Nokia paying AT&T millions to make the Lumia 900 an exclusive phone of front line employees

2. naveenstuns posted on 23 Mar 2012, 05:19 7 0

if nokia make android phone there is absolutely no competition for android. Competition creates cheaper and better phones..

4. snowgator posted on 23 Mar 2012, 05:56 6 0

And Nokia, still one of the largest phone manufacturers in the world, did not want to get lost in a sea of Android devices. They would have been playing in a sandbox with Samsung, HTC, and a dozen or so other Google run devices trying to play catch up. They wanted to be something different, and Microsoft needed a flagship in the worst way. This will work for them bith.

Besides, if it doesn't, and WP flops, Android will still be free and Nokia can take lessons learned and go after that market. I bet in a couple years Nokia branded WP will be so profitable for them we will wonder why we ever debated it.

14. remixfa posted on 23 Mar 2012, 14:10 0 0

i 100% agree with you gator. Nokia would have done well in the android space, no doubt. But if they can get WP7 off the ground (and I think we are about to see that happen), they wont just be another premium name in an army, they will be THE name. Nokia will be bringing the "iphone" and "SGS" power to WP7, and they will do it with a ton less competition which will garner them way more spotlight and praise.

Its a brilliant roll of the dice. Nokia gets full support from MS and preferential treatment, and Nokia gets their name in the spotlight.

If WP7 fails.. and it wont, nokia can always flip the switches over to android as a back up. So no matter what, nokia is in a good position.

17. Lucas777 posted on 23 Mar 2012, 19:25 1 0

i completely agree with you, except for the android part... there is no way nokia will be able to create an android phone if wp fails, and still recieve support... it will simply be too much

however, that is completely unnecessary to even think about as wp is going to become huge and nokia will be the frontrunner... if they keep this lumia at a 99 price point, it could become the huge hit they need... idk why but people get so caught up in initial price when that is actually only a small amount..

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20. remixfa posted on 24 Mar 2012, 17:12 0 0

I bet dollars to donuts that Nokia has a back room where they are tweaking android just in case. Its not like it runs on special hardware. They are pretty much using S2 crapdragon chips at this point for the bulk of WP7 phones. They just need to procure some higher end chips, slap on some more ram and a bigger camera, and blamo, you have a high end android device.

But yea, I agree that it probably wont come to that.

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5. tigermcm posted on 23 Mar 2012, 06:54 0 0

are you being serious about this comment or just playing around to see the responses? If you're serious I cannot for the life of me understand why fandroids feel every manufactorer should be making android.

13. -box- posted on 23 Mar 2012, 14:09 0 0

Marketing is there to make the general public aware of what's going on. How many people would know about the latest apple product if it wasn't advertised every other commercial? How many normal consumers would know about the Galaxy Note unless they'd gone to a store and seen it, or seen an acquantance or passerby with it?
Nokia is making a resurgence in the US, and it has to make folks aware they're back with a vengeance, while utilizing brand awareness and, honestly, nostalgia for when folks had a basic Nokia handset and it worked reliably and took damage like nothing else and never dropped a call and had better reception than anyone else's phone.

6. hunted posted on 23 Mar 2012, 09:28 2 1

dont worry hope we get added sd card slots with apollo phones

12. -box- posted on 23 Mar 2012, 14:04 1 0

You get 25GB of free storage via Microsoft's SkyDrive, and you don't have to worry if your device gets stolen or lost

8. kcombs posted on 23 Mar 2012, 11:35 0 1

I agree. Most of the employees get to choose the phone that use, unless their director tells them they have to carry a particular device, for marketing reasons.

19. torr310 posted on 24 Mar 2012, 12:09 1 0

it's not optimistic if you heard what Elop said about dual and quad cores are just waste of energy.

16. jellytime posted on 23 Mar 2012, 16:58 1 2

I don't think people buy Android phones because they are there.
If that was true then wp would have surpassed android months ago

23. parkwaydr posted on 25 Mar 2012, 20:21 0 0

Wishful thinking....

21. remixfa posted on 24 Mar 2012, 17:13 0 0

yea, they got a huge pile of cash from MS for being their premier provider and all the advertising money they needed.