October 25 just might go down in history as the day that Nokia took the power back from Apple, Google, and all Android device makers in the worldwide smartphone arena. This year's Nokia World expo in London saw the introduction of not one, but two Windows Phone Mango powered smartphones from Nokia. These are the Nokia Lumia 710 and the Nokia Lumia 800. Meanwhile, Nokia also took the time to launch a total of four new Series 40-powered feature phones, an entire range of new handsets, and these are the Nokia Asha 200, Nokia Asha 201, Nokia Asha 300, and Nokia Asha 303. Also announced were two new headphones from Monster as part of a new Purity HD Stereo headphone line.
So now that the proverbial cat is out of the bag, what's next for Nokia? Since virtually none of the products that were just announced are going to make it market until next month at least, you and I are going to have to wait for a bit to see what happens next. I've seen Windows Phone Mango in action, and I know it's a platform that holds a lot of promise. I think Series 40 has evolved in the right direction, so it deserves to be kept alive in more Nokia feature phones in the future. As far as tech specs go, the new Nokia devices announced today could have been better. But slightly tweaking the N9 to have a smaller screen, better processor, and switching to Windows Phone Mango instead of MeeGo... this might actually be the right move after all.
Anyway, it's really too early to say for sure whether or not Nokia will succeed with its new strategy. I side with what Neil Mawston (an analyst at Strategy Analytics in Milton Keynes, England) said in a recent interview with the New York Times: “One thing I have learned in this business is to never say never.” (Funny guy, he just said 'never' twice.)
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