Nokia's Present & Future
- Thread starter Arun
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It is good value for money, no doubt.
Microsoft product planning/marketing is as incompetent as ever, launching a new brand with a low end device (going for inverse halo effect ?)
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Silent_Buddha
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Might have to eventually make a new thread or rename this one as Nokia Lumia's are slowly phased out. But this applies to all Lumias (Microsoft and Nokia).
Apparently Microsoft has announced plans to provide Windows 10 upgrades to all Lumia phones running Windows Phone 8. A good move on their part. Be interesting to see how it runs on current low end devices like the 520/521.
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SB
Apparently Microsoft has announced plans to provide Windows 10 upgrades to all Lumia phones running Windows Phone 8. A good move on their part. Be interesting to see how it runs on current low end devices like the 520/521.
Regards,
SB
Silent_Buddha
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Nokia is thinking about re-entering the Smartphone arena possibly in 2016. They will do 1 of 2 things according to their CEO. Either license the Nokia brand to another company to use. Or buy phones from ODM's in China and then put the Nokia brand on them.
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SB
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SB
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Is there anyone from the former cellphone/smartphone development teams that is still working at Nokia?
Sounds like they will just be rebranding Zopo, THL and co. smartphones, in a time when Nokia holds little to no value in the smartphone market.
Sounds like they will just be rebranding Zopo, THL and co. smartphones, in a time when Nokia holds little to no value in the smartphone market.
Silent_Buddha
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http://www.dailytech.com/Nokia Explores Two Paths Back to the Smartphone Market/article36891.htm
which was probably sourced from...
http://www.nokiapoweruser.com/2014/...hones-in-long-term-not-possible-till-q4-2016/
The exclusivity is limited only to smartphones (until 2016) and feature phones (10 years, not sure when that ends). I expect Nokia branded products to appear before then in other areas.
I'm surprised somewhat the Microsoft didn't opt to license the smartphone brand for longer.
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There you are: Nokia launching an Android tablet with an Intel Moorefield.
http://www.gsmarena.com/nokia_launches_n1_android_tablet_running_lollipop-news-10236.php
To me it checks all boxes, except for the dreadful 4:3 screen ratio. They're probably just borrowing the screen production from ipad mini.
http://www.gsmarena.com/nokia_launches_n1_android_tablet_running_lollipop-news-10236.php
To me it checks all boxes, except for the dreadful 4:3 screen ratio. They're probably just borrowing the screen production from ipad mini.
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Why are you against a 4:3 screen? For browsing and reading it is IMHO better than 16:9. Also the screen size of an 4:3 7.9" screen is larger than the screen size of an 16:9" screen. Compared with an 7" 16:9 screen the screen is for example AFAIR 40% larger.
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I don't think apple tablets will interfere with the market of Android tablets. It could be a carbon copy of the ipad mini and that fact wouldn't matter at all.
At least not in China, which is where this Nokia tablet will start being sold.
What I do think is that this tablet is way too close to the Xiaomi MiPad, which has an arguably better SoC and the price is already lower than this.
Within mainland China, the MiPad hasn't been very popular (unlike the Xiaomi smartphones which are blasting everything in their way). Chinese customers seem to prefer lower priced tablets with better functionality/price ratio.
If Xiaomi which is the favorite brand in China can't get their MiPad to be successful, I don't know why Nokia believes their tablet will do any better.
Personal preference based on what I use my tablet for. I use my tablet mainly for series, movies and reading comics/manga. For all those things, 4:3 is a huge waste of screen space and portrait browsing is fine enough if the ratio is 16:10.
I wouldn't get a 4:3 tablet for myself, though I'd recommend the likes of Xiaomi MiPad to people who want their tablet mostly for web browsing and games.
At least not in China, which is where this Nokia tablet will start being sold.
What I do think is that this tablet is way too close to the Xiaomi MiPad, which has an arguably better SoC and the price is already lower than this.
Within mainland China, the MiPad hasn't been very popular (unlike the Xiaomi smartphones which are blasting everything in their way). Chinese customers seem to prefer lower priced tablets with better functionality/price ratio.
If Xiaomi which is the favorite brand in China can't get their MiPad to be successful, I don't know why Nokia believes their tablet will do any better.
Personal preference based on what I use my tablet for. I use my tablet mainly for series, movies and reading comics/manga. For all those things, 4:3 is a huge waste of screen space and portrait browsing is fine enough if the ratio is 16:10.
I wouldn't get a 4:3 tablet for myself, though I'd recommend the likes of Xiaomi MiPad to people who want their tablet mostly for web browsing and games.
Of course Apple tablets will interfere with Android, but it depends in the country/market.
The Nokia N1 is priced as a premium 8inch device so will compete like you said directly with the MiPad and the likes in China....but seeing as the iPad Mini 2 is at a similar price, I reckon it's got no chance of success in basically any region. It would have to be really cheap to be successful. The Nokia brand will take it a bit, but it cannot compete with the likes on the iPad mini 2 in the same market.
The interesting move is the 64bit CPU, this is a differentiator for some, but unfortunately comes out 18 months after Apple's first 64bit CPU.
And at least four months after Google Nexus 9.
