Nokia's new Lumia - With a nice little poll!

[tahoeroscoe]

It looks great, i would love to play with one.

 

[DryEyez]

Does anyone from US know if it's actually being released over there. I heard that the Lumia at least will only be for the european market, not sure if that's true or not though..

 

[mkrishnan]

Google?

It's a really physically pretty phone -- the iPod nano -esque anodized metal casing is gorgeous. I'm not very interested in WP7, but I would be glad if it spurred ongoing iOS innovation.

 

[DryEyez]

Just noticed that the Nokia Lumia 800 is now available from my carrier in the UK for £37 p/m, fully unlimited data, 5000 texts, 2000 mins, 5000 mins to other 3 customers.


http://threestore.three.co.uk/priceplans.aspx?phonecode=NOKL80B3DS

 

[chris2k5]

They're focusing on European markets first, the US is not a major focus for them yet.

That is why Nokia is failing miserably in terms of market share and as a business as a whole on the smartphone front.

No, simply because it runs on WP7 and not iOS. I have too many apps and accessories (found in other threads here if you're curious) that it would cost too much money to switch platforms right now.

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Tell that to Apple when they partnered up with AT&T and they didn't just fine prior to this Verizon and Sprint mumbo jumbo (though I am glad they added them, they don't NEED any CDMA penetration, they just need to get either AT&T or T-Mobile on board with it). They need to actually sell it through ANY CARRIER at all in the US and it will actually gain traction. But the unlocked model won't work here in the US (see: Nexus One)...there needs to be a subsidized version.

Remember NEED vs. WANT. Apple didn't NEED to add it on VZW and Sprint, but they WANTED to.

Apple isn't Nokia. Apple can sell a bible and atheists would buy it. Microsoft and Nokia given the state of their share in the market need to push into more markets. Focusing just on Europe and GSM is a failing proposition.

Microsoft has only 1 phone on the Verizon network (HTC Trophy) and Nokia doesn't even have a smartphone. Why not fix this?

 

[Stella]

The Nokia smartphones I had were extremely well built and very robust, nothing plastistically at all about them. I still miss my Symbian based phones, especially the free Navigation - Maps - which was a great GPS turn by turn application. Never failed me.

Sure, having more applications on the iPhone is great.. more choice, but there are plenty of applications available for Symbian that will never see the light of day on the iPhones ( walled garden ) unless you jail break , but there's no untethered jail break for iPhone 4S yet.

That is why Nokia is failing miserably in terms of market share and as a business as a whole on the smartphone front.

Nokia doesn 't need to be successful in the states to be successful, they've already shown that. There's the rest of the world. In terms of market share, the US has always been of fairly small importance. Until the last 3 or 4 years north America was literally a third world country when comparing its cell phone infrastructure / phone avaibility vs other regions of the world.

 

[dontwalkhand]

It's a really physically pretty phone -- the iPod nano -esque anodized metal casing is gorgeous. I'm not very interested in WP7, but I would be glad if it spurred ongoing iOS innovation.

It's not metal, it's plastic.

They say "polycarbonate" to be fancy, but my toilet seat is also "polycarbonate".

They do claim that the paint is molded as part of the plastic though which makes it so scratches are not as noticeable.

 

[mkrishnan]

It's not metal, it's plastic.

They say "polycarbonate" to be fancy, but my toilet seat is also "polycarbonate".

Ahh, sorry. Then it's probably not going to look as nice in person as it photographs....

 

[xdbuix]

Does anyone from US know if it's actually being released over there. I heard that the Lumia at least will only be for the european market, not sure if that's true or not though..

I read that the other lumia phone, the lumia 710, is heading onto Tmobile, but yeah the general consensus for the 800 in the US is TBA.

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Ahh, sorry. Then it's probably not going to look as nice in person as it photographs....

Nah polycarbonate can look really good too. The black macbooks from a couple years ago were polycarbonate.

 

[alphaod]

Will definitely buy.

 

[itsmemuffins]

Another phone with a pentile matrix display…no thanks.

 

[archaic]

I bought Nokia Luma 800 and I am now sure that Microsoft sucks!