This is the most recent story from last week.
You may be surprised to know that Samsung is attacking Nokia and Apple on Nokia's home front: Finland.
A friend went to at-least three different stores looking for a new phone(open to Lumia 920, iPhone5/4s and Galaxy. Prior GS2 owner): 2 carrier stores and 1 third-party retailer.
All of them tried to sell him/her ONLY GS4. Said iphone is not sexy.(damn, it's way sexier than GS4 IMO), Lumia is good from outside only. Doesn't have home screens like
Galaxy. Can scroll in vertical direction only. Doesn't have good apps. iphone5 is boring, nothing new from 4s,etc bull****. (As if GS4 has lot of new things than GS3?)
GS4 has big screen, can use phone without touching the screen, 13 MP camera, higher than Lumia and iphone,etc.
Not a single person mentioned about Lumia's edge in navigation, camera, smoothness of OS,etc.
He/She is not techy and doesn't read online blogs/reviews. Was easily swayed by these stores. Now is not considering Lumia.
Started considering iphone 4s instead of 5 and GS4, with most likely leaning towards GS4. I tried to explain that for someone like you who is
upgrading from GS2, iPhone 5 and Lumia 920 are a better upgrade than GS4 both in terms of usability and price. If really want to go Galaxy, should go to GS3 instead of GS4(since my friend is price conscious).
This is my best friend and still not convinced by my reasons that GS4 speech that those stores gave was bull****.
This is a perfect example(and not a solitary example: since my friend's sister and other friends also got GS4) that how much difficult it is there to sell non-Samsung phones, even in Finland where most of Lumias are selling only because of word-of-mouth or because of Nokia loyalty.
Unlocked GS4 costs more than 750 euros. Wheres Lumia costs 500 while iphone 5 700.
Hope Nokia/MS seriously realize the task ahead.(which sometimes it feels that they don't realize it enough).
You may be surprised to know that Samsung is attacking Nokia and Apple on Nokia's home front: Finland.
A friend went to at-least three different stores looking for a new phone(open to Lumia 920, iPhone5/4s and Galaxy. Prior GS2 owner): 2 carrier stores and 1 third-party retailer.
All of them tried to sell him/her ONLY GS4. Said iphone is not sexy.(damn, it's way sexier than GS4 IMO), Lumia is good from outside only. Doesn't have home screens like
Galaxy. Can scroll in vertical direction only. Doesn't have good apps. iphone5 is boring, nothing new from 4s,etc bull****. (As if GS4 has lot of new things than GS3?)
GS4 has big screen, can use phone without touching the screen, 13 MP camera, higher than Lumia and iphone,etc.
Not a single person mentioned about Lumia's edge in navigation, camera, smoothness of OS,etc.
He/She is not techy and doesn't read online blogs/reviews. Was easily swayed by these stores. Now is not considering Lumia.
Started considering iphone 4s instead of 5 and GS4, with most likely leaning towards GS4. I tried to explain that for someone like you who is
upgrading from GS2, iPhone 5 and Lumia 920 are a better upgrade than GS4 both in terms of usability and price. If really want to go Galaxy, should go to GS3 instead of GS4(since my friend is price conscious).
This is my best friend and still not convinced by my reasons that GS4 speech that those stores gave was bull****.
This is a perfect example(and not a solitary example: since my friend's sister and other friends also got GS4) that how much difficult it is there to sell non-Samsung phones, even in Finland where most of Lumias are selling only because of word-of-mouth or because of Nokia loyalty.
Unlocked GS4 costs more than 750 euros. Wheres Lumia costs 500 while iphone 5 700.
Hope Nokia/MS seriously realize the task ahead.(which sometimes it feels that they don't realize it enough).