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You wouldn't referring to Ari's speech, would you? Because that was entirely misinterpreted by the "media".

Just search around a bit, he can't stop himself from posting them in every thread he runs across. ;)

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Which is hypocritical at best since the wayfinder application uses ogg ( just check your n810 internal memory ).

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Well, I like Nokia, but my track record with them is a bit sketchy. My first Nokia died (More correctly got killed from general use), was totally rebuilt, and nearly died a second time. The other ones I worked with didn't live long either. The n810 though has been a dream, for the most part. Of course, if it weren't built like a bloody tank, it wouldn't survive long. That's why I buy the Motorola ducks. It's less about quality and more about who can survive the longest under my version of "normal use". lol. ^_^;; Of course, most people would deem my "normal" to be their "extreme to the extreme". heh. Yeah, I'm very hard on things, and it's not intentional.

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My NIT is my only Nokia device. Based on my experience with their customer support, I have no plans to buy a phone from them. It took me over a month to track down somewhere that could (and would) order a replacement stylus for my n810. Nokia would hardly give me the time of day. My overall impression is that Nokia has no clue how to help their customers after the sale.

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I have submitted a formal request for Nokia customer service to start offering exact-fit replacement stylii. I cannot promise any results, but I will press the issue.

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My n810 came with a spare stylus. o_0

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I'm not overly surprised with T-Mobile/Verizon/Sprint spending a LOT of money to push non-Nokia product.

Karel, you have an interesting link there. Pandora looks and sounds pretty good.

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No! Pandora is a piece of junk! It doesn't work! Don't buy it! Don't preorder it! Stay away!

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(you see, preorders start any day now, and the initial manufacturing run is only 3,000 units. I want mine!)

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I'm seriosly considering buying one :D

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I doubt it's because of their US situation - that has been really bad for a couple of years now. And Nokia never really had any market share among CDMA phones to start with, so there's nothing there to lose.

I think it's simply because their Q3 lineup is a bit lackluster - they haven't really introduced any significant new models that became available prior to Q3, had issues with the 6220 Classic (I assume that's the mid end device they mentioned in the press release). They lacked some new stuff during Q3 - the E71/E66 are very nice, but only now reaching the market via operators here, the N78 is still too overpriced for its functionality to reach more people I'd say, and upcoming cash cows like the SuperNova lineup and the 6600 Slide/Classic are only starting to become available now.
Combine that with a very aggressive and impressive Samsung, a very successful HTC and Apple's iPhone 3G, and I think it's not surprising to see a market share dip of a couple of percents.

And at almost 40% of such an extremely competitive market, basically the only way is down anyhow if you ask me.

In the end, if things go a similar way as with their 2004/2005 crisis, then I'd say Nokia will come back better than ever after that mini-crisis at the moment :)