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Nokia shareholders have thrown their toys of the pram, demanding that the company’s CEO, Stephen Elop, hands in his resignation.
Following Elop’s newly-formed Microsoft alliance, a group of nine Nokia shareholders have issued an open letter to his company, labelled “Plan B”. No, it’s not a letter declaring their love for the British rapper-come-actor, it instead demands for the ex-Microsoft chief to resign from Nokia.
The letter criticises the newly-formed Nokia/Windows Phone partnership, asking for the platform to be dropped as the company’s primary OS. Instead, they are proposing that MeeGo be reinstated as the primary platform, and that Symbian should be “guaranteed for a minimum of five years.”
In the letter, the group demands that Nokia executives “Return the company to a strategy that seeks high growth and high profit margins through innovation and overwhelmingly superior products and unrivaled user experience”.
The shareholders are intending to present Plan B at the company’s next general meeting on May 3rd this year.
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By now, you know that Nokia decided to side with Microsoft and Windows Phone 7 instead of Google and Android. Why didn't they want Android? Because Nokia felt that that would be going down without a fight.
Nokia considered three OSes to move to: MeeGo, Android or Windows Phone 7. In talking about Android, Elop admits to its strength but also points out some weaknesses:
"There's something happening there. There's no denying that. [But] our sense was differentiation could be a pretty big challenge. The risk for commoditization would increase dramatically."
Nokia knew that it was too late to join the Android party—Android had become a crowded space. Creating a standout Android phone would not only be difficult given the experience of other companies but because it could get lost in the maul of Android phones available. Even Android phone makers would admit that it's hard to stay at the top of the Android power rankings—hell, doesn't it seem like the "best Android phone" only has a lifespan of a month before it gets dethroned? Nokia saw Google eventually getting all the profits as hardware gets commoditized.
And maybe Windows Phone 7 will have those same hardware "issues" as Android but Nokia felt it could differentiate its handsets by dropping in Nokia specific features like their Navteq location-based services. That, they felt, would give them a leg up.
But none of those arguments seem to matter as much as this one: Nokia didn't want to lose the smartphone wars without giving Google and Apple an honest fight. Choosing Android would mean that they'd become a bit player in a two-horse race (Apple vs Google). Choosing Windows Phone means they're hoping and fighting to add another horse. It might be too late and maybe Nokia had to sell their soul, who knows, but I respect any one who goes down swinging.
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Nokia CEO Stephen Elop is currently on stage at MWC in Barcelona, and he's had a few choice things to say about the recent announcement that Nokia will partner with Microsoft to create devices which run Windows Phone software. Elop told the crowd assembled there that Nokia's "first priority is beating Android," and he also took a moment to let everyone know that Nokia is not interested in being the only company producing Windows Phones -- countering some recent exclusivity chatter. The presentation is still going on, so we'll keep you updated.
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The first Nokia Windows Phone 7 concept has arrived. Mere hours after Nokia CEO Stephen Elop and Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer took the stage in London Friday to announce a partnership between the two technology giants, Engadget received leaked photos of the first concept phone design born of the new marriage.
Yes, they’re very pretty. Very pretty. We know. But don’t get your giddy little hopes up too high just yet — these are only “concepts.” Which, of course, means we don’t have a single hardware specification, release date, or any other concrete detail to deliver.
What this does show us, however, is the direction Nokia-Microsoft plan to head — straight down a path filled with slim, sexy and colorful smartphones. At least, that’s presumably what the folks who leaked these images to Engadgethappen want us to think, since chances are good that these pictures didn’t just to come out on the same day that the two companies made major partnership announcement, if you catch our drift.
About that partnership: In the face of strengthening competition from devices running Android or Apple’s iOS, Nokia will adopt Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 as its primary operating system. That means Nokia will begin to phase-out phones using its Symbian OS, including low-level phones, eventually.
Microsoft will continue to offer Windows Phone 7 as a licensed platform, but the two companies plan to work closely together to develop a hearty competitor for the burgeoning market of Android- and iOS-based devices.
So far, it’s difficult to gauge whether or not this relationship will bear money-making fruit. We believe that, by making the Nokia-Microsoft partnership a flexible one, the companies have set themselves up for success as best they can. That’s not to say they can easily compete in the increasingly cut-throat smartphone race. But it does mean they have a fighting chances. Especially if their phones are as pleasant to use as these concepts are to behold.
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Nokia doesn't get that much coverage of its app platform - the Ovi Store - in the media, but in 2010 Nokia's app store was far and away the leader in China: it was accessed by 65.2% of Chinese mobile subscribers, towering over Apple's and Google's more fancied offerings.
China's second most used app store was China Mobile's "Mmarket", accessed by 57.7% of the country's mobile users (note the cross-over: some users are using multiple app sources) in 2010. Google's official Market for Android phone was a distant third,with 13.7%; Microsoft's legacy MarketPlace was fourth; Apple's iconic App Store was fifth.
These stats (see the full graph, below) come from iReport, a China-focused "customer behavior" and markets firm of analysts - in a year-ending report on mobile app usage in China in 2010. They're a useful reminder that - and this is my analysis now - Chinese consumers engage with their mobiles, and the mobile internet, quite differently than in the US, with more of an emphasis here on text-messaging, using pre-installed apps and games, instant-messaging (eg: QQ), and mobile internet - but that's mostly via GPRS, with 3G only adopted by a minority.
While it's good news for Nokia and its Ovi Store, it does also portend the difficulties ahead, if consumers start to move away from lower-end smartphones (the ones that are more like "feature-phones" that can just about support some apps).
And while Android's share looks tiny, with the Google Market in a far-off 3rd-place, actually you could add a great deal of the (China Unicom) WoStore and (Motorola) MotoPlus store percentages to that, since most of their app sales are actually of Android apps... But that's closer to the theme of my next planned post. 'Til then: well done, Nokia.
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Nokia’s Comes With Music service has been around for a couple of years now, providing hundreds of thousands of free songs to Nokia users with Comes With Music handsets. The service was latterly known as Ovi Music Unlimited, but still offered similar features.
Although Nokia has stopped selling Ovi Music Unlimited handsets, if you’ve recently bought a Nokia smartphone with a subscription you’ll still be able to download free music for the rest of the agreed period. If you’re one of the many happy customers to have benefited from a Comes With Music or Ovi Music Unlimited handset, then don’t worry about upcoming changes.
Once you’ve downloaded the songs, they’re yours forever. Despite the end of the service, the songs you’ve downloaded through Comes With Music will still be available to play on your Nokia, and you’ll also be able to play them back on your PC as well.
Once your subscription is up, you’ll also be able to continue buying music from the Ovi Music Store – with DRM-free tracks on offer that let you play them back on any device.
Here's a video about the changes to Ovi Music Unlimited..
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Believe it or not...A Smart House controlled by Nokia N8 smartphone.Nokia N8 really surprising me with the camera and video quality.But,still lot of unknown applications yet to discover.
Finally,8600 applications uses to controlled the Smart House completed in 90 days.It's really prove Nokia N8 ads said:"It’s Not Technology, It’s What You Do With It".
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Before the Christmas festivities began,Nokia asked the fans look back at the products from 2010 and tell them their favourites.Finally,the result announced recently.Nokia N8 voted as best product of the year leading by 61.91%.The following is Nokia E7 just 11.7% votes only.It's mean their fans loves Nokia N8 a lot compare with another Nokia products.
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