Reports about Finnish
multinational communications corporation Nokia entering Android market with
their Android Phones have been doing rounds for quite some time. Recently the
topic about Nokia launching an Android powered phone with Windows theme became
even more talked about, when the Wall Street Journal confirmed that Nokia would
unveil an Android powered phone at Mobile World Congress tradeshow at the end
of the month.
According to the sources, the
Android powered Nokia phones would come preloaded with Microsoft and Nokia
services. An interesting feature to watch out is the Nokia Android app store,
rather than the conventional Google software and Google’s Play store. This
would be the first step towards challenging the supremacy of Google pay store.
Newspaper sources have confirmed that the handset is going to be unveiled later
this month at Barcelona Mobile World Congress tradeshow and speculations about
the price remain a mystery.
There are a lot of questions that
still need to be answered, and everyone is really confused about few questions
making rounds in everyone’s mind. Most unpredictable part is the
Nokia-Microsoft $7.2 Billion deal. Reports about Microsoft acquiring Nokia for
$7.2 Billion were earlier protected by small shareholder, but with 99.7%
investors voting in favor, the deal was set. The question that arises is that
why would the Microsoft, which has its own mobile platform, sanction its soon
to be mobile making division to build an Android-powered device?
Finland based Nokia, reported
losses of more than 5 billion euros over nine quarters as Elop’s comeback
efforts failed to eat into the dominance of Apple (AAPL) and Google’s Android
platform in the Smartphone market. It is important to note that the stock has
lost more than 80 percent in the five years through yesterday. Nokia Lumia with
record sales of 8.8 million Lumia Smartphone in the third quarter of the year
and 30 million Lumia devices during in the whole of 2013 is the 90 contributor
to the Nokia’s earnings.
Recently Google announced that
they have a recorder 900M active Android activations in May last year and
expected to break the billion mark by the end of this year as the platform
continues to expand to a new device types to fuel further growth. Keeping in
mind such figures, it is difficult to understand the strategy of Microsoft.
With the announcement of an
Android Operating System phone in windows skin, Nokia has created quite a buzz
in the market. No doubt Windows phone are good enough to dominate the market,
but there is a need for better growth strategy. However, packing Windows skin
with Android operating system is really intelligent move. It would be really
interesting to watch out for the device to be released by the end of this month
and to check out if the phone will live up to the expectations and hype
generated.
Source: Tech Crunch
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