AHHHA! It's FRENCH!

lol no.. i'm not that obvious =p

anyway, back to topic...

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

i think they should rebrand across the range to avoid confusion, especially once they have the qt and wrt across the whole range something like

Nokia OS basic(s40)
Nokia OS Advanced(symbian 3 4)
Nokia OS Ultimate(Meego)

The US bloggomedia has absolutely no grasp of the real world. They live inside a US (en)gadgetbubble with subsidized iDevices, extrapolating their totally screwed up view to the rest of the world.

Well, Sony Ericsson was declared dead by that US bloggosphere a year ago. This year the X10 mini will sell in tons and tons and probably put an end to EU/Japan sales of the iPhone. The X10 mini shows what the future of most touch screen phones will be, small simple and lighting fast - and cheap. The iPhone looks and feel like an insanely overpriced geek toy from the past in comparison.

The X10 mini will do no good to Nokia either, but unlike Apple, Nokia (and Samsung) have the ability to produce similar devices at similar price, while still making money. In fact, that is the plan for both companies, and the sole reason for developing Bada and Symbian^4.

Large touch screen phones will probably still sell, but it will be a minor niche in the big picture.

@bsving: IMHO reality is what happens. If the reality is that us blogosphere 'journalists' have plenty of say to sway the customers, then Nokia has got to do something about them. Labeling them as bogeymen in hope that they'll disappear doesn't work.

im actually glad to see nokia are losing money, after all they robbed me out of 500quid for my pre-order n97white, they built my hopes up so high on that phone and it would turn itself off everytime i took it out of my pocket to use it, i lost plenty of business (and money) due to that, and their customer service was so disgusting ill probs never call them again, i also vowed never to buy 1 of their products again after the Nightmare97 fiasco, but ended up getting hooked on the n900, the kbd, ram ect.. but mainly due to maemo5, (as ill never use symbian again) and the iphone is for 10 year old girls!
but for them to decide they were dropping maemo weeks after i shelled out another 500quid made me rather angry to say the least!
but...
N900 is clearly the best phone this planet has ever seen, imo anyway, and the future of meego looks like it will put nokia back on top again,
im extremely excited to see what there gonna do with meego, but they want to get a move on, and make sure meego is ready for release, more so than anything they've done before it, or they will be history, considering ive always bought nokia products for the past 10 years or so, i think i have a right to say that major *** needs to be kicked at nokia, and as im 99% sure ill be sticking by them id like to do the kicking!

As pocket-sized tablet computers go, it's pretty good. As phones go, the N900 is awful. Sorry, but truth be told--it's an incredibly bad phone. :P

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.

Actually you don't. Assuming the stock gets back to $40 (which I think is a safe assumption) then even my $14 purchases are good. If you're worried about the best margin, though, you'll never buy until it's too late.