Originally Posted by bsving

I don't think you get it. The reality is not what the US blogosphere is portraying. Therefore they don't sway any customers in either direction. At best they only believe they do, and only if they happen to live inside the same bubble.

Originally Posted by bugelrex

It is quite bizarre, their love for Symbian is just killing them.

The consumer complaints are about Symbian, why not make Windows 7, Android, Meego phones. At the end of the day, they sell kickass hardware and OK services.. why the un-dying love for Symbian??????

Better yet, allow dual booting

Originally Posted by ysss

If they're not swaying any customers then there's no harm in them touting all the iPhones, androids and Blackberries while naysaying the nokias is there?

The reality is that for better or worse they have a loud voice on the net and they're usually the first to bring news in this segment that most of us watch. How they portray this news bit (their bias) will be tacked on to all the news bits that go through their digestive system.

Originally Posted by bsving

Except UK with perhaps a percent or two market share, the market share of Blacberry is as good as NIL in Europe. The market share of the iPhone in the EU is what? 1 percent, no more for sure, it is only about 5-10 percent of smartphones. In the middle east, the blackberry is for some odd reason very popular, and much more so than the iPhone.

Android is a totally different game. Android is used on Samsung and Sony Ericsson together with HTC of course. Again, Motorola and "Droid" is nowhere to be found. Android is still small, but it will be Sony Ericsson that will deliver android to the masses, not HTC or Samsung and certainly not Motorola. It will be done with small devices like the X10 Mini.

The vast majority of people don't care about apps, they don't care about games, they don't even care about internet on their phones. They want a good looking thing that can be used to communicate with other people, using the communication channels they already are using.

Originally Posted by ysss

So what's the reason of Nokia issuing profit warning?

Second-quarter sales, it said in a June 16 statement, are more likely to be toward the lower end of, if not below, its previously expected range of 6.7 billion Euro ($8.25 billion US) to 7. 2 billion Euro ($8.86 billion US).

Nokia blamed the decrease on “the competitive environment, particularly at the high-end of the market, and shifts in product mix towards somewhat lower gross margin products.” Also factoring in, said the statement, was “the recent depreciation of the Euro [which] affects Nokia's cost of goods sold, operating expenses and global pricing tactics.”

Originally Posted by Dave999

more competion for high end phones
sell more low proffit phones
weak euro

but they still hold planned market share for Q2.

Originally Posted by ysss

From the horse's mouth..



The euro had a sharp drop (against USD) in late april.




Yeah, I was asking him what he thought would be the contributing factors Since the high end smartphone segment issue was specifically mentioned by Nokia in their profit warning report.