The Guardian analyzes some business decisions behind Nokia’s move into the non-phone business, such as 770.
The problem isn’t that Nokia’s not shipping enough phones - it sold 61 million units last quarter, that’s around a third of all new phones around the world - but that the price of phones is coming down. Nokia have intrinsic benefits over their rivals: long-standing domination thanks to durable products with familiar and intuitive interfaces. They’re putting a lot more emphasis on 3G and smartphones these days, in a market where (particularly in developing countries) the demand is for low-cost handsets.
FYI (too lazy to dig out your email address — email me so I can Address Book it) –
ARCchart - Nokia about to dump Symbian OS?
http://www.symplification.com/node/204
I’ve been saying that since Nokia unveiled the 770 and Maemo that they would transition *everything* to Linux.
edited to add –
Ach. Should have followed the link to the source –
http://www.arcchart.com/blueprint/show.asp?id=374&qtabs=99999