Juho Sarvikas announces his exit from HMD Global and Nokia

27 March 2021
Sarvikas was associated with Nokia and HMD for 15 years.

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Wayne Morellini, 29 Mar 2021I'm a technologist. I know about things which are com... moreI don't believe you. Cameras are already so far past the limits of a phone-sized lens that it's silly. They actually seem to be declining in final quality despite improved algorithms to repaint areas lost under noise. The only way to improve the resolution would be to dedicate an enormous area of the phone to a lens array. If a company has the money to build that, I'm sure they have the money to build a software team to process the image with current CPUs.

Some phones had 4K video, HDR stacking, and super-resolution on the old Snapdragon 801. Processing power isn't the limiting factor.

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    • Anonymous
    • KZK
    • 31 Mar 2021

    Hope for a better successor for Juho Sarvikas

      End of hmd is nearing .

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        • AnonD-964959
        • TKj
        • 30 Mar 2021

        Hope Nokia/HMD survives after the departure of Juho Sarvikas from the company itself.

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          • Rocky
          • DkS
          • 29 Mar 2021

          Khosruw, 28 Mar 2021R.I.P Nokia 2014Nice joke u Nokia hater

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            • Anonymous
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            • 29 Mar 2021

            Jess, 29 Mar 2021HMD needs to sort out both its pricing and camera Nokia sof... moreToo many hands wanted to milk the brand... Nokia itself with the royalties of the brand but undestandable, HMD to their former "clever" executives... Foxconn that also invested in it... Now add the ODMs because Foxconn once the sales dropped outsourced to subsidiaries or asked HMD to ODM others but still pay them their invertment also pay Light for the Pureview disaster...

            Ask good prices from them with their dated hardware or premium ones with latest hardware seems impossible with so many hands milking the same phones in a greedy way. And now with the actual shortage in components HMD is not enough good customer to get the latest hardware. Imagine a HMD flagship with SD888, their mediocre camera software and asking 1800 euros for each one...

            They don't have the knowledge to combine their own tech and get custom sensors for their cameras, also not even the best generic ones and get good images with their stock software. They asked Light for some reason to put Pureview name on their tech which was a disaster. When every professional knew the lacks of that technology and Light cameras previously reviewed in the past against the new compact mirroless generation of cameras.

            They had the oportunity at the beginning with the hype... to hold the profits until get a good happy customer base and then ramp up with improved hardware and evolved software. But all them wanted to milk the brand/customers offering dated hardware, premium prices, bad image processing sofware and bad engineering decisions also with a 89% of ODM design... with the promise of updates as their single atractive point that later suffer long delays and was another fail. Today there is no more milk/money to extract after the greedy bad job done and also a shortage in components that make impossible the comeback even if they wanted to change and do what Xiaomi did right.

            The G10, X10 and X20 according to the leaked information is a confirmation that nothing has changed and it will last only until it sinks completely and goes bankrupt. Something only delayed by Google's investment at the last minute.

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              • Wayne Morellini
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              • 29 Mar 2021

              kevinmcmurtrie, 28 Mar 2021I feel like phone makers are being hit hard with two common... moreI'm a technologist. I know about things which are coming and which are possible. I've been waiting for silicon nanowire batteries for so many years, I gave up waiting, and came up with a better proposal. Unfortunately, running a company can be like throwing people's money as confetti in the air and hope everybody else throws enough confetti that more confetti ends up around you than you threw, with some guys. I've known people in silicon valley startups, with worlds best technology, unlike chipset manufacturers (silicon fabs tend to offer what dictates the limits of what can be done, rather than rewrite the rules to do better). The things that happen behind the scenes, are startling. There are not many people who do it well.

              If the Xiaomi silicon battery is a 10x life silicon battery, then phones and battery can shrink and still get a 10-20wh nanowire battery. So, the right people can solve the thickness issues and devote space to extra cooling. However, a real solution is custom optical versions of some intensive processing bottlenecks, to keep the energy requirements down. We are moving towards 32k cameras. Even if the 32k is largely good for 8x digital zoom, the image processing to clean that up for good picture and compressibility is immense, but the compression codec to reduce the data rate while preserving the quality instead is immense processing too. There is a lot of memory array stuff that will be involved, but also calculation. GPU 3D 4k+ for direct streaming to a TV display for gaming is another area in need of quality improvement, and so on. The engineers need to identify key processing choke points and target those, then further points that then become constrictions, and make customised circuitry to solve those faster more efficiently. The features and functionality of mobiles are well known. So, this strategy could work well, as there is lots of circuit space with modern circuit density, that doesn't need to be on when not in use, but many customisations can be accommodated. Chips for particular feature markets is possible, like 32k 180-360 degree video for some for VR. Our current solutions can't really do it.

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                • AnonD-964959
                • uQ5
                • 29 Mar 2021

                On one hand, people wants Nokia/HMD to be dead for good and live in their own memories seeing that Juho Sarvikas is messing up HMD in terms of downfall sales, releasing overpriced phones and no bootloader unlock for all Nokia devices. ( HOW MANY TIMES U MAKE MISTAKES NOKIA?)


                On the another hand, people wants HMD to be around by having "HIGH HOPES" for HMD to release a good smartphone that they can deliver regardless a midrange or a flagship phone & "HOPING" that the sales could go up and comeback as Number 1. ( Which will never happen at all)



                This is the debate that now i am seeing. From my point of view, keep HMD alive unless they mess up for the final time.

