Comments on: Bad luck Nokia: Your Next Billion is saying No Thanks

By: Jeremy Mullins

Jeremy Mullins — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 05:22:00 +0000

again… what?

By: Jeremy Mullins

Jeremy Mullins — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 05:20:00 +0000

what?

By: Duncan St. Ives

Duncan St. Ives — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 18:03:00 +0000

I’m sorry you don’t like it. Personally I find it neither “clunky” nor “inconvenient” but quite nice actually.

By: APai

APai — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 17:39:00 +0000

well htc tanked with wp7 too ? so what do you infer of that ? samsung is making a killing on android phones, while they would have been killed with wp7 phones!!!!

By: APai

APai — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 17:38:00 +0000

elop killed N9 because he could not see a non lumia phone selling more than lumia phones. elop and his microsoft cronies have been giving away phones for free stateside and yet all he could muster was 2 million, vs literally no marketing for N9

By: APai

APai — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 17:38:00 +0000

you must have lived under a rock pre iphone era then.

By: N9

N9 — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 18:45:00 +0000

you are right… I have used both WP7.5(Lumia800) and Meego Hartman (N9). They are both better than iOS (for me) and in my opinion Meego is miles ahead of WP7.5 except for the limited apps. Wish they had built a tablet with it too.

By: Zulqarnain

Zulqarnain — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 11:02:00 +0000

They shouldn’t have made the AT&T deal then. looking at the success of large phone nowadays, ppl would have wanted a lumnia 900

By: Raygun

Raygun — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 02:46:00 +0000

You clearly have not used the metro ui for more then 13 seconds. Its not different to be different, its different because it is a smarter UI.

By: Vinos

Vinos — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 15:11:00 +0000

Free after rebate is how majority of Android devices are being sold. Kettle Pot.

By: MobileGeorge

MobileGeorge — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 03:23:00 +0000

It seems to me that Nokia is going for affordable quality rather than the absolute best tech. And this might be a winning strategy for them. Not everyone can afford a $200-$400 phone especially if you have to buy several of them for your family. Microsoft has proven that the Windows Phone OS does not need a quad core processor with 1 GB of memory and a large battery to deliver a delightful experience. So Nokia can get away with delivering a very good smartphone experience at a price that approaches free (with carrier subsidies) which Android makers cannot do because of the high specs that Android requires for smooth operation. Given that the carriers have been losing a ton of money having to pay the high iPhone subsidies that Apple demands, it could be that phones like the Nokia Lumia 900 become the ones that carriers start pushing because they contribute more to their bottom lines. I wouldn’t be too quick to write them off.

By: neon_wombat

neon_wombat — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 02:39:00 +0000

Lol? really? they are pushing lumia’s because AT&T employees were given 25 million dollars worth of free lumia 900s. I laugh because the phone upon release is also being given to the general public for free after the rebate. Apparently 50% of smartphone users find their device confusing and unpleasant.

By: neon_wombat

neon_wombat — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 02:32:00 +0000

It would have made more sense for them to develop meego concurrently with windows or instead of. The nokia n9 was rumored to have sold 1.4 million units and it was one of the most poorly advertised phone releases ever – imagine if the people knew the os actually had longevity potential.

By: BWMerlin

BWMerlin — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 08:12:00 +0000

They should of stuck with Intel and MeeGo instead of going with Microsoft. It is still not to late for them to join in with Tizen.

By: usasucdiQ

usasucdiQ — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 01:34:00 +0000

That’s not true, look at HTC, first to android and now hoping to stay alive, and they are late to the tablet party thanks to Android lackluster OS that keep changing every 3months. Nokia spilled close to a billion and yet Symbian OS can barely process a wallpaper & and web browser. Apple has like 40yrs of building an OS.

By: HairyPotter

HairyPotter — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 00:27:00 +0000

Fake post.

Microsoft and Nokia, you can’t trick people to buy your phones by making up fake people online to say how great you are.

By: Jamie

Jamie — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 00:23:00 +0000

Dumb move.

By: Tom

Tom — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 00:21:00 +0000

Windows phone OS is $hit. Metro is clunky and inconvenient. Different for the sake of different is not a solution.

By: Guest

Guest — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 00:18:00 +0000

When was Nokia ever considered a premium brand?

They were specialists in the cheap dumb phone category.

By: John doe

John doe — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 06:56:00 +0000

Retail Sales 101, sales reps push products that don’t sell to make room for new stock and to recoup as much as possible on a loss generating item.

By: smellyfeet

smellyfeet — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 03:19:00 +0000

nokia is finnish morons. they’re betting their company on windows phones that nobody buys.

my feet smell really bad too.

