I'm not really seeing who's advocating them giving up cheap phones...I certainly don't think I said anything of the sort, I was just pointing out that companies make more money by selling expensive phones, the point was simply that Nokia would like to sell more expensive phones, not less.

Like you said, there's no reason for them to give up the these current Series40 (that will be Symbian later) devices since they are selling well in certain markets. But it is a problem if that's the only market they're good at. Nokia has a good customer base in developing nations with the cheap phones, that's totally true. That doesn't mean that those customers wouldn't want to buy non-Nokia phones later, if they can afford it. A car analogy will serve fine here: you knew the guy in college who drove an old, rusted Ford. When he got the good job after school, did he buy a Ford? That's the point. Nokia needs good expensive phones too, currently they're having to cut their prices to keep selling them.

What this has to do with the topic, I have no idea.