Why is Nokia not selling Android phones?

[Sushubh]

At least they are doing it all on their own. Fighting it out. Instead of wasting resources on this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z19vR1GldRI&feature=player_embedded

 

[Technoholic]

That's an advertisement from MS and not Nokia! And I do not see why its a waste!

 

[Sushubh]

It is an advertisement for Nokia Lumia devices being promoted by Microsoft most likely through their partnership with Nokia. And it is waste because the targeted audience is the one who has already decided the platform they prefer. Regular people would not even make sense of the whole thing considering it was marketed as a showcase of how comments on Engadget end up looking like. I would love to meet people who decide to skip Samsung or Apple devices and go for Nokia Lumia devices based on what they saw in this ad.

 

[Technoholic]

It is an advertisement for Nokia Lumia devices being promoted by Microsoft most likely through their partnership with Nokia. And it is waste because the targeted audience is the one who has already decided the platform they prefer. Regular people would not even make sense of the whole thing considering it was marketed as a showcase of how comments on Engadget end up looking like. I would love to meet people who decide to skip Samsung or Apple devices and go for Nokia Lumia devices based on what they saw in this ad.

That was confusing for me yet the ad was simple.
From what I know, one research says 52% of windows phone users are first time smartphone users and rest 48% have jumped from other platforms which includes Apple and Google (I have seen many such people on wpcentral forum and do not find anything odd in it) or Symbian/blackberry/meego etc (in that case, they skipped Apple and Google). In either case. its a good for MS mobile platform. Again, as I said, there is nothing odd in that ad for me as I see no point why some portion of people would not want to switch to MS from apple and Google.

 

[Sushubh]

So, what exactly is working for Nokia? Their advertising campaigns in India? Or their actual phones which are finally nicely priced?
The ad looks like from the same marketing genius who is behind the Bing It One campaign.

 

[Technoholic]

Or their actual phones which are finally nicely priced?

Maybe that but it's of course working. I mean they have 80% of market share of an very rapidly evolving ecosystem. There is nothing to panic about even if that's currently just 3-4% of total smartphone market.

 

[moindear]

WP8 does not have much to appeal to the high end smartphones.
If you take out Camera, who would want to buy a Lumia 920?
Wp8 should target the mid and lower smartphone segment which consists of new smartphone/budget phone users

 

[Technoholic]

I was one among many others doubting MS's ambitions about mobile strategy and intentions with windows phone until I met a friend working in top IT company in Pune for Microsoft Research and R&D divisions (indian operations are outsourced and thousands of engineers from Pune itself are working for MS on mobile platforms). When he shared few insights, I was pretty impressed. The thing is Microsoft has always been very silent about their future products and marketing for existing products isn't good either.

 

[Sushubh]

No one is doubting the capabilities of Microsoft Research division. They came up with Kinect and they are also working on loads of innovative technologies. The problem is that unless they can bring these technologies to the market in time, it does not really help them at all. Kinect has been a rare Microsoft achievement in the recent years. Other than that, there has been little innovation from the company. They are too slow to evolve on the mobile front. Nokia and other companies have to wait for Microsoft to support higher resolutions to launch devices with better displays. PC makers are now waiting for Microsoft to add support for ‘lower’ resolutions on Windows RT so that they can launch 7 inch Tablets powered by it. Their current attacks on Android have been quite hilarious. They are comparing Lumia 920 with Galaxy S III which is almost a year old model. And of course, their challenges are optimized for features which their phones have out of the box and so on. If the company had any sense, they would stop with the childish attacks on Android and focus on their own camp.
Now compare that to Google X. Bill Gates has been talking about wearable computers and mobile wallets for decades now. Who came out with actual functional technologies that works in the real world? Google. Driverless cars? Google. They do not blabber about their ongoing research unless it is ready for real world testing. Microsoft Research on the other hand has a dedicated website showcasing technologies they are working on but we are unlikely to see for years because Microsoft just does not have the guts to experiment outside their comfort zone.
God only knows what else is being developed under the leadership of Eric Schmidt Sergey Brin.

 

[Technoholic]

WP8 does not have much to appeal to the high end smartphones.
If you take out Camera, who would want to buy a Lumia 920?
Wp8 should target the mid and lower smartphone segment which consists of new smartphone/budget phone users

Why not? Apps? They will come and coming with users.
Closed source? Look at iOS, windows for PCs.
Security and privacy? I totally rule out android in that case and would take windows phone and iOS any day over it. App sandboxing is joke in android. I trust Google and MS but won't trust third party developers and firms especially from developing countries. You will never see enterprise going good with Android and for them WP could be capable alternative in future. Already, there are few firms who made a switch.
Architecture wise too, Android has serious flaws and I wouldn't count on it in long run. It's going to be same story as was Symbian and Google won't care about it. Google is core service company and they are happily ready to invest in what is making rounds. Android is already a financially growth negative for Google.