By: Peter Noble

Peter Noble — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 00:33:00 +0000

I just swapped my iPhone for Windows Mobile Nokia.

By: Peter Noble

Peter Noble — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 00:32:00 +0000

Well I bought the Nokia Lumia 900. I tried it out in the local AT&T store, the assistant it was one connected to the AT&T 4G and it was super fast BUT what impressed me was not how quickly it loaded my HTML 5 websites but that the interface was smooth, clean and easy to understand. So I dumped my iPhone 4 into a trash can and asked to buy a Cyan Lumia 900. “Sorry we’re sold out”. I scrambled around for my iPhone found it and thought ok I’ll order it online, it has had such bad reviews in terms of being too little too late, I am bound to get one. The customer sales told me: “Sorry we’re sold out”…what??!!
The pundits cannot be wrong? This is a single core, rubbish phone with a boring operating system compared to my iPhone. So why cannot I just buy it? Then I found it in some small franchise cell phone store but it was $199 and I had to wait until Xmas before I received my rebate. I’m sure if I crawled over the island or 5 boroughs I could buy it from a real AT&T store for $99 but it’s sold out at AT&T downtown and online. The pundits are still insisting it’s a disaster.

I’ve back ordered this phone and been given a one week to two weeks or maybe longer window for arrival. A great disaster for Nokia, MS and AT&T it seems because so many people have wanted to buy it for $99 or before the 21st for nothing.

I was also impressed by Nokia accepting the broadband issues were their fault and giving a 100% rebate to all customers who had bought and will buy before the 21st. Apple insisted I was holding my iPhone the wrong way. Then they offered me a free piece of rubber to cover the cool design. Nokia has made a great cell phone that already has a cover built into it.

I’m looking forward to leaving the Apple business model. Though, let it be said that there would be no Nokia Lumia 900 if it were not for Apple’s iPhone.

By: Anthonyx26

Anthonyx26 — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 22:47:00 +0000

Yeah, agreed. That is a serious limitation. It was ok when WP7 was first released but now it’s definitely long in the tooth. Thankfully, WP8 will more than remedy this. It’ll support not only higher resolutions but also faster and multicore cpus, NFC and a myriad of new form factors. It’s no understatement that it can’t arrive soon enough. Nokia and other OEMs are waiting desparately for WP8 to be released.

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 18:52:00 +0000

FUD article to garner clicks.

By: JohnBoy_NYC

JohnBoy_NYC — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 18:48:00 +0000

Agreed, but I’ve heard that AT&T paid big bucks for a 45 day exclusivity deal, and after which we would see a Lumia 900 variant on tmobile with an upgraded camera.

By: RealMajor

RealMajor — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 18:12:00 +0000

@TryIIz:disqus U are totally wrong Dude……

its like compaining malware after clicking on a popup with a “talking Elk” who asks for your CC Nr

Turn youre brain on first, then sencond if its possibile for u, on mac its only one button common its soo easy ( | ) thats the sing, u have no other choice then on/off =P

“Homer: I thought it’s on because the blue light is burning. Mac rep: The blue light indicates its turned off”

By: RealMajor

RealMajor — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 18:01:00 +0000

/rant/ Might be rite, but I hate it if the lemmings make something awsome thechiniessie in somthing ordinary decadent and ignorant, “oohh its shiny.. can I load apps like the other dumbphone?” that is the other equivalent that also ruin everything. Shure an OS should be intuitive but wait… for me Andriod it is 2. Cant get something with a walled garden lile iOS and WP. So they try to dicatate what is usefull and intuitive and pushed on manufactorers make other dumbfones lile AAPL.
But they that was used to buy from that brand have to look for something else, because wrong analysitic marketing decissions where made, u cant get both, the nerds and geeks and the normalo stupid uneducated not techaware not aware somthing then food and reproduction.
Thy should shut up an buy what they want(AAPLcrap), but pls pls leve the other ppl their brands they choosed them because they disslike the AAPLway ;-)
Sorry if I say that but maybe is the brain from someone that use iDevices that demaged and affected, that thay are overcharget if have 2 use more then one button, or dont see the use of homescreens beside a appdrawer, simple is not always better.
I mean i u have to make choises its never easy, but if you let make the choise for u from ohters is just plain stupid. Nobody get hurts if apple would not hide that much settings, the uneducated ppl dont have to go there. U dont have to change settings if u are unaware what u are doing, but if like to change something and u dont have the possibilite bcause sombodyelse thought “.. they dont need it, it could mess something up…” its just ignorant, and has nothing to do with fanboysim.

