Nokia Q2 results are out, profits fall as smartphones get cheaper

22 July, 2010
And the results are in - Nokia just announced their Q2 financial results. To summarize - sales are up, profits are down, shifting currency exchange rates didn't help and smartphones have sold more units and...

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  • Anonymous
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  • 22 Jul 2010

why, 22 Jul 2010you got point....battery life and price are factors too....... morethey could increase the battery life to 1500ma except the weight would increase by another 20gram... and people already debate gettin the n900 due to its size. and nokia had a lot of problems (business wise) with qualcomm and thats why they never made a phone with a snapdragon processor. but they cleared up thier issues nearly 4-5 months ago and said they plan on taking out a phone with a snapdragon processor as well.

People say android has good support, if you look at the support nokia has, you'll go insane and wont believe how stacked they have gotten over the last half a year or so.
... the n900 is a teaser for ideas that nokia has generated, and they released that product to see how people would react to these new features. so for those people who wanna compare iphones and bb's and symbian to the n900, they should stop and think what the purpose of both prodcuts are.

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    • w9D
    • 22 Jul 2010

    deep space bar, 22 Jul 2010yea look at the price of the N900 now and it has WICked sp... morei know n900 is still the best,...no phone can match it in multitasking....but nokia has completely forgotton about n900 and maemo.....they should have introduced more maemo phones and devloped maemo6...instead they went to meego.......maemo should have been the os for the n series not meego...megoo hasnt been completely devloped yet

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      • Anonymous
      • R1Y
      • 22 Jul 2010

      why, 22 Jul 2010you got point....battery life and price are factors too....... morethey could bump up the battery life to 1500ma except the weight would increase by another 20gram... and people already debate gettin the n900 due to its size. and nokia had a lot of problems (business wise) with qualcomm and thats why they never made a phone with a snap dragon processor. but they cleared up thier issues nearly 4-5 months ago and said they plan on taking out a phone with a snap dragon porcessor as well. but people say android has good support, if you look at the support nokia has, you'll wanna punch ur self in the face cause you wont believe how stacked they have gotten over the last half a year or so.
      ... the n900 is a teaser for ideas that they have, and they took that product out to see how people would react to these new features. so for those people who wanna compare iphones and bb's and symbian to the n900, they should stop and think what the purpose of both prodcuts are.

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        • Anonymous
        • uth
        • 22 Jul 2010

        why, 22 Jul 2010the release n97 was a stupid decision...after the sucess of... moreYou need to get things right. ARM 11 is not a processor but is a family of processors. Nokia is now using ARM 1176 processor in N8 which is different from previous phones. Along with that, there is broadcom GPU to process graphics letting little load on CPU.

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          • w9D
          • 22 Jul 2010

          in the current market.......software has become important then hardware look at apple and android.....even though droid phone suck on multimedia front like camera....speaker....etc...huge amount of application is the thing that attracts people...look at past apple iphones the phone sux 2 or 3 megapxl useless speaker no front camera....no microsd no video recording in 2g 2nd 3g....application was the factor that made them strong........if nokia and intel are to release meego with the atom processor ...they better find devlopers to make huge amount of apps

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            • deep space bar
            • q}@
            • 22 Jul 2010

            why, 22 Jul 2010you got point....battery life and price are factors too....... moreyea look at the price of the N900 now and it has WICked specs still

            400+USD

            i got it for 700USD in january :(

            if nokia can universally reduce the price of all their handsets to a affordable price and market their phones better and not take so damn long on release dates then they will have a 10% increase instead of 5%

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              • Anonymous
              • uth
              • 22 Jul 2010

              at this moment, what Nokia have is great tool like Qt (cute it is read as). With Intel corporation they can make whole out hell. MeeGo, we are waiting..

