LMZR
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Sales have seemed to have just exploded over in the US, good thing for Nokia.
It will be interesting to see the what next quarterly results will be.
It will be interesting to see the what next quarterly results will be.
Impossible if the buyout occurs. The purchase is set to happen Q1/2014 and the Nokia name will be gone forever unless Nokia decides to start making devices again in 2016.
MS really needs to keep the momentum going which I think they can do. Nokia did make the hardware but the most important part of that relationship was marketing the Lumia name which has become synonymous with Windows Phone. Since MS can't use the Nokia name, they need to keep the Lumia brand alive because changing it to anything else would be disastrous for them at this stage.
The problem is, will people still buy the Lumia brand of devices without the Nokia badge??
Ah yes.... just enough nay sayers to be ticked the Golden Goose layed her first Gold Egg, but it was too small, waited too long, and just wasn't shiny enough. :smile:
No, this is not reason for those of us who enjoy WP to throw a party, but I will anyways because I like parties.
How things develop after Nokia is part of MS is silly to debate until after it actually happens and we see what the priorities of the new MS CEO are. Until then I do not care if it is the 520/521 sales, the 92X, 82X, or the 1020, I am glad the .00001% sales of Nokia in the US have grown to over 4% based entirely on WP devices. That makes me happy.
Party at Mutts place... I prefer pretzels over cheese balls if you were to bring snacks.
4th LARGEST :grin:
Kind of a contradiction in terms I would say...
4th LARGEST :grin:
Kind of a contradiction in terms I would say...
My guess is that HTC saw how long it would take for MSFT to put out the OS supporting their key hardware features - 1080p screen + quad core - and punted, hoping the One would sell enough to buy them time in the WP game.
As an owner of the 8X, I'm disappointed not at the phone itself, but for HTC not being in a position to have really swung for the fences. From a design point of view, only the 925 can stand up to the 8X in the high end and nothing beats the 8S in the low end market.
I wished they had put wireless charging in the 8X, went to 32GB internal, and has gone to 8GB internal for the 8S. Wish they leveraged the audio department with an equalizer for Beats and a few music apps and accessories. But we will see what they do next cycle. We still need HTC and Samsung, because if MSFT does complete the Nokia purchase, I don't want them to be the only partner making wp8 devices...
Are you sure about that? Nokia might be quite popular as a brand outside of the US but in the US they really don't have that same brand recognition. I would wager that MS is probably a bigger name than Nokia in the US so I don't see any kind of drop off on this continent.