Things aren't going really peachy for Nokia in rest of the world either. Even in Europe, during the last 12 months smartphonephone marketshare 50%->40%, mobilephones 40%->32%. Or my personal experience of seeing the explosion of Samsung and Apple phones on random people in Espoo...

But as far as the topic goes, I don't think that Nokia should, nor do I think that they will start making Android phones. Quite frankly my dears, I don't give a damn about what logo is on my phone, as long as it's a good phone. So, no Nokia Android phones please. If it loses this platform war, I would much rather see Nokia continuing it's incredible and unique history of re-inventing itself than becoming a logo printed on top of ARM+Android products.

Nokia started it's existence during the mid-19th century industrial explosion, since then it has allways shed off old-tech that has become commodized, and gone after the next new thing. Last such big transition was done in early 90's when Nokia stopped making TVs and computers and moved into telecom and IT. This was possible thanks to it's astronomical R&D expenditure, which short terms investors like to ***** about, but it allows the kind of 'deep research' built into Nokia's corporate ethos. Just to give few examples from last weeks: nanotech, earthquake detection and atmospheric modelling. It took almost twenty years before investments started in late 60s on mobile-tech produced quaterly profit and over 20 years before those investments payed off, but it was those investments made possible that last big transtion. That's the Nokia DNA I care about, instead of a logo on a phone, toilet paper, computer, rubber boots or industrial cable.

Sorry about going on a rantish long history perspective.