Honestly? Most people don't think that. I don't. In fact, I'll go so far to say that Nokia has improved their market without any North America nor Japanese marketing and despite declining sales in those aforesaid markets, they're doing great.

So no. Nokia doesn't have to win over America. America has enough problems with their carriers, policies and thoughts about subsidization.

In fact, Nokia should just forget North America. Doesn't need it. Keep selling where it sells. And it's not North America nor Japan... that's a given.

But one thing though I think that most people outside of America tend to forget. The whole concept of "freedom" of carrier is lost upon the North American market. If you buy a phone with Verizon, it'll invariably be CDMA. You can't take that over to AT&T nor T-Mobile nor Sprint. And if it's a GSM phone, the interoperability between AT&T and T-Mobile is minimum when it comes down to data; only voice is exempt from those problems usually.

So... carrying over to some smaller carrier - US Cellular for instance - might mean that you will be roaming the moment you start traveling/driving outside of your typical state, city, county. Where's the freedom in that?

And where's "freedom" if you call it so when the carriers are not compatible at all? The concept for an unlocked phone in the US is lost upon this market. And people tend to stay with a carrier for longer than a few months... thus subsidization and why it's important in this area.

And before any of you can respond... yep. North American carriers are using tactics that have been dropped in all other markets out there... but ours and a few Central America locales. It sucks.

Thus my prior answer... if Nokia comes, so be it. If they continue to ignore this market, so be it. If people still make themselves feel very self-important... so be it. I personally don't care either way. Informed folks will know where to go. The rest... meh.