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Nokia Losing its Cell Phone Dominance

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the fighting-to-keep-up dept.

supersandra writes "The Boston Globe is reporting that Nokia is struggling to offer features, such as cameras and flip-phones, that are luring customers away to phones by other brands such as Motorola, Samsung, and Siemens. While Nokia used to account for 1 in every 3 phones sold worldwide, they are down to 28.9 percent. Nokia plans to bring 35 new phone models to market this year to win back more users."

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  1. Re:Man... by micolous · · Score: 5, Interesting

    What happened to mobile (cell) phones that just make phone calls and send SMS? They're turning rather rapidly into PDAs.

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  2. Re:35 new models? by sjwt · · Score: 5, Interesting

    What i think the oohone market shoudl look at moving to is custom phones, or at lest semi custom.

    Order body X, featuers Y,ZA and C.

    I put off geting a new phone becase i couldnt get what i wanted, in the end i finaly had to get a compromise, but thats life i guess.

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  3. Why Nokia ain't selling more phones by bmo · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Because the old models are more durable than anything by Motorola, Samsung, or the rest.

    I've dropped mine on concrete, had it go skidding 'cross the shop floor, etc etc etc.

    It still works. The only thing it could use is a new plastic shell.

    I dropped a Motorola *once*. Within a week, the screen died.

    My Nokia is an old 3390. It doesn't fold in half and doesn't have an external antenna. It doesn't have a camera. It doesn't have a fancy qwerty thumb keyboard. The display is rugged. Since the case is an external component to the phone itself, cracking the case isn't always going to crack the phone itself.

    IOW, it's well engineered, even for a cheap phone. This probably (definitely) means that people aren't replacing them as often as say...Motorola phones.

    It's like whether you buy a Federal Products dial indicator (I've got 3, plus 2 CDI indicators graduated in .0001 inches), or a cheap Chinese knockoff. I've got a Federal indicator that's pre *WWII* by the looks of it. It's just as smooth and accurate as anything new.

    You can have my 3390 when you pry it from my cold dead fingers.

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