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Until the competition can address these more accessible price points, they'll never match Nokia's dominance. Only Nokia is close to the mythical $100 converged device, and for $225-$375, No one offers anything worth buying. Android is close, but so far behind architecture wise to matter.

Now let's see how long it takes Apple to offer a sub $300 converged device... (good luck with that)]]>Feb 2nd 2010 1:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/02/nokia-cuts-phone-prices-across-the-board-s60-biting-deep-into-d/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/02/nokia-cuts-phone-prices-across-the-board-s60-biting-deep-into-d/Feb 2nd 2010 2:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/02/nokia-cuts-phone-prices-across-the-board-s60-biting-deep-into-d/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/02/nokia-cuts-phone-prices-across-the-board-s60-biting-deep-into-d/Well that was the case a few years ago, but the US market has gotten smarter quite quickly. Useability is still important during the learning curve, but other features are beginning to matter as well.

And as for subsidies, both at&t and TMobileUSA plan to subsidize Nokia converged devices this year. Both are profit hungry, and having an offering that tends to require a data plan that can be subsidized even lightly at just $200, which is a light subsidy by US standards, allows them to offer devices at a sub $50 price point or even free! And I promise you, free is important to everyone in this economy. It will force Apple, the various Android device manufacturers, and others to justify the wide price disparity for less capable device with missing features.

Once Symbian^4 gets here in 10 months, ease of use and capacitive screens won't be a valid argument. The competition had 3 years to gain ground, but failed to match Nokia/Symbian's accessibility, reach, or feature set. Now the new UI and Qt application support will widen the gap further, and the US will finally learn why Nokia is king.]]>Feb 2nd 2010 2:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/02/nokia-cuts-phone-prices-across-the-board-s60-biting-deep-into-d/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/02/nokia-cuts-phone-prices-across-the-board-s60-biting-deep-into-d/Feb 2nd 2010 1:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/02/nokia-cuts-phone-prices-across-the-board-s60-biting-deep-into-d/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/02/nokia-cuts-phone-prices-across-the-board-s60-biting-deep-into-d/
iPhone and Android have a high mind share (and high US market share) in the high end area. If Nokia is able to position Maemo square into this market, they will own even more of the mobile market. If they execute here as well as they do in low and mid level markets, even consumers in the US will understand that there is a potent king in town. And it is not Apple!


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Regarding s40, what have you been hearing Chris?
From all I've heard, Nokia still want to keep s40 for the $50-250 range and they are updating version6 for touchscreens.

Makes sense but with s60 moving down do you think they will fragment the market? i.e keeping S^4 for the N series and s60v5 for the lower ends?]]>Feb 2nd 2010 6:48PM