What will happen to E7 now?

Guys, basically what has happened is very simple: Since yesterday, Nokia has become the hardware manufacturing arm of Microsoft. Unlike Apple, MS didn't had a control over the hardware, and they thought Apple's success lies in the monopoly over both hardware and software. So, they took over Nokia by planting one of their loyals. It is that simple.

End result is also very simple: Both Apple and Google wins. Now it will be a by-partician market. The next target is RIM.
 
I think rim will actually learn from this. They are starting to put out phones with processors that say fast. My woman's 9780 on t-mobile runs great on 624mhz. But people don't know anything more than numbers. Rim is not that dumb yet and slow they are. But I think this Nokia crap will wake them up.

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Totally agree. Nokia's and Elop's Hail Mary pass is their hope that Microsoft's WP7 gains traction over the next year.

Somehow, I don't see that happening.

Although I've learned to be skeptical of analysts, there were a couple of mobile guys on CNBC who both agreed that Nokia won't be around as a going concern in five years' time.

And 2011-2012 is going to be ugly, financially, for Nokia. They'll basically have to rely on dumbphone sales to keep the lights on.
 
Nokia appears to be relying on the E7 to tide them over in 2011 which I think is delusional. Have they looked at the specs on that device and compared it to their competitors like the Milestone 2 and the Desire Z? The E7 is a year behind those phones let alone the qwerty phone which will come out in the rest of 2011. And those phones run a rapidly improving Android while the E7 runs a dead-end S3. People have criticized the N97 but at least that device had some very impressive hardware for its time. The E7 is far behind on both hardware and software and unless it's positioned in the mid-price segment it will be a flop.
 
It isn't a matter of whether the consumer is gullible and it has everything to do with why nokia boasts such huge numbers for symbian sales-the consumers he refers to simply want a nokia phone and likely have no idea what the word "symbian" is, unless they heard from a friend to google "S60V2 (or V3) apps and games".

Come to asia and you'll see exactly what I'm talking about.
 
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