“Nokia has claimed that the youth of today are fed up with the iPhone and baffled by Android,” Stuart Miles reports for Pocket-lint.
“In an exclusive interview with Pocket-lint, Niels Munksgaard, director of Portfolio, Product Marketing & Sales at Nokia Entertainment Global explained all,” Miles reports. “‘What we see is that youth are pretty much fed up with iPhones. Everyone has the iPhone,’ he said. ‘Also, many are not happy with the complexity of Android and the lack of security. So we do increasing see that the youth that wants to be on the cutting edge and try something new are turning to the Windows phone platform.'”
MacDailyNews Take: Please see the article that just preceded this one: Windows Phone exploit crashes devices, disables messaging. The youth of today must enjoy repetitive rebooting and, as we all know, they have no use for messaging.
Miles reports, “Munksgaard agrees though, that even then it is not so easy to impress those walking into a shop looking to sign a new contract… It is music, along with mapping and the design of the latest Nokia smartphone, the Nokia Lumia 800, that he feels helps Nokia stand out from the crowd.”
MacDailyNews Take: We wouldn’t want Munksgaard’s job for all the pink slips in Espoo.
Read more in the full article here.
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“cutting edge … Windows phone platform”
That’s priceless.
Well, I think Apple and Google should just give up now. Everybody knows how popular Nokia and Windows Mobile are with the youth of today…
If you keep saying falsehoods long enough, they eventually become true, right Nokia? Right?
You know, things like “We’re not filing for bankruptcy.”
I bought an N95 after reading lots of glowing reports in the tech media. It blew goats; absolute crap. Useless OS, I had to keep referring to the handbook to do anything with it, navigation was a joke, needing a BT receiver to get any kind of signal, because the keyboard had to be extended otherwise. Just playing music killed the battery in less than three hours, using the GPS would do it in an hour or so. And the reviewers loved it.
I must admit, the new Nokia phone looks tasty, it’s not an iPhone knock-off, it’s just a shame that they’ve gone with Windows for an OS.
Maybe if they put as much effort into designing phones as they do talking smack they’d have a phone people want to buy.
His referrence to “Today’s youth” was probably more litteral and meant to target those who were born yesterday.
Nokia should switch to making cars, but of course Lumina is No Kia, it’s a Chevvy.
Well, ok, i admit that’s not a good idea. They’re all just as crappy.
Oh Nokia. You have set your self up for one hell of a mock out party. Here it comes!!!