Nokia looking for new CEO to replace Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, says WSJ
By Ross Miller 
posted July 19th 2010 8:56PM
posted July 19th 2010 8:56PM
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Better late than... They gotta catchup!
@centeredtype
im willing to be CEO.
Rather than fight it, he should of went Android.
Where's Lord Vader at? This guy needs a good force choke to get him thinking straight.
@pple is poo I guess it's ok for this person to say ere-tard, but unacceptable for me to defend the defenseless. Great engadget.
@FNi Rather than android, he shouldve put maemo or whatever on new nokia phones, I personally think it sucks for the masses, but it's the best thing nokia had, I don't know why they only made the n900, shouldve stopped making more terrible symbian phones
@FNi
If I hear another person suggest android on a nokia device I'll kill a unicorn.
@spartandre217
LOL. Right. It's such a non-sense suggestion at this point.
@centeredtype
"Catch up"? Nokia is the number one mobile phone company in the world, and in terms of global brands itself is the fifth biggest global brand (of any kind) in the world, higher than the likes of Disney and much bigger than any other mobile company. What Nokia needs to do is cement its place at the top, and continue to keep it-- and they have a series of new, groundbreaking projects just waiting to be launched. We're talkin' MeeGo, specifically, something that can completely change mobile technology -- it's Nokia's competitors who need to be afraid of what Nokia can come up with it, as with the global strength of their brand they can always rise up and pose an extremely strong and confident challenge.
@WickedEast
I sense sarcasm but I'm being honest. It would be by far the daftest decision they ever made in the history of their company.
@spartandre217
No sarcasm. It'd be of monumental stupidity at this point to abandon their +35% worldwide marketshare and become just another Android phone maker.
@metamorphic Agree. With Nokia and Intel about to launch Meego and HP/WebOS coming soon, the entire mobile world will get very interesting. Nokia could do with Meego what Google can't with Android and that is create a unified experience like Apple but across a few hundred million phones a year.
@WickedEast
Good to see people with sense around these parts.
@spartandre217
Insert derogatory comment about about Nokia phones , been outdated cause there icons are not as shiny as whatever other phone i own.
(meh who needs good battery life, flash, multitasking, free maps , great cameras,hdmi, usb on go, those things are only cool if there on whatever phone i own , if not i dismiss them )
Then claim that not a single person will ever buy their phones cause they dont sell well in whatever place i live , and where i live must be the centre of the universe.
(secretly hope nobody notices that nokia phones arre sold all over the world , unlike most phone)
last state that they should change to whatever OS my phone has , as its clearly the best.
(no of course i am not a bit jealous and actually want a nokia phone)
@IMarius
Love it!
@metamorphic They are specifically talking about the smartphone market, not the phone market, so don´t compare apples to oranges, and you don´t replace something unless its malfunctioning, more less a CEO
@centeredtype
Agree. He failed to react quickly enough to the shift to touchscreens - it was never going to be a passing phase like flips - and damaged the company's reputation with the N97. Time to go.
I should point out that Nokia are struggling at the high end of phones. They still dominate everywhere else.
Also, yes, anyone who suggests Android for Nokia hasn't a clue what they're on about. Why would you replace Symbian with a currently inferior OS?
@spartandre217
Can I help you with killing the unicorn? This "put Android on Nokia phones" drives me nuts as well.
@aubreyq
Just sign up, we can do it in shifts
@MarkAnderson I cant help to agree and disagree with you...
IMO they should have changed him 2 years ago. When he failed THEN to react to iPhone, with that quote "no one touch screens" and so on. Of course it is easy to say this now when its water under the bridge...
But now that finally we have MeeGo almost out of the oven and S3 looking very good (finally I want to buy a Symbian phone) I think its not smart to change a CEO. What a new guy will bring? What will he do differently than this one?
Ditching MeeGo or Symbian at this point will only show Nokia as a "weak" company that does not finish their projects.
@centeredtype I’m really happy for you OPK, and Imma let you finish, but Jorma Ollila was one of the greatest CEO's of all time. OF ALL TIME!
Linus Torvals to head Nokia. Anyone?
@centeredtype
Nokia's choices;
1) Tim Cook of Apple
2) Anssi Vanjoki of Nokia
3) Someone with min 20 yrs operational experience from Dell / Verizon / Vodafone / Qualcomm /TI / Moto / Microsoft
I hear there may yet be one or two execs left at Palm, still.
Nokia phones suck compared to apple and high end android phones. It's no suprise to me.
@pple is poo
Well, if it's an E71, you might have to hold it upside down.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gi1gHDa7-X0
@rhimbu
wait wait, all I ever see on here when iphone or android come out with something are comments along the line of "this is old my nokia 98429873245698 had this years ago."
if this company is so great why do they suck so bad ?
^^^^^ this is mostly directed to nokia douches who post comment like that.
