rodeo0070:
You mean the Cortana app?

Yes sir! Or is she not predicting club side matches?

The big fails of the smartphone revolution are Nokia and blackberry. Thier failure is in my opinion is thier lack of flexibility and failure to understand that times were changing and pretty fast too
Blackberry had been a smartphone long before others but apple came and redefined the industry by taking smart to another level with the touchscreen while blackberry stock with its outdated qwerty pad
Nokias downfall emanated from its failure to create a functional os

SimonAndal:
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Dude Google bought Motorola for the patents, not for any propulsion whatsoever. They sold the hardware arm to Lenovo and kept the patents.

You have no idea of What you are talking about..

Sunymoore:
Nah! Google acquired moto for patent. They sold the company to Leno but retained must of the patents.
Ever wonder why Google hates SD card?

you are navigating outside the discourse bro, leave SD for now.

Patent and war are two different words.

Now i understand you are trying to explain "patent rights" not "patent war" dont get bemused using them.
Patent right exist btw google and lenovo what existed between samsung and apple was patent war.

There was no future for them there, so this development shouldn't serve as a shocker to y'all.

It's one thing coming into the market, it's one thing displacing the guys who are running the market.

You dont thrust into the tech world with hardwares that come in yellow, green, red colors - Dang, those are lame initiatives meant for ladies and gays alone

olukenzo: Nokia shot themselves in the foot. At that time they were going to bed with MS, another division would have done android, even AOSP. It would have been Nokia's hardware might + Google's innovative OS. The company would still have been thriving today.

One other thing I think is hindering some of their products out there now is the hardware design. Which serious minded person buys a red, yellow, green phone? And a square-ish one at that. Even Tecno knows better than making toyish looking phones.

Lol...like dettol soap

About time!

RAZR...Good Riddance....I Bought A HTC PPhone...Window That Phone Was So Useless That I Returned It AfterFew Days For Motorola Droid RAZR

Then I Have Been Enjoying Sweet Android. Forget Windows Forget Blackberry

Kreamie: I think the word 'DUMP' shouldn't be used in this kind of scenario seeing as Nokia didnt come out outrightly to use the word

dats d right word .. they were 'DUMPED'!

Kreamie: I think the word 'DUMP' shouldn't be used in this kind of scenario seeing as Nokia didnt come out outrightly to use the word

dats d right word .. they were 'DUMPED'!

AirborneLacer: There was no future for them there, so this development shouldn't serve as a shocker to y'all.

It's one thing coming into the market, it's one thing displacing the guys who are running the market.

You dont thrust into the tech world with hardwares that come in yellow, green, red colors - Dang, those are lame initiatives meant for ladies and gays alone

So On Point....Who Wants To But A Multi Colored Plastic Phone.Even Techno Is Plastic.My Phones Comes In Smoked Amoled Metal Case And Must Have Gorilla Corning Glass Screen With Crisp Color. These Specs Are Find In American Specs


I Just Can't Use Nokia

Its a shame Microsoft is losing this battle. Just like the Microsoft surface. Its a good tablet and i personally feel its features are better than the IPad but Apple and Samsung are the guys who controls both the phone and tablet market now.

They killed Nokia

RedBenson: Bros @op, how abt dat thing wey been dey predict football matches? The thing no dey predict matches in this new season? Between Real Madrid vs Atletico Madrid, who go win d match?

˚˚˚°º‎​=)). =))º°˚˚˚°ºL☺ℓº°˚˚˚°º‎​=)) . Cortana u mean? ? Dem no born am well make im predict dat RM vs AM match

Long Overdue

Good. The phones sucked.

haryomikun:
˚˚˚°º‎​=)). =))º°˚˚˚°ºL☺ℓº°˚˚˚°º‎​=)) . Cortana u mean? ? Dem no born am well make im predict dat RM vs AM match

U never can tell. E fit predict too.

SimonAndal:
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Dude Google bought Motorola for the patents, not for any propulsion whatsoever. They sold the hardware arm to Lenovo and kept the patents.

Please tell him.

It's funny seeing some comments here on NL. Vowiski presents one side of the story here, Google is presently sitting on top of various Motorola patents that may well be future cash cows. The sale to Lenovo did not include those patents.

Meanwhile aren't people here tired of saying Nokia should have embraced Android even when they see that with the Nokia XL series the phone drowned in the sea of other Android phones?

I still think Nokia and Win Phone 8 was/is the right move.

shey dem wan force us to buy am?

vowiski:

That's not entirely true. Accepting Windows Phone OS as its primary OS was the best option for Nokia at that time, considering the fact that it came with a $1B prize from Microsoft and Android was no where future-proof.

