Thread: Nokia’s Return To The Smartphone Market: Officially Confirmed
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2015-04-25 , 10:28
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Originally Posted by karan5chaos View Post
IMO if nokia starts supporting meego again or popularizes the Sailfish OS by forming an alliance with jolla , Then Google can be dethroned from the smartphone empire in mere 3 to 4 years . I would love to see a Nokia phone running Sailfish OS !
Originally Posted by Kangal View Post
Difficult at best.

Nokia will have to develop:
- a compelling OS
- a compelling device
✓ - a payment and store ecosystem (OVI, needs work)
✓ - a navigation system (HERE Maps)
- a video sharing portal (Vimeo, YouTube)
- a video telephony service (Facetime, Hangouts)
- a social network solution (G+, Facebook, Instagram)
- an email system (Exchange, GMail)
- a cloud storage solution (OneDrive, Dropbox)
- a search engine (Google Search, Now, Siri, Cortana, Bing)
- a TV connecting medium (Chromecast, AirPlay)
- a translate engine


I'm not saying its impossible.
I'm just saying its really really difficult, and probably requires a $10B+ investment.
(I would go by making $1,000 hardware and sell it for $500, partner with other companies like Yahoo, Amazon, Dropbox etc etc, and pay devs lots of money to port their Apps, and give away free gift cards to use in the ecosystem to all the customers)
Girls, please - you're both pretty.

But also wrong.

karan, the smartphone market is far more entrenched than it was 7 years ago. Windows Phone is pretty polished and even has most apps available for it, and the handsets are available for rock bottom prices - but even with all those plus points it's barely made a dent against Android. BlackBerry are making nice phones with a very nice, Android compatible OS right now, and they aren't pulling up any trees either.

Kangal - first of all I feel it quite important to state that Siri is not a search engine. Its back-end runs on Bing, IIRC. Also, third party would be absolutely fine for most if not all of those things.