And sorry and if the rep is pushing a product, why they ppl dont ask them why? I know they are lemmings and sheeps. Here anohter shiny cookie for u customer (filled with deadly poison) Why they allways fell for… … no answer needed ;-)

/rant/

By: TryllZ

TryllZ — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 17:56:00 +0000

Yes, embrace android and get crap loaded with it, loads and loads of it !!

By: Steven Zahl

Steven Zahl — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 17:10:00 +0000

NOKIA is TOAST

By: Matthew G. Saroff

Matthew G. Saroff — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 16:17:00 +0000

The new CEO is a Microsoft plant. His goal is to allow for the company to be sold for a pittance to Redmond.

Meego was a OS, and more ready for prime time than Microsoft’s, but that got killed by their new CEO.

Lucky for Microsoft, Huh?

By: Brian Fell Over

Brian Fell Over — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 15:29:00 +0000

”800×480? Come on Nokia, you can do better than that!”

Yes – Nokia can do much better than that, but Microsoft does not permit vendors to ship WP7/7.5 devices with any other configuration. Take up you anger over the restrictions with Microsoft.

By: Rev_Android

Rev_Android — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 08:08:00 +0000

that means they DIDNT sell 1 million last Quarter then, closer to 600,000

doesn;t sound as good though

By: Prasenjit Bist

Prasenjit Bist — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 06:48:00 +0000

agrreing with many guys here . I want to make one statement how things change in a few years time. really some times life is so cruel. Nokia was so strong today its limping. But coming back to more technicalities I would suggest Elop said Symbian is burning thats no way look at Nokia N8 Nokia 808.
Symbian was one OS that allowed them to have low end touch phones like 5233 etc which used to be a best seller in india.

The simple truth is Elop got overconfident Asha phones are only good for one segment that buys dual sim with qwerty but he misses another hhuge segment where ppl want touch smart phones not fake smart phones like asha. and local and global players like samsung micromax etc have addressed withh android in under 11,000 INR price range.

So, Dear Nokia s40 is useless samsung has a dual sim android at Rs 8000/- do u think if i was the customer i will buy ur asha crap. U have still not addressed the portfolio gap, u announced Lumia 610 where is it it cud have given u huge sales but u ppl are sick idiots.

So eithr Nokia gets a new OS on lowend or try android for low end devices else Nokia will be in history books.
Samsung does that why can not Nokia. Its time to say good byee to s40. some ppl will say s40 is less fragmented wat the crap nokia can retain symbian 3 base code with belle UI as a steeping stone. U know actually 1 Ghz CPU on asha phones is a loosers strategy.. Nokia wtf ur ghz cpu does on that crap. either rebrand symbian belle and sell on low end devices with ghz cpu or get a new OS or join android.

Else please die in peace thank u.

By: a_guy_on_the_net

a_guy_on_the_net — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 06:45:00 +0000

Played with the Lumia 900 at the AT&T store today.

What a lovely piece of hardware…

I was expecting something less tha exciting with WP7.5, but discovered that the OS was buttery smooth on the device.

My main concerns are battery life because of all the animations on the “home” screen, screen resolution (800×480? Come on Nokia, you can do better than that!) and battery life. Other than that the Lumia felt like a step up from iPhone 4 in nearly every way…

By: sanshiro

sanshiro — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 05:40:00 +0000

Android is a disaster hacked together OS with steep hw requirements, fragmentation, and a host of issues. The only reason it sells well is because the market is FLOODED with devices and OEMs and carriers pushing them. But customer satisfaction for iOS and WP is far better than Android. The average consumer – unlike the techie fandroids that pervade tech forums – finds Android confusing and unpleasant, the only reason they went with it is because some store rep pitched the device — they got it because there was nothing else (the only iPhone alternative). Go to an AT&T store NOW… what do you think are the reps pushing? Lumias.

By: Meteoro

Meteoro — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 05:09:00 +0000

“If the dogs bark Sancho, it means that we are going forward”

By: Steven Zahl

Steven Zahl — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 04:02:00 +0000

NOKIA is TOAST

By: Guest

Guest — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 03:02:00 +0000

It would be awesome if Nokia included T-mobile band in the Lumia 610/710/800/900 stock versions.

Then they could sell/offer them all on T-mobile and At&t.

By: $15655361

$15655361 — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 21:27:00 +0000

MeeGo plus a cooperation with Intel would have been a great solution.
And a much better timing. Now they will need another one or two years until Windows 8 is broadly successful.

Windows Phone Only makes sense with Windows 8. So Nokia has to wait …..