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                  • Jess
                  • Hqc
                  • 29 Mar 2021

                  HMD needs to sort out both its pricing and camera Nokia software which is crap. They need help from Google to fix what problems they have since Google invested millions.

                    Anonymous, 29 Mar 2021You are a big liar....am typing now on my lumia 1520...goin... moreSame with me. Even with my Lumia 830 accidentally dropped three times from my pants, it is still working as new.

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                      • nTb
                      • 29 Mar 2021

                      Only problem is that it seems Juho Sarvikas don't use phone so the poor guy have no idea

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                        • nTb
                        • 29 Mar 2021

                        Nokia in 10+ years haven't offer one good phone overall

                          AlienKiss, 29 Mar 2021I was a huge Nokia fan, until I discovered Android. Since t... more"Phones that got extra hot, making the batteries last 20 minutes after being charged for hours"
                          For Snapdragon 810 phones, that might be true. But that is the chipset problem as Android phones with that chipset also suffer the same heat problem.

                          "swollen batteries that even ended up exploding and causing fires and putting lifes at risk"
                          Same story with Android phones. A typical situation for a phone with a removable battery.

                          "incredibly bad displays that worked only if you basically punched them with the stylus"
                          As far as I'm aware, there has never been a Windows Phone device with a stylus. You are looking at the old days of Windows Mobile from a million years ago.

                          "error after error trying to open simple word or excel files, causing Forced Closed errors"
                          I have zero problem with it. What are you on about?

                          "MANY cases of bootloops, rendering the phones unusable and unrepairable, needing a motherboard replacement, which translated into "It's better to buy a new phone""
                          Bootloop? Never experience that with my Lumia 830, even when upgraded to Windows 10 Mobile. Heck, I never experience that thing either on my Lumia 950 XL and also my Lumia 950. If anything, bottloop is Android's best friend. Phones with Snapdragon 808 and 810 like the LG G4 and the Huawei Nexus 6P DID suffer from serious bootloop issue.

                          "many phones simply died while being charged overnight, without any hope of being repaired."
                          That's the battery problem, not the phone problem. Refer to your second point.

                          "basically no apps available"
                          Wouldn't comment much on this since it's all down to personal preference.

                          "huge price tag for having to bare all of the problems above"
                          Huge price tag? I don't recall Windows Phone device having such a huge price tag unless if you are talking about the HP Elite X3.

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                            • Anonymous
                            • Nu6
                            • 29 Mar 2021

                            AlienKiss, 29 Mar 2021I was a huge Nokia fan, until I discovered Android. Since t... moreYou are a big liar....am typing now on my lumia 1520...going to 7years now have never taking it to a ripair center.....

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                              • 3RM
                              • 29 Mar 2021

                              YUKI93, 28 Mar 2021I'm actually glad Nokia choose Windows Phone over Andr... moreI was a huge Nokia fan, until I discovered Android. Since then, I never looked back.
                              Also, I used to work in a company that was providing software support for 2 phone brands that were using Windows Mobile. You can not believe how incredibly bad WM was:
                              - Phones that got extra hot, making the batteries last 20 minutes after being charged for hours
                              - swollen batteries that even ended up exploding and causing fires and putting lifes at risk
                              - incredibly bad displays that worked only if you basically punched them with the stylus
                              - error after error trying to open simple word or excel files, causing Forced Closed errors
                              - MANY cases of bootloops, rendering the phones unusable and unrepairable, needing a motherboard replacement, which translated into "It's better to buy a new phone"
                              - many phones simply died while being charged overnight, without any hope of being repaired.
                              - basically no apps available
                              - huge price tag for having to bare all of the problems above
                              WM was just a somewhat better looking Symbian, with a stylus. That's it. Android on the other hand looked and felt like technology from the future. If Nokia would have went with Android, it would have dominated even today. Instead, now it is just a replica brand, trying to fool people without knowledge with the name brand.
                              Windows mobile was like trying to drive a car with square wheels.

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                                • Anonymous
                                • wrb
                                • 29 Mar 2021

                                beep bop boop, 28 Mar 2021Nokia died in 2014... they should either be just pull out t... moreNokia as the original, doesn't intend on making a comeback in phone industry, ater the fall, they realize that the core problem of their fall is INCOMPETENT LEADER; most Nokia exec at that time r arrogant enough to say 'Symbian 4ever, Android GTH' when they didn't even realize that since Android, people realize that OLD/OUTDATED hardware won't get u anywhere, combined with meager RAM which made MANY Symbian-powered Nokia hangs most often, but they cover it up with 'Symbian is RAM-friendly, it doesn't need big RAM for any task' which 808 pureview says otherwise.
                                Ancient ARM11 single core 1GHz + 512MB RAM is the most insulting joke Nokia ever made for its fans, even GSMarena in its review heavily criticized Nokia decision, because Android phone, in 2012, are already using 4cores Cortex A9 with 1GB RAM and Google Play for better apps support

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                                  • Royo
                                  • fC8
                                  • 29 Mar 2021

                                  Nokia smartphones are good products, but their pricing is not so good. If they are to survive with the likes of Xiaomi, Realme and others, they have to be competitive in pricing otherwise they'll be gone for good......

                                    Nokia died in 2014... they should either be just pull out the smartphone market altogether or get their s#it together and make actually good phones that are not overpriced

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                                      • Diamon
                                      • Ki0
                                      • 28 Mar 2021

                                      I'm glad nokia dead again, they don't learn from the past.

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                                        • Anonymous
                                        • 2Cd
                                        • 28 Mar 2021

                                        Nokia Disconnecting People