Nokia + WP7 = Win

dalaohu

Nokia shares rise as Windows Phone 7 rumours spread





Nokia, amid rumours that the mobile giant is preparing to embrace Windows Phone 7 in its product line, saw a four percent rise in shares since Monday, The New York Times reports. Speculation has been rife for months, but as Nokia CEO Stephen Elop is said to be preparing to address investors at a speech in London next week, rumours are surfacing that Elop could be announcing a Microsoft partnership on Friday.

Speculation has been fuelled by an open letter from Berenberg Bank's Adnaan Ahmad, where the analyst urged the two companies to enter into an exclusive deal, citing the benefits of a manufacturer fully backing a single mobile OS ("Do you really think HTC, Samsung and LGE are pushing your products ahead of Google's?") as well as access to "a potential 20-25%" of global marketshare. An exclusive deal, however, would involve abandoning Symbian, having shipped on an estimated 385 million devices.

Such a deal could prove to be the boost that both companies need. Nokia last year reported a 40% drop in profits, and its success in the United States has left a lot to be desired. Microsoft also has some catching up to do, with Windows Phone 7 holding a mere 2% market share, as opposed to Android's estimated 32.5% market share.

Not everyone is convinced though. Renowned blogger Mary Jo Foley dismissed the rumours in a tweet earlier today, and analyst Carolina Milanesi of Gartner in London was less than convinced. Voicing concerns over the success of a potential partnership, Milanesi said "Windows Phone 7 has been disappointing and Microsoft is not sexy to the consumer from a mobile phone perspective."

[ 本帖最后由 dalaohu 于 2011-2-6 19:02 编辑 ]

dalaohu

其实我觉得HTC的做工很不怎么样。

yuba

估计黑莓也快和微软合作了

iami

garysu

Nokia CEO Stephen Elop rallies troops in brutally honest 'burning platform' memo?

By Chris Ziegler posted Feb 8th 2011 at 6:14PM
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"The first iPhone shipped in 2007, and we still don't have a product that is close to their experience. Android came on the scene just over 2 years ago, and this week they took our leadership position in smartphone volumes. Unbelievable." This is just one of many, many pieces of stark knowledge allegedly dropped by recently-appointed Nokia CEO Stephen Elop -- formerly of Microsoft -- in a roughly 1,300-word memo to the company's employees that we've received today. Though we can't vouch for the authenticity, it's notable that the memo contains a portion previously reported by The Register and heard by sources at TechCrunch Europe, so it would seem that we've simply received the whole thing. Elop goes on to suggest that his company is "standing on a burning platform" and must "change [its] behavior," suggesting that the adoption of a non-homegrown platform like Android or Windows Phone 7 is a more realistic possibility than ever before.

Overall, the communique laments Nokia's lateral movement while Apple and Google have started eating its lunch on the mid- and high end and Shenzhen-based off brands have started to cut into its traditional dominance in emerging markets, leaving Espoo with virtually zero market leadership. It's a stark revelation that seems befitting of a man brought in from the outside -- he's neither Finnish, nor raised in the Nokia system -- and he promises to start revealing the way forward this Friday at the company's Capital Markets Day event where grandiose plans have been unveiled in the past.

Whether the memo is legitimate or not, the frequency and intensity of big-time rumors floating around Nokia ahead of Capital Markets Day (and MWC next week) have been pretty wild: we've heard they'll be announcing a partnership with Microsoft possibly revolving around Windows Phone 7, that a boatload of executives would be shown the door, and that Elop would start looking to Nokia's new Silicon Valley campus as its center of gravity, with execs and senior management expected to start spending more time outside Finland.

We'll know far, far more about what's going on over in Espoo in the next few days, but in the meantime, here are some choice quotes from the memo:

从下面的节选来看，nokia要做重大的转变了

    * "...there is intense heat coming from our competitors, more rapidly than we ever expected. Apple disrupted the market by redefining the smartphone and attracting developers to a closed, but very powerful ecosystem."
    * "They changed the game, and today, Apple owns the high-end range."
    * "Google has become a gravitational force, drawing much of the industry's innovation to its core."
    * "We have some brilliant sources of innovation inside Nokia, but we are not bringing it to market fast enough. We thought MeeGo would be a platform for winning high-end smartphones. However, at this rate, by the end of 2011, we might have only one MeeGo product in the market."
    * "...Symbian is proving to be an increasingly difficult environment in which to develop to meet the continuously expanding consumer requirements..."
    * "Our competitors aren't taking our market share with devices; they are taking our market share with an entire ecosystem."
    * "We poured gasoline on our own burning platform. I believe we have lacked accountability and leadership to align and direct the company through these disruptive times. We had a series of misses. We haven't been delivering innovation fast enough. We're not collaborating internally. Nokia, our platform is burning."

[ 本帖最后由 garysu 于 2011-2-9 11:16 编辑 ]

dalaohu

好文啊。

Stephen Elop 微软来的， 新官上任接手烂摊子， 还不如赌一把， 还有机会让Nokia翻身。

dalaohu

Nokia的硬件做的很好的， 市场份额也巨大。 捆绑上好的第三方OS，没有理由不翻身。

garysu

他提到新的平台出得太慢，几乎同时有分析说webOS也是这问题，半年都还不推出来，结果市场早被人占去了。从wp7的推出情况来看，各家现在都得做出一些功能设计上的牺牲，才能赶上进度，慢慢做精细不可行了。

HNREN

N8如果上安卓的系统销量会巨增，N8整个的作工很不错，铝合金的外壳很有质感，硬件也很不错，就是吃亏在这个塞班的系统上面。