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Will it Blend? - Nokia Technology

Yes! Nokia Phones Blend!

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Ooops.. So do iPhones
 
Let's look at Nokia's recent ventures:

Comes With Music - FAIL

Actually its been a huge hit. Its said there is more demand then Nokia can deliver. Anyways, I'm not surprised. After all if you get unlimited free music downloads for 1 or 2 years and you can keep the music after that... kind of sounds like a hell of good deal. My iPhone wants unlimited free music too...
 
Actually its been a huge hit. Its said there is more demand then Nokia can deliver. Anyways, I'm not surprised. After all if you get unlimited free music downloads for 1 or 2 years and you can keep the music after that... kind of sounds like a hell of good deal. My iPhone wants unlimited free music too...

Theres a website for that.
 
"45. Apple has rejected Nokia's offer for the F/RAND terms and conditions both on portfolio and on a per patent basis (...)"

Not to labour a point but that still doesn't state what the terms are or that 'everybody else' as the OP was asserting was paying them.

Apple's argument is that the F/RAND terms are not F/RAND but we, in this forum, have no idea if that is true or not.
 
You don't seem to understand that Apple sells a US$600 phone, and while they continue to sell a US$600 phones the majority of phones sold will continue to have labels other than Apples on them

What are you talking about? The phone was $499, then $299, then $199, soon to be $99.... This is a fact. Don't you have the foresight to see that the industry is changing? Look at the published marketshare in the last 2.5 years with respect to companies and phones sold. Your data is pulled our of the air. Obviously you have no clue.
 
Thats why the number one DVD format is patent free and royalty free?

http://www.vorbis.com/

Communication standards should be open, just like internet standards.

What on earth are you smoking? Ogg Vorbis is an OSS competitor to MP3

DVDs are encoded in MPEG2, a format protected by well over 600 patents owned by around 20 companies all in. Theres a single licensing authority that administers all that so the appropriate patent owners get their share.

Its a very VERY long way from patent and royalty free
 
What are you talking about? The phone was $499, then $299, then $199, soon to be $99.... This is a fact. Don't you have the foresight to see that the industry is changing? Look at the published marketshare in the last 2.5 years with respect to companies and phones sold. Your data is pulled our of the air. Obviously you have no clue.

Poor logic, the first iPhone was sold with no subsidy so it was 499/599. To get the 3GS with no subsidy is still the same price (if not a little bit more expensive). If you take the subsidy you have to start a 2 year (in the states) contract with AT&T.

Remember all the crying about people not being able to get the 3GS for the cheaper price when they had all ran out and gotten the 3G. Claiming that the 2G folks didn't have to pay full price? Remember how those same 2G folks payed 2 to 3 hundred more dollars for their phones than the 3G folks?

How long before the iPhone becomes the RAZR (a dime a dozen) and AT&T tells users to stuff it? It isn't like you can get the iPhone anywhere else...
 
What are you talking about? The phone was $499, then $299, then $199, soon to be $99.... This is a fact. Don't you have the foresight to see that the industry is changing? Look at the published marketshare in the last 2.5 years with respect to companies and phones sold. Your data is pulled our of the air. Obviously you have no clue.

Unsubsidised prices across Europe since you can't buy one in the USA...

Vodafone Italy - €619/719 for 3GS (locked to Vodafone)
O2 UK - £440/540 for 3GS (locked to O2)
Play.com UK - £699/799 for 3GS (unlocked)

$600 to the carrier seems a reasonable guess, maybe a bit on the low side even.
 
Go Nokia :) I will always buy nokia as they are built in the EU

So you are buying an inferior product because you think you are supporting a Union that cares about you?

I hate the fact that you are purchasing Nokia phones in support for the European Union - the EU is the worse Union in the world.

What good does it do?

England pays 75% of our taxes to Brussels - do we get 75% back? No.

Our country get's ripped off left right and center for Gas & Electrical bills from France - some Union.

They disagree with any battle plans and refuse to help.

Apart from the fact that England has gone to the dogs anyway, I abhor the EU just as much.
 
^I know the cost of living here in the Netherlands has gone up since switching to the Euro...but that is a different thread for a different forum, I guess.
 
I've only made it thru post 121... but while cutting myself a brownie for breakfast i thought, HEY, if they ban GSM imports, does that mean that iPhone OS4 will be..... Verizon CDMA only???

Cool Beans!!! Thanks Nokia!!! :D

back to reading/skimming :cool:
 
Even better.

Pay Nokia what they are due and forget about this whole affair. :rolleyes:

Seems as though the Pot and Kettle haven't met quite yet in Apple's world.

You know the whole Apple sues Pystar and everyone here celebrates but Nokia sues Apple for a similar issue (IP) and everyone boos.
 
Nokia must protect their patents, as Apple must do, or lose them. So, its not surprising each are suing each other and upping the stakes.

That’s trademark law. :rolleyes: This is patent law. Nokia could sit on their patents for years and not use them. The only real risk with patent law is if the patent is overturned (prior art, etc).

This is nothing but the cost of doing business. Apple warned about lawsuits like this when they introduced iPhone. There’s more at stake for Nokia here than Apple. Apple has some 23 billion in the bank, and Nokia is essentially guaranteeing that Apple will never work with them ever again.

But when your stock price is the lowest it’s been in five years (down to $12 from around $55), your revenue is down 20 percent and you have little chance of developing the next big thing in the booming smartphone market -- what are you going to do?
 
Try 10 Million during this quarter alone.

Rumor. It's unknown as yet. Most analysts estimate 8-9 million this quarter.

The number happens to exceed 50 Million to date.

Each model should be broken out separately. If we assume 9 million above for the last calendar quarter of 2009, then we'd get something like this:

1G = 6 million
3G = 15 million
3GS = 21 million
 
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