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	danramos	2011-09-19 , 15:52
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Originally Posted by switch-hitter

Samsung, HTC and LG already make WP7 devices, everybody already knows WP7 is a complete failure in the high end market.

Steve Ballmer certainly knows it even if you don't.

A Samsung partner called Samfirmware, which creates ROMs for Samsung devices, sent an interesting tweet in recent days. It said, "Samsung will support Windows phone till end 2012," and then later: "It's true about Samsung and Windows Phone. Windows Phone market is smaller than Samsung's own OS Bada."

Source: http://www.informationweek.com/news/...news/231601185

Originally Posted by onethreealpha

I wouldn't suggest for a minute (if I knew what i was talking about) that the Asian market, nor Eastern europe doesn;t already have a strong brand following for Nokia. In fact it's the USA that hasn't got any real strong following for nokia devices and the UK is also seeing major falls in product sales for Nokia.

One big thing that countries like Australia and many asian Markets have is a strong link and familiarity with symbian and no interest in WP, which is why selling the N9 in these areas won;t impact on overall WP handset sales.

Symbian is not so strong anymore in Asia anymore--especially China and India, its former strongholds:

Nokia China Dominance Under Threat as Sales Dive on Android

Chief Executive Officer Stephen Elop faces the dilemma of where to focus his resources: Nokia is racing to meet its year- end target of shipping its first phone based on Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)’s Windows Phone software. At the same time, he needs to halt the decline in China as models based on Google Inc. (GOOG)’s Android software have fallen below 100 euros ($144) and started cutting into Nokia’s lower-end feature-phone sales, said Michael Schroeder, a Helsinki-based analyst at FIM Bank.

Source: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-0...er-threat.html

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A year ago Nokia started losing market share by 5-6% (of the total) a quarter. It went down from 39% to 33% in Q3 2010, then another 5% – from 33% to 28% in Christmas quarter. In Q4 2010 Nokia managed to slow the decline a bit with a boost from from the novelty and pent-up demand for terribly delayed Symbian 3. In Q1 2011 they floated on air by stuffing Nokia distribution channels in China and Europe to the hilt. Unfortunately, distributors can take and move only so much of old crappy phones, and with nothing interesting to stimulate the demand, Nokia is now paying the price. With smartphone market growing by leaps and bounds, Nokia sold 8.5 million less then they did last quarter. Nokia sales in China dropped by 53%, in Europe by 21%

Source: http://www.unwiredview.com/2011/07/2...r-infographic/

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