Nokia Releasing First Android Phone

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kowenicki said:

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kowenicki said:
This is a rumour... but it could be a smart move if they play it right. Slightly fanyboy article that...

Obviously pitched at the arse end of the market where android excels.

I wouldn't touch it with a barge pole though, partly because I dont buy cheap phones and partly because I don't like android.

I guess that's Nokia looking to return to it's home base then. It became the biggest name in mobile because the arse of the mobile market is really big (so good to read people who spell arse right) and Nokia used to live there.

Kinda makes sense for Nokia to keep WP as the premium / enterprise OS and for Android to serve the rest of the market.

I like cheap(ish) phones because they do 90% of what expensive phones do at 45% of the price. But I avoid arse end phone because the hardware is shite.

to a degree that is right yes.  its the featurephone sales that have dropped rapidly so this could help replace some of those.  But you cant deny they have some very good phones these days.

They do indeed. But it was Nokia's almost fatal mistake to narrow their range in smartphones to the premium/sub-premium range and not service the high growth budget smartphone market. I don't remember much about Nokia's Symbian smartphone days, but back then no one made budget smartphones, those only came along with Android.