Even Google was disappointed after making the biggest business blunder in their history, acquiring Motorola for $12B to propel Android to the next level. It was Samsung, out of no-where who pushed the Android OS to where it is today. The South Korea Company accounts for nearly 70% of the entire Android market-share.

So, I still think it was purely business on the path of Nokia, a big brand forming alliance with the biggest tech company in the world. No one would have predicted the fall of Nokia by that standard, but again... Business is all about risk. Some you succeed and others you fail. Life moves on.

I do not agree with Microsoft that running away is their best option.

With such news, how do they expect some of us who may be eyeing their phone to still buy it ??

I think Microsoft made a mistake by acquiring and they should have focused on other things rather that buying a ruined company.

PapaBrowne: The big fails of the smartphone revolution are Nokia and blackberry. Thier failure is in my opinion is thier lack of flexibility and failure to understand that times were changing and pretty fast too
Blackberry had been a smartphone long before others but apple came and redefined the industry by taking smart to another level with the touchscreen while blackberry stock with its outdated qwerty pad
Nokias downfall emanated from its failure to create a functional os

dude BlackBerry never got stock with qwerty pad, rather the delayed in revolutionising which the finally did with BB10 OS, q10,q5 r still qwerty wit great os even the expected BlackBerry passport is still qwerty with great OS, the r sme peeps that r qwerty freak n BlackBerry r actually complementing for such pple, the bottom line is the OS that matter wether qwerty or not

Talk go up or down, am enjoying my nokia X2:
Superb battery life
Android OS
5mp rear cam, with flash
Dual sim wit 3g on each
Pocket friendly
Sleek case, does not scratch
And many many more for just 23k

vowiski:

Google acquired Motorola for $12b and sold to Lenovo for $2b, isn't that bad business practice? That's what earned the Motorola deal, Google's worse business deal..

It sounds bad until you know the patents they retained. They did it for the patents but as a Nigerian where copyright is not an issue you will not understand the value of patents.

urhoboman: lol, who did u warn?

Lol. Since I have no considerable influence on Nokia or Microsoft, I warned my best friends.

urhoboman: lol, who did u warn?

Nokia and Microsoft M&A deal was a match made in hell. Damn, that was the dumbest business move in the history of technology and business. I will never find any worse M&A deal ever in this one world. Oh...maybe i over exaggerate a little but damn, it's that bad.

Why is it that bad you may want to ask? First let's look at Nokia. In the past decade they have totally lack innovation. Nothing new has come out from them even worse they were totally MIA (missing in action) during the smartphone revolution. They came in 4 years late when their competition had totally taken over the market.

Now Microsoft shares exactly the same history with Nokia in the last decade. Since the departure of Bill Gates at the beginning of the millennium, Steve Ballmer did nothing new. All we saw from him was error over error, even worse enough for them, they equally didn't show up at the Smartphone war. Nothing whatsoever from Microsoft.

Now, if you merge this two companies together, what do you expect to get? Instant market domination? You gotta be kidding. I see them even crashing farther than this. Things even got worse for Nokia when they couldn't handle they low-end dominated market. They couldn't give their low end consumers something (a product) to be happy about. Just some randomly cheap, tasteless-four-corner phones and they think they can hold the market with that? They need to take a queue from companies like Techno who has single-handedly dominated Nokia's low end market with stylishly-looking pocket-friendly phones.

Companies the world over needs visionary leaders, who are younger, vibrant and in tune with the technologies of the future, not some old, cold steve ballmers who i think became MS's CEO just cos he has always been with Bill Gates. Plus never forget to innovate, as innovation is the bane of many major corporations in this dot com era.

Richiy:

Lol. Since I have no considerable influence on Nokia or Microsoft, I warned my best friends.

lol, funny you. I will pass your warning to them next time to avoid stories that touches the heart.

Good job.
I want Nokia to suffer.
After looting Nigerians, imagine If Nokia was tecno .... Probably by now I won't have been using Android. Hahaha.. Serves them right.
make my emoticons laugh jhoooreee

@op why are you misleading the audience.....with in coherent information.....u just copied someone's blog and posted on NL....no of the info you are spilling out is official or layed down.....

tonychristopher:


So On Point....Who Wants To But A Multi Colored Plastic Phone.Even Techno Is Plastic.My Phones Comes In Smoked Amoled Metal Case And Must Have Gorilla Corning Glass Screen With Crisp Color. These Specs Are Find In American Specs


I Just Can't Use Nokia

Mind you Nokia as black version...besides you haven't used a Nokia miscrosft OS before,
I have used an android and I can tell you for sure go get a 1520 or a 1030....Although. A late bloomer in the Industry....and their major market no been naija doesn't mean peple don use it. Stop Generalizing