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Originally Posted by ossipena View Post
are you serious?!?
nokias "next billion" is totally underhyped if you know even a fraction about developing countries and what cellphones mean to them....

then:

this exactly is the point why you don't understand the potential of developing countries...

do you need sms based services to help you with agriculture?

even when you don't:
http://www.itnewsafrica.com/2009/04/...ets-a-success/
Do you work for Nokia Marketing?

The estimates of handsets that could POTENTIALLY be brought to these markets are just that, and in no way could anyone suggest that Nokia will have sole dominion over these markets.
Certainly lower end dumb/feature phones will be the core of these regions because the infrastructure isn't there to support anything much beyond GSM/GPRS.

Nokia may have some level of Brand recognition, especially in the African continents, however China has MASSIVE industry/mining investment in these regions (not to mention the wholesale purchase and ownership of agricultural land for food supply - now there's a long term investment!) and if you know anything about how the chinese work, you'll know that their trade delegations will be investing in communications infrastructure and jamming their feet in the doors of anyone high up in government willing to sell/spruke/allow their products and services. enter companies like Huweii, who can mass push (with government support) cheap devices to market in a way that Nokia can't, simply because their high-end handset sales are so poor, they can no longer continue to support the massive subsidies that, until now, Nokia have been using as a means of selling their dumb/feature phones at such a cheap price.
Do you believe that the average farmer in the african or asian continent will care what logo is on their mobile phone?
furthermore, do you think that there aren't similar applications for android devices? and guess who makes most of them? China.
Nokia doesn't have a monopoly on "life-tools" for third world/developing nations, and just because other manufacturers don't talk up their programs, doesn't mean they don't exist.

Don't get me wrong, Meltemi has immense potential (and I hope provides further opportunities for Nokia, if only to keep Qt and "linux" relevent in the mobile handset arena), but it's only potential and doesn't equate to anything beyond hype at this point..... unless you're a "salad tossing" member of the Nokia Marketing Dept.
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Last edited by onethreealpha; 2011-10-07 at 23:21.
 

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