in.
if Nokia had not had a vision, it would have transformed it self from paper products Co to mobile giant ...
read.. it would 'not' have
ha! I like engadget and like Nokia...this article is way too far from reality. Come here to the Philippines and I'll literally hang myself if there are more than 10,000 iPhone users
I wonder why Engadget haven't posted 3Q smartphone market shares.
Let me do that for them:
http://www.canalys.com/pr/2009/r2009112.htm
Does any one see the Skynet "drafted beginning" here?
Nope. Nokia doesn't have anything to do with AI, Robotics or Military, afaik.
tell me, if i'm wrong, but when they are scrolling on web browser, a can see a mac scrollbar, maybe Safari?. Nokia is lost.
and look at 3:42, the signal bar is upside down! Nokia is so confused.
.........
You're Wrong. bye.
Last week marked an interesting point in what I like to call the "Red Bull Rally". I say the Red Bull Rally because, just like that powerful energy drink, an incredible high is followed with the inevitable subsequent crash
http://www.prlog.org/10409092-muscle-might-review-does-muscle-might-really-work.html
Oh I'd love to have Nokia's "less than stellar financials" any time, Engadget!
Me Tarzan, me like!
LOl love the tittle of your article, but was too bored to keep watching the video after the first 50 secs. I wouldn't completely wright nokia off though. Who knows what the future will bring.
Shouldn't we've ALL had fridges with internet access for about 5 years now?
Shouldn't we all do our grocery shopping online by now?
Some things will not happen so fast and that's a good thing.
no i still enjoy interacting with humans sometimes
Hmmm....perhaps I detect a lot of resentment from presumably an Android/Apple fanboy. An inferiority complex don't get you nowhere, sunshine. Perhaps Thomas Ricker should work for Reuters News Agency, the most corrupt news agency in the world....
Anyone know of any good alternatives to Engadget? Between this and the typo pissing contest, I'm losing faith pretty quickly.
Please don't say Gizmodo.
Sweet, maybe you and the rest of the faceless-corporation-loving, writer-hating Nokia apologists will find someplace else to go spread the word.
Interestingly, it seems like Nokia is planning a future without the bottom row of the keyboard.
No love for "ZXCVBNM"
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Nokia needs to spend less time making videos and more time building slim, powerful, innovative devices.
The Engadget staff should seriously go and check that apple-shaped tumor in their hearts...
They only care for yet another boring "call mom"/"fart sound" app for the even more boring iPhone...