Nokia CEO Stephen Elop interview at CES 2012

i trust with Nokia products

its a freaking nokia n9, bigger screen but uglier.

nokia instead of wasting ur time and money marketing something people don’t want , start selling n9 state side and plan a successor.

Why NOTHING good for T-Mobile?

Come-on Mr. Elop Lumia 900 only for US won’t save your ship.

The Lumia 900 is a beautiful device. .. I personally prefer the Lumia 800 though. 4.3 inch is just to big for my taste :)  but they like it big in America *lol*

Was not a big fan of the move to go with windows Phone, but after I have tried it on a Nokia, I must say I am convinced. Still love my Symbian and can’t wait for Symbian Belle and the maybe some nice MS Office on it as well as mentioned in the past, but I will get a Lumia 800 very soon too.  

Hoping there is a big PR attack in store for the U.S. market … “Deadmau5 in London”-style x 10 :)    …and something tells me Nokia has something up their sleeves.

I will replace my fabulous Nokia E71 shortly ;  if Elop continues to handicap Meego & the N9 I will forget about ever buying a Nokia again.   Elop should stop destroying the soul and history of Nokia  .    The meego N9 would be the hottest global phone right now if Elop were not trying to keep it off the market to benefit his Microsoft masters !    Nokia must promote the N9 and ensure top apps like Skype and WhatsApp are made available for it.

what the “ecosystem war” he is blabbering all the time?

Get CES 2012 update

ttp://mobilematinee.blogspot.com/2012/01/ces-2012-at-glance.html

 enaugh lumia bla-bla, Nokia N9 just overtook lumia 800 on gsmarena (lumia 800 had its short momentum on launch when exceeded N9, but did not keep up)

Ashamedly, i’m just seeing this today – partly because I was at CES.

I am a bg fan of both MeeGo and Windows Phone and in some perfect universe, the two would marry and bring the best of both in terms of UI, functionality and developer support.

This is very much a marketing piece from Elop and while I accept that nokia conversations is the mouthpiece of Nokia to the world and Nokia is trying to sell phones, it feels almost fake.  Elop got across a good message about the Lumia devices and more in his interview with Miriam Joire sounding more genuine and (although still very careful in his words and message), and that may be in part because she asked questions. The “interview” here feels scripted and hopefully sometime nokia conversations can have a real 1 on 1 interview with Stephen Elop, with some slightly more challenging questions, perhaps some sent in by readers. His answer to the last question grates particularly as it’s a politicians answer – twisted and maneuvered to end up at the talking point than genuinely answer a potentially interesting question.

I will say this – the Nokia booth at CES was buzzing and it was a huge success for them.  I think it would have been a harder sell with MeeGo to get T-Mobile and AT&t on board with a 4th/5th ecosystem (although we don’t talk about it, they do still sell balackberry).  But undoubtedly, the buzz for MeeGo last year was at least as huge and I hope that through Nokia’s work with Microsoft, Nokia and Microsoft (esp) will not forget the qualities of Harmattan and Swipe UI and even bring them to Windows Phone (and not just to future S40/Meltemi/smarterphone/low end devices). 

Windows Phone is to be Nokia’s Primary smartphone platform and it’s clear that that is how nokia is treating it, and it has a great future. But right now it is far from clear it is their simplest to use, most functional / feature rich or even their prettiest.  And for developers it is good, but it is also their most locked down with some serious API oddities. 

So it’s great Nokia is back in North America, it’s great to get AT&T and T-Mobile and Telus on board.  It’s great to get new customers for Nokia. But for long time customers, it’s a shame to loose blootooth file transfer, tv out, fm transmitters, pentaband radios and a host of other nokia standards.  It’s a shame to have an 8MP camera which probably isn’t the best 8MP camera on a phone – even on a nokia phone let alone among the competition (in part as it’s optimized for Bing Vision, not photos).  It’s a shame to have the flagship to be the first device in a year released by Nokia without NFC support, or with an amoled but get no notifications when locked.  It’s a shame to go back to 3 buttons when we know that 1 or even 0 will do just fine. 

Like many below, I do believe that Harmattan could have been a success, if nokia had been able to push out devices and suport them with a good marketing budget, even in the US (though it would have to have been a european success first I suspect).  But the path has been chosen and I wish Nokia and WIndows Phone success along it.  Windows Phone is good and we need more than iPhones and androids in this world.  My hope is that come this time next year, and with the release of Windows Phone Appollo, Microsoft and Nokia have a platform, and variety of devices that is fitting of a technology leader like Nokia, and which Symbian and MeeGo users can be proud of and switch to without missing functionality.

And that when elop announces these devices, it will come across as genuine excitement and exuberance rather than the carefully worded soundbites of a marketing man.

So dear Nokia and the “super” CEO you have. What do I have to do once the N9 gets old? WIll there still be a Nokia smartphone I can buy?

I don’t want Windows Phone – f.e to restricted and controlled by Microsoft, IMO an unhandy UI, missing of an real notification area (those tiles don’t give me the fast overview i’d need) and those security issues which come up with every WP version. I also need bluetooth transfer quiet a lot and especially mass storage.

 I also don’t want to go back to iOS; also very restricted and controlled if not jailbroken, to much based on applications (you need for everything an app, barely anything is nicely implemented into the system), lot’s of functions I’d miss but also a lot I would never need and for what you get way to expensive.

Then we have Android, my favorite after Nokia (Meego, Symbian). But the more I get interested in Android phones the more I hear about problems. Like that the phone gets hot while using skype and battery drops fast (while on my N9 that works like a charm), same for other applications. And other lil problems which would scare me right now to buy an Android phone – that systems seems to be a mess in some parts and not to work properly with some important functions.

With Maemo Harmattan and N9 Nokia finally brought a phone to the market which works well the way you buy it. It is so amazing that I can’t imagine any other phone right now. It has everything, all the functions, all the freedom (mass storage etc…), NFC, great UI, beautiful design, alarm which goes of when phone turned off, notifications even on standby (!!), and could write a very long list…

Even though the app market is small, there are already many good quality apps I had never found for f.e my previous iPhone. The user interface of N9 is truly amazing – never before I enjoyed a phone some much. Using the N9 is finally a joy and it works like a charm. And something about what I write about it has to be true, because everyone who has the N9 or could test it is absolutely amazed by the phone.

The N9 would have been a huge success, but the problem is it’s enemy: Nokia – which destroyed it’s full success through disastrous management decisions and marketing (non-)efforts which were barely seen in such a bad way in history of the smartphone market.

So again my question: What do I have to do after the N9? And the 2nd one: What the heck is going on with y’all and those decisions you make?? I really don’t understand…