@rhimbu
Would you care to elaborate why? My Nokia N95 can play Flash on the native browser and on Skyfire (compared to an iPhone). I'm not restricted to the Ovi Store like the iPhone is with the App Store. I have an actual built-in GPS receiver that sends signals to SPACE where I get GPS signals without the need of a data plan. It helped a lot when I was in Switzerland getting from place to place with Ovi Maps. I've also had a front-facing camera much longer than an iPhone and my N95 camera is better than the iPhone camera. It's a bit hard to compare Android phones with my N95 since they all have different specs and Android, like Symbian and MeeGo, is a very open OS.
But yeah, to sum it up, I can go on and on about why my old N95 still can do more than an iPhone, and in some instances, also Android.
@pavelbure
Why do they suck bad? I don't know, I didn't know that the majority of the worldwide smartphone market was full of idiots. It seems that only Americans are smart people in this world.
@pple is poo Give it a rest already.
@pavelbure
Nokia phones have done everything apples iPhone can do for years.
Easy video call. Check n95.
multitasking which the iPhone still does not have a true form of. Check
High quality camera Check
And more. The only reason the iPhone sells as much as it does is because of the apple brand. If LG came out with a perfect iPhone copy before apple had announced it it would not have sold close to the numbers. While Nokia smart phones sell regardles. The iPhone is not the end all be all. It is a good phone but not the greatest ever birthed by a company
@rhimbu Yeah, they "suck". Which is why Nokia sells 1.3 million phones PER DAY.
Apple can be all high and mighty, and announce that they sold 3 million iPhones in a month, but Nokia sells that many on an average weekend.
@pavelbure
Nokia don't suck so bad. They're problem is they don't have a truly competitive flagship in shops yet.
It seems to me that Americans seem to forget about The Rest Of The World, and that internationally, Nokia handsets are very popular and are offered by carriers. Just because carriers in the United States don't offer a great deal of Nokia handsets, doesn't mean that Nokia are insignificant, they just don't care to play the game in the US's backward mobile market. In The Rest Of The World the situation is reversed.
Enthusiasts (seemingly from North America) seem to love Apple and Andriod but fail to relise that Symbian's international market share is that of iOS and Android combined.
Nokia's past and current hardware specifications blow other manufacturers out of the water, but their lack of competitive smartphone OS (not to mention very poor marketing) doesn't help.
@pple is poo
Then again, while concentrating on one phone and basing all your success on it.... what if it were to do something our so much beloved iPhone 4 just did? Sorry, not the phone itself, but sloppy design did?
Nokia cannot put all the eggs into one basket like that.
@jellotime91 LoL, it's because the antenna is built into the bottom of the phone reduce the amount of radiation going through your brains. I've had a Nokia 6263 flip phone that behaved like this, but the signal drop was not as dramatic. But in area with bad coverage, I would hold it upside down and use the speaker phone.
@pple is poo nokia 3500 sucks. My mom have one, keypad uncomfortable, you can't send sms to big amount of people I don't know why..
@Jub
Save your nationalistic clap trap homey!
It's a fucking phone. And if Nokia was so well heeled in the game then why all the shake up? Huh!
@pissshivers
And having to hold the phone upside down is not a major design flaw?
Let's not forget that Nokia just claimed they've never released a phone with an antenna issue.
@jellotime91 They never said anything like that.
@N900
Indeed they didn't but trolls being trolls will hear what they want.
@rhimbu The first few replies were meant for people like you. The era-tards or how ever it was spelled.
@pple is poo
So lemme get this straight. If apple sells 20 million phones a year @ $600 for 15% profit that equates to $90 per phone or 1.8 billion in profit.
If nokia sells 474 million at an average price of 150 at 5% margins that equates to $7.50 per phone or 3.55 billion in profit. Obviously these numbers aren't realistic but I think you get the gist of what this means.
Apple could sell 40 million a year and still make barely any more than Nokia does. Volume COUNTS.
Don't be a sheep.
@pple is poo
So basically you want a dumbphone. Good job. Get a Nokia.
@ALBGunner04
Ford sold 7.5 x as many cars as BMW in June. Which car would you rather have?
@ALBGunner04 I had a N95 and I can tell if that the camera is old already. If I shoot pics at night without any flash there is alot of noise compare to iPhone 4 camera. The VGA recording on it has alot of warping effects. The dual slider sucked ass. It always had problems. It was a great phone but it's old already. The only thing the N95 had that still can't be matched is the speakers.
@spartandre217 Of course volume counts, but so do profit margins and the cost of the phone. Remember that the iPhone accounts for half of Apple's revenue.
@Jakob
Of course, there is absolutely no denying that the high end counts for a big deal of any phone makers profits but lets not delude ourselves into thinking that Nokia is not churning out money by the ton. They move a $#!t ton of phones in every segment but the high end RIGHT NOW.
Yuppies they are having a hard time when the n97 and others sold millions.
@DefPoet the 5800expreemusic sold an absolute. Shit ton of units
@DefPoet
I would know.
Sent from my 5800XM
@Death
Have one as well and it was the best value for money available in late 08, early 09.