So far, Nokia’s comeback – where they bet everything on the Windows Phone operating system – has been an unmitigated disaster: – In late 2011 they launched their Lumia 800 smartphone, which was immediately out-sold 100 to 1 by the Samsung Galaxy S2 in the UK … a country known to traditionally love Nokia – […]
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Nokia & Microsoft Partnership #FAIL
February 12, 2011 
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So, Nokia hire an ex-Microsoft employee as CEO to turn around their business and guess what he does … he nails Nokia’s smartphone future to Microsoft and their ‘Windows Phone’ platform. On the face of it, it looks like sheer laziness for an ex-Microsoft man to call up his old bosses to strike a deal. […]
Continue reading43% of Smartphones Are Now Android
February 1, 2011 0 Comments
As I and many others predicted, Android continues its march upward to become the biggest smartphone OS in the world. 33 million Android smartphones were shipped in the 4th quarter of 2010, larger than any other platform – even Nokia. This has sparked Nokia to review their strategy and I would not be surprised if […]
Continue readingGoogle vs Apple vs RIM vs Nokia
January 6, 2010 0 Comments
It looks like 2010 will be the year where the smartphone war really kicks off. Apple and RIM (the makers of the Blackberry phones) have been securing market share in 2008/2009 but Nokia is still the market leader with 37% of the smartphone marketplace … and Google clearly want a significant piece of the action, […]
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Alistair Milne 