![]() "With Windows Phone there's going to be a lot of education involved," Llamas said. So, instead of abandoning Windows Phone for one of the strategies above, it's more likely that Nokia will fuel more effort (and money) into making sure Windows Phone succeeds. It's going to take a lot for Nokia to abandon the platform it's just recently committed to. But maybe Plan B is also Windows Phone - and this involves driving even more effort to make sure it succeeds. In order to do that, they need to get their act together," Lam said.Īnd $14 billion in some extra cash couldn't hurt. "For them, priority number one is not to get bought because they are so low in market valuation. But it could at least hold the company over for some time before moving onto its next strategy. It's not even based on consumer-facing hardware sales. Nokia could resort to selling its 30,000-patent portfolio. Is there a business there? Yes, to an extent. "The feature phones are starting to go away more and more. The entire world is abandoning feature phones for smartphones, and Nokia wants to be part of this trend - hence the bet on Windows Phone in the first place. Then again, a contingency plan based on a feature-phone double-down wouldn't be enough to keep Nokia afloat for long. They have an old legacy platform, but how are they going to defend the low end turf? That needs to have a backup solution also." ![]() "That is one of the weak areas for Nokia. "Other strategies they need to shore up to make sure they don't get bought out prematurely is to really focus on the low end," Lam said. Right now, Nokia is still shipping more feature phones than any other manufacturer, but even this might not last for long if the company forgets its roots. If Windows Phone turns out to be one huge, stinking misstep, Nokia might need to put even more time and effort into its low-end devices. Still, isn't a Nokia phone running BlackBerry kind of fun to imagine? If nothing else, it would represent a merger of two morbidly unhealthy technology companies - and that's fun to watch, if only for pure curiosity value. "BlackBerry is very picky on BlackBerry, which is why I don't see them being sold to anyone else," he said. BlackBerry 10 is a very remote possibility," Lam of IHS said.īut Llamos of IDC disagrees. There's obviously some rumors about BlackBerry RIM thinking about licensing out. "There are other platforms out there - like Palm's Web OS. It's not necessarily the best backup plan, but Nokia could try to pick up on some failing (or already failed) operating systems. IDC analyst Ramon Llamas concurs: "They have a head start on, and devices have been doing well around the world," he says.
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