Comments on: Microsoft’s Nokia smartphone division acquisition tipped imminent

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 19:36:00 +0000

I am no fan boy of any sort, neither do I have an absolute prefernce for any particular mobile OS. Having read loads of reviews, comments and “trolls” there’s one thing I’ve to realize (and yes fan boys will be angry when I say this). Companies of the magnitude of MS,Apple and Google in the long run, only are interested in the “bottome line”.Tech giants like MS take risk and cut deals for their bottom-line, and by extension their shadholders.

Let it be known, the $200 million marketing blitz that MS/Nokia are undertaking will pay dividinds to both companies. No amount of iFan, or Robot hate on the blogs or poor reviews can put a stop to what’s in motion. This is tech-economics in motion (no pun on RIM). The response of the market to WP7 has provoked predictions as to the failiure of the OS and companies involved to a great degree of inaccuracy. How can bloggers cast aspirations on a formula which is yet to be proven ? It is a matter of “because iOS/Android has sold x amount of units, WP7 wont sell any ?” That point of view is doomed to reap the whirlwind. The thread of most reviews of Windows phone units has been for the most part heavily biased. I am yet to see an honest, unbiased review of a WP7 phone. Maybe there are a few out there, guess I’d have to do some more searching.

When a company who weilds more than 80% of software on PC’s,Servers, Mainframes and laptops move into the mobile communications field, it is enough to make one stand up and take notice. If the OS of the average PC is anything to go by, we have not yet seen the half of what will happen. Cheers !

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 19:33:00 +0000

By: Prasenjit Bist

Prasenjit Bist — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 15:11:00 +0000

NO You are wrong who told you samsung is the top dog sammy is the most sick dog. Nokia has truck loads of patents in all radio technologies and radio protocols(GSM WCDMA 3G LTE WiFi BT NFC etc etc), anrenna design. baseband, audio and multimedia, optics, industrial design, smartphone OS, software, UI etc etc

Please read through

By: APai

APai — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 17:49:00 +0000

“If I can have my phone be an extension of desktop or laptop WOW!”

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 16:13:00 +0000

Eldar is Eldork. Stop spreading stupid rumors. thanks.

By: guest

guest — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 14:46:00 +0000

Really stop being iOS fan boys! Google doing the same with Moto and if Microsoft has learned its lesson from past with the likes of XBox. Which tank and grew it to be a top dog proves they don’t quit. Wp7 64bit is no joke and windows OS is still in 80% of the world sales in OS, If I can have my phone be an extension of desktop or laptop WOW! That’s what we need not just a bunch of apps that don’t propagate to anything except Facebook or Twitter. I need to work too not just play.

By: Slavko Glamocanin

Slavko Glamocanin — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 10:19:00 +0000

hahaha… oh wow.
they have great vision which passionate and successful company to buy:)

Haha kinect… and how is their gaming platform amazing? It only works because you can download the games if you dont connect to live and ms knows this.

By: Rohit Singh

Rohit Singh — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 06:08:00 +0000

1 simple rule of thumb. “DONT TRUST ELDAR MURTAZIN”. There its solved now. :)

By: Gregory C Newman

Gregory C Newman — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 02:04:00 +0000

this could happen only if Nokia is in financial trouble because Windows smart Phones continue to not sell well Microsoft Windows Metro smart phones are less than 2 years Old. it takes 2 to 3 years for a smart phone eco system to get mature. please remember Android smart phones looked like duds when they first started. Microsoft is a Major company with the brains and bucks to make a good smart
phone. By September 2012 Microsoft smart phones will have dual core,. Hi def screens, NFC and ect so they will tech wise be as good as the I phone and the Android smart phones and will have over 50000 Aps including the main ones that count,. this all means Windows smart phones by September 2012 will be a damn good smart phone to Own and Microsoft has committed itself to make them great by improving the Product. If Nokia does sell it wont be dead it will continue it’s profitable non smartphone lines and could sell could sell Wondows, Andriod or Meego smart phones by having an outside manufacturer make them for them as it did for some of the Nokia Lumia 800 smart phones

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 01:25:00 +0000

This isn’t going to happen. What would Microsoft gain by purchasing Nokia’s smartphone division? Xbox, Kin, and Zune prove that Microsoft is fully capable of designing and manufacturing first party hardware without buying another company first. They partnered with Nokia specifically to avoid making first party hardware.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 18:44:00 +0000

The customization was supposed to come later with the first phones just getting on the market.

It hasn’t seemed to slow Google’s Android down any – buying Motorola that is.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 15:53:00 +0000

Very much of a financial trouble with hard cash of 8 billion euros… /s

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 15:45:00 +0000

They have 6.1 billion euros on the bank. Plus double the patent portfolio on value than Motorola.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 15:43:00 +0000

Nokia is in financial trouble, but even that is still far away from moto and SE situation. Why would they sell their most profitable business.
If they where to sell something they could start from their 15 billion euros, industry biggest patents portfolio by long way. Or the 8 billion Navteq, or Nokia Siemens Networks that’s half of the Nokia’s 130 000 workforce.
That comments makes no sense, neither does Eldars really.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 15:20:00 +0000

I just can’t see this happening. When Microsoft begins developing ecosystems and OSes to sell and license, they don’t like showing favoritism to other manufacturers and alienate the others. Even the Nokia deal, which was rumored to allow Nokia to completely customize WP7 how they liked turned out to be false.

