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Stephen Elop to join Nokia as President and CEOStephen Elop to join Nokia as President and CEOPosted Sep 14, 2010 0:53 UTC (Tue) by klbrun (subscriber, #45083)In reply to: Stephen Elop to join Nokia as President and CEO by mosfet Parent article: Stephen Elop to join Nokia as President and CEO
If Nokia went with Android, they could add value by applying their expertise in making cell phones, especially in power and network management (expertise that Google and Apple lack). They could provide "best of breed" Android phones. Since the wireless network is going to be a problem for some time, this is an opportunity for Nokia.
On the other hand, a huge market is non-smart phones in the developing world, and Nokia is already there (one of the reasons Nokia is still number one in cell phones). Although various Chinese companies are developing cheap Android platforms, I doubt these will make much headway in that market, because what people need is cheap access to the wireless network, not network heavy software apps on power hungry platforms.
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Stephen Elop to join Nokia as President and CEO Posted Sep 14, 2010 3:26 UTC (Tue) by AndreE (subscriber, #60148) [Link]
By jumping in with Android Nokia loses a great deal of control over the phone OS.
Now with symbian^3 based on opensourced symbian code, and meego having a very heavy Nokia presence, jumping in with Android would utterly destroy its relevance
Stephen Elop to join Nokia as President and CEO Posted Sep 14, 2010 8:00 UTC (Tue) by rvfh (subscriber, #31018) [Link]
> they could add value by applying their expertise in making cell phones, especially in power and network management (expertise that Google and Apple lack)
But this expertise is not as much in the phone makers' lab as it is in the chip makers' (TI which Nokia used in many of its phones, Qualcomm which HTC uses in its phones, etc...) labs.
Really, Nokia quickly needs a new phone that can compete with the Androids and iPhones of this world. And if they are waiting on Intel to deliver an Atom-optimised MeeGo running with an Infineon modem, they will be out of the picture before then.
Stephen Elop to join Nokia as President and CEO Posted Sep 14, 2010 22:39 UTC (Tue) by marcH (subscriber, #57642) [Link]
I do not think that power management expertise mainly lies in hardware.
Stephen Elop to join Nokia as President and CEO Posted Sep 14, 2010 22:44 UTC (Tue) by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239) [Link]
Really? Without hardware support, software can't do a great deal to implement power management. The hardware designers need to implement the functionality - the software authors merely need to use it.
Stephen Elop to join Nokia as President and CEO Posted Sep 14, 2010 8:33 UTC (Tue) by dgm (subscriber, #49227) [Link]
Have you been to China lately?
Stephen Elop to join Nokia as President and CEO Posted Sep 14, 2010 9:41 UTC (Tue) by klbrun (subscriber, #45083) [Link]
I'm not sure we should still consider China to be 'developing'...
Stephen Elop to join Nokia as President and CEO Posted Sep 14, 2010 13:44 UTC (Tue) by nicooo (guest, #69134) [Link]
> On the other hand, a huge market is non-smart phones in the developing world, and Nokia is already there (one of the reasons Nokia is still number one in cell phones).
Industrialized countries also have a huge non-smartphone market.
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