Well, besides critising about apple being only appealing, without things like the iPhone from Apple, Nokia and all the other phone makers are gonna stick to buttons. At least credit Apple for being a highly innovative company that gives what the people want.

growing???  

Nokia has struggled in the smartphone market

Profits at Finnish mobile phone handset company Nokia slumped by 40% in the second quarter compared with the previous year.

The firm announced profits of a mere 227m euros ($291m; £191m) for the three months ending in June.

Nokia warned last month that it expected its sales and profits figures to fall short of earlier forecasts.

The company has struggled to compete since Apple and Google entered the market with their new smartphones.

'Mixed bag'

The results saw the company's share price swing violently in a 10% range, first down and then up. It was trading up 3.6% as of midday BST.

Analysts said the second quarter numbers - and Nokia's decision to leave its full-year forecast unchanged - were largely in line with expectations.

"It's a bit of a mixed bag," said Richard Windsor, equity analyst at Nomura. "The margin guidance for [the third quarter] is, I think, quite a lot worse than some people were looking for."

"At the same time, they're more optimistic for the [fourth quarter]," he added. "But that's on the back of a vastly improved smartphone portfolio, and we're not that convinced about that."

Under pressure

The poor results will put increasing pressure on Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, a lifelong Nokia employee and its chief executive since 2006, amid speculation that he may be ousted.

The mobile phone manufacturer has had to issue two profit warnings during the last three months and has already undergone a recent management restructuring.

The company declined to make any comment about Mr Kallasvuo's future.

"There has been a lot of speculation on my position, on myself, during the last couple of weeks and that is not good for Nokia and must be brought to an end one way or another," the chief executive told CNBC.

Shrinking margins

The company reported a 1% increase in overall revenues to 10m euros, helped by an 8% rise in the volume of mobile device sales.

However, profit margins at the important "devices and services" unit, which produces the company's handsets, were squeezed to 9.5% in the quarter from 12.2% a year ago, as the company was forced to cut its prices to compete.

This resulted in a 19% fall in the division's underlying operating profits.

yet nokia sells 41% of all smartphones and growing.

it a fact, its  on all sites, apple giving free bumpers too all iphone users.

Like, zomg, it's on the Internet, so it must be true!!!!!  Just like the "fact" that only 20% Android users  wanted another Android phone (as opposed to 77% of iPhone users wanting another iPhone).  The web favours sensational news, not accurate news.

from artechnica, and apple have aknowledge the problem, but they are not saying sorry or fixing it, rather found a patch. giving free bumpers.  apple even start a petty defense other phones have the problem too but then my n900 never have drop me a call and most phone in their test don't either

Could you explain why your anecdotal evidence is somehow worth more than that of the scores of iPhone 4 owners who also never have dropped calls?  There are a heck of a lot more iPhone 4s out there than N900s, and the vast majority of users report superior antenna performance to previous iPhones.  The original AnandTech article that attempted to quantify the issue recognized this fact, saying that the new iPhone did a far better job of holding on to weak signals.

Apple acknowledged that there is a perceived problem, not that there is a design problem with the phone (as opposed to, say, the network or a manufacturing glitch, or simply a trade-off for a stronger antenna overall).  They are working continuously to understand the true cause, including visiting problematic customers' homes with testing equipment (did you actually watch the press conference?).  It is absolutely true that iPhone 4 is dropping more calls than iPhone 3GS, but it is also true that few iPhone 4s have cases while a large proportion of 3GSs do.  One goal of the bumper giveaway is to balance this inequity, so as to make a fair comparison possible.  This is how one goes about doing science.

The only evidence people needed to concoct this Antennagate was a few YouTube videos, and Apple's "petty" defense shows that this evidence is utterly uncompelling (before seeing the videos of other phones, it sure seemed strong to me).  Once the news made it onto the blogosphere, everyone started looking for it, even though there was no compelling reason to.  So where, then, is the actual evidence?  (Hint: it is not so easy to collect good statistics on a complex problem that has been compromised by widespread media coverage.)