Nokia quickly gaining traction among WP gamers: captures nearly 50% of second-gen device market

8. ReturningToNokia posted on 24 Jan 2012, 09:25 1 0

That's a good thing, yes...especially given that devices didn't even begin to launch until mid November in limited markets.

I think they will do well in the U.S. if the buzz surrounding the Lumia 900 is any indication.

12. shafboy posted on 24 Jan 2012, 16:25 0 0

I think Nokia will sell much more when the Lumia 900 comes out. My friend with an iPhone was dissapointed that it wasn't coming to the UK but now we know it is, he is definitely moving to that.

7. ReturningToNokia posted on 24 Jan 2012, 09:23 1 0

I meant to Thumbs up your comment! While I would love for WP to have a sole company, Nokia, to make all of their devices, Microsoft will want the others for 'something' even though Nokia is capable of addressing all form factors and has the market penetration that WP needs.

Nokia stepped on the scene and knocked it out of the park - this cannot be denied! HTC and Samsung are 'sleeping' on WP - they need to step up their game, or GTFO.

10. snowgator posted on 24 Jan 2012, 12:04 1 0

Couldn't disagree more, for it misses the whole point of what WP is trying to build: stability first, optimization second. I am not meaning to slam on Google when I say this: But Android went the other way. They created an OS, allowed manufacturers to do with it as they pleased, a d have spent the last 3 years trying to get fragmentation and poor sluggish performance out of their handsets. Gingerbread and ICS are much better of course, and props to them. But Microsoft wanted a unified, seamless performance first, and will allow HTC, Samsung, LG, ZTE, Fujitsu, and other manufacturers that pick up WP the ability to customize over time based on real life results. Nokia gets the preferred treatment, as they should, due to their dedicated WP only handset. But, these other WP developers will get all kinds of chances to make their handsets stand out. Hopefully, this will be seen more with Apollo.

11. belovedson posted on 24 Jan 2012, 15:58 0 0

i believe the other manufacturers will focus more on windows whatever when there's a huge demand for them. this may be the time will see some heavy players coming from htc samsung, and lg

5. remixfa posted on 24 Jan 2012, 08:56 3 0

other than form factor, nokia includes nokia maps and nokia only apps that other manufacturers dont have. thankfully they are all getting nokia maps, but i garuntee thats one of the biggest selling points.. personally. lol. when people ask me why go nokia over HTC for a windows phone, thats exactly what I tell them and so far its 100% going to the nokia for the extra features.

6. JesterB posted on 24 Jan 2012, 09:16 2 0

@Jericho

And the Samsung Galaxy s is the samsung focus s, and the htc titan is the htc sensation. All the companies take phones and put different software on it for both windows and droids. The point is is that Nokia will from now on make high quality Windows Phone devices.