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Nokia CEO Blames Salesmen For Windows Phone Struggles
An anonymous reader writes "Steven Elop of Nokia has placed some of the blame for the struggles of Windows Phone on mobile phone shops — for not pushing it. As The Register points out, sales staff 'want their commission,' and tend to only show phones they think might sell. Exact details of Windows Phone sales numbers are being covered up by both Microsoft and Nokia, who refuse to state specifics; sales figures to operators are stated at one million, but the majority of those seem to be unsold to consumers, and neither Microsoft nor Nokia will give numbers on activations. The best available numbers seem to be maximum Lumia sales estimates from Tomi Ahonen, a former Nokia Executive and the only analyst to correctly predict Nokia's market share fall for the end of 2011. Nokia's Lumia sold around 600,000 phones in 2011 (again, including the large portion in warehouses). One of the worst signs for WP8 is that Nokia's N9 — despite being crippled without marketing, and often selling at full price compared to the almost fully subsidized Lumia phones — is selling better than Nokia's Windows phones, with 1.5M or more phones reaching end users. Interestingly, if the Nokia N9 had been available in all markets, it might have sold almost 5M units and pushed Nokia into profitability."
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1. The responsiveness. The phone is silky smooth and makes the experience on Windows Mobile and Android (Pre-ICS as I haven't used it) look like a slideshow.
2. The live tiles. I have some complaints about how the tiles handle group contact alerts but I really appreciate their economy. Put the phone down for an hour and one glance at the start screen can give you 6 new data insights. For me it's normally: new work email, new personal email, new missed calls, new responses to Twitter or Facebook posts, new status updates from my family, upcoming calendar appointments. Also, the ability to deep link live tiles is great as well.
3. The animation. Some people probably hate this but I think the start screen animations are very cool. It gives a life to the screen that is very unique.
4. The messaging integration. It's very cool that you can send text, facebook, and MSN messages using the native messaging app. If the rumors about Google+ and Skype messaging being integrated soon are true then that would make it that much more indispensable.
5. The contextual people data. The idea that you can view individuals and groups along with their aggregated activities is nice. To use the same mechanism to filter down the social networking activities of my closest friends (statuses, pictures, etc) as well as group message them is slick and intuitive.
I could go on but I think those are most of the highlights.
Dissolve... Resolve... Evolve...
There are very few "happy" Android customers. The highest rated Android OEM has a satisfaction rating of 45%. There's a reason Apple sales have been exploding despite the iPhone's expense. The market is desperate for an iPhone-like UI without the lag, battery drain, bugginess and poor overall user-experience of Android. MeeGo could have been that OS, but Nokia's executives were too scared to take a risk.