Android Making Nokia Look Like Old Fogies

Nokia isn’t going to be at the Mobile World Congress this year… same place that Google CEO Eric Schmidt is giving a keynote speech. I doubt they’re opting out for the reasons too-cool-for-school Apple doesn’t attend, it’s more likely they just don’t have anything good to share. Oh wait, yeah they do!

A Reuters article shares this awesome tidbit about a Nokia app you can play with at the event:

At next week’s mobile trade show in Barcelona you can find a program that measures how high you can throw a Nokia smartphone, an apt metaphor for Nokia’s efforts to raise its game.

Oh wait… I forgot… Google Co-Founder Sergey Brin made that app for an Android Phone when the G1 launched. As a joke.

That was 2008. Congratulations, Nokia… you’re 2 years behind and either walking backwards or laying down. The company still has ridiculous economies of scale because of their market share and reach in the low-end phone market:

Nokia is seen among the best positioned to cope with the onslaught thanks to its own operating system, investments in services, and huge scale benefits in phone production, but Apple already makes more profit from phones than Nokia.

But much of the phone market has switched from a hardware driven focus to a software driven focus and Nokia is WAY behind in that regard. Their Symbian Foundation isn’t likely to gain ANY traction in my opinion and at this point they would be better off adopting Android. But they won’t.

With Nokia looking like the old fogie of the phone market… do they have a chance to return to glory? Will they?

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