JustToClarify
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I had no idea that Samsung only payed $10 in royalty fees. What about the other vendors who are struggling? Is it the same for them also? I'm asking because I really don't know and didn't find it in my quick 2min google search, lol.
By 2011 Samsung already laid the foundation for what galaxy is today. The galaxy sII was a pretty big deal, the biggest issues with it were the naming schemes for different providers (ie galaxy rocket). Nokia would've had to start from scratch just like they did with windows phone, except the software would look (visually) just like every other android phone out there, at least that's what Nokia argues. Let's not forget that the year of android was 2012 thanks to Samsung.
It's $10 or so, +/- a few dollars.
The interface doesn't have to look like other Android phones, Nokia could make something similat to Sense but allow for it to be disabled.
The point is that 95% of Symbian users switched to Android when Nokia announced stopping support for it, and 95% of those would stay at Nokia if they went Android, this way they have lost huge customer base they will never recover IMHO. Imagine Ferrari was in trouble and they had to choose between continuing making supercars(with different characteristics but still supercars) or going pickup route. Not hard to conclude that noone would buy their pickups for such prices.
I think Samsung is just about the only one that makes any real money on Android (in addition to Google). That said, if Nokia had gone down the Android-road, I do think Nokia would've done pretty well just like it does in the WP-field. Naturally Nokia wouldn't have overthrown Samsung, but I feel Nokia could've been the only real competitor to Nokia in Android phones. That said, I'm happy Nokia didn't go that road.
Naturally it's not all victory regardless, but that's not due to WP. I come from the city where Nokia's mobile phone business started: Salo, Finland. The local factory has been discontinued and some 2000 jobs lost from my city (in a city of 25000 thats pretty much), including my job
wait wait, you think that Nokia could have been only competitor to Samsung(fairly good estimation) yet you are happy Nokia didn't go that road?! Are you mad on them because they fired you so you wish them all the worst or..?
Actually, except 620 all of them have Super Sensitive touch ^_^ and as for the OIS, we don't want people to keep complaining about the phone's weight all the time, do we? Even the 620 with it's 5MP takes gorgeous pictures.
Hmm for some reason I thought that 820 doesn't have super sensitive screen like 920 and future lesser phones like 720&620 wouldn't have it too. But I'm not following lumia line closely so yes I was wrong there. Pictures that 620 makes are nothing special really, they are fairly good and that is all, still nothing close to Nokia N8 which has better camera(than any lumia anyway) + xenon and better build quality for lower price. It's not WP8 though so no comparo.