Nokia shares up 10% on better than expected Q4 results.

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swordman

11-01-2013

Originally Posted by flagpole:
“I believe it was part of the deal that saw Microsoft pay them the billion dollars. The CEO said the other day that he didn't rule out making android phones at some point. With symbian I think they just couldn't afford to keep developing it when they saw windows as more likely to me the competitive product.”

He was actually a little misquoted in that and he actually did fully commit their foreseeable future to WP.

The reality is they are where they are now so we shall see how WP does.

Everything Goes

11-01-2013

A lot of the improvement has been put down to their budget Asha phone range rather than the Lumia Windows Mobile devices.

The star of the company was undoubtedly the growth of the low-cost, sub-$100 Asha line, selling into India and other Asian markets. Yet in the last quarter Nokia shifted 9.3 million full-touchscreen Asha devices. And 4.6 million Lumia devices.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/01...look_analysis/

IvanIV

11-01-2013

I checked those Asha phones and they are quite nice. You even get an email and flash (light). And Angry Birds preinstalled

It's not for mobile phone addicts, but it's good enough to keep you connected.

clonmult

11-01-2013

Originally Posted by wilt:
“Why would Meego have brought them success? They would have the same ecosystem problems as WP (if not worse) with the added burden of full software development costs.”

There was already a small range of applications available for Maemo/Meego. It supported QT, which in theory allowed any applications written for Symbian to be relatively easily targeted at Meego.

And QT is one of the apparent selling points of the Ubuntu phone (and QT has been part of the Ubuntu distro for years iirc). And its also on QNX, and is part of the BB Playbook developer suite, and I believe its also available for BB10.

So - in theory - an application could be written once, then relatively easily targeted at multiple platforms, rather than having to be re-written for each.

But then Nokia only ever showed brief moments of vision, then generally failed to follow them through.

clonmult

11-01-2013

Originally Posted by swordman:
“He was actually a little misquoted in that and he actually did fully commit their foreseeable future to WP.

The reality is they are where they are now so we shall see how WP does.”

Yup, Gizmodo were trolling (what a surprise).

Nokia did have Android running on some of their kit, which is what helped them decide on WP. It was something like the early N9 devices, and they found that Android ran like a dog on it - nowhere near as well as Maemo did at the same point.

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