If this really does happen, I’ll be really, really shocked.

By: Edward U.

Edward U. — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 14:23:00 +0000

uhhmm.. Andy Lees is not heading Windows Phone anymore, remember? This guy’s lying.

By: Zachary Koterba

Zachary Koterba — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 14:21:00 +0000

Hmmm, I’m pretty sure Microsoft has its share of both failures and successes as far as imagination and vision. Their gaming platform is amazing. The kinect is an awesome device with a lot of potential. They offer a lot of services to Windows users. And Windows 7 is a great OS. Its easy to hate and grow a world of hate around a company that was/is on top.

Just look at Apple. Now that there is finally competition, everyone is jumping on the hate and jump ship bandwagon. Does Apple still make good products, sure, but they dominated certain markets and achieved an unwarranted amount of hate.

After all, is anyone forcing you to buy one product over another? Not really.

By: Zachary Koterba

Zachary Koterba — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 14:16:00 +0000

I think you hit the nail on the head there. Nokias in financial trouble. It gambled with Symbian, MeeGo and now Windows Phone and none have sold enough to support its assets. Now it is simply selling assets in order to regain its losses, and selling its phone division is the way to do this. What is Nokia’s future? Who knows. They were a great company, but fell behind on the times due to insisting on deploying their own platforms (although they were good) and then adopting a platform which will either fail or will take many years to grow (but not fast enough to save Nokia).

By: Matti

Matti — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 14:08:00 +0000

R.I.P Nokia.

I’ll always remember you for connecting half the wirld and your spankin banana-phone.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 13:35:00 +0000

I can never trust MS after the Zune debacle and nokia should also take note.

By: Invisible Person

Invisible Person — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 13:31:00 +0000

Also, feature/dumb phone sales are decreasing and people from developing countries are moving up the chain. Nokia would be killing off any future growth by selling its smartphone assets (keeping in mind that Navteq’s maps aren’t as valuable as they used to be with and that patents only apply for a few years). I also don’t think they empathise so much with shareholders that they wouldn’t mind splitting its company up in parts, sell them and hand over the money to the shareholders. They would be dooming Nokia as a relevant company.

By: Invisible Person

Invisible Person — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 13:22:00 +0000

I don’t trust Eldar Murtazin as a source. I don’t see Microsoft taking over Nokia’s smartphone division because Nokia then only has its mobile phone division and maps/patent assets to make money. Stock is up 4% but this rumour does not make sense to me. Nokia is a proud Finnish company. I don’t know why they would sell their most prized assets (or the whole company for that matter) unless they had severe financial problems. Also, Microsoft would be competing against its partner OEMs. Plus, Microsoft already reaps the benefits from the Nokia partnership. Why buy? Finally, I haven’t seen any evidence for this rumour but somehow lots of people are excited about it because (supposedly) Eldar Murtazin is a trustworthy source on anything Nokia.

By: Mr. T

Mr. T — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 13:18:00 +0000

That means goodbye Nokia. Once the Microsoft corporate culture, with their lack of imagation and vision, get hold of it, it will just be a one step behind copy of the other smart phones.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 13:18:00 +0000

Nobody cares about Windows Phone, therefore nobody cares about Nokia smartphones either.

It’s game over for Nokia, the once great Finnish company, before they were engulfed by corporate evil from Microsoft.

By: E Birdsworth

E Birdsworth — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 13:12:00 +0000

Windows phone is a sales disaster.

The platform flopped. Manufacturers like Nokia and LG will want to escape the Windows Phone train wreck. The only way for Microsoft to keep someone manufacturing it’s flopped phone platform is to buy Nokia and force it to make them

By: mikelo

mikelo — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 13:10:00 +0000

eldar has lost it completely

By: Bill Bell

Bill Bell — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 12:59:00 +0000

It is dangerous to compete with your customers and this strategy rarely succeeds in the long term. Samsung, HTC, LG … are all customers that buy Windows Phone OS. Microsoft buying Nokia would make them competitors and customers at the same time. This does not bode well for developing a trusting vendor-customer relationship. I hope it isn’t true.

By: Ryan Socio

Ryan Socio — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 12:55:00 +0000

If this happens i will never buy another nokia phone.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 12:48:00 +0000

all i ask is you dont change the name, ill be fine with it otherwise, i just hope microsoft know what they’re doing with this after they buy the company

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 12:37:00 +0000

A phone that looks like the Zune HD would be good. Tho I hope this ain’t true, unless Nokia really has no money in their pockets.