If WP8 gets big, do you think Samsung comes in and bulldoze Nokia out the way?

[Dadstar0410]

We will see when GDR3 released. If they released their high end phones and mass produce every range of screen sizes to every carrier like they are currently doing with Android, Samsung will have a good chance. Nokia doesn't bring their high end phones to all carriers at the same time. They don't have the cash to do advertising like Samsung. They have to give exclusive to certain carrier in hope they can do advertising for them.

I actually think that HTC is waiting on GDR3 more than Samsung is. Think about it: where has HTC been as of late? Now with GDR3 approaching, they start working on an HTC One variant for WP8. HTC has been with this platform a while and has shown immense interest in expanding it over the past years (not necessarily WP8, but other versions).

However, they haven't been able to do so because they thrive in the high-end market, reminiscent of its Android devices. With Nokia dominating the low end, no one has really broken through the high-end barrier in WP8 yet (even Nokia hasn't stabilized itself there, because of the variety from HTC 8X, ATIV, and Lumia 9XX and 1020).

GDR3 will allow for quad-core processors and larger screen sizes in phones. Along with HTC's stunning hardware and a range of color options, this update just smells HTC.

Adding these three things together, I feel like HTC will make a comeback as soon as Windows Phone 8 becomes more popular. Samsung doesn't need WP; they have Android handing them all their money. I believe that this comeback will start for HTC as soon as GDR3 and the One variant becomes widely available.

 

[Robert Stevens]

I like Samsungs computer monitors but not their phones. Nokia has a wayyyy better quality build.

 

[stalemate1]

People seem to live with Galaxies short comings (cheap feeling plastic etc). They will make a nice light phone with 1080p, and if WP8 is big they will ADVERTISE Nokia out of the way.

They just have too much money lol.

Not with the agreements between Nokia and Microsoft, and with the buyout by Microsoft, Nokia has become the OFFICIAL Windows phone, in a few years I believe that Nokia will be as OFFICIAL/EXCLUSIVE/VALUABLE to Microsoft as iPhone is to Apple.

As a result of this, Nokia will get more updates, quicker, and far greater comparability (runs smoother, faster, more efficient with better comparability with apps) with the Windows os. In my opinion anyway.

 

[crash1989]

Samsung is the top Android dog right now agreed.

I heard this in some podcast and got me thinking
"You know who could be Samsung of Windows Phones -- Samsung. The day they decide to get serious into Windows Phone thye will push and push like crazy until the inevitable."

 

[thatotherdude24]

If WP gets big of course Samsung will jump in, they'd be dumb not to. As soon as Samsung would jump in they would start selling more than Nokia would. Samsung is increasing in marketshare so obviously the general public doesn't think the hardware is that bad. If you ask the general public which brand would they rather have I bet they say Samsung, not because of any particular reason but because nowadays the Samsung name is much bigger than Nokia. We all understand what Nokia can bring to the table but the general public by far outnumbers us.

 

[Dadstar0410]

In retrospect (did I use this right?), I feel that other OEMs will and should join the hunt if wp8 gets huge. Companies like HP, Sony, Asus, even Lenovo, because those companies have fantastic w8 pcs, and can benefit a lot by having their devices integrated.

 

[BIGPADDY]

I hope they will all come and join so that SONY will have to make a device for WP!

Not much to choice from if you take Nokia out of it.