The more you look at the Nokia fiasco, the odder it looks. The annual R&D budget tops $7.5 billion, the number of people working in R&D is 17,000, yet they can’t produce a stream of market-leading devices. The N8 launch is now delayed.

What’s even odder is that it is said: ‘Nokia now sees itself as a software and services company’.

That’s not how the rest of the world sees Nokia which is as a mobile phone manufacturing company and the most successful one in the history of the wireless industry.

Nokia agonises over operating systems and daft new technologies like 3D and forgets about sex appeal.

The company used to know that. It sold its Zippo phone for $950. Sex appeal = margin, and Nokia is now saying its Q3 2010 margin could be 7%.

Nokia phones outsell the iPhone 15:1, but the iPhone makes 5X more profit.

It’s all very well seeing yourself as a ‘software and services’ company but it’s selling phones that brings in the revenue.

The new CEO shouldn’t have been a software guy (from Microsoft,mind you); he should have been a phone designer.

Source: Mannerisms

Note: I stopped using Nokia ever since 2003, the last model used was 8310. started with 3210…..The phone design is stereotyped, the parts are not firmly encapped and the sex appeal is horrible…..Thus I have switched to Sony Ericsson ever since 6 yrs ago.

Now, I am finding out more about N8, rumoured to be the best camera phone than SE C905…..but still on symbian. why not Android? I am wondering…..

Nokia ex-CEO Anssi Vanjoki likens Android to peeing your pants to stay warm in cold weather!

What a joke of him! Anyway,he has left Nokia and been replaced by a Microsoft guy! Can Nokia stay on in the leading position with the new CEO?