Re: Nokia gives profit warning. Stock is tanking. They deserve it
 

Very cool though if you sold close to that $40 and are buying now. ;)

Low end has been doing great for Nokia in certain markets. They have struggled in the midrange but mainly because it's disappearing as they knew it in their mature markets. Smartphones are pushing down into the midrange and changing the game. Nokia WILL do well there, but not for a year or so.

Re: Lets talk Nokia stock!
 

Very well. I'm going to stop now, since I'd rather not have to defend the N900 and my preference for it over Android against all comers, especially here (this site must be packed with more N900/Maemo haters than anywhere else.) Suffice it to say, I see much more value in a software stack that doesn't reinvent the wheel and isn't wholly controlled by a single entity.

This is why I'll sooner put my efforts behind MeeGo, underdog that it is, than anything Android.

Re: Lets talk Nokia stock!
 

Will the new Symbian OS on the N8 be able to run current Symbian apps? I'm suffering from Slingmobile withdrawl.

Re: Nokia gives profit warning. Stock is tanking. They deserve it
 

Yes, indeed. I think we can sell it for 40 in few years, just have to find lowast possible price.:p don't forget that Ericsson(before SonyEricsson) stock almost hit 0 ten years ago.

Re: Lets talk Nokia stock!
 

Good luck.. I sincerely hope you succeed because it kills me that Nokia's ruined what HAD been a GREAT platform.

Re: Nokia gives profit warning. Stock is tanking. They deserve it
 

Yeah, they had several things going for the low/mid-range crowd:

1. Great brand name recognition known as segment leader
2. Great UI from symbian
3. Great build quality

I think #1 is being seriously challenged by the increasingly viable competitions (in respective segments) and also by Nokia's receding leadership in the high-end segment. The high end smartphones have always been the showcase of new technology and they obviously can get a LOT of free publicity by playing well in that segment. Unfortunately it's affecting them negatively lately.

They still lead #2 in low/mid range, but as you said the mid is disappearing and Android is going mid/low to challenge them...

They still have #3, although the competitions don't seem to have problem with this.

Re: Lets talk Nokia stock!
 

What kills me is that Nokia doesn't even have to provide an OS at all, if they bothered to sell us a completely open platform. If they simply said, 'Here.. here's a great piece of hardware and here's the whitepapers for all the hardware, some sample driver code... HAVE AT IT!', they could have put more of their resources toward making EXCELLENT hardware and could have no given a damn about how the OS was turning out and it would have looked a lot more like the desktop Linux platform where businesses bought the hardware for their utility and the individuals bought it as an enthusiast's platform to develop as a possible solution for their fellow users.

Ugh. Whatever, man. Nokia missed such good opportunities so badly.

Re: Nokia gives profit warning. Stock is tanking. They deserve it
 

so you say "had" but then expound upon that by saying basically they still "have".

Anyway, their strategy in this respect is qwerty+touchscreen s40 devices even cheaper through standardized outsourced chipsets and bundled with a stack of nokia services. So if you are in kenya, you will soon be able to get, just as cheap as most any phone on the market, an s40 device with touchscreen, qwerty, dual sim, navigation, life tools, long battery, etc etc.

Re: Nokia gives profit warning. Stock is tanking. They deserve it
 

Please excuse my faux pas, english isn't my first language.

Re: Lets talk Nokia stock!
 

I would say that the n900 is probably as close as we will ever get to that for quite a while