Nokia to Ship 125,000 Windows Phone 7 Units in 2011; Six European Countries to Get Them?
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Nokia’s future is all about Windows Phone 7, although Nokia execs would tell us that Symbian will still be maintained for some time to come. So I, as a former Nokia customer and a still-hoping fan will hope that the Finnish company is ready to make a spectacular entrance this year in the Windows Phone 7 ecosystem.
In other words I would expect a giant like Nokia working together with a giant like Microsoft towards launching a new breed of WP7 smartphone to hurry launching the kind of device that’s not already out there from Samsung, HTC, LG, Dell, or anyone else. I would also expect plenty of sales this Christmas shopping season, but a recent tweet suggests that Nokia’s 2011 WP7 sales won’t be as spectacular as one would assume.
Eldar Murtazin, the Russian blogger that had/has access to plenty of Nokia sources seems to think that Nokia will make (and by that I think he means they’ll ship) 125k WP7 units by the end of the year. That’s it? 125,000 Nokia WP7 handsets to be made by the end of the year? Maybe Nokia and Microsoft should check again how many smartphones Apple and Google activate a day, and rethink that initial number.
Does that mean Nokia will start selling WP7 handsets only at some point in late November / early December or should we expect to see them in stores in 2012 alone? Moreover, Microsoft is putting a lot of marketing muscle, not to mention R&D, into WP7 and they really need a competitive OS in the mobile business. So, considering the importance of the Nokia-Microsoft partnership, shouldn’t we expect to see plenty Nokia WP7 smartphones manufactured as soon as possible? Because I don’t think there’s time for a soft opening here as the mobile business will not wait around for uncompetitive companies to become competitive again.
Besides that low initial batch of WP7 handsets we have one more piece of not-so-good news. Nokia is said to launch WP7 phones in just six European markets, so we’re not looking at a worldwide simultaneous launch here, which, again, is not something that we would expect from this phone giant.
Let’s just hope Stephen Elop won’t need a plan B soon, shall we? And in the mean time let’s hear it from WP7 fans out there, are you eagerly waiting for Nokia to buy a Windows Phone 7 handset?
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The wheels are falling off the Windows Phone cart.
Google now activates over 400,000 Android handsets every single day.
Nokia and Microsoft seem to be content selling the same number of handsets as Microsoft’s previous Kin phones sold.
This guy does not know anything, why do people keep pretending like he does? He has put out so many false rumors including repeatedly lying that Microsoft is buying Nokia. It reflects poorly on your blog that you are repeating this BS.
I am less interested in trends, profit and activations. For me, I love my Blackberry Torch. It is solid, beautiful, fast, has touch and keyboard AND is a solid communication device.
Others might be good too but what do I care?
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Yes Sam, he may be right, and I think it’s pretty clear from the questions that I raise that I expect him to be wrong, or better said I have great expectations from Nokia and Microsoft. Unfortunately with rumors one only knows later whether they were founded on real stuff or not. Had he been right just about the Nokia acquisition then you would have had a different opinion, and again, I’m not saying he’s right this time around.
Eldar Murtazin is just a joke and to carry on reporting his rubbish shows poor reporting skills. The guy just spreads lies and hate about MS and has no credability at all. The person who thought it was a good idea to report the random rubbish this man says as news should just be ashamed of themselves. It would seem reporting as a whole has taken a massive downturn in recent years this is no better then just making up storys at your desk, lazy!
Fools..Why Should MS and Nokia bother by the established competition?
It’s all about the money they will fill in carriers and advertising!
That will do it…sometimes I think you media people are stupid and want to make the rest of the people stupid as well.. what moves the world is money and greed. That’s all they need give money to greedy people, and that will make the device sell, everithing is for sale, at the right price.