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                • w9D
                • 22 Jul 2010

                Anonymous, 22 Jul 2010wat ur saying makes sense, except you need to think of it f... moreyou got point....battery life and price are factors too.....but cant they just use a cortex a8 processor....and bump the battery to 1500 mah....other companies are nothaving issues using snap dragon or cortex

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                  • YT8
                  • 22 Jul 2010

                  Anonymous, 22 Jul 2010Maemo is better than Android?? Only as an open source OS. A... moreThe only reason I think you need Android over meego is applications.? Right? Then its for you http://mynokiablog.com/2010/07/22/how-to-porting-apps-from-iphone-and-android-to-qt/

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                    • w9D
                    • 22 Jul 2010

                    [deleted post]i love nokia product too ......but nokia has dug its own grave...

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                      • Anonymous
                      • R1Y
                      • 22 Jul 2010

                      why, 22 Jul 2010why nokia is killing their phone by putting arm 11 processo... morewat ur saying makes sense, except you need to think of it from a business expense. nokia put EVERY other feature in the n8 (i.e capacitive touch, amoled screen, dual mics, best camera out, aluminum annodized shell, gorilla glass, good graphics accelerator, good memory storage) so price will go up if they make more changes. for that amount of feaetures in this phone, and the price it is supposed to be listed for, you're getting an insane amount of stuff in one cell phone. also, this isn't a slow processor (its not the fastest either), but considering the focus of this phone isn't multi tasking like it is with the n900, this processor will do the trick just fine.
                      also, im almost 100% sure that this processor can by overclocked to 800+ mhz like it was for the n900. n900 can do 1 ghz (u'll just be sacrificing battery life)

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                        • w9D
                        • 22 Jul 2010

                        the release n97 was a stupid decision...after the sucess of 5800 nokia should have released a phone with capcative display, cortex processor....supporting multi touch....but no nokia released a phone with 400 mhz outdated arm 11 ...and now its a failure...they lost lot of suppoter after n97....one question why does nokia love the arm 11 processor so much that they are still using it in n8?????why nokia

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                          • Anonymous
                          • IVC
                          • 22 Jul 2010

                          i love nokia....they always give the best quality handphone...even when their handphone doesnt sold and they have to reduce the price to make sales but they still producing a high quality product instead of replace the phone with some cheap part to make profit....love you nokia

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                            • Anonymous
                            • mXQ
                            • 22 Jul 2010

                            Maemo is better than Android?? Only as an open source OS. Android takes the best of Symbian and Apple and combines it with a constantly updating OS, with a huge app store. In developing Symbian 3 and 4 and Meego, Nokia is going to have to try VERY hard to stop Android now.

                            Nokia will use Android in the future, mark my words.

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                              • Niraj
                              • YTL
                              • 22 Jul 2010

                              why , 22 Jul 2010now nokia can only suceed by joining google and introducing... moreProblem with Android that Droids get outdated soon. Many people are started counting even Nexus one a outdated phone..

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                                • w9D
                                • 22 Jul 2010

                                now nokia can only suceed by joining google and introducing hi tech android phone .....its too late now...hate to admit it but symbian 3 or 4 is too late.......very few devlpopers are supporting symbian...where as google apps are increasing day by day soon they ll overtake apple........there is no news on meego.....symbian 3 hasnt been launched yet they are still releasing phones with s60 5th edition....

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                                  • deep space bar
                                  • q}@
                                  • 22 Jul 2010

                                  Anonymous, 22 Jul 2010maemo 5 is way better than android....but goole has markete... moreAGREED

                                  and that BS microUSB debacle on the N900
                                  ....nokia kinda messed up on that one i still want my N900 fixed

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                                    • Anonymous
                                    • w9D
                                    • 22 Jul 2010

                                    maemo 5 is way better than android....but goole has marketed android wisely.....many handset co are using android so more devlopers are attracted ....on the other hand nokia has completely forgottn about n900 and maemo...wtf....nokia should have introduced more maemo phones supporting multi touch and next gen cpu and gu

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                                      • deep space bar
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                                      • 22 Jul 2010

                                      nokia needs to expand on symbian3 and kill 4 and add those features to 3
                                      and RENAME it S60+

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                                        • sherif
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                                        • 22 Jul 2010

                                        deep space bar, 22 Jul 2010i know or have DUAL ARM11 CPU at 600mhz like the N95/8gb well that's life we all want things that will never happen lol