Thread: Nokia: The End Of The Line (Magazine article inside)
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Rauha is offline Rauha
2011-07-15 , 21:30
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Originally Posted by misterc View Post
assuming you meant


as long as most of their sales are coming from countries with no or very little 3G coverage, thus from "dumb" Symbian phones (aka S40), they would probably be able to survive on that alone...
what will be will be.
Few problems with that.

S40 is not Symbian. Only thing they have in common is the first letter in their names being S. Most S40 phones are allready at least 3G phones and many support also 3,5G (HSDPA). You are also underestimating 3G coverage in developing countries. 3G is booming in places like China, India, Thailand etc. Finally, Android is pushing hard to S40 price points and S40 could see similar drop as Symbian.

Edit: Had to check and cheapest Androids actually allready are below high end S40 models. And that is only going to get worse for Nokia, as Asian manufacturers keep pumping cheaper and cheaper generic Android hardware on the market.


C3-01 (S40) 169€



Huawei 8500 (Android) 143€

Last edited by Rauha; 2011-07-15 at 21:51.
 

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