Nokia Phones Can Be Held Anyway You Want, But Who Is Buying Them?

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While Apple is busy selling 1.7 million iPhones, Nokia decided to share with the world some of its views on the mobile business and the Finnish company decided to take at least a hit at Apple in the process, which is not a wrong thing to do, especially in this cut-throat niche.

But it’s one thing to criticize Apple as the leading contender in the mobile business, such as Google seems to become, and it’s a totally different thing to be the largest cell phone maker in the world that can’t put out a decent smartphone out there and still make fun of Cupertino.

Not defending Apple here but rather asking where is Nokia headed with this strategy? We’d rather have dependable Symbian^3 devices first and then snappy remarks but it looks like it’s the other way around, at least for a while.

Nokia today decided to remind everyone that its smartphones/handsets can be held in any position the user wants to hold them without experiencing any reception issues. If you ask me, I’d definitely want to be the company that cashes in on 1.7 million iPhone sales in just three days and then tells people how to fix a problem (or not) than to be one of the bystanders that reminds everyone how phones customers don’t really want right now can be held in any way they see fit. And no, this isn’t Apple fanboysm folks. I’ve been a Nokia fan and customer for years and I’d love nothing better for them to shape up and bring a competitive mobile device to the table.

Furthermore, Nokia went on to say to Bloomberg today that “it’s no longer about selling phones.” So what is it really about Nokia? Because if you don’t sell phones then you can’t sell anything else either: third-party accessories, apps, etc, and, subsequently you can invest into building better phones to sell. But here’s the full quote so you also get the context of the conversation there:

“Apps are going to be more central to Nokia’s conversation,” said Purnima Kochikar, who heads the Forum Nokia developer-support unit for the company, which is based in Espoo, Finland. “It’s no longer about selling devices.”

I still have faith in you, Nokia, you can flourish again, but this is not the way to do it! You got to put your money where your mouth is and prove to everyone looking for a hot phone you can still make great devices; you know, at some point this decade!