Thread: Nokia CEO Blames Salesmen For Windows Phone Struggles
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2012-04-09 , 12:00
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Originally Posted by danramos View Post
The deal you make is to pay $100... for a 2-year service contract. So yeah--go ahead and pay the $100 but you're stuck for TWO YEARS with what is already a pretty low-specifications device that might not even be able to run Windows Phone 8 (it hasn't been communicated that it can).
I don't understand the US carrier system but over here the Lumia 900 is not that competitively priced at all.

Lumia 900: £480
iPhone 4: £460

Which do they think most people will buy? I think even the most informed tech enthusiast will choose the iPhone 4.
My guess is that Nokia know that they cannot compete with other phones at this stage. They know the people buying their phones are mainly the people specifically looking for a Nokia or Windows Phone. Right now Nokia/MS are milking the brand loyalists for higher margins to make up for the lower numbers. Make no mistake the lumia 900 is a 2010 phone and I'm not saying that as an exaggeration or internet meme it literately is a phone with almost all its parts from 2010. This phone could have released back then. Snapdragon S2, Adreno 205 in 2012 is unheard of. Yet its pricing is higher than the higher spec iPhone 4, which some consider itself already overpriced.