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Entelligence: What's the future of Nokia? {Engadget}
Dec 1st 2009 6:08PM Nokia is more than just the mobile phones they make. Nokia is the size of a small country. They produce 500 million devices a year. They have access to every far corner of the Earth. They offer services to people of every colour and language. A corporation simply doesn't get any more global than Nokia.
I'm not saying they can just stop making mobile phones and start doing something else while still remaining one of the largest companies in the history of mankind. Not at all, but they will ultimately change their business concept if that's necessary.
So comparing 1996 Apple, a rather small and struggling software and computer manufacturer with something the scale and flexibility of Nokia isn't valid. Nokia isn't driven by a single goal or an idea, like Apple.
Nokia is all about long term growth, long term value, stability, endurance. I've said it before, and I say it again; I would love to see Nokia turning to some new technology like they did with cell phones during the early 90's.
Nokia sues LCD manufacturers for alleged price fixing (update: joins AT&T) {Engadget}
Dec 1st 2009 6:47AM @Thomas
Sure it's true that Nokia's market share is sliding, margins are a bit down and so on, but why do you have to force this into almost every Nokia related article you post? It doesn't add any relevant information to the news story itself. It's all beginning to feel a bit constrained.
Yes I know it's kind of lame to whine about these things since this is in essence a website which feeds from the reader-writer interaction and personalities with different styles are essential, but hey still, if you can find a way to tone down the attitude even a bit it might help to improve this already great gadget blog. At least from an European point of view. Or maybe not. Whatever. This site still gets my vote for the blog of the decade.
Honda's U3-X Personal Mobility Device is the Segway of unicycles {Engadget}
Sep 24th 2009 2:04AM You guys wanna know what really makes her stay put? Reminds me of Mr. Garrison's design...
Audiovox integrates PlayStation 2 into rear-seat entertainment system {Engadget}
Sep 23rd 2009 4:40PM god damn that bitch looking stoned, yo.
Crapgadget: 'Hopefully USB 3.0 can avoid this path' edition {Engadget}
Sep 21st 2009 6:15AM HA AH HAHA. WOW. That's the crappiest looking flash drive I've ever seen.
The Engadget Show is taping live this Sunday, September 13th -- here's how you join us {Engadget}
Sep 8th 2009 3:17PM Yeah, didn't see that one coming, although Nokia does have a history of popping up in places you'd least expect.
Historically looking it probably won't have much to do with the contents of the show and nor should it. Still, nice to see corporate giants supporting blogs. Especially in this case, where Nokia is giving its support to an American blog. A healthy strategy to conquest some of that "mindshare"...
Video: Nokia N900 used to control British art installation {Engadget}
Sep 4th 2009 7:56PM What about TuxRacer?
Nokia Twist launching on Verizon starting September 13 {Engadget}
Sep 4th 2009 12:26PM I really need to see this one in action, at least on video, before I can make up my mind what to think of this oddball...
Nokia's Ovi Software Development Kit released to invited and excited Javascripters {Engadget}
Sep 4th 2009 9:25AM Currently, maybe. Come back in a year or two and things will look quite different.
The battle has just begun. The past two years don't mean much, because still, most of the customer base has no interest in app stores. They don't even own a smartphone, yet.
All that is about change, now that smartphones are coming down in price, and Nokia is cleary in the lead of that race.
The same exact situation happened decades ago. Nobody thought Microsoft would get anywhere with DOS/Windows. IBM was huge, Apple was leading with the graphical UI, etc, but as soon as MS started shipping their products with every frickin PC available they soon took over the whole market.
It's not about who gets there first, or who has the best stuff, it's about who ships it to the most customers. There won't be any clear winners or losers in the next few years, but yes, ultimately there will be.
Nokia Booklet 3G gets its very own promo video {Engadget}
Sep 4th 2009 9:10AM Hardware wise the Booklet 3G is very much the kind of product that Apple could/should have brought to the market. Of course they would have added some extra mumbo jumbo in the specs and shipped it with some revolutionary version of their operating system, but still.
Guys who like Apple and dislike Nokia bash this product largely because of that. In their hearts they know Apple has to sooner or later come up with a cheapish mobile computer kind of thing, a netbook. Now that Nokia introduces this beautiful looking gadget their reaction is "how dare you! Who do you think you are?"
The tablet, or whatever special hardware Apple's secret team of chip makers are working on, won't be enough, because it's still gonna be "just" a luxury device. On top of that, Nokia already came up with the N900, and their future Maemo lineup is more than capable of taking on with what ever mobile computing Apple is planning to roll out.
The Booklet 3G, if priced below the 600 dollar mark, will be a premium netbook with a tolerable price. If Nokia manages to get a comprehensive carrier support for this thing it will definitely